NAJEE DORSEY: Poor People’s Campaign
September 6, 2025 to October 25, 2025
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Najee Dorsey’s Poor People’s Campaign, is a powerful collection of work grounded in the environmental struggles of today’s impoverished communities. Blending Southern nostalgia with digitally collaged speculative futures, Dorsey’s work unveils a future shaped by environmental racism, industrial pollution, and the resilience of those who endure these atrocities. This exhibition challenges viewers to confront what’s hidden in plain sight—smokestacks on the horizon, decaying landscapes, and children at play in dystopian backdrops, unaware, just going about their lives.
Each candid portrayal of a child, each scar of environmental injustice plaguing the earth, is a symbol of ongoing corporate greed, and a masterful fusion of futures transforming the landscape into an intimate battleground. Through these works Dorsey challenges us to consider the true cost of progress and unchecked power.
Najee Dorsey is from Atlanta, Georgia and is the founder of Black Art in America (BAIA), an online media platform for African American artists, collectors, art enthusiasts, and arts professionals.
BAIA was founded as a centralized location for profiling the African American artist — giving members of the network access to the work of African American artists (past and contemporary), and most importantly, opportunities for interchange. Since 2010, the network has become the leading online portal and resource focused on African American art, artists, collectors, industry leaders, and arts enthusiasts. The BAIATM online network currently has a monthly virtual reach of 750,000 people and growing.
As an artist, Najee Dorsey has become known for his mixed media collage, digital media collage images of little known and unsung historical figures, as well as nostalgic scenes from African American life in the southern United States. In his work, as Najee chronicles moments in Black life throughout history, he maintains that, “stories untold are stories forgotten”. Far from the days after dropping out of arts college, and becoming uncertain about his future in the arts, Dorsey has forged a successful career as an artist, being featured in numerous solo and group museum shows, television broadcasts and print publications — a major feat for any artist. As well as these accomplishments, he has skillfully combined his creative edge, and business acumen to develop a steadily growing online community that documents, preserves and promotes the contributions of the African American arts community. Najee now lives in Columbus, GA with his wife, Seteria.
EXHIBITION SPONSORS: Mark Briggs, Margrit Diehl, Julie Gozan & Tom Keck, John P. Haritatos, Judy & William Licker, Michael Miller & Kate O’Connell, Lorraine Morganti, Arthur & Viola Paris, Carolyn Revercomb, and Chris Riley & Mark Feldman
SEASON SPONSORS: Annemarie Deegan, Terry Eckert, Christine Flynn, Gegensatz Press, Michael Greenlar & Linda Bogart-Greenlar, Richard Jaeger, Ann Jamison, Shirley & Larry Novak, Vince Sgambati, Sharye Skinner, Ron VanNorstrand, and Rosemary Welch & Craig Schlanger, and Shaila Wood & Ramesh Gaonkar
SPECIAL BENEFACTORS: Donald Blair & Nancy Dock, Bousqet Holstein, Edgewood Gallery, Sam Gruber, Sandra Hurd & Joel Potash, Nancy & Bruce McCoy, Dorothy and Marshall Reisman Foundation, Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead, Carolyn Stark & John Przepioa, and Susan Wadley & Rick Olanoff
SUSTAINING SPONSORS: Walter Putter & Marilyn Smith
