The Simmons Center creates art platforms for artists and curators to develop a space for debate and discussion around the history of art, black aesthetics, and new forms of African and African diasporic art which draw their inspiration from grappling with the meaning of racial slavery and colonialism and their current afterlives. Learn more about some of these projects below.
Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
The Simmons Center Arts Initiatives
The Simmons Center creates art platforms for artists and curators to develop a space for debate and discussion around the history of art, black aesthetics, and new forms of African and African diasporic art which draw their inspiration from grappling with the meaning of racial slavery and colonialism and their current afterlives.