Derrick Adams, a New York-based artist who recently debuted with Gagosian in Los Angeles, kicked off a new art fair in Nashville with a talk held in the neighborhood of Wedgewood-Houston.
The talk topic was his personal art practice and Black collage but it devolved into a conversation on the importance of community building, civic engagement and how to support Black artists.
Adams has been buying property in his hometown of Baltimore, that he has been converting into spaces for artists. Called The Last Resort, the artist retreat supports Black creatives through the concepts of rejuvenation.
“It happened so organically with the whole initiative,” Adams said Friday of Last Resort. “I purchased a property. It’s about an acre of land. It’s like an eight-bedroom house near Johns Hopkins and when I purchased the property, it was pretty inexpensive.”
Adams said he would spend time at the property himself when he returned to his hometown to visit friends and family.
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