Black Art in America is more than an East Point gallery. It's part gallery, part sculpture garden, part marketplace and part cultural infrastructure built around documenting, preserving, promoting and creating a stronger market for African American art. There's looking at Black art. There's appreciating Black art. And then there's putting Black art on your walls. Black Art in America wants more of us doing all three.

Founded in 2010 by artist and curator Najee Dorsey and Seteria Dorsey, BAIA has developed into a much broader arts enterprise connecting artists, collectors, museums and communities. Its East Point home brings that mission into a physical Gallery & Sculpture Gardens. And this is where the experience gets especially interesting for BlkTravel. You can buy the art.

Not everything is positioned exclusively for somebody with a six-figure art budget, either. BAIA deliberately works to develop collectors and offers work across periods, mediums and price points, including fine-art prints that can provide a more approachable entrance into collecting. That's important. We spend money decorating our homes. We spend money traveling. We spend money on clothes, watches, bags and everything else that reflects who we are. Maybe it's time some of that money starts ending up on the walls.