Happy Valentines Day, happy Black History Month and welcome to Adele Delivers, where I deliver two of my favorite contemporary artists right to your inbox each Friday. This month we’re celebrating Black History and enjoying work by some of my favorite Black artists. Here’s to fostering a deeper connection with art, one artist at a time.

LaToya Ruby Frazier

LaToya’s "Flint is Family" photo-essay takes us inside one of America's most devastating environmental disasters through the lives of Shea Cobb and her family. Living alongside them for five months, Frazier's black-and-white photographs document their daily struggle with contaminated water - from the practical challenges of using bottled water for basic needs to the health impacts on the community. These aren't just news photos; they're historic documents of a preventable American crisis, captured through the eyes of someone who shared meals at the family table. Learn more about LaToya here. 

Kerry James Marshall

Kerry’s monumental paintings assert the presence of Black figures in museum spaces, challenging historical exclusions. By intentionally rendering his subjects’ skin in the deepest black—rather than shades of brown or mahogany—Marshall makes a bold statement about visibility and representation in Western art. Learn more about Kerry here. 

Thank you for being here! Let this newsletter be a reminder that you always have a friend in me. Happy Valentines Day. Till soon. XxA

✎ᝰ.Field Notes.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗

This rite of passage “I gave up on the idea of making art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make paintings; but once I came to know that, reconsidering the question of what art is returned as a critical issue.” —Kerry James Marshall

And this is why we must go out of our way to see art in person. “When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has made a thing that should have enough information in it in the way it's constructed to start thinking about why that picture got made - not why it is relevant to you.” —Kerry James Marshall

On Writing “Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.” ― SARK

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