2023 REIMAGINING THE UNIVERSITY GRANTEES

Mid-year, CSRPC introduced its new Beyond Prisons Initiative. The initiative coordinated the campus impact work of our second cohort of Artist for the People Practitioner Fellows: Dorothy Burge and Michelle Daniel Jones.  Their joint exhibition, Makes Me Wanna Holla: Art, Death & Imprisonment, opened at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts in July, and also had a national impact when it traveled to Rhode Island as part of the Mourning Our Losses Traveling Memorial. 

Current faculty affiliate grantees that used Mellon Foundation funding also included: Princess Mhoon Cooper (Black Dance Legacy Chicago); Karen Okigbo (The Racialization Experiences of Immigrants and the Second Generation); Teresa Montoya (Tracing Relations); Ryan Jobson (The Caribbean- Crucible of Modern Racial Formations, and Sou Sou: A Humanities Laboratory in Caribbean Studies); Eve L. Ewing (Frank London Brown exhibit); SJ Zhang (Experiments in Artware); Jessica Baker (Black Sound Performance Lab); Kris Trujillo (Queer Premodernisms and Queer of Color Critique); Kaneesha Parsard (Nishant Batsha book talk: Mother Ocean Father Nation); Leora Auslander/Tom Holt (TransAtlantic Crossings: Everyday Race in the 20th-Century Atlantic World); Ryan Jobson (Sou Sou: A Humanities Laboratory in Caribbean Studies); Noah Hansen (Poetry for the People: The Literature of Garveyism); John Proios (Ancient Greek Philosophy of Race and Ethnicity); Theaster Gates (Land Art: A Monograph); and Tulio Bermudez Lejia (Trænstheogenic Interspecies Communication).

Sponsored/Co-sponsored events included: UChicago Latin America History Workshop; Beyond the Bars; and the CSRPC Annual Public Lecture  - Ericka Huggins;

Reimagining the University recipients included: Elizabeth Myles & Avery LaFlamme (Screening Freedom film series); Emily Hooper Lansana (Refracting Freedom workshop series & performance); and Alisea McLeod (Forging Freedom: An Archival Justice Initiative).