Solace Exhibition

Solace is centered around facilitating conversations about how black womxn care for themselves and the complexities of that process. This project is dedicated to fostering discussions on mental health and wellness by prioritizing trust, reciprocity, and support. It relies on cultivating partnerships and nurturing relationships with artist and audiences to thrive.

Solace is the culmination of self love and reflection as experienced by the artists. Dr. T, Emmanuela  Etukudo, Kelli Williams, and Mj bestow feelings of peace, grief, humor, and healing. All art represents the underlying and ever present mission of Solace. 

 Cheyene Adams is an emerging curator and cultural producer based in Baltimore, Maryland. Originally from Savannah, Georgia, she earned a BS in Digital Media Arts from Bowie State University in 2020. She is currently earning her M.FA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institue College of Art, she is set to graduate in May 2023. 

Cheyene has gained significant experience in the arts by interning and assisting in projects at The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC), Maryland Institute Black Archives (Baltimore, MD), the National Park Service Chesapeake Bay (Annapolis, MD), and Harpers Ferry Design Center (Harpers Ferry, WV). She was recently the ArtTable fellow at the Studio Museum of Harlem where she support the curatorial team in the archives. She is currently a second-year graduate student—and Leslie King Hammond Graduate Fellow—in the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Curatorial Practice MFA program, where her research is focused on mental health and self-care practices within the BIPOC artistic communities.