2018 USA Fellowship
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Performer and Choreographer
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Choreographer and Performance Maker
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Performance and Video Artist
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Filmmaker
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Sculptor
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Potter
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Musician
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Installation Artist
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Artist
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Singer and Songwriter
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Dancer and Choreographer
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Textile Artist
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Basketry Fiber Artist
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Vocalist and Songwriter
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Writer
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Pianist and Composer
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Sculptor and Citizen Artist
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Ceramicist
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Podcaster and Writer
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Filmmakers
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Writer, Fiction
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Literary Nonfiction
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Trumpeter and Composer
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Playwright
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Trumpeter and Composer
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Multidisciplinary Artist
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Poet and Essayist
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Painter and Mixed Media Artist
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Multidisciplinary and Performing Artist
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Performance Artists
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Composer and Conductor
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Weaver and Painter/Designer
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Architects and Designers
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Playwright
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Ceramicist
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Multidisciplinary Artist
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Composer and Musician
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Mixed-Media Artist
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Composer
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Poet and Cultural Critic
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Performance Art Collective
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Installation Artist
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Public Artist
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Choreographer
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Theater Director
2018 USA Fellowship
House/Full of Blackwomen: passing/through/the great middle by Amara Tabor-Smith, 2018. Site specific dance and performance. Performed at Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland.
Photo by Robbie Sweeny.
Excerpts of work by Bill Shannon.
Shadowfield/Colored Light/Dyad, silver brazed stainless steel, colored lucite, 34 x 30 x 8 inches, 2016.
Badge of Honor, video and installation, 1,500 square feet, side view of both rooms adjacent to each other, 1995.
Palette of Cochineal, tapestry, 33 x 48 inches, edition 02/2013, collection of Heard Museum.
Ties that Bind by Dawn Nichols Walden, 2013. Basketry, cedar bark, cedar roots, 52 × 14 inches.
From Romeo & Juliet Outside the Box, presented by YoungArts Foundation.
Danilo Pérez playing the piano.
Photo by Carlos Agrazal.
i come to do a violence to the lie, site specific installation; 31 powerfigures, 15-layer soundtrack, performance, community engagement, MATRIX 174, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2016.
Perforated Totem Cluster, earthenware and glaze, 36 x 23 x 28 inches, 2007-2008.
From Case #3: Belt Buckle, Mystery Show, 2015.
Brotherly Love, 2018
Lord Fear: A Memoir, 2015
Amir ElSaffar with the Rivers of Sound Orchestra.
Artwork by Cauleen Smith.
Photo by Ben Gancsos.
....love....(when they grow up), mixed media, handcut, jacquard photo tapestry with glitter, trim, rhinestones, embellishments, beads, toys, and handcast fabric balloons, variable dimensions, 2016. Installed at the 32nd São Paulo Bienal, Live Uncertainty, São Paulo, Brazil.
Trailer for Monument Push by Cassils, 2017.
Manual del Bestiario Doméstico, Theatre, Carolina, Puerto Rico, 2014.
Flora: Painting by Sandra Martinez, acrylic on paper, 6 x 6 inches, 2015. Tapestry design by Sandra Martinez, woven by Wence Martinez, handspun wool tapestry, 6 x 6 feet, 2015.
Chicago, how do you see?, Chicago Architecture Biennial, 2015.
Photo by Spencer McNeil.
Beneath the Lotus, glass, earthenware, clay, glaze, plexiglass, and mixed media, 14 x 20 x 20 inches, 2014. Photo by Russell Johnson.
A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday by Dread Scott, 2015. Nylon, 84 × 52.5 inches. Based on NAACP banner; installed at Jack Shainman Gallery.
Photo courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Tyshawn Sorey Trio with Chris Tordini and Cory Smythe. Photo by John Rogers.
Gold Idiot Strings, 2014. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
It's not that I want to say, 2010
MidSummer Event Horizon by Abigail DeVille, 2014.
Color(ed) Theory: Crown Royal Bag by Amanda Williams, 2015. Vacated house, latex paint, dimensions variable.
Photo by Michael Sullivan.
“The Trash Project” from the documentary film Trash Dance, 2012.
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead, Signature Theater, NY, 2016.