"New Performance Kid in Town: Blaque Artists Collective"

Buster Spiller with actor Nadine Richard

Blaque Artists Collective invites D/FW artists to join it’s movement...

The Blaque Artists Collective is an open community in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area that embraces like-minded playwrights, producer, directors, actors, musicians, singers, visual artists, make-up artists, designers, and other tech personnel.


The creative brainchild of Buster Spiller, Paula J. Sanders and Catherine “Cat” Montgomery, the mission of the Blaque Artists Collective is to lend an ear to a long awaited voice of the nouveau African-American playwright in the spirit of artistic collaboration and to create new works of art that are artistically and culturally relevant and endures as another ‘fingerprint of the black experience’.

Catherine "Cat" Montgomery

During the Harlem Renaissance, artists such as Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston banded together as a creative collective to create art that would sustain across generations. When they did, they demonstrated a new dynamic in how black art was accepted by society.

In the tradition of these artistic predecessors, Blaque Artists Collective is committed to ushering in a new era of theatrical storytelling grounded in uncompromised passion for the theater and its rich history within the African-American community and beyond through universally recognized theatrical production standards.

Although Blaque Artists Collective is a nonprofit organization recognized by the State of Texas (with IRS 501 (c)3 status to be secured in the future), we are not a traditional arts organization (i.e., theater company, film studio) but rather an artistic movement.

Paula J. Sanders

Often organizations are formed and over time as these groups focus on operations, programming, fundraising, audience building, etc., they lose the creative spark that originally defined them. They become stale, lose relevance, and sacrifice creating art that is celebrated and endures just to keep their doors open.

Blaque Artists Collective's primary working objective is to foster an environment for artists and technical artisans to still create arts in the absence of traditional resources other organizations enjoy in which ‘new fingerprints of the black experience’ can be organically created, as they were during the Harlem Renaissance.

If you would like to join our movement and start creating new art together, please email us at: blaqueac@gmail.com or drop us a short line at (972) 863-BLAC (2522).