Courtney-Grace’s track record is stacked: industry-leading agencies, Internet-breaking work at PAPER Magazine, critically-acclaimed campaigns, numerous awards & collabs with some of the most culture-defining names of the last decade. Just ask Zendaya. Issa Rae. Megan Thee Stallion. 

A rare mix of ease & electricity, Courtney-Grace is warm, confident, good-hearted & unmistakably charismatic. Known as someone who doesn’t simply observe culture but appreciates it through her own lived experience, culture is not just something to reference or put on a mood board. For Courtney-Grace, it is something to honor, protect and responsibly pass on.

When she’s not being a critically-acclaimed Creative Director leading campaigns for Fortune 500 brands, she is building a rotating fine art exhibition & platform with the Museum of Nail Art (MoNA). MoNA uses nail art as a medium to celebrate Radical Black Beauty through a pop culture lens. But it is not simply a museum about nail art. It is an intentional initiative with an institutional thesis: Black women’s creative expression, artistry & contribution to the beauty landscape should never need permission to show up & is more than worthy of getting its proper attribution.

As both a beauty participant & critic (or for any Notorious B.I.G fans: “a client & the playa president”), she is not asking for approval to call Black nail art fine art. She is recognizing what has already been true: the creative & cultural impact of Black women has long shaped worlds far beyond the salon.

So why not turn that into forever?

Club & ADCOLOR, Courtney-Grace is also a passionate cultural critic with a distinct POV. She also speaks & writes about the future of creativity, counterculture and how both can expand the way we see ourselves, each other and the world.

At heart, Courtney-Grace is building things made to outlive the moment: cultural institutions, required readings, and future works headed for screens, bookshelves and the collective imagination. It is the least she can give back to the communities that shaped her into the woman she is today.

FUN FACT: She has personally given away over three dozen copies of books by bell hooks to friends & colleagues. For Courtney-Grace, it is both a personal ritual & a small act of literary stewardship: helping circulate the work of her favorite author, whose brilliance deserved even more institutional support, visibility, and celebration in her lifetime.