Reframing Regeneration

Director of Art and Learning Jackie Adams returns to host an episode dedicated to the artist Darrel Ellis (1958–1992). Over the course of his career, Ellis developed a distinct studio practice that merged the formal vocabularies of drawing, photography, painting, and printmaking to redefine Black male identity and family within the constructs of art history and mainstream culture. First, Jackie sits down with producer Drew to chat about Ellis' innovative artistic approach, drawing parallels to traditional art-making tools from the 16th Century. Then Darrel Ellis: Regeneration co-curators Antonio Sergio Bessa (The Bronx Museum of Art) and Leslie Cozzi (Baltimore Museum of Art) join Jackie to talk about the exhibition, Ellis' life and family, and the contemporary significance of his work.