Beverly Aarons

By Beverly Aarons Norah Kirkland, Soul Tower of Life, on view at ARTE NOIR . On view at ARTE NOIR Gallery until April 19, 2026, Youth Art Showcase centers the work of African and African American youth who act as carriers of meaning, seers of the future, and shapers of cultural memory. Featuring 11 youth artists and 21 artworks, the exhibition spans a range of mediums, including collage, acrylic, wax on paper, and mixed-media sculpture. What stands out most, however, is its emphasis on Black...

by Beverly Aarons On view at ARTE NOIR Gallery until February 22, 2026, Black Clay reclaims ceramic practice as an ontological intervention, restoring clay from a purely utilitarian object to a vessel of lifeforce, memory, and cosmological agency. Featuring pottery works from 25 Black ceramics artists, this exhibition situates contemporary ceramic practice within a deep lineage of African and African Diasporic worldviews that have understood clay as animated, relational, and historically...

Ed King, Executive Director of Pottery Northwest, is transforming the 59-year-old institution by confronting its history and rebuilding its business model to serve Black and Brown artists long excluded from the clay community—not just through messaging, but through operational and economic redesign.