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We’re thrilled to announce the Black Portraiture[s] Conference will be coming to the west coast for the first time this fall 2026. The theme of this year’s conference is “Los Angeles: The Black Built Environment” which will take place in-person and virtually Monday, September 28 to Wednesday, September 30, 2026. “Los Angeles: The Black Built Environment” will explore the conceptual theme and its relationship to photography, architecture, urban planning, and visual culture. We’ll learn how artists have reimagined and reconstructed visions of our built environment by exploring the artistic contributions to collective memory, visual legacies of Black townships, and Afrofuturism. The conference will present and encourage research and scholarship on modern and contemporary visual and structural approaches, centering the audacity of Black built environments from within the diaspora’s global influence and iterations. Black Portraiture[s] 2026 is co-hosted by New York University, Getty and UCLA. Please contact blackportraitures@nyu.edu with any questions. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gHWEiqhr