Rikki Byrd

Rikki Byrd is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches courses on the intersection of fashion and race. She is also the co-editor of the Fashion and Race Syllabus.

Interview

Amy Sherald on Her "Gentle Presentation of Black Identity" and More

Sherald, who has a solo show at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, shares her reasons for painting and what's next for her career.

Art

Mickalene Thomas Makes Black Women the Protagonists of Their Own Stories

Positioning black women — artists, actresses, characters, and her own family — as mentors and muses, and as heroic figures in a lineage of their own, Thomas overrides oppressive narratives.