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