Rooted in Color: Conference offers advice for collecting African-American Art

The founder of an Atlanta arts incubator whose work to promote female artists of color has drawn the attention of national media outlets will be the keynote speaker for an arts conference Saturday in Chattanooga.

Tiffany LaTrice, founder and executive director of Tila Studios, will offer her expertise at Rooted in Color: A Conference on Collecting African-American Art, presented by Rise (formerly Jazzanooga).

Tiffany Latrice / Photo from the artist

This will be a homecoming for LaTrice, 30, who grew up in Chattanooga and graduated from Baylor School in 2007. She says she has felt a passion for art since childhood, encouraged by a contest win in first grade and inspired by forebears who “could create with their hands.” Her family, however, encouraged her intellectual gifts.

“While I do come from a family of creatives … I was pushed toward an academic route,” she says.