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BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY

Boston Arts Academy (BAA) is the city’s only public high school for the visual
and performing arts, serving students who reflect the diversity of Boston’s
neighborhoods.

 Boston Arts Academy mission is to serve as a laboratory and a beacon for
artistic and academic innovation, preparing a diverse community of aspiring
artist scholars to be successful in their college or professional careers and to
be engaged members of a democratic society.

Orange Barrel Media displayed their student artwork on several of our large
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JIHA MOON

Jiha Moon (b. 1973) is from DaeGu, Korea and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She
received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Her works have been
acquired by Asia Society, New York, NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC and
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. She has had solo exhibitions at
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, GA, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, the Mint
Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, The Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN and
Rhodes College, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Memphis, TN and James Gallery of CUNY
Graduate Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group shows at Kemper
Museum, Kansas City, MI, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, the
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, Asia Society, New York, NY, The
Drawing Center, New York, NY, White Columns, New York, NY, Smith College Museum
of Art, Northampton, MA, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC. She
is recipient of prestigious Joan Mitchell foundation’s painter and sculptor’s
award for 2011. Her mid-career survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most
everyone’s mad here” organized by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and
Taubman Museum has toured more than 10 museum venues around the country until
2018.

Moon gestural paintings, mixed media, ceramic sculpture and installation explore
fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. She says
“I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds.” She is
taking cues from wide ranges of history of Eastern and Western art, colors and
designs from popular culture, Korean temple paintings and folk art, internet
emoticons and icons, fruit stickers and labels of products from all over the
place. She often teases and changes these lexicons so that they are hard to
identify, yet stay in a familiar zone.

Explore more of Jiha Moon’s work on Instagram.

jihamoon.com



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DEVON TSUNO

Devon Tsuno is an artist and fourth generation Angeleno. His recent spray paint
and acrylic paintings, installations, and public art focus on Japanese American
history. Tsuno’s interests have been central to his work with the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Topaz Museum, Utah; Indianapolis Museum of
Contemporary Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Candlewood Arts Festival, Borrego
Springs, California; LA Metro; and Gallery Lara, Tokyo. His work has been
featured in the Los Angeles Times, NPR, KCET, Artillery Magazine, and X-TRA
Contemporary Art Journal. Tsuno is a 2017 Santa Fe Art Institute Water Rights
Artist-In-Residence, is the 2016 SPArt Community Grantee, and was awarded a 2014
California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Art. He is a member of
J-TOWN Action と Solidarity and is an Associate Professor of Art at California
State University Dominguez Hills.

Explore more of Devon Tsuno’s work on Instagram.



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ASH ‘WOLFDOG’ HAYNER

From a young age, Atlanta-based Ash Hayner has been a visual artist. Hayner, who
goes by the moniker Wolfdog, began his career as a graphic designer, and has
progressively distilled his visual language to the bare necessities of color,
line, form, value and texture, crafting images that merge the fundamental
characteristics of expressionism with his personal interpretation of
technological layering. An accomplished designer, Hayner has exhibited works in
both public and private settings across the United States.

Explore more of Ash ‘Wolfdog’ Hayner’s work on Instagram.

wolfdoglives.com



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KENNETH ALEXANDER

Kenneth Alexander is a painter, motion artist, and curator based in Memphis,
Tennessee.

He fuses anime and digital art with his traditional style to create a new vision
often drawn from his dreams. Growing up in South Memphis, Kenneth was in
constant pursuit of an art community. After being accepted into a local
performing arts high school, he never looked back.

Alexander’s artwork has been shown in over two dozen exhibitions, including
“Surreal Kingdoms” at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, garnering him national
attention. Being a juror for the 2016 and 2021 Mid-South Scholastic Art
Competition — and being the keynote speaker in the former — he has changed lives
of young aspiring artists by awarding them scholarships for their hard work and
dedication.

After curating “Unfolding: The Next Chapter in Memphis,” an ArtsMemphis
exhibition for the Bicentennial of Memphis, he has spread influence and
inspiration to working artists all around the city. This has, is turn, landed
him more curatorial work for outside projects.

Alexander is also well known for his work as a set designer and art director on
networks like NBC, Apple TV, and BET.

He draws inspiration from some of the great surrealists, namely Salvador Dali,
but he is ultimately pioneering the way in a new age of digital art.

Explore more of Kenneth Alexander’s work on Instagram.



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MIKAEL OWUNNA

Mikael Owunna is a Nigerian American multi-media artist, filmmaker, and engineer
based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Exploring the intersections of science,
technology, visual art, Blackness, and African cosmologies, his work seeks to
elucidate an emancipatory vision of possibility that pushes people beyond all
boundaries, restrictions, and frontiers. Owunna’s work has been exhibited across
Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America and been collected by institutions such
as the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Nasher Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston; Middlebury College Museum of Art; Equal Justice Initiative; Duke
University Pratt School of Engineering; and National Taiwan Museum. His work has
also been featured in media ranging from the New York Times to CNN, NPR, VICE,
and The Guardian. He has lectured at venues including Harvard Law School, World
Press Photo (Netherlands), Tate Modern (UK), and TEDx. Owunna has published two
monographs: Limitless Africans (FotoEvidence, 2019) and Cosmologies (ClampArt,
2021). Owunna’s multi-media practice includes film, and in 2021 he directed the
dance film Obi Mbu (The Primordial House) with Marques Redd. Owunna’s work
has been commissioned for major public art installations by organizations
including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Foundation, Contemporary
Art Museum Raleigh, Pittsburgh International Airport, and Orange Barrel Media.

mikaelowunnastore.com



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TONY COKES

Tony Cokes lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he serves as
Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. A
solo exhibition of his work–jointly organized by the Haus der Kunst and
Kunstverein München–is on view through December 4. Recent solo exhibitions
include Greene Naftali, New York (2022, 2018); Memorial Art Gallery, University
of Rochester, Rochester (2021); MACRO Contemporary Art Museum, Rome (2021);
CIRCA, London (2021); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (2020);
ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels (2020); Carpenter Center for the
Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2020); BAK – basis
voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands (2020); Luma Westbau, Zurich (2019);
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2019); The Shed, New York
(2019); Kunsthall Bergen, Norway (2018); and REDCAT, Los Angeles (2012).

His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum
of Art, Pittsburgh; Centre Pompidou, Paris; FRAC Lorraine, Metz; Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles; Kunsthallen, Copenhagen; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The
Museum of Modern Art, New York; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Wexner Center for
the Visual Arts, Columbus; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
among others.

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ALEX BREWER “HENSE”

Alex Brewer, also known as HENSE, is an American contemporary artist, best known
for his dynamic, vivid and colorful abstract paintings and monumental wall
pieces. He utilizes unique color and composition in his installations to evoke a
bold presence in the varied spaces they inhabit. Brewer, a native of Atlanta,
Georgia began his career painting and writing on the walls around the city at a
young age. He discovered his love for creating art in public spaces through
graffiti in the 1990’s. He produces numerous public works worldwide through a
combination of techniques learned through graffiti writing and the formal
language of abstract painting.Conscious of the supporting architecture, Brewer
dramatically transforms his environments byre-creating existing objects and
surfaces and infusing his work into the existing landscape. Best known for his
works in the public area, Brewer applies the same processes and techniques in
his public art as he does on his interior installations. Through wall drawings
and a dialogue between various shapes, color and composition, his process
produces larger-than-life abstractions creating textured surfaces and a layering
of forms and color. Brewer employs a great deal of thought arranging the shapes
he uses, inspiring dramatic compositions and gestures in his finished products.
His use of unique colors and patterns, his play with shifting shapes and
surfaces, and his intense line quality are a contemporary counterpart to the
post-modern masters working in minimalism and abstract expressionism in the
mid-twentieth century. Brewer’s use of simplified geometric forms, un-modulated
color and hard-edges common in minimalism is perfectly paired with the
spontaneous mark making that was common in abstract expressionism. These
influences on Brewer’s work exemplify a comprehensive look at contemporary,
abstract painting.Brewer has received recognition as a contemporary abstract
painter, exploring, color, form and material. His works in the realm of public
art have garnered him national and international attention. He has also received
numerous notable commissions internationally and throughout the United States.
His largest commissioned work is in Lima, Peru amassing an impressive sizeof 137
feet tall and 170 feet wide. With the ability to transform a gallery space or
City’s landscape, Brewer’s paintings can act as a unifying thread in a
community. Brewer is always inspired by creative expression and process in the
public realm and creates works that play an important role in the visual
interactions and dialogue of a community

Explore more of Alex Brewer “HENSE”s work on Instagram.

hensethename.com



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GENVIEVE GAIGNARD

Genvieve Gaignard (b. 1981, Orange, Massachusetts; lives and works in Los
Angeles) received her MFA in Photography at Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut, and her BFA in Photography at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.
She had a major solo project, Smell the Roses, at the California African
American Museum in Los Angeles in 2016, and more recently a solo exhibition, I’m
Sorry I Never Told You That You’re Beautiful, at Susanne Vielmetter Gallery in
2019. She has participated in group exhibitions throughout the United States,
including shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the California African American
Museum, and the Houston Center for Photography. A newly commissioned work of
Gaignard’s was included in the Prospect.4 Triennial, The Lotus in Spite of the
Swamp, in New Orleans in 2017. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times,
The New Yorker, W Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and Artforum, among others.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem;
California African American Museum; PОrez Art Museum Miami; the Nasher Museum of
Art, Durham, North Carolina; the FLAG Art Foundation, New York; the Seattle
Museum of Art; and the San Jose Museum of Art.

Find Genvieve Gaignard on Instagram.

http://www.genevievegaignard.com



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GERALD LOVELL

Gerald Lovell is an Atlanta-based artist who has gained nationwide recognition
for his distinctive style of figurative painting. Lovell’s artistic practice
focuses on his own life as a means of self-discovery and self-articulation. The
subjects of his vivid portraits are moments from his own life, captured in
semi-candid photographs and then memorialized on canvas. Each portrait
thoughtfully reflects details and expressions that create an intimate view into
the lives of his subjects and Lovell’s own urban millennial experience. One of
the elements that defines Lovell’s unique aesthetic style is his bold,
expressive layering of paint. Background elements rendered in exaggerated
flatness contrast with focal points are emphasized through thick and mottled
paint. Lovell’s heavy application of the impasto painting style translates his
subjects into three-dimensional figures within a flat canvas.


Gerald Lovell was born in 1992 in Chicago, Illinois, to Puerto Rican and African
American parents. Lovell is a is a self-taught artist who began his career after
he left the graphic design program at the University of West Georgia. Lovell is
represented by P·P·O·W, New York and his work has been displayed at national
institutions such as the Harvey B Gantt Center for African-American Arts +
Culture in Charlotte, The Houston Museum of African American Culture, and Swim
Gallery, Los Angeles.



Lovell has strong ties to the Atlanta art community and has displayed work at
local galleries including MurMur, The Gallery | Wish, Hammonds House Museum,
Mason Fine Art, and Notch8 Gallery.

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Find Gerald Lovell on Instagram.



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DEVAN SHIMOYAMA

Devan Shimoyama works in portraiture, creating works that draw inspiration from
the narratives of classical mythology and drama, as well as from pop culture
imagery. Shimoyama often focuses on the Black, queer male figure, reframing and
reimagining terms of representation. While his primary medium is painting,
Shimoyama also works in collage, photography, and installation––sometimes all
together––using bold, ecstatic aesthetics to imbue images of himself and others
with a kind of surreal and otherworldly magic. Shimoyama often bases his
compositions on photographs or on major works of Western art history, imbuing
them with a bright, saturated palette and a dynamic, contemporary energy. He
uses different materials to add texture and luminosity to his
canvases––including glitter, rhinestones, sequins, costume jewelry, and metallic
paint––which also allude to camp, drag, and club aesthetics.

Many works show the figure in isolation on imagined grounds, amongst oversized
rain drops, dense foliage, and night skies, or set upon collages of
deconstructed interior architecture. The subjects of Shimoyama’s images seem
both real and iconic, their strange depictions––some with fake roses for eyes,
glitter for hair, magazine photographs comprising other features, and gemstones
for tears––give them a timeless and fantastical appearance. The artist often
works in distinct series, such as a recent body that depicts Black figures with
books by Black authors in an exploration of identity and cultural formation, or
a preceding group of self-portraits that show him intertwined with snakes, an
allegorical motif that recurs in Western painting. Shimoyama’s works have a deep
symbolic undercurrent and his images exalt his subjects while also alluding to
their interior lives and the difficulty they may face within broader society.
The pain and sadness that are woven into these works are a powerful subtext to
the exuberant, pleasurable aesthetics that Shimoyama uses to both interrogate
and reconstruct the way Black queer figures are represented.

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https://debuckgallery.com/artist/devan-shimoyama



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ILANA SAVDIE

Ilana Savdie has had solo exhibitions at Deli Gallery, New York; ltd Los
Angeles; and Stream Gallery, New York, and has been included in group shows at
Golestani Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany; Museum aan de Stroom (MAS), Antwerp,
Belgium; and Casstle, Antwerp, Belgium among others. Savdie is currently an
artist in residence at NXTHVN in New Haven, Connecticut.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC

https://ilanasavdie.format.com

Photo by: John Dennis



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NAUDLINE PIERRE

Naudline Pierre’s work has been included in exhibitions at the The Armory Show,
New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest;
Perrotin, Seoul; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; and Stephen Friedman Gallery,
London among others. Pierre’s works are in the permanent collection of Pérez Art
Museum Miami; CC Foundation, Shanghai; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum
of Art; The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. Pierre was a 2019–2020
artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and an exhibition
featuring the work of the resident artists, This Longing Vessel, recently opened
at MoMA PS1, Queens, New York. In the fall of 2021 her work will be included in
the fifth iteration of Prospect New Orleans, Yesterday we said tomorrow, and she
will have a solo exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. Pierre holds an MFA
from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from Andrews University.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC

https://naudline.com

Photo by: Myles Loftin



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CHRISTOPHER MYERS

Christopher Myers’s recent solo exhibitions include Drapetomania at Fort
Gansevoort, Los Angeles; The Red Plague Rid You for Learning Me Your Language at
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts; Nobody Is My Name, The Mistake
Room, Los Angeles; and Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me at Fort Gansevoort, New
York. Alongside his work as a visual artist, Myers is an award-winning
children’s book illustrator and heads an imprint at Random House.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC

https://www.kalyban.com/home

Photo by: Kamal Nassif



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MARCUS JAHMAL

Jahmal’s recent solo exhibitions include Double Down at Almine Rech, New York;
GUMBO at CAC Passerelle Brest, France; and Solid Ghosts at Almine Rech,
Brussels, as well as shows at Canada Gallery and FiveMyles in New York. He has
been included in group exhibitions at the Drawing Center, New York; UTA Artist
Space, Los Angeles; and The Journal, New York, among others.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC

https://www.marcusjahmal.com

Photo by: Charlie Rubin



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CHIOMA EBINAMA

Ebinama has had recent exhibitions at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York;
Fortnight Institute, New York; Boys’ Quarters Project Space, Port Harcourt,
Nigeria; and The Breeder, Athens, Greece. Her work has been included in group
shows at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore
College, Saratoga Springs, New York; Dak’Art Biennial Off-Site, Dakar, Senegal;
303 Gallery, New York; and La Salita, New York. She is currently illustrating a
children’s book written by Kevin Young. Ebinama received her BFA from Boston
College and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC

https://www.chiomaebinama.com

Photo by: Sasha Arutyunova



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ARIEL DANIELLE

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum,
Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and
Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in
2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA
GA.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC

https://www.byaridannielle.com

Photo by: Dierra Font



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THERESA CHROMATI

Chromati has garnered critical and institutional attention for figurative
paintings that are shaped by fragmented forms of desire and constant motion.
Bursts of complex color, sensual protrusions, and texture deploy abstraction to
explore various contemporary realities of black woman. These bodies are at once
imaginative, bordering on grotesque, and celebratory as they convey a variety of
emotional and spiritual states of being. Chromati was born and raised in
Baltimore, Maryland, attended the Pratt Institute, and is now based in New York
City. Recently, her work was on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Pérez Art
Museum Miami, and The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and The Delaware
Contemporary. She has been featured in The New York Times, i-D, Interview
Magazine, Juxtapoz, Architectural Digest, and Vogue.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC

https://www.theresachromati.black

Photo by: Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.



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FELIPE BAEZA

Baeza is a painter and printmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. His recent solo
exhibitions include Through the Flesh to Elsewhere at the Mistake Room, Los
Angeles; La Emergencia de Hacer Memoria at Fortnight Institute, New York; and
Felipe Baeza at Maureen Paley, London. His work has been featured in group
exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, San
Francisco Art Institute, and The Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C.
His work will be included in the fifth iteration of Prospect New Orleans,
Yesterday we said tomorrow, in the fall of 2021. He received a MFA from Yale
University and a BFA from The Cooper Union, New York.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC

http://www.felipebaeza.com

Photo by: Rene Fragoso



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JEFFREY GIBSON

Jeffrey Gibson is a multidisciplinary artist and craftsperson merging
traditional Native American materials and forms with those of Western
contemporary art to create a new hybrid visual vocabulary. Gibson, a member of
the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, is forging a
multifarious practice that redresses the exclusion and erasure of indigenous art
traditions from the history of Western art as it explores the complexity and
fluidity of identity.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Vote 2020 / Art for Action

https://www.jeffreygibson.net



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NARI WARD

Nari Ward (b. 1963, Saint Andrew, Jamaica; lives and works in New York) received
a BA from City University of New York, Hunter College in 1989, and an MFA from
City University of New York, Brooklyn College in 1992. His work has been the
subject of two major retrospectives: Sun Splashed, which originated at Pérez Art
Museum Miami and travelled to the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and the ICA
Boston; and We the People, which was organized by the New Museum in New York and
traveled to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Denver. He has had additional solo exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park,
New York; Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Georgia; Louisiana State
University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge; The Fabric Workshop and Museum,
Philadelphia; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. 

Ward has participated in group exhibitions around the world. Ward’s work is in
museum collections through the United States, as well as Italy, Turkey, and
Australia, and he has received numerous honors and distinctions including the
Fellowship Award, The United States Artists, Chicago; Vilcek Prize in Fine Arts,
Vil cek Foundation, New York; Joyce Award, The Joyce Foundation, Chicago; Rome
Prize, American Academy of Rome, as well as awards from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters, the Pollock – Krasner Foundation, and the National Endowment
for the Arts.
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Initiatives involved in:

 * Nari Ward: We the People

https://www.nariwardstudio.com



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CARRIE MAE WEEMS

Considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae
Weems has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class,
political systems, and the consequences of power. Determined as ever to enter
the picture—both literally and metaphorically—Weems has sustained an on-going
dialogue within contemporary discourse for over thirty years. During this time,
Carrie Mae Weems has developed a complex body of art employing photographs,
text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. In a New York
Times review of her retrospective, Holland Cotter wrote, “Ms. Weems is what she
has always been, a superb image maker and a moral force, focused and
irrepressible. “Weems has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at
major national and international museums including the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, The Frist Center for Visual Art, Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, and
the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain.

Weems has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including the
prestigious Prixde Roma, The National Endowment of the Arts, The Alpert, The
Anonymous was a Woman, and The Tiffany Awards. In 2012, Weems was presented with
one of the first US Department of State’s Medals of Arts in recognition for her
commitment to the State Department’s Art in Embassies program. In 2013 Weems
received the MacArthur “Genius” grant as well as the Congressional Black Caucus
Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also received the BET Honors
Visual Artist award, the Lucie Award for Fine Art photography, was one of four
artists honored at the Guggenheim’s 2014 International Gala, a recipient of the
ICP Spotlights Award from the International Center of Photography, The WEB
Dubois Award from Harvard University, as well as Honorary Degrees from:
California College of the Arts, Colgate University, Bowdoin College, the School
of Visual Arts and Syracuse University. She is represented in public and private
collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The Tate Modern, London. Weems has been
represented by Jack Shainman Gallery since 2008, and is currently Artist in
Residence at the Park Avenue Armory. She lives in Syracuse, New York, with her
husband Jeffrey Hoone who is Executive Director of Light Work.
Read more



Initiatives involved in:

 * Vote 2020 / Art for Action

http://carriemaeweems.net



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TOMASHI JACKSON

Tomashi Jackson was born in Houston, Texas in 1980 and grew up in Los Angeles,
California. She was included in the Whitney Biennial 2019, and her first solo
museum exhibition, Interstate Love Song, took place at the Zuckerman Museum of
Art in Kennesaw, Georgia in 2018. Her work has also been included in group
exhibitions at MoCA Los Angeles, MASS MoCA, and the Contemporary Art Center, New
Orleans. Jackson was a 2019 Resident Artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting
& Sculpture. She will have a solo exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum during
the summer of 2020. Her work is included in the collection of MOCA Los Angeles.
She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts College
of Art, Boston; and Cooper Union, NY, and she has been a visiting artist at New
York University. Jackson lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New
York City.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Vote 2020 / Art for Action

https://www.nightgallery.ca/exhibitions/tomashi-jackson/about



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JENNY HOLZER

Jenny Holzer is an American Conceptual artist best known for her text-based
public art projects. Exploring how language is used both as a form of
communication and as a means of concealment and control, Holzer has employed a
variety of media throughout her career, including large-scale projections, LED
displays, T-shirts, and posters. “I used language because I wanted to offer
content that people—not necessarily art people—could understand,” she explained.
Born on July 29, 1950 in Gallipolis, OH, Holzer received her BFA from Ohio
University in 1972 and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975.
Her popular series Truisms began in 1977, when she started pasting ambiguous
quotes such as “ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE” and “PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I
WANT” throughout New York, while enrolled in the Whitney Museum Independent
Study Program.

The artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,
the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Museum of Modern Art in New
York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, among others. in 1990
Holzer was the first woman to represent the United States in the Venice Biennale
She currently lives and works in Hoosick Falls, NY.
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Initiatives involved in:

 * Vote 2020 / Art for Action

https://projects.jennyholzer.com



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MARÍA BERRÍO

Born 1982, Bogotá, Colombia Lives and works in New York, NY
Maria Berrio’s large collaged works—comprised of diversely sourced papers,
depict surrealist narratives that blur biographical memory with South American
mythology. Her work explores themes such as intercultural connectivity,
migration and humankind’s relationship to nature. Maria Berrio received her BFA
at Parsons School of Design and MFA at the School for Visual Arts. Maria’s work
is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Musuem of American Art
in New York, The Nasher Museum in North Carolina, Crystal Bridges Museum of
American Art in Arkansas and the Ford Foundation in New York. Her work has been
exhibited both nationally and internationally, participating in exhibitions at
El Museo del Barrio in New York and The Nasher Museum in North Carolina, among
others. Most recently, Berrio’s work was included in Prospect 4 Triennial in New
Orleans and this year her permanent public art will be installed in a New York
City subway station, commissioned by the MTA Arts and Design program.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC

https://www.kohngallery.com/berrio



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HANK WILLIS THOMAS

HANK WILLIS THOMAS (b. 1976, Plainfield, NJ; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is
a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to perspective,
identity, commodity, media, and popular culture.

Thomas holds a B.F.A. from New York University, New York, NY (1998) and an
M.A./M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2004).
He received honorary doctorates from the Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore,
MD and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland, ME in
2017.

His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including
the International Center of Photography, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,
Spain; Musée du quai Branly, Paris; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, and the
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Netherlands.

Initiatives involved in:

 * National 2021 Awakening Campaign

https://hankwillisthomas.com



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ANN HAMILTON

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for her large-scale
multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations.
Responsive to the contingencies of the sites where she works, her recurring
forms—cloth, texts spoken and written, animals, and people suspended or in
motion—immerse viewers in an atmosphere both visceral and literary, individual
and collective, animate and inanimate, silent and spoken. Noted for a dense
accumulation of materials, her ephemeral environments respond to the
architectural presence and social history of their sites. Whether inhabiting a
building four stories high or confined to the surface of a thimble, the genesis
of Hamilton’s art extends outwards from the primary projections of the hand and
mouth. Her attention to the uttering of a sound or the shaping of a word with
the hand places language and text at the tactile and metaphoric center of her
installations. To enter their liminality is to be drawn equally into the sensory
and linguistic capacities of comprehension that construct our faculties of
memory, reason and imagination.


In a time when successive generations of technology amplify human presence at
distances far greater than the reach of the hand, what becomes the place and
form of making at the scale and pace of the individual body? How does making
participate in the recuperation and recognition of embodied knowledge? What are
the places and forms for live, tactile, visceral, face-to-face experiences in a
media-saturated world? These concerns have animated the site-responsive
installations that have formed the bulk of Hamilton’s practice over the last 20
years. But where the relations of cloth, sound, touch, motion, and human gesture
once gave way to dense materiality, Hamilton’s work now focuses on the less
material acts of reading, speaking, and listening. The influence of
collaborative processes in ever more complex architectures has shifted her forms
of making, wherein the movement of the viewer in time and in space now becomes a
central figure of the work.
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https://www.annhamiltonstudio.com



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PATRICK MARTINEZ

Born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley, Patrick Martinez’s L.A. suburban
upbringing and his diverse cultural background (Filipino, Mexican and Native
American), provided him with a unique lens through which he interprets his
surroundings. Influenced by the Hip Hop movement, Martinez cultivated his art
practice through graffiti, which later led him to the Art Center College of
Design, where he earned a BFA with honors in 2005. Through his facility with a
wide variety of media(painting, neon, ceramic and sculpture), Martinez
colorfully scrutinizes otherwise everyday realities of suburban and urban life
in L.A. with humor, sensitivity and wit. Patrick Martinez, (b. 1980 Pasadena,
CA) earned his BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in 2005.

His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally in Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Minneapolis, Miami, New York and the Netherlands, and he has shown in
venues including the Vincent Price Art Museum, Biola University, LA Louver,
Showroom MAMA, Providence College Galleries, MACLA, SUR biennial, Chinese
American Museum and Euphrat Museum of Art. He has been covered by the Los
Angeles Times, KPCC, KCRW, Fusion, Art News, Opening Ceremony Art Blog and
Wired. He has work in the collections of the Cornell Fine Art Museum, Manetti
Shrem Museum of Art, and the Museum of Latin American Art. Martinez has his
first solo museum show at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum from May 25 to September
10, 2017. Patrick lives and works in Los Angeles and is represented by Charlie
James Gallery.
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http://patrickmartinez.com



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SADIE BARNETTE

Sadie Barnett is an important emerging voice within the American arts landscape.
Based in Oakland, Barnette mines the everyday to create works across mediums,
including drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation that can make the
mundane appear transcendent and reveal hidden and obscured histories. Barnette
is becoming best known for her immersive installations that reimagine domestic
and public spaces into spectacular, vibrant places for people to gather ––
living rooms and bars conjured from metallic vinyl, shades of pink, gold
finishes, and sparkling surfaces. Using pop aesthetics, the artist offers a
reprieve from our day – to – day lives, literalizing and constructing an
imaginative space of escape. In her two – and three – dimensional works, the
artist employs found objects and often sources material from family archives ––
including the 500 – page FBI surveillance file kept on her father, who founded
the Compton chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968.

Barnette transforms things like speakers and empty aluminum cans through the
careful application of glitter and holographic material. In so doing she makes
playful, wondrous artifacts of these familiar things. Using layering,
abstraction, and negative space the artist creates subtle collages –– cutting
out single figures and reorienting them amidst galactic surfaces, marking on top
of images with hot pink spray paint, transposing and destabilizing logos and
text, and applying seemingly out of place decorative elements like rhinestones.
The demand for change and the energy of unrest and potential that defined the
1960s have been major sources of inspiration for Barnette, and she leverages the
personal and public histories of that moment in much of her work. Her projects
call back to this past with pop and retro – future aesthetics and an embrace of
glittering magic. She creates works that transport the viewer into other worlds
and celebrates the spirit of resistance and possibility that can be found in the
everyday.
Read more



https://sadiebarnette.com/homes



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BARBARA KRUGER

Barbara Kruger is an American Conceptual artist known for her combination of
type and image that conveys a direct feminist cultural critique. Her works
examine stereotypes and the behaviors of consumerism with text layered over
mass-media images. Rendered with black-and-white, red accented, Futura Bold
Oblique font, inspired by the Constructivist Alexander Rodechenko, her works
offer up short phrases such as “Thinking of You,” “You are a captive audience,”
and “I shop therefore I am.” Like multimedia artist Jenny Holzer, Kruger uses
language to broadcast her ideas in a myriad of ways, including prints, T-shirts,
posters, photographs, electronic signs, and billboards. “I’m fascinated with the
difference between supposedly private and supposedly public and I try to engage
the issue of what it means to live in a society that’s seemingly shock-proof,
yet still is compelled to exercise secrecy,” she explained of her work.

Born on January 26, 1945 in Newark, NJ, Kruger worked as a graphic designer and
art director after studying at both Syracuse University and Parsons School of
Design (where she studied under Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel) in the 1960s. Her
early career path directly influenced the style her art would eventually take.
She currently lives and works between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA. Today,
the artist’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in
New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of
Chicago, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others.
Read more



https://www.moma.org/artists/3266



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ASH NASH

Ash is more than just the founder and CEO of Power Haus Creative, she is a
community leader who mentors local artists, and helps them to develop
sustainable careers. She has immersed herself in the local arts economy, and
empowers visual artists to utilize their influence for change in underserved
communities, and to build capital for the creative class.

Recognized for her impassioned work ethic, Ash has led several highly successful
campaigns for a multitude of global brands such as Papa John’s, Coca-Cola, and
Nike. She gained international attention in 2019 for her strategic work
coordinating #Kaeperbowl, a public art/activism initiative centered around
muralist Fabian Williams and former NFL player Colin Kaepernick.

Her work has been recognized by Creative Loafing, and she has been featured in
Visionary Artistry Magazine, The Atlanta Podcast, and the Our Voices. Our Lives.
docu-series. In her partnership with Remerge Community Museum, Ash serves as a
Creative Community & Cultural Strategist. Ash is also an active board member for
MINT Art Gallery, and W.A.G.E Certified Gallery in Historic Southwest Atlanta.

In her role as principle of Power Haus Creative, Ash serves as a liaison and
accountability partner to both visual artists and the brands that hire them.



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ARIELLE DANIELLE

For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that models and increases creative
civic engagement, discourse and direct action. We work with artists and
organizations to center the voices of artists in public discourse, expand what
participation in a democracy looks like, and reshape conversations about
politics.



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ZUCOT GALLERY

ZuCot Gallery is the largest African-American owned fine art gallery in the
Southeast. Located in the historic Castleberry Hill district of downtown
Atlanta, our 3,500 sq. foot space offers an eclectic decor and features some of
the most prolific contemporary artists of our time.
Our mission is to promote original works of art by living African American
artists and provide both novice and seasoned collectors with meaningful and
unique services that enhance the art collecting experience. Collectors benefit
from our services, which include educational programming, events where
like-minded individuals may network, and our offering of the highest quality
original works of art.
ZuCot Gallery believes that what you hang on your walls is a r eflection of you,
it is a window into your character, your convictions, and even your soul. We are
uniquely positioned to help you make a difference in ensuring that your art is a
reflection of what is important to you. Owning and displaying original
African-American art provides meaning and financial value; with the Z uCot
experience, it can also be deeply spiritual.
We are custodians of our culture.
COME. SEE. COLLECT.



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LIVING WALLS

Living Walls seeks to utilize the power of public art as a social and economic
engine, providing an artistic workforce for the local community and creating
healthy, sustainable spaces for the city of Atlanta. We envision a future where
public art is foundational to the growth and evolution of cities, and channels
the spirit and culture of local communities.



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DIANA NAWI

Diana Nawi is an independent curator based in Los Angeles. Nawi’s curatorial
practice includes work with a diverse range of both established and
underrepresented voices, including in her current role as Co-Artistic Director
of Prospect.5 New Orleans, an international city-wide triennial, and her past
experience in positions at PОrez Art Museum Miami, the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and others. Recent
curatorial projects include Mark Bradford: Los Angeles at the Long Museum,
Shanghai; Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity, California
African American Museum, Los Angeles; Michael Rakowitz: Dispute Between the
Tamarisk and the Date Palm at REDCAT, Los Angeles; and What Needs to Be Said,
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette College, Salem, Oregon. Nawi is regularly
asked to share her expertise through speaking engagements and also serves on
awards juries throughout the country. Her writing on contemporary art and
artists has appeared in publications for the Institute of Contemporary Arts
Singapore, Museum of Contemporary Art GA, Marrakech Biennial, Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum Villa Stuck, National Gallery of Jamaica, New
Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Studio Museum of Harlem.



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ARIELLE DANIELLE

Meet María Arielle Danielle

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum,
Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and
Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in
2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA
GA.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC



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ARIELLE DANIELLE

Meet María Arielle Danielle

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum,
Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and
Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in
2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA
GA.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC



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ARIELLE DANIELLE

Meet María Arielle Danielle

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum,
Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and
Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in
2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA
GA.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC



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ARIELLE DANIELLE

Meet María Arielle Danielle

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum,
Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and
Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in
2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA
GA.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC



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ARIELLE DANIELLE

Meet María Arielle Danielle

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum,
Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and
Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in
2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA
GA.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC



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ARIELLE DANIELLE

Meet María Arielle Danielle

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum,
Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and
Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in
2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA
GA.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC



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ARIELLE DANIELLE

Meet María Arielle Danielle

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum,
Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and
Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in
2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA
GA.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC



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ARIELLE DANIELLE

Meet María Arielle Danielle

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum,
Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and
Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in
2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA
GA.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC



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ARIELLE DANIELLE

Meet María Arielle Danielle

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum,
Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and
Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in
2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA
GA.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC



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ARIELLE DANIELLE

Meet María Arielle Danielle

Dannielle’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum,
Los Angeles; The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta; Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott
College, Decatur, Georgia; Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, Georgia; and
Pérez Art Museum Miami. She was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow in
2018–19, and her solo exhibition, It Started So Simple, recently opened at MOCA
GA.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Walls for A Cause NYC



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FELIPE BAEZA



Meet Felipe Baeza

Felipe Baeza was born in 1987 in Guanajuato, Mexico and lives and works in
Brooklyn, New York. He received a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union in 2009 and a
M.F.A. from Yale University in 2018.

Initiatives involved in:

 * Initiative #1
 * Initiative #2
 * Initiative #3



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