Darryl Ratcliff is an award-winning artist and poet with a writing and curatorial practice based in Dallas, Texas, whose work engages communities and mobilizes social issues. Ratcliff launched Finding Art, a substack newsletter sharing thoughts on culture from an equity perspective. Ratcliff is also a contributing arts writer for The Dallas Morning News and Patron Magazine, where he covers the North Texas arts scene. Formerly, Ratcliff has written for Glasstire, D Magazine, The Dallas Observer, Arts+Culture Texas Magazine, and Centraltrack. Ratcliff is a co-founder of Ash Studios, Gossypions Investments, and Michelada Think Tank. Through his writing, curation, and his art, Ratcliff builds complex, collaborative, durational cultural projects that help tell true community narratives, promote civic engagement, and increase community health. Ratcliff was a YBCA 10 Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Francisco, California.