The Rebeccah Milena Maia Blum Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition

So Black You Blue

January 10 – February 14, 2026 
Opening Reception and Artist Talk: January 10, 5 – 8 pm

Allens Lane Art Center is pleased to present So Black You Blue, a group exhibition presented in partnership with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists. Featuring work by local Black artists, the exhibition explores the deep, layered relationship between Blackness and the color blue.

Across time and geography—from the American South to West Africa and the Caribbean—blue has carried profound cultural meaning in Black life, symbolizing sorrow and hope, the sacred and the unknown. Curated by 2026 Rebeccah Milena Maia Blum (RMMB) Curatorial Fellow Qiaira Riley, the exhibition brings together three contemporary artists who reflect on this rich visual lineage through installation, collage, ceramics, and alternative photography.

Interdisciplinary ceramicist Angelique Scott draws on Afro-diasporic material culture and indigo-dyeing traditions to explore spirituality and communal healing. Yannick Lowery combines archival imagery with his own photography to build immersive worlds through collage, animation, cyanotypes, and sculptural forms. Kenyssa Evans, guided by family documentation and psychogeography, traces unseen routes of Black fugitivity and spatial memory.

So Black You Blue invites viewers to reflect on the many associations embedded in color and to consider blue’s long, evolving histories through the perspectives of artists who continue to shape and redefine its significance—uplifting the beauty found in both Black and blue.