For Artists
Where HBCU Artists Build Careers and Collectors Discover Them
We handle the business layer, so HBCU artists can focus on the work
If you’re here, you already know HBCUs produce excellence.
HBCUs represent 3% of American colleges and universities. Their output is disproportionate across every profession they have touched. 80% of Black judges. 50% of Black lawyers. 50% of Black doctors. 40% of Black engineers.
The same pattern holds in visual art, with one difference. There was never a market built to activate it.
For over a century, HBCUs built the foundation for Black American visual art canon. Hampton started in 1894. The pipeline has been running ever since, producing generations of serious, trained artists whose work shaped American visual art, while the market had no architecture to bring them fully into it.
The talent was never the problem. The infrastructure was. Closing that gap is how we continue to grow the American art market.
HBCU Art Haus was founded by Joshua Brome, Tennessee State University alumnus. We source collectors, manage transactions, and build the market infrastructure HBCU artists have never had access to.
You didn’t dedicate years to mastering your craft at an HBCU just to spend the majority of your time chasing sales, handling paperwork, and hoping the right collectors find you.
The collectors are here. The market is ready. HBCU Art Haus is the infrastructure that connects both. The only question is whether you step into it.
For Collectors
Join the HBCU Collector Community
Where the HBCU collector community discovers emerging artists before the market does, not after.
Where culturally connected collectors discover emerging HBCU artists before the market does.
If you collect, you already understand the frustration of finding important work too late — after prices have risen and the best pieces have been claimed.
For decades, HBCU-trained artists have existed outside the infrastructure of the art market. Programs came and went. No lasting architecture was ever built.
HBCU Art Haus changes that.
The first dedicated market architecture for HBCU-trained artists. Your purchasing power builds something permanent. First access to exceptional work, direct relationships with the artists, and the opportunity to collect at the earliest stage.
This is where a new generation of African Diaspora collectors continues the lineage of Dave Driskell, Ernie Barnes, John Biggers, and Elizabeth Catlett, with intention and ownership.
Every artist featured here trained at Hampton, Howard, Spelman, Tennessee State, Clark Atlanta, North Carolina Central, Florida A&M, Tuskegee, Texas Southern, Morehouse, Fisk, and more.
The collectors who move before consensus build the most meaningful collections.
First access to emerging work before wider market discovery. Quarterly artist profiles and HBCU art history. Behind the scenes artist stories and creative process. A community building cultural wealth through HBCU talent.