Taylor Renee Aldridge is cofounder, with Jessica Lynne, of ARTS.BLACK. Taylor is a cultural enthusiast, a recent graduate of Harvard University’s Museum Studies Masters program, and former Goldman Sachs Fellow at the Smithsonian. She is currently spearheading an arts business course program initiative at the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art in her hometown of Detroit. Taylor’s ultimate goal and life purpose is to provide cultural awareness through the arts within nascent and blighted communities as a form of revitalization and therapy.
Criticism's Blackout
When a white, male critic wrote that African-American artist Alma Thomas’s paintings echo “the special middle-ground pleasures of domestic life,” Taylor Aldridge and Jessica Lynne wondered: How might this assessment look if written by a Black critic?