A pioneering journal that offers a new transnational conduit for translating the black diaspora by celebrating its vastness and cultures, providing authors and critics of color a forum to share their diverse viewpoints and experiences.

Through essays, poems, photo-essays, interviews, experimental art criticism, and pieces at the intersection of art criticism and academic articles, BLUE/AZUL covers a comprehensive variety of topics with an emphasis on bridging the art histories of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with contemporary Diasporic art, including writings by those that have not yet been translated into English, and pieces centered on the intersections of Afro and Indigenous communities in Latin America.

BLUE/AZUL decentralizes North American critiques of Afro-Latin American art, challenging ongoing barriers shaped by colonialism that are constantly reinforced by English-only publications. Primarily published in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, the three languages spoken by the majority of descendants of the transatlantic slave trade, It engages Latin American communities that have limited access to American publications and thus find it difficult to take part in the discussions and debates taking place in the US art scene.

Is the product of three years of continual dialogues, meetings, and collaborations between Nohora Arrieta Fernandez, Tiffany Auttrianna Ward, and Tatiane Schilaro, along with other writers, critics, translators, and artists from around the African diaspora.


With CALOR we contributed to the research and branding of the project, as well as a display website during the length of the project.