MoAD’s physical building may be closed due to the mandatory shelter-in-place, but you can still get your fill of art and artists of the African Diaspora. Each Wednesday at 1:00 pm PST, join MoAD staff members as we visit some of our favorite artists in their studios to see what they’re currently working on and how their work is changing as a result of the quarantine. This is a rare opportunity to hear from artists directly from their studios. We will follow all talks with an audience Q&A.

Chanell Stone (b.1992, Los Angeles) is an artist living and working in Oakland, California. Stone earned her BFA in photography from the California College of the Arts in 2019 and has exhibited in galleries in San Francisco and New York. Her solo exhibition Natura Negra appeared at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco in 2019-20 and she was a shortlisted finalist for the 2020 San Francisco Artadia Award. W Magazine listed Stone as one of ‘8 Young Photographers to follow in 2020’ and in 2019 her work was included in the Aperture Summer Open. Stone’s work belongs to several public and private collections, including the Center for Photography at Woodstock and KADIST Foundation San Francisco & Paris. Through self-portraiture, collage and poetry Stone investigates the Black body’s intersectional states of being and connection to the natural world.

Generous support for this series provided by the Westridge Foundation

This series is supported by the Facebook Art Department, UNTITLED, Art Fairs and The Art Report.