BWVA Foundation Team
Daricia Mia DeMarr
Executive Director
Lauren Jackson Harris
Director of Outreach and Partnerships
BWVAF Board of Directors
Sammetria Goodson
Board Member aka Obstacle Clearer
Sammetria is an Attorney who focuses her practice on Art Law and Intellectual Property. Sammetria works with a wide range of art industry clients including artists, art agencies, collectors, consultants, cultural organizations, dealers, galleries, and independent curators. She also works with creatives, designers, makers, and artisans in various intellectual property and cultural heritage-based enterprises. READ MORE
Dr. julia elizabeth neal
Board Member, Education and Programming Strategist
julia elizabeth neal is a scholar of modern and contemporary US and African American Art. In 2023, she joined the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan as an assistant professor and is currently on leave as a postdoctoral fellow for the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute. Prior to Michigan, neal lectured at Spelman College and Georgia State University. Her research considers the relationship between emergent politics of identity and transnationalism to visual, conceptual, and sonic, experimentation.