INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Queens of Art Collective exhibition at Newfields is celebrating Black History Month and Women’s History Month by highlighting the work of four African American women artists from Indianapolis. The exhibit features painting, mixed media and photography to explore themes of resilience, beauty and the complexity of womanhood.

The collective brings together artists whose work is rooted in lived experience and creative resilience. The featured creators spent a year developing the exhibition, which offers intimate perspectives on the Black experience through various visual languages and artistic mediums.

Dana Powell Smith, one of the featured artists, created a piece titled “Tell Me a Story.” The painting depicts three generations of women doing each other’s hair, a process Smith des...