The Black Artists Archive will create a physical and digital archive to preserve the legacies of Black artists from Detroit and the Midwest. The goal of the Black Artists Archive is to create a space where Black artists and curators can preserve their legacies and research with support and long-term investment, creating and sustaining practice change in the space of traditional museums or archival centers that continue to operate within exclusionary frameworks rooted in colonial practices and systemic barriers. Over a year and a half, the Black Artists Archive will implement Phase One of its archive development plan by designing and launching its website, which will be the central location for the digital archives and the main resource for locating physical materials. The first archive slated for digitization is that of the Arts Extended Gallery, a Black arts organization founded in Detroit in 1952. Next steps will involve audience research; conducting stakeholder interviews; and expanding the collection through oral histories and adding other relevant collections. Future phases of the Black Artists Archive include establishing the Black Curatorial Institute to advance new approaches to curatorial and archival practice, as well as an incubator residency to create interdisciplinary dialogues between curators and artists in Detroit.