The 2026 Artists’ Biennial’s title The Price of the Ticket takes its title from James Baldwin’s unpublished 1985 collection, reframing his challenge to America’s unfulfilled promises of equality. Atlanta-based writer and cultural historian TK Smith curated The Price of the Ticket using Baldwin’s provocation as a lens through which to explore how identity, citizenship, and belonging are performed and contested across land, lineage, and language—especially as America stares down the Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary and the celebrations the president wants to throw Trump-style commemorating it.

Among next spring’s highlights of the more than 30 creatives showing in the Artists’ Biennial are Portland-based transdisciplinary artist, writer and activist Demian DinéYazhi’, Eug

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