Carole Harris + Taylor Renee Aldridge

Taylor Renee Aldridge

Taylor Renee Aldridge is a curator, writer, and arts worker from Detroit, Michigan. In 2014, she co-founded ARTS.BLACK with writer Jessica Lynne, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Aldridge and Lynne are working on a forthcoming publication, tentatively titled Situation Critical: A Century of Black Arts Criticism, which will be co-published by ARTS.BLACK and CARA (Center for Art, Research, and Alliances) in Spring 2027.

In Fall 2024, she assumed the role of Executive Director at Modern Ancient Brown Foundation, a charitable endeavor for artists and writers, founded by esteemed painter McArthur Binion. She is the former Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager at the California African American Museum (CAAM), and has organized exhibitions with CAAM, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Cranbrook Art Museum. Recent exhibitions include American Artist | Shaper of God: Apple Valley Autonomy (2025, CAAM) ; Simone Leigh (2024, CAAM & LACMA) Darol Olu Kae: Keeping Time (2023, CAAM); Chloë Bass | #sky #nofilter: Hindsight for A Future America (2023, CAAM) and Mario Moore | Enshrined: Presence and Preservation (2022, CAAM; 2021 Charles H. Wright Museum)

Taylor’s writing has appeared in numerous publications and catalogs. She has edited exhibition catalogs; Enunciated Life (CAAM, 2021) and Mario Moore | Enshrined: Presence + Preservation (Charles H. Wright Museum, 2021), and is the editor of All These Liberations: Women Artists in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection (Yale University Press, 2024).

Taylor is the recipient of the 2016 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing and the 2019 Rabkin Foundation Award for Art Journalism. She holds an MLA from Harvard University with a concentration in Museum Studies and a BA from Howard University with a concentration in Art History. She proudly serves on the board of trustees at BULK Space in Detroit, Michigan.

Carole Harris

Carole Harris is a fiber artist based in Detroit, where she maintains an active studio practice. Her work redefines and subverts traditional concepts of quilting by expanding its boundaries through the incorporation of diverse forms of stitchery, irregular shapes, varied textures, and unconventional materials and objects. Deeply engaged with the interplay of hue, pattern, and texture, Harris draws inspiration from the color, energy, and rhythms of urban life, as well as from ethnographic textiles she collects.

Her work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally and is included in major institutional collections, including the Detroit Institute of Arts. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at the Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Flint Institute of Arts, the Saginaw Art Museum & GardensSargent’s Daughters in New York, Hill Gallery, and Simone DeSousa Gallery.

In 2015, Harris was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Kresge Foundation.

This event is made possible through the support of the Art Dealers Association of America, Center for Craft, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Teiger Foundation.