Derrick Adams on Visual Language and Reframing The Black Experience

In this episode, I speak with the Baltimore-born, Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams. His work resides in the prestigious collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art among many others. We go deep into Adams’ interest in visual culture as a language - a tool to reshape cultural narratives and more urgently, reframe an empowered view of the Black experience in The United States. Adams’ work and interconnected way of thinking is central to The Sweet Flypaper podcast series and its focus on multidimensional vision and responsibility.