Artist Project Fund

The NBAF Artist Project Fund is an initiative created in 2020 initially to serve as a COVID Relief Fund and since has evolved to further nurture amazing talent on a longer trajectory by supporting the growth and development of artists with financial and business support resources to ensure their projects thrive and make an economic impact. NBAF intends to provide much needed exposure via programs and activations to help artists develop new audiences, strengthen their voices and advance their careers.

We know artists need funding to reground and reimagine themselves to meet the moment, to reshape arts infrastructure and systems that have never been equitable or sustainable. NBAF desires to ensure that there are real just solutions in place for our artists as they restructure their art businesses to adapt to the current environment. Continued support for these artists helps to ensure equity in resources for the Black community and assists NBAF in its efforts to create a brighter future for communities around the world through the power of Black art. We are (re)imagining the world around us, and art is a powerful force to create the change and social justice we all deserve.

Please take a look at the 2021 group of Artist Project Fund recipients.

Meet the 2021 $5,000 Recipients

Ashley Haze

About the Artist

About the Artist: Ashlee Haze is a poet and spoken word artist from Atlanta by way of Chicago. She has been a part of the Atlanta Poetry circuit for over a decade. Ashlee Haze is a 3- time Queen of the South poetry Slam Champion and 2- time National Poetry Slam semi-finalist. Ashlee is the host of Haze’s Higher Learning, an educational podcast for creatives. Her book “Smoke” was released April 20, 2020.

About the Project

Project Title: REVERE: A Portrait of the Black Woman as Divine

About the Project: Poets for the Revolution: A Virtual Protest is virtual performance of poetry and music centered on “the revolution” or poems about civil and human rights and the emotions African-Americans are collectively experiencing. Principle photography was completed Nov 16, 2020 at City Winery ATL and Artist Project Funding will go towards interview production, post production, and marketing of the final project. This project features five Atlanta-based poets and two musicians. The intention of this project is to give language to the collective revolution we are experiencing by providing well-crafted poetry to the masses. By incorporating guitar and harmonica, the goal is to present poetry that addresses our rage and our grief as folks who live in society’s margins. It is Ashlee’s hope that her community feels seen and are able to find comfort in the work that they share. The participating poets have composed work that challenges the status quo and brings to light the areas in which we most need healing. The goal of this work is to provide a balm in the form of reflective art that both acknowledges and eases collective pain..

Condua Nana

About the Artist

About the Artist: Condua Nana is a Ghanaian-American dance educator and choreographer in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a dance educator at KIPP STRIVE Academy and the artistic director and owner of The Adinkra Project. He has a B.A. in English from Morehouse College and an M.A. in English from Clark Atlanta University. His research interests include Black manhood across the diaspora and cultural connections between native Africans and African Americans’ cultures. He uses his literary background and passion for dance to cultivate art and opportunities that aim to educate performers and audience members. He is passionate about creating opportunities that bridge the cultural connectedness of Black people globally and creating opportunities for other artists to showcase their talents.

About the Project

Project Title: Love & Liberation

About the Project: Love & Liberation is a live production that will display stories of love and liberation that have taken place throughout the history of the African diaspora. During this production, audience members will learn the history of Soweto in Johannesburg, South Africa and how Black people gained their liberation from systemic oppression, West African street dances that celebrate freedom, and the beauty of Black love in the U.S. Love & Liberation will display the artistic abilities of many of the artists in the metro Atlanta community. The production is focused on the story of how Soweto was created in Johannesburg, South Africa as a way to keep Black persons secluded and treated as second class citizens in the early twentieth century. This piece is inspired by those experiences but also adds a fresh look on how love stories are often formed from our shared experiences, especially from our struggles together.

Gibron Sheppard

About the Artist

About the Artist: 2019 CFDA future of fashion graduate, Gibron Whitney Shepperd was born in a multicultural/multi-ethnic home in Southern California. The oldest of four children, he spent much of his youth in the nature of Northern California with his family. These exposures have influenced his perspectives on design, creating an attitude of a bourgeois bohemian. He creates for a design world that is sophisticated and sensitive. Shepperd is currently living in Atlanta, developing a brand that is both smart and beautiful. Ginron’s book, “ Sons of Abraham: A Visual Memoir,” is a collection of 15 poems and short essays along with process work and family photographs that explore further Shepperd’s Spring/Summer 2020 of the same name. Sons of Abraham is a study of the multicultural and multi-ethnic background of Shepperd himself. Through the text, he speaks on his identity within the Black community, his style’s correlation through his paternal lineage, and the joys of citrus and colors. Filled with memories of his youth in California, you can begin to see the proverbial thread that ties everything together.

About the Project

Project Title: Sabbath Afternoon curated by Gibron Shepperd

About the Project: Sabbath Afternoon presented by Artist Project Fund Recipient and Fashion Forward Finalist, Gibron Shepperd will explore rest through an afternoon of intention and carefully curated leisure activities. As a guest you will receive complimentary light bites & beverages as you navigate the gardens and on-site art installation at the venue. You will then join us in a social distance fashion near the amphitheater for an outdoor reading experience. This immersive experience highlights Gibron’s pioneering work in fashion while paying homage to his upbringing as he grew up as a seventh-day Adventist.

Tyrell Blacquemoss

About the Artist

About the Artist: Raised in Kenosha, WI — Tyrell Blacquemoss (TBN) is a prophetic dreamworker and descendant of a long line of African priests and Turtle Island medicine people. As a scholarly researcher with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art with an emphasis in Africana Studies and Indigenous Studies from Cornell University, TBN reclaims and continues their family legacy of the science and art of dreaming. TBN has traveled globally studying with shaman, elders, and healers of the following traditions: African diasporic and Western Herbalism, Conjure, Hoodoo, Rootwork, Southern Folk Medicine, Pachakuti Mesa (Peruvian shamanism), Sonoran desert Curanderismo, Toltec – Chichimeca dreamplanting, and diasporic African and Japanese energy healing. They are a 2019-2020 fellow in Freedom School’s National Health and Healing Justice Fellowship. TBN is currently based in Tucson, AZ, training as a birth worker training and an MFA candidate at Prescott College in Social and Environmental Arts Practice with Patrisse Cullors.

About the Project

Project Title: Diasporic African Dream Anthology (DADA) Tour

About the Project: Diasporic African Dream Anthology, or DADA, is a digital exhibition and ceremony space of visual, literary, and oral history weaving of Indigenous African dream practices moving through time, space, and diaspora, offering refuge, solace, and solutions to our present experiences. Beginning in January 2020, a call for submissions was released and 10 juried artists were accepted into the anthology’s first volume. The artists’ work has been curated into a digital anthology and the work will embark on a national touring exhibition that is both virtual and locally based. DADA reminds us ALL of the power of the African dreamers in diasporic communities who are still holding their/our connection to the continent of Africa, while simultaneously being immersed in the new lands where we have made home. Funded by NBAF, curated and digitally displayed in 2020, the Diasporic African Dream Anthology (DADA) will now have a three-event tour including (1) an online digital opening ceremony, (2) an exhibition in Pittsburgh, PA in collaboration with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychology Psychiatric Hospital and a Garden of Peace, and (3) an exhibition, reading list and library kit in collaboration with a Milwaukee Public Library and local organizers. DADA offers a way to dream practically and simply while experiencing artist’s renditions of the complexities of our dreams. The DADA Tour will also allow Black audiences members to share about their dreams in a public and affirming setting.

Meet the 2021 $1,000 Recipients

Andrea Yarbrough

About the Artist

About the Artist: Andrea Yarbrough is a Chicago based educator, maker, and curator. Her research asks how people may reactivate neglected space as sites of care through a blend of art praxis, civic engagement, and urban agriculture. She is a steward of in c/o: Black women (in care of Black women and holds a B.A. in English and Africana Studies from Eastern Illinois University and an M.A. in Africana Studies from the University at Albany-SUNY.

About the Project

Project Title: In Care of Black women “University”

About the Project: In ℅: Black women (In care of Black women) was founded as a creative placekeeping initiative anchored on the southside of Chicago cooperatively activating vacant lots and building cartographies of care. Bringing together writers, curators, farmers, mamas, dancers, organizers, teachers, cultural producers, youth, and visual artists, we explore the intersections of urban ecology, art praxis and land-use policy. By constructing functionally designed sculptural objects, cultivating land, archiving histories, and curating exhibitions and public programs, we exemplify how communities can repair and reactivate their eco-systems while navigating agency over neglected space.

Asha Francis

About the Artist

About the Artist: Asha Francis, a native Chicagoan, is a rap and poetry artist focused on identifying the “sound” of Chicago. Along with the musical prowess of producers Runtrell “Tricky” Skinner and Terrance “Slim” Holmes, God’s Elect, a music collective formed by Asha Francis is infusing their love for gospel music into the mainstream. Their single “The Change” released in January 2021 is a radio-friendly, feel-good upbeat anthem featuring an ensemble of seasoned singers celebrating “The Change” that celebrates the transformation that salvation brings in a person’s life.

About the Project

Project Title: Signs of Life

About the Project: Gospel music like country music will never go out of style. It is tied to the African American experience and tethered to our history in America from slavery to Jim Crow, from civil rights era up until now. There’s something about this genre that won’t let Asha go and she would argue that the culture needs it, however it just needs to be repackaged. Repackaged in a way where it doesn’t lose its Christian message, tradition, or soulful delivery but is reformatted to appeal to a wider palette of listeners. This is what she hopes to bring on the gospel album she is creating with her collective God’s Elect Music and with the release of the project “Signs of Life.”

Darrell Grant

About the Artist

About the Artist: Darrell Grant of the Black Theatre Group and Artists of Color ATL (AOC) partnered with NBAF for Black History month. Together with co-producers Tyra Watkins and Robby Myles, AOC highlighted black artists, their projects and talent by broadcasting interviews directly to the NBAF Facebook page and other platforms.

About the Project

Project Title: A Black Xperience: AOC Artist Showcase & Telethon

About the Project: A Black Xperience is an artist showcase Three Stages – Three Different Vibes and 15 artists from varying disciplines. A journey through Black Church, Black Pride & Black Love BTG (Black Theatre Group) has partnered with three professional theatres to produce a virtual Artist Showcase & Telethon. The sponsoring theatres are not only active in the Atlanta Arts community by producing quality work, but they also proactively include and support artists of color – more specifically, black artists. BTG has organized a spectacular Artist Showcase that will shine a national spotlight on the efforts of the theatre company and highlight the raw talent of 15 bomb black artists.

Dontae Muse

About the Artist

About the Artist: Dontae Muse comes from an under-served urban community where there weren’t many resources available but the one thing that nearly all areas like this possess is a fountain of talent. Artistic talents are not nurtured as often as athletic talents and opportunities in artistic field are not promoted with the same vigor either. This makes careers in the arts less desirable. Dontae believes in being the living breathing example of a successful “artrepreneur” to encourage youth with innate artistic talent to nurture that talent so that they can share their gifts with the world. He believes artistic gifts are directly in line with one’s purpose. You have been given the tools you need. Now let me show you how to use them.

About the Project

Project Title: The Hanging Party

About the Project: The Hanging Party is a 48-hour continuous group exhibition for local artists and art lovers. The event will feature live bands and djs, a caterer, a live painter and will host an art talk with some of the artists. 100% of all sales and commissions will go directly to the artists. The main message is enrichment of community through collaboration. Artists have not been able to physically exhibit their works and so, many have seen their sales suffer if they could not adapt. This project will give artists the opportunity to be in the presence of and be inspired by other great talents that might not have had an opportunity to be presented in an award-winning gallery space.

Dr. Candi Dugas

About the Artist

About the Artist: Dr. Candi Dugas is a book writer, producer, award-winning writer and seasoned producer/manager. She founded Candi Dugas & Associates in 2007 as a creative collective to craft spaces for all people to BE freedom. Far Away from Home is Dr. Dugas’ 10th full-length script and 1st musical. She is the winner of two 2021 awards to- be-announced for her full-length stage play, Wild + Free, and Best Feature Screenplay 2013 Atlanta Urban MediaMakers Film Festival. She is a writer for a $250K state grant for youth program and managed multi-million dollar operating + renovation budgets.

About the Project

Project Title: Far Away from Home: A Musical in Development-Round 2

About the Project: Far Away from Home is a musical in development with a therapeutic approach to community-based/concerned art. It reimagines dr. candi dugas’ father’s life before he entered a space from which he could not return. What if young, dark-skinned, Black men who learn differently and living in the rural South had access to effective support for optimal success? FAH’s first development round in fall 2020 demonstrated that this work can help support this kind of life-navigation for the young men among us today who enter fatherhood with some steep barriers preventing them from adequately providing for their families, financially and emotionally.

Jacarrea Garraway

About the Artist

About the Artist: Jacarrea Garraway is a multi-hyphenated artist who was raised in Boston, MA and is currently based in Harlem, NY. She is a Black-American scholar whose work centers around frosurrealism, intimacy and afro-diasporic archives. She is also known for her work as a visual curator, photographer and producer. Jacarrea earned her BFA in Film and Television Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a minor in Art and Public Policy. Her work has been featured at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (Boston, MA), The Ludwig Foundation (Havana, Cuba), Harvard Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, MA) and Boch Center for the Arts (Boston, MA).

About the Project

Project Title: A Guarded Condition

About the Project: “A Guarded Condition” is a short documentary which plans to follow a Black employee at Planned Parenthood in New York City as she continues advocating for Black Women’s reproductive health while the world is facing a pandemic. Through the Stand With Black Women campaign, she and other leaders at Planned Parenthood work to expand access, care and honor the contributions of Black women all over the country.

Jade Williams

About the Artist

About the Artist: Jade Williams is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose practice investigates the ways that she, as a Black Woman, engages in alteration and transformation as healing rituals. Using hair, gold hoops, acrylic nails, and ornate fabrics, her works are heavily influenced by the 1970’s/80s and metaphysics. Jade received her BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recently, her work has been exhibited at Figure One Gallery, the Krannert Art Museum, the Leather Archives and Museum, Slate Arts and Performance Center, and Woman Made Gallery.

About the Project

Project Title: Black Purple Bloom

About the Project: The Black Bloom Project is a culmination of an artist’s self-discovery, generations of black womanhood walking and working the earth, as well as healing through community and earth. Working in the community through artist-led workshops, installations, pop up shops, and social gatherings, The Black Bloom Project will culminate in fiber-based towers (known as Bloomscapes) covered in the flowers created by Jade Williams, her team, and the community during Garden Parties. For the first installation, the blossoms will be in memoriam to individual victims of police brutality– while the tower will be a memorial to them all.

Jessica Udeh

About the Artist

About the Artist: Jessica Udeh is an Igbo-American self-taught visual + sound artist and creative director based in New York. She is also the founder of CHIAMAKA STUDIOS, a virtual art archive and conceptual design studio housing her works. Primarily, Jessica’s work is a reiteration of thoughts & dreams merging West African & American pop-culture that explore identity, sexuality, politics, and the discourse between the three as they relate to her cultural background.

About the Project

Project Title: POSITIVES

About the Project: POSITIVES, is a pop-up studio space that will provide space and materials for analog creatives to thrive, and I will launch the opening with an exhibition featuring photo + video work from analog artists based there now. POSITIVES, is an ongoing project to provide film development + creative skill workshops as a service to artists in Nigeria. It is also a pop-up studio space that will provide space and materials for analog creatives to thrive. With the money raised for POSITIVES, I will purchase a studio space in Lagos, source and provide film development materials to be used in the studio, and employ the disenfranchised creative youth of Nigeria. POSITIVES will also launch the opening with an exhibition featuring photo + video work from myself, and analog artists in and of Nigeria.

Katherine Kisa

About the Artist

About the Artist: Katherine Kisa is a multidisciplinary artist born in Nairobi, Kenya. She attended the University of Toronto where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Genetics and Physical Anthropology. She continued with graduate studies in Biology at Emory University. During her years as a science student Katherine began her career in art, developing a unique style which embraces both her artistic and scientific passions. Currently, the self-taught artist resides in New York where she works as a full-time artist. Katherine’s work has been exhibited across the country in group and solo shows including The High Museum of Atlanta’s Points of Entry: Conflicts, Acculturation, and Identity (1997), Art DC with Avisca Fine Art Gallery at the Washington DC Convention Center (2010), Dissilience: An All Women Group Show in Brooklyn, New York (2016), the Brooklyn Arts Council Mutual Aid Show (2021) and more.

About the Project

Project Title: RISE UP

About the Project: My current work adds to and evolves the pieces I began last year spurred on by the national reckoning for social, political and racial justice. While walking the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn last summer, taking pictures of the boarded-up city and documenting the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, I decided that I had to incorporate my photographs and text from the myriad signs into my assemblages. I have already created smaller studies (24” X 24”) of the two eventual multipiece assemblages, each consisting of thirty 8” X 8” wood panels joined together like two quilts.

Assane Kouyate

About the Artist

About the Artist: Lassana ‘Assane’ Kouyaté is a traditional artist and griot, who ensures that the culture, lineage, and collective heritage of the ethnic groups are continued. As one of a few indigenous West African artists in Atlanta, Kouyaté’s culture has played an important role in his work. With 20+ years exhibiting the art form in public spaces and at major performance venues, his experience as an independent performer, teaching artist, choreographer and artistic director makes him highly sought out in the United States and abroad with students regularly assembling to study under his tutelage. Alongside his twin brother, Kouyaté also leads a 6-member band, with frequent guest performers from Africa.

About the Project

Project Title: La Culture Mandingue (LCM)

About the Project: La Culture Mandingue (LCM), is a traditional West African arts project series that honors and celebrates the physical, musical, and oral griot traditions of various West African ethnic groups. Griots are custodians and transmitters of history through oral repertoires, instrumentation, and movement, passed down through generations. For the Manding (also referred to as the Mandinka or Malinke people), these traditions date back to the Mali Empire, founded by its first ruler, Sundiata Keita. The project will feature a vibrant interplay of Manding traditions with parallels to Wolof and Serer heritage, and the dynamics of technology, social change, and modern culture.

Rebekah Evans

About the Artist

About the Artist: Rebekah Evans has been searching for the platform and chance to show who she is rather than what she is. Having been a part of a PWI since pre-school years, she has been the only black female in the room her entire life. Very rarely did sahe feel as if her character, purpose, or intelligence got her an invite to the table. She is passionate and determined to make that come true for so many others through this series, both at the forefront through this series and also behind the scene by creating conversations in different universities, high schools, and more.

About the Project

Project Title: Embodyed

About the Project: Embodyed is a docu-series which focuses on the characteristics of different black identifying individuals from different places, demographics, and backgrounds. The only commonality all of these individuals have with each other, and with every single audience viewer is their humanity. We’ve allowed demographics and labels to categorize humans by what they “are” instead of who they are. It is the agenda of Embodyed to subconsciously reverse that trend, by giving different individuals who have society given labels as soon as they leave their mother’s womb, the platform to tell the world that who they are is not what they are labeled, but by what characteristics they embody.

Sierra King

About the Artist

About the Artist: As a photographer and archivist I am investigating the interior lives of Black people by researching and unearthing the communal and familial memories. I apply this to the ethos of when I am archiving for Black Women Artists as well. They are more than the work that they are creating, their lives are full and rich with stories to be told. More than often, they do not have access to consistent documentation or ability to maintain their archive. BUILD HER ARCHIVE has allowed me to explore what it means to deeply care for the practice and the person. In addition to having foresight that what they are creating now will be a part of their legacy in the future.

About the Project

Project Title: BUILD HER ARCHIVE

About the Project: BUILD HER ARCHIVE is a call to artists, scholars, archivists and major institutions to support the documentation, preservation and archiving of an artists’ career and livelihood while they are able to create their narrative as a primary source. I believe that by educating and guiding artists to maintain their work over time with the intention that the work and their legacies will be prepared to be maintained by any organization, community, benefactor of their choice.

Thomas Brazzle

About the Artist

About the Artist: Thomas Brazzle is an actor, writer and director originally from Texas. He got his start training in child television and commercial performance at KD Studios in Dallas, TX. After spending time studying abroad in London and Barcelona, Thomas returned to the U.S. to focus on creating new work and working in regional theatre. He has performed at The Guthrie in Minneapolis, Shakespeare and Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Connecticut Rep, The Alley and many other regional theaters. His plays have been selected for readings nationwide, and his play “Smoked” will have a world premiere with MOJOAA Performing Arts Company in 2021. Thomas also teaches theatre performance for high schoolers at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA and guest lectures at Universities throughout Georgia.

About the Project

Project Title: Double Consciousness

About the Project: The poet and the comedian — two worlds combine for an evening of spoken word poetry and comedy with Adán Bean and David Perdue. Based in Atlanta, these two artists have come together to take audiences through the challenge, beauty, and joy of growing up as Black men in Georgia. The simplicity of the show is disarming. The beauty of Adán’s lyrics touch the soul, while David’s humor lights your spirit. In a world of suffering, it’s an evening of hope. Adán and David will transport audiences through their conscious in a virtual and live performance at the Morton Theatre.

Tracy Murrell

About the Artist

About the Artist: Tracy Murrell is an Atlanta-based visual artist and curator. Murrell has shown in numerous group, solo, and juried exhibitions and her work have been featured in art publications including Create! Magazine, ArtVoices Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine and New American Paintings. She has been awarded artist’s residencies at The Hambidge Center for the Arts, Atlanta Printmakers Studio, the Atlanta Contemporary, and Green Olive Arts in Tetouan, Morocco. Her painting “Walk Alone | We Will Follow” was selected for the cover of Witnessing Girlhood Toward An Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing by Fordham University Press.

About the Project

Project Title: “Dans l’espoir d’un Avenir Meilleur (In Hope for a Better Future) … Exploring Haitian Transmigration”

About the Project: “Dans l’espoir d’un Avenir Meilleur (In Hope for a Better Future) … Exploring Haitian Transmigration” explores contemporary Haitian migration from the female perspective and produces new artistic works with the intention of offering a counter-narrative to the immigration story and bringing to light the universality of migration as a shared experience. Through in-depth interviews with Haitian female immigrates who has settled in Atlanta, I am creating silhouetted portraits, a stop-motion animation short film that tells the story of migration, a site-specific installation reconstructing the challenges of navigating new landscapes and have commissioned a musical composition to accompany the exhibition that open at Hammonds House Museum in August 2021.

Victor Jackson

About the Artist

About the Artist: Born in Atlanta and raised in College Park, GA, Victor has worked in entertainment for more than 15 years. His newest EP, “MAN.MUSE.MAGIC.” debuted in December 2020 and peaked at #20 on the iTunes R&B/Soul chart within hours of its release. Victor has opened for Algebra Blessett, Anthony David, Jeff Bradshaw, Tweet, and Keke Wyatt. He is also the creator of the Pride & Soul Festival, a platform created to spotlight Black queer artists, and its spinoff, Pride & Soul: Unplugged. As a choreographer and creative director, Victor has crafted music videos, live performances, and TV appearances for Jennifer Hudson, Iggy Azalea, August Alsina, Lil’ Wayne, Tamar Braxton, and Kandi Burruss.

About the Project

Project Title: MAN.MUSE.MAGIC. neat

About the Project: Every June, we celebrate Black Music Month as well as LGBTQ+ Pride Month in America. From The Supremes to Marsha P. Johnson, the muses of these movements still inspire artists and activists today. At the end of 2020, I released “MAN.MUSE.MAGIC.”, an EP inspired by the Black women who’ve influenced my journey as an artist, and this June I will launch my project “MAN.MUSE.MAGIC. neat”, a 5-month live performance residency. The footage and audio from each performance will also be captured to create a documentary directed by Maya Table and an accompanying live EP.

Victoria Allen

About the Artist

About the Artist: Victoria P. Allen is an Event/Experience Producer & Artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She began producing art and entertainment events in her community while studying her Undergrad at Georgia State University. Combining her experience of being a performing and visual artist, she focuses on the experience of both the artists and attendees. She specializes in mixed media collages by merging her photography, poetry and paintings. Victoria is a self-published author of a poetry and prose book entitled Thoughts of a Mustard Seed. She strongly believes in collaboration and works with upcoming photographers and filmmakers by showcasing her poetry or acting in short films.

About the Project

Project Title: If Gods Were People Of Color

About the Project: The goal of this project is to depict Greek Gods as people of color, in contrast to the white representation riddled throughout history and present day. It builds off a previous project titled Angels Descend that explored angels as black beings that live among us. By exploring religion, tradition, and ideology in a different way, we affirm that people of color can also be ethereal and magical compared to the narrative depicted in the media.

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Meet the 2021 $5,000 Recipients

Ashley Haze

Condua Nana

Gibron Sheppard

Tyrell Blacquemoss

Meet the 2021 $1,000 Recipients

Andrea Yarbrough

Asha Francis

Darrell Grant

Dontae Muse

Dr. Candi Dugas

Jacarrea Garraway

Jade Williams

Jessica Udeh

Katherine Kisa

Assane Kouyate

Rebekah Evans

Sierra King

Thomas Brazzle

Tracy Murrell

Victor Jackson

Victoria Allen

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