Curator and Artist-led Exhibition Walkthrough

Dominique Clayton is an arts consultant, writer, and gallerist born and raised in Los Angeles. Clayton is the founder of Dominique Gallery, a storefront turned pop-up exhibition and online program which showcases and advises emerging artists with a focus on marginalized artists and artists raising families. In addition to the gallery, Clayton also serves on the curatorial and programming committee of Destination Crenshaw, a forthcoming outdoor art museum and arts program based in the historic Crenshaw community of Los Angeles. Clayton previously worked as Manager of the Founding Director’s office at The Broad and later as an interim director at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery. Her arts writing has been featured in publications including Cultured Magazine, LALA Magazine, Artsy, Sugarcane Magazine, Blavity, and her own forthcoming Black Arts Diary.

Ciarra K. Walters is a visual artist and educator based in Prince George’s County, Maryland. She received her MFA in Photography + Media & Society from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2024. Her art practice examines the body as a site of agency, self-discovery, and environmental resonance through an interdisciplinary approach using performance, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. She transforms her body into temporary sculptures using materials like wire, eggshells, and nylons, blurring the boundaries between the self and the environment. Her ritualistic performances and movement work are characterized by spontaneity, intuition, and trust in the body’s capacity for self-expression. Walters’s process is guided by her awareness of how power and identity shape our relationships with the spaces we occupy.