An Ode To is a photographic exploration and celebration of Black existence—its resilience, joy, complexity, and deep cultural roots. This exhibition honors the everyday and the extraordinary, the seen and the unseen, as artists reflect on what it means to live, love, and lead as Black in this lifetime and the next.

Through evocative imagery, artists are invited to pay homage to foundational Black culture while boldly defining its future. The exhibition will showcase diverse narratives, styles, and perspectives—illuminating the multifaceted experiences of Blackness with reverence, pride, and creative freedom.

Good Grace is a photographic offering. A reverent gaze. A collective pause.

This exhibition honors Black existence as sacred, held in tenderness, endurance, joy, and continuity. The work presented does not seek spectacle. It seeks truth. These images hold the quiet authority of lived experience and ancestral knowing.

Artists are invited to explore Blackness not as a response or explanation, but as a state of being that is nuanced, sovereign, and deeply human. [An Ode To is a meditation on what it means to live, love, and lead as Black across generations and lifetimes. The exhibition honors foundational Black culture while welcoming future facing narratives that resist flattening or performance.]

Open to all artists. Artists may explore family and lineage, spiritual inheritance, softness and rest, cultural memory, interior life, and the sacredness of the everyday.

Spotlight collection - Featuring Black Female Photographers

The Skin Remembers centers Black women photographers as both witness and archive. This collection speaks to the body as a site of memory holding joy, grief, pleasure, discipline, and ancestral residue.

From a Black woman’s perspective, the camera becomes an extension of lived knowing. Skin is not surface. It is language. It remembers touch, labor, ritual, adornment, and survival. Artists are encouraged to explore skin as ancestral record, body memory, generational knowing, cultural motifs such as hair, cloth, ornamentation, intimacy within Black womanhood, and self authorship beyond the gaze.

Moses the Black
A Visual Theology
Curated and Photographed by Bailey Murrell-Green

Black Moses is a visual theology and a reclamation of divinity, lineage, and Black spiritual inheritance.

This collection positions Moses the Black as both prophet and passage, a living vessel carrying the weight of exile, liberation, and sacred becoming. Rooted in the cultural memory of Black religious practice, the work draws from ancient iconography, oral tradition, and the quiet rituals passed down through generations including prayer, fasting, song, and surrender.

The imagery is intentionally raw and unpolished, honoring holiness not as spectacle but as presence.

Referencing classical depictions of Jesus while disrupting Eurocentric frameworks, the project reimagines Blackness as the original sacred form, eternal and unmoved by time. The male subject embodies divine masculinity through stillness, endurance, and spiritual authority rather than dominance.

His body becomes scripture. His gaze becomes sermon. His skin becomes a living archive of survival and sanctity.

Textural elements evoke antiquity through earth, linen, oil, ash, and water. These materials speak to desert and diaspora, wilderness and crossing. Light functions as revelation. Shadow operates as testimony. Each frame behaves as a painted icon, reverent and unafraid of silence.

Black Moses honors the voyage, the crossing, the wilderness, and the resurrection of self. Black history is not referenced. It is exalted. The image becomes altar. The subject becomes holy ground.

GOOD GRACE opens February 27, 2026.
A photographic ode to Black existence featuring The Skin Remembers and the curatorial collection Black Moses.

by Act. Studio artists

Opening Reception: February 27, 2026

Exhibition Dates: February 27 - March 1, 2026

Curated: Bailey Murrell-Green

Location: 6438 S Quebec St Suite 201, Centennial, CO 80111

An exploration of ritual, repetition, and the looping motions that define interior life. Borrowing from circular motifs in womanhood and meditative performance pacing, this exhibition centers the spirituality of routine and the poetry of repeated gestures.

A visual and performative study of how female bodies claim space, shape space, and reimagine space. Inspired by architectural grounding and ritual-like formations, the exhibition explores collective movement, symmetry, and spatial ownership.

Ritual, Repetition, and Spatial Belonging
Women’s History Photography Exhibition

Sharp Circles examines the poetry of repetition and the spiritual intelligence of routine. This exhibition considers how ritual forms identity and how repeated gesture becomes devotion.Borrowing from circular motifs in womanhood and meditative pacing, Sharp Circles explores how bodies claim, shape, and reimagine space. The work centers collective movement, symmetry, and spatial authorship as spiritual practice.

This exhibition invites work that explores ritual as survival, repetition as prayer, circularity in womanhood and lineage, and spatial ownership through body and form. The imagery may feel meditative, performative, architectural, or intimate.

All photographers welcome to submit.

Featured Spotlight Collection

MUSE ORIGIN

An Ode to the Act of Musing
Photography by Bailey Murrell-Green

Muse Origin is a love letter to Black womanhood as source. Rooted in self love, discovery, and ethereal becoming, this body of work honors Black women as origin points rather than objects of inspiration.

The collection explores fairy mythos, interior radiance, softness, and spiritual playfulness. Black women appear as both dream and dreamer, author and universe.

SHARP CIRCLES opens March 27, 2026.
A women’s history exhibition on ritual, repetition, and spatial belonging featuring Muse Origin

by Act. Studio artists

Opening Reception: March 27, 2026

Exhibition Dates: March 27 - March 29, 2026

Curated: Bailey Murrell-Green

Location: 6438 S Quebec St Suite 201, Centennial, CO 80111

Black and White Photography Exhibition.

All photographers welcome to submit.

In Still Contrast returns photography to its essential language of light, shadow, tension, and truth. By removing color, artists are asked to confront form, emotion, and composition with clarity and restraint.

This exhibition honors minimalism as power and simplicity as revelation. Black and white becomes a language of honesty where nothing distracts from presence.

Artists are invited to submit black and white work exploring contrast as emotional language, intimacy through reduction, silence and negative space, raw passion, and archival feeling. The work should linger without explanation and speak without ornament.

IN STILL CONTRAST opens April 24, 2026.
A study in light, shadow, and truth told exclusively through black and white photography.

by Act. Studio artists

Opening Reception: April 24, 2026

Exhibition Dates: April 24 - April 26, 2026

Curated: Bailey Murrell-Green

Location: 6438 S Quebec St Suite 201, Centennial, CO 80111