Voice ≠ Speech

Voice ≠ Speech
Launch of BCC's open-access journal through Soul Choice Editions, bringing together scholarship, archival materials and critical writing.


Assembly Black Country: Black Box
A programme based in the Black Country (West Midlands, England) developed with a-n exploring access, disability justice, Black curatorial practice and infrastructure.

Black Curators Collective Founded
A national collective and forum for Black women and non-binary curators across the UK. Emerging from conversations and organising between 2018 and 2020, the collective was initially developed under the name Womxn of Colour Curators Forum.

2024

2026

2021

2022

Meandering Networks, Mapping Nations
A major public programme presented as part of Glasgow International, with support from CCA Glasgow and the International Curators Forum.

Pace & Flow
An ongoing programme supporting research, bursaries and professional development.

2020

  • Voice ≠ Speech: A Journal of Held Articulation and Critical Method

    Published by Soul Choice Editions
    An imprint of Black Curators Collective CIC

    Edited by Jade Foster
    Front and back cover artworks by Jade Foster.
    As a deliberate political choice, they have chosen not to share information about their works.

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without permission of the publishers and authors.
    © 2026 Black Curators Collective CIC and individual contributors

    ISSN 2979-8477 — Voice ≠ Speech

  • Dr Aparna Kumar
    Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South, UCL. Co‑Director of the Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. Research on modern South Asian art, museum studies, and postcolonial theory.

    Dr Kate Keohane
    Career Development Fellow in Art History and Wellbeing, St Edmund Hall and the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Research on storytelling, ecology, and collective practice. Co‑Director of Art Hx (Princeton University); co‑editor of Caribbean Eco‑Aesthetics.

    Kimaada Le Gendre
    Chief Learning Officer, Queens Museum, New York, and Director, Suna Children’s Museum. Works at the intersection of museum education, equity and institutional change.

    Professor Marsha Pearce
    British Academy Global Professor, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Scholar‑curator from the Caribbean focusing on Global Majority artists, museum transformation, and Caribbean visual culture.

    Professor Dorothy Price FBA
    Executive Dean and Deputy Director, The Courtauld Institute of Art. Leading scholar in critical race art history and decolonial approaches. Editor of Art History; founder of the Centre for Black Humanities, University of Bristol.

  • Jade Foster (they/them)

    An art historian, curator and writer born and raised in Sandwell, UK, of Jamaican and St. Lucian heritage. Foster holds an MA in History of Art with Distinction from University College London (2023), where they were a Fer-Garb Scholar, and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art with First Class Honours from the University of Derby (2017). They are currently undertaking a Cultural and Creative Leadership MBA at Teesside University. Foster is the founding Director of Black Curators Collective and Curator at Primary, Nottingham, UK where their programme has supported early UK institutional presentations for artists whose work has since entered major international museum and biennial contexts. Their curatorial and scholarly practice centres on art history, curatorial practice, disability and access, and the methodology of unhanding—a critical practice, developed from Édouard Glissant's concept of errantry, for approaching artworks that resist transparent legibility. Foster's writing has appeared in ArtReview, Art Monthly, Camera Austria International, Corridor8 and LUX Moving Image, and they have contributed the introductory essay to Maia Ruth Lee: Bondage Baggage (Radius Books, 2025), the artist's first monograph, featuring correspondence from Amanny Ahmad, Brook Hsu, Jimin Seo, Christine Sun Kim and Martine Syms. They have delivered keynote addresses, including at the British Art Network Annual Conference (Tate and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art), and have spoken at the Association for Art History Annual Conference at the University of Cambridge. Foster is a Trustee of Nottingham Contemporary and a member of the Folk Exchange Steering Group at Compton Verney.