Artists in Dialogue | Featuring “Multiplicity” Artists

Deborah Roberts, Let Them Be Children, 2018, mixed media and collage on canvas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment, courtesy of the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery. Photograph: Sydney Collins © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts © Deborah Roberts
Deborah Roberts, Let Them Be Children, 2018, mixed media and collage on canvas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment, courtesy of the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery. Photograph: Sydney Collins © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts © Deborah Roberts
February–May 2024

This season, the Artists in Dialogue series features artists from the exhibition Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage elaborating on practices through their own expression. Designed to feature, amplify, and give space to Black contemporary artists, the format emphasizes what the title suggests—artists engage in conversation with each other about their work, and/or whatever the artists would like to shape the space. 

Featured artists include Kaima Marie Akarue, Brittney Boyd Bullock, Tay Butler, Genevieve Gaignard, Tomashi Jackson, Lovie Oliva, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, and Nyugen Smith.

Admission is free.

Upcoming Events in this Series

This series is funded by the Frank and Eleanor Freed Lecture Endowment.

All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation; and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Virginia and Ira Jackson; the Favrot Fund; CFP Foundation; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of John Wynne; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.

On Thursdays, admission to the MFAH Permanent Collections is free, courtesy of Shell USA, Inc.

“Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage” was organized by the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.

Support for the national exhibition tour is provided by generous grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.


Generous support is provided by:
Bettie Cartwright
Texas Capital
Jereann and Holland Chaney
JBD Foundation
Lisa and Barron Wallace
Michael W. Dale
DIR Inc./Drs. Russell H. and Rosalind C. Jackson
Jay Jones and Terry Wayne Jones
Merinda Watkins-Martin and Reginald Martin
Ann and Alton McDowell