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Joseph Cuillier

Joseph A. Cuillier III is a designer, artist, poet, and educator, deeply dedicated to art and design’s capacity to connect individuals, communities, and causes. He received an MFA in Graphic Design...

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When Games Imitate Life: Youth Make Video Games to Explore Social Issues

2015 ABOG Fellow The Plug-In Studio uses the medium of videogames for young artists in Chicago to explore social issues important to them. See more from The Plug-In Studio. The post When Games Imitate...

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Freeman Word

As an ABOG Fellow, Freeman Word will create the Zakatu Madrasa, a cooperatively owned and operated spiritual subscription bookstore in St. Louis. Referring to historical African educational...

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Ronny Quevedo

As an ABOG Fellow Ronny Quevedo will create Higher Sails, a series that transforms small businesses into social agents by broadcasting community concerns through its ephemera and store signage. Located...

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A Radical Idea: Educating Youth About Black Political History

2016 ABOG Fellow Joseph Cuillier created The Black School, an experimental art school using socially engaged art and Black history to educate Black/POC students and allies in becoming radical agents of...

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Melanie Crean

As an ABOG Fellow, Melanie Crean will create No Such Place as America in collaboration with the Founding President of Ebony Horsewomen Patricia E. Kelly; members of the Hartford Police Department; and...

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Innovating Art Pedagogies as Radical Activism

Student artists at The Black School, Image: RAVA Films Brooklyn-based graphic designer and artist Mitchell Johnson has been devoting his graphic design expertise and facilitating radical art workshops...

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Crafting a Space to Write, Cook, and Celebrate Black Women’s History

Chef Dobson’s Mulatto Rice at Our Mothers’ Kitchens “In Search of Zora’s Kitchen” dinner, January 2019. Photo by Gabrielle Clark. Working collectively as Our Mothers’ Kitchens, A Blade of Grass Fellows...

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House/Full of Blackwomen

Working collectively as House/Full of Blackwomen, choreographer Amara Tabor-Smith and theater director Ellen Sebastian Chang in collaboration with sex-trafficking abolitionists and survivors, dancers,...

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A Sign of the Times: Preserving Community Identity in the Bronx

A Blade of Grass Fellow Ronny Quevedo facilitated Higher Sails, a design workshop for Bronx teens who developed a new visual identity for Mott Haven neighborhood restaurant La Morada. The workshop...

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