12/11/2025
• 📣 Acquisition News 📣I’m very happy to announce that “The Restoration / Crowned in Memory” (2025) and “The Restoration / Not Your Blackamoor” (2025) have been acquired by the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art (). Their continued support of my work and dedication to preserving and amplifying the stories and works of Black artists mean the world to me. With this acquisition, four of my works now live within their collection.
I’m immensely grateful to for their role in this process, and for their thoughtful & intentional approach to placing my work in collections that truly value and honor it.
About PFF:
Founded in 2006, the Petrucci Family Foundation (PFF) actively responds to the needs of the communities it serves, with the mission of supporting education and creating opportunity for Americans at every stage of and station of life. The PFF Collection of African American Art is a targeted initiative to bring focus to the full range of African American visual creativity and its essential place in the history and discourse of American art. This important collection, the result of a partnership between Lehigh University professor Berrisford Boothe and regional real-estate developer Jim Petrucci, has received national attention following its exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art in 2017.
Shortened Statement for “The Restoration”:
The Restoration is not about repair, but return. In this series, these restored figures become a part of a larger photographic series. In these portraits, the dolls rest in the arms of Black children and families, restored with care and dignity, and positioned within compositions that honor, rather than dehumanize.
At its core, The Restoration also exists to confront the circulation of these objects calling attention to their harmful legacy while advocating for their removal from commercial markets, and their continued placement within museums and institutions as evidence of a past that must be studied and examined.
