Jarvis DuBois

GUEST CURATOR

Jarvis DuBois is The Nicholson Project’s Guest Curator for February - April 2022, working with Artist-in-Residence, KOKAYI. Jarvis has been a Museum Specialist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History since 2002.

Jarvis has curated several exhibitions including: Black Abstraction at Harmony Hall Regional Art Gallery in Fort Washington, MD for the group Black Artists of DC (2011); In The Mix: DC Area Abstract Artists at the Children’s National Medical Center (2012); (in)Visible and (dis)Embodied: Repositioning the Marginalized as part of the Curatorial Initiative program at the District of Columbia Arts Center (2014); co-curated Looking Back/Looking Forward: 15 Years of Millennium Arts Salon with Sharon Burton and Janelle Blackmon Pryor at the Brentwood Arts Exchange in Maryland (2015); co-curated Lest We Forget with Deirdre Darden at the Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore, MD (2017); as well as co-curated with Gia Harewood Face Forward (2018) and Senait and Nahom: The Peacemaker and the Comforter by Tsedaye Makonnen (2019) both at Carroll Square Gallery in DC. He has also curated the exhibition section for performance artist Sheldon Scott at the (e)merge art fair held in Washington, DC in October 2013 and 2014.

Since the pandemic, Jarvis has presented a rotating group art installation at the new events space The Yard DC in the Anacostia neighborhood. Jarvis has previously been a member of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank selection committee, Hillyer Art Space Artist Advisory Committee, and is currently a Millennium Arts Salon board member and has written articles for the International Review of African American Art.