the girls guide to Design Month

Roll Call: Two Hundred Years of Black American Art opens with a conversation featuring Richard Dial, Roscoe Hall, and Celestia Morgan—three Birmingham-area artists featured in the exhibition—moderated by Jade Powers, Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. Through photography, painting, and sculpture, the panel will explore how personal narrative, cultural memory, and lived experience shape each artist's practice while reflecting broader histories tied to race, place, labor, family, and systemic inequity in the American South.

Celestia Morgan is a Birmingham-based artist whose photography and sculptural practice explores the lasting impact of redlining, displacement, and systemic inequality within Alabama communities. Her work is held in the permanent collections of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Roscoe Hall is a Birmingham-based painter and multidisciplinary artist whose work examines histories of race, identity, mortality, and social injustice through layered and emotionally resonant imagery. His work has been exhibited nationally at institutions including the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts and the Dallas Art Fair.

Richard Dial is a Bessemer-based self-taught artist whose sculptural works reflect a lifetime shaped by labor, family, craftsmanship, and creative perseverance. The son of acclaimed artist Thornton Dial, Richard developed a distinct visual language through figurative chairs and sculptural assemblages. In 2025, his work was the subject of a solo exhibition at MARCH Gallery in New York City.

Schedule: 5:00 PM Reception · 6:00–7:15 PM Panel · 5:00–9:00 PM Gallery access. Tickets are limited; registration is required for members and non-members.