Panel discussion with KSMoCA’s curator-in-residence, Dr. Kiara Hill, and the Harriet Tubman Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice at MLK School (HTC). They will discuss Black material culture and their curatorial work with the Ms. Valta Adger Collection.

Kiara Hill, PhD (she/they) is an historian of African American art and culture, archivist, curator, and artist working in social forms. She earned her B.A. in Mass Communications at Sacramento State University, completed her M.A. in Women’s Studies at the University of Alabama, and received her Ph.D. in Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Through filmmaking, curation, and other collaborative projects, she researches, documents, and preserves the histories, lived experiences, and community-driven art practices of visual artists of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. 

Kiara currently lives in SanFrancisco, and serves as a primary collaborator on the social practice project, KSMoCA (Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art), where she also serves as the founder/director of the SanKofa x KSMoCA community lecture series. She is also the director of Black Arts PDX, a feature-length documentary film that sheds light on the history of the Black arts community in Portland, OR (release date: summer 2026).

The artist talk is in the library and is open to the public. Please stop by the Main Office to sign in and receive a “Visitor” badge.