CURRENT GUEST CURATOR
Fall 2025 - Spring 2026
Jasmine Gabrielle Washington is an Arts Advocate, Interdisciplinary Artist, Curator, Writer, and Founder of The First of Many, a cultural platform and creative agency built to honor the people behind the practice. Born and raised in Baltimore, she works at the intersections of identity, memory, and belonging—using art as both archive and act of resistance.
Her practice, rooted in care, ancestral knowing, and literary rhythm, transforms exhibitions into living archives: spaces that breathe, remember, and resist. In 2024, she launched The First of Many Series to gather voices that too often move in isolation, curating connection as a sacred act.
Washington is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography & Media Society at the Maryland Institute College of Art as a Leslie King-Hammond Graduate Fellow.
At the heart of her work is a devotion to storytelling as sanctuary and megaphone—a way to honor the past, disrupt the present, and dream boldly toward collective futures.
Recent Curators
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Cornelia Stokes
Fall 2024- Spring 2025
Cornelia Stokes's curatorial practice is rooted in Pan-African practices and kinship, focusing on building community through the arts and philosophies of the Black diaspora. Her approach aims to complexify the oversimplification of Blackness in mainstream culture, investing in opportunities to promote and explore the wide varieties of the Black experience. Stokes holds a B.A. in Art with a focus on Curatorial Studies from Spelman College and an M.A. in Pan-African Studies from Syracuse University, where her thesis examined the work of contemporary artist Amy Sherald. Stokes continues to research, curate, and consult under Emblazon Arts and co-curated NOTFOR SALE and RECLAMATION as an NXTHVN curatorial fellow.
Spending time in Baltimore, she opened her latest exhibition, CoatTails: Celebrating Black Life Through Style, at Gormley Gallery and participated in Cohort 4 of The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a residency based in rest founded by artist Derrick Adams.
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Thomas James
2024 - 2025
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Casey McKeel
2021 - 2023
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Sarah McCann
2020 - 2021
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Quentin Gibeau
2020 - 2021
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Allie Linn
2019 - 2020
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Caitlin Gill
2018 - 2019