Black Archives

Founded in 2015, by Renata Cherlise, Black Archives is a multimedia platform that brings a spotlight to the Black experience. Through an evolving visual exploration, Black Archives provides a dynamic accessibility to a Black past, present, and future. As a researcher, Cherlise lends her knowledge with image sourcing and clearing for film, documentaries, directors, & musicians. While as a curator, she creates multimedia narratives centering Black lives. Through this platform, Cherlise's mission is not only to counter mainstream narratives, replacing them with collective memories of everyday life, but to also document life to preserve the space for future narratives.