Selected Work
Just Above Midtown at the Museum of Modern Art
Review of the Just Above Midtown exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art for the Art Newspaper.
The Art of Abolition
In conjunction with the Beyond the Box program series, this essay explores the role of art and institutions in envisioning a world without prisons.
What Does a Sustainable Cultural Ecosystem Look Like?
The second post for the Guggenheim about the Greenhaus futures-thinking lab project. Read additional posts about the project here and here.
How the Guggenheim Is Creating Space to Build Worlds
The Guggenheim Greenhaus is a futures-thinking lab and worldbuilding program through the museum, aimed at bringing in a range of stakeholders, from interns to board members to artists, to envision the future of museums. Read additional posts about the project here and here.
Tschabalala Self’s Debut Performance Is a Powerful Extension of Her Painting Practice
Review of Tschabalala Self’s Sounding Board at the 2021 Performa Biennial for Artsy.
Beyond The Box
This four-part program series at Pioneer Works activates themes around mass incarceration, inspired by Kalief Browder: The Box by artist Coby Kennedy.
Fashion & Spirituality
Presentation for the Slow Factory Foundation’s 2020 Open Education series, focused on how our approach to fashion and beauty can become spiritualized through a deeper understanding of justice and a move away from consumerism.
Finding beacons of hope in monuments and public art
Podcast episode with Cloud9 exploring the spiritual dimensions of public art and future of monuments. Final episode of a four-part series.
What do you keep when you go?
My billboard for For Freedoms’ #The2020Awakening, accompanied by my artist statement.
Facing the Fact of Death
Written for the 2020 Womxn In Windows exhibition, in Los Angeles, New York, London, and Shanghai. Printed in the exhibition’s accompanying zine.
Love Letter from For Freedoms
A message to the For Freedoms community written before the election, for after the election.
How do museums uphold white supremacy?
An Instagram post summarizing the first chapter of my thesis (below), which went very viral. In addition to amassing nearly 15K likes on my page, it got over 18K likes on artist Hank Willis Thomas’s page and over 4K on For Freedoms.
When we stand together, we stand for freedom.
The statement released by For Freedoms at the beginning of Summer 2020 in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and a reaffirmation of the organization’s beliefs and practices.
Being in History
A collective manifesto on beauty and power written through responses by the subjects of the photographs. Photographed by Camila Falquez.
One Report On Freedom
Special issue of One Report Magazine on how people of various faith backgrounds understand freedom, looking at topics from death to religious persecution to incarceration to obedience.
Google Earth Creation Tools
Highlighting how I can connect with my family history and homeland through Google Earth.
Worry and Breath
Personal essay in One Report On Perfection, on mental health, about discovering my anxiety and coping with it by listening to my body and exploring prayer and meditation.
Behind the Primitive Shadow: History and Its Consequence on Contemporary African Art (undergraduate thesis)
Undergraduate thesis, which received distinction, on the history and legacy of primitivism in the Rockefeller Wing of the Met. Written under the advising of Dr. Yvette Christiansë and Dr. Kellie Jones.
The Subtle White Supremacy of September Magazine Covers
“White supremacists believe that whiteness is the standard, the ideal, the most beautiful and the most noteworthy. This September’s biggest magazine covers suggest the fashion establishment agrees.” (September 2017)