Raél Jero Salley is Faculty in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Founding Creative Director of The Space for Creative Black Imagination, Inc., Producer of Making Art History Now (a collaboration between Yale University and La Biennale di Venezia), and Curator of Looking Rights (Johns Hopkins University, supported by the Mellon Foundation). An internationally recognized advisor, creative, and scholar who makes conceptual art, teaches martial arts, leads yoga sessions, feeds a spirit called Biko, waters Gloria’s plants, and is Mazie’s grandson.