Artists Amanda Williams and Lindsay Adams will be in conversation with Danny Dunson, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Arts Education, The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. The conversation, moderated by Galina Mardilovich, PhD, Curator, Smart Museum of Art, will reflect on Alma Thomas' enduring impact on colorful abstraction and Black cultural production. Grounded in the context of the Smart’s forthcoming exhibition, Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, March 24 – July 5, 2026, the conversation will consider Thomas’s formal innovations, her late-career breakthrough, and the institutional histories that have shaped her reception. Panelists will explore how her work continues to resonate with contemporary artists and how museums today are recontextualizing her legacy within broader narratives of American modernism.