Currently Browsing: 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner
Multimedia artist Ebony G. Patterson uses her work and an aesthetic of adornment to explore ideas around visibility and invisibility in our postcolonial society. As a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, Ebony uses beauty to uncover the ugliness created by systemic oppression. Through texturally-rich pieces, Ebony invites viewers to engage with the sociopolitical issues embedded in the art.… read more.
Ruha Benjamin—writer and scholar—describes a “joyful responsibility” in our collective imagination. She illustrates this responsibility as a duty that we all have to unleash the power of our own imagination within the context of the social systems that oppress communities.
Ruha’s transdisciplinary work concentrates on “rethinking the assumptions we inherit, the paradigms we are taught not to question.” … read more.