POWarts Trailblazer Series: Asmaa Walton
Monday, November 8, 7:00PM EST
This summer, POWarts announced our new Trailblazers series featuring members of our community who are breaking barriers, working to make the art world more equitable, and paving the wave for the next generation.
Join us for our second program featuring Asmaa Walton, an independent curator, arts educator, and ardent developer of the Black cultural archive. She is also the Founder of Black Art Library, a collection of publications, exhibition catalogues and theoretical texts about Black art and visual culture intended to become a public archive in a permanent space in Detroit.
Asmaa will be in conversation with POWarts Founder, Sara Kay. In advance of the program, we invite you to email info@powarts.org with questions that you would like addressed during the conversation.
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Asmaa Walton is a Detroit native, arts educator and ardent developer of the Black cultural archive. Walton completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education from Michigan State University in 2017. Upon earning a Master of Arts in Art Politics from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, in 2018, Walton joined Toledo Museum of Art as an Education and Engagement Intern. In the same year she was appointed the Museum’s first KeyBank Fellow in Diversity Leadership, a position where she identified opportunities for diversity and equity programming across museums and cultural institutions. In 2019, Walton was appointed Romare Bearden graduate Museum Fellow at Saint Louis Art Museum. In February 2020 Walton established Black Art Library –a collection of publications, exhibition catalogues and theoretical texts about Black art and visual culture intended to become a public archive in a permanent space in Detroit.