Camille Lawrence (she/her).

Archivist, Curator, Consultant. Founder, Black Beauty Archive.

Camille Lawrence's work as an archivist focuses on the art history, innovations, and diversity of artistic expression across the African Diaspora. She is most interested in exploring and archiving identity formation throughout the African diaspora and culture through three foundational principles: Oral, Physical, and Ritual. Lawrence's background as an art historian, artist, and beauty practitioner informs her approach to archival work. Her projects include the Black Beauty Archive and contributions to NYU Hemispheric Institute, Urban Bush Women, and BAM DanceAfrica.

On Juneteenth 2020, Camille founded Black Beauty Archive to document, preserve, and archive the history of Black Beauty culture. Camille's professional makeup artist experience includes publications in VOGUE, ESSENCE, Sophisticate's Black Hair Styles, The New York Times, PAPER, and TV/Film with Apple, CNBC, Disney, ESPN, Hallmark, and Netflix. [IMDB]

Black Beauty Archive has been featured in InStyle, Art Net News, Oprah Daily! and mentioned in CNN and The Hollywood Reporter. BBA's archival film premiered at Miami Art Basel 2022 in the exhibition "The Crown We Never Take Off' "in collaboration with RICHES on Amazon Prime.