New Museum Annual Art & Social Justice Residency and Exhibition

In 2018, two distinct installations considered the past and futures of Black critical pedagogies: here, the Black School (Joseph Cuillier and Shani Peters) and see Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Ecosystems.

The Black School is an experimental art school that uses Black history and socially engaged practice to educate Black/POC students and allies on becoming agents of social and political change. The school combines short workshops in various art-making techniques, group discussions on radical Black political theory, and individual and collaborative projects addressing community needs. 

Co-founders and administrators Cuillier and Peters are university professors, teaching artists, and practicing artists working at the intersection of object-based making and social practice.

During their residency, the artists prototyped ideas for flexible learning spaces while developing a proposal for a permanent schoolhouse in New Orleans. They reimagined the traditional classroom as a laboratory for creative-activist, tactic-based workshops with teens and adults.

Additionally, they prototyped curriculum tools such as the first edition of their Process Deck, a tarot-style interactive methodology and community design technique, using activist terms and histories as guides.  

Publication
Exhibition Broadsheet
Related Programs
Spaces For Learning: Mabel O. Wilson with the Black School and Kameelah Janan Rasheed
The Black School Co-Taught the Teen Apprentice Program
Black Love Committee met, designed, and planned a festival that took place the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling