Each year, Dayton Live partners with Shango: Center for the Study of African American Art and Culture, and Willis “Bing” Davis, exhibit curator and director of EbonNia Gallery, to display an exhibit of art by local African American artists inside the Schuster Center.

This year’s exhibit, at the Schuster Center from Jan. 26 through March 31 is 2022 Dayton Skyscrapers featuring the work of African American visual artists from the Miami Valley. The Dayton Skyscrapers art project is not a celebration of Dayton’s tall buildings or our skyline. Dayton Skyscrapers is a metaphor for those local and regional African Americans who stand tall in our minds and hearts for what they have achieved in their field and their contributions to the quality of life of Dayton and the Miami Valley Region. The Visual Voices 2022 team of Dayton and Miami Valley African American visual artists have selected a core of high-achieving African Americans as Dayton Skyscrapers.

2022 EXHIBITING ARTISTS ARE:

• Abner Cope
• Dwayne Daniel
• Clifford Darrett
• Gregg DeGroat
• Horace Dozier
• Lois Fortson-Kirk

• Kevin Harris
• Morris Howard
• Craig Screven
• Frances Turner
• Yvette Walker-Dalton