At Black Girls in Art Spaces’ February meet-up, a group of roughly 50 women mingled in a nook of the Dallas Museum of Art. The building teemed with visitors, who dropped in and out of activities commemorating the start of Black History Month. Here on the first floor, the melodic cadence of a spoken word artist punctured the air.
It was a fitting backdrop for Black Girls in Art Spaces’ first gathering of the year. The arts community founded by Dallas resident Kaci Merriwether-Hawkins exists to champion the work of Black artists and remedy a lack of racial diversity its members have felt as arts patrons.