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BLKARTS

Live in productionblkarts.org

An interactive home for Black art and artists — discovery, exhibition, and the economic impact of the work.

Type
Cultural market data
Status
Live
Partners
MADE CX
Domain
blkarts.org

Selected work.

Live screenshots, pulled straight from the running site — tap any frame to open the slideshow.

The challenge.

Black artists shape culture across every medium, yet remain under-represented in the institutions that assign value and write the record.

The goal was a platform for discovery, exhibition, and economic visibility — a place where the work and the market around it live together.

What we built.

A discovery-and-valuation platform that brings artists and the data around them into one place.

Artist Directory

A searchable home for Black artists and their work.

Exhibitions

Curated shows and moments, documented and discoverable.

Collections

The works, organized for exploration.

Economic Impact

The market data around the art — value made visible.

Discovery

Surfacing artists and work to new audiences.

Research

Context and sources for the record.

The approach.

Discovery plus valuation: the platform makes artists findable and the market around their work legible, on the same cultural-market-data foundation as the rest of the network.

Tools & disciplines
Design ResearchProduct DesignData VisualizationFront-end EngineeringContent ArchitectureCuration Systems

Outcome.

BLKARTS is live at blkarts.org, a MADE CX property in the Cultural Market Data network.

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