10. How Danny Dunson shines a light on Black artists Part 2

Welcome back to to part 2 of our conversation with Danny Dunson. If you missed part 1, check out Episode 9.

Danny Dunson is an art historian, art advisor, curator and writer, Founder of the famed IG account LegacyBros and most recently co-founder and editor-in-chief of ArtX. Dunson graduated from The University of Illinois at Chicago, earning a B.A. in art history from the School of Art & Art History.

He is a 2016 Fulbright Grant recipient and Gilman Scholarship fellow. His research as an art historian has been primarily focused on figurative representations within African and African Diasporic Art. Dunson’s academic writing is situated within an interdisciplinary dialogue, engaging with intersections of critical and social theory, colonial and post colonial studies, gender and women's studies, and queer studies.

His writing has been published in exhibition catalogues, magazines and online journals. In June, 2017-18, Dunson presented, “In Memoriam: Portraits of the Middle Passage, in Situ,” a large scaled exhibition in the dungeons of Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle Museum, featuring art of the Ancestor Project, a visual art collective with Ghanaian artist, Kwame Akoto-Bamfo at the helm.

Dunson is currently conducting research that interrogates portraiture and figurative compositions aligned with space, place, memory, and the Middle Passage.

As editor-in-chief of ArtX, Dunson helps shine a light on a multitude of diverse voices in the world of art, especially those typically unheard.

Legacy Bros https://www.instagram.com/legacybros/

My grandaddy’s closet https://www.instagram.com/mygranddaddyscloset/

ArtX. https://artx.net/who-we-are/

Artists mentioned:

Toyin Ojih Odutola

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Michael Armitage

Kwame Akato Bamfo

Books: Art, Slavery, and the site of Blackness in Multicultural America by Huey Copeland

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Sula by Toni Morrison