This year Black Artists Alliance (BAA) celebrates twenty years of representing and promoting black artists, arts and culture.
BAA was established in the North West in 1985 by a small group of committed Black artists and performers, and cites among its principle aims the need to, ‘Address the disenfranchisement, misrepresentation, and marginalisation of Black art and culture.’ BAA uses the term ‘black’ to include artists of African, Asian, Caribbean and indigenous American descent. In taking this broad based approach to diversity BAA shows it is keeping up with the zeitgeist and recognises that the UK’s cultural make-up has evolved considerably since it began.
