Raél Jero Salley constructs spaces for senses-minds-bodies-feeling. Salley is Faculty in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.; Founding Director of The Space for Creative Black Imagination, Inc.; Author of The Visual Dynamics of Art, Black Care, and Ethics (Routledge, 2025); Curator of Looking Rights: Exhibition (Johns Hopkins, 2024); Co-Producer of The Juneteenth Institute (The Liverpool Biennale, UK; Howard University Art, 2023); What Beautiful Space Tomorrow (The Broad Museum, Los Angeles; The Centre for the less good idea, Johannesburg); Making Art History Now (Symposium, Yale University and La Biennale di Venezia, 2022); and Artist, War of the Roses (Gallery MOMO, South Africa, 2019). Salley has delivered talks, research, curriculum, and pedagogy in art and scholarly contexts in the Americas, Europe, and Africa.