A Digital Showcase for Black Artists

Working at the intersection of tech, art and activism, Drew has spent her career so far—she’s just a decade out of college—working to innovate within the art world’s institutions, to ensure fair and diverse art representation in a digital age and, in particular, to amplify the work of Black creators. As she puts it: “I have tried my best to use digital communications to invite broader audiences into conversations about art and culture.”

That work started in 2011 with Drew’s Tumblr blog called Black Contemporary Art, which made a big splash in the art world by showcasing digitized art by and about people of African descent. She also spent three years as the social media manager for the Metropolitan Museum of Art (her own Twitter handle: @museummammy).

Now she’s one of the inaugural curators of the residency program at Voice, an environmentally friendly NFT platform, working on NFT projects from emerging Black creators like Devin N. Morris, Uniiqu3 and Papi Juice, an art collective that aims to affirm and celebrate the lives of queer and trans people of color. Drew says, “Each of these artists has had a profound impact on the world, and I’m honored to play a small part in supporting their work in the NFT space.” —M.G.