McGruder Creative University (M-CRU)
Nashville, TN 2017
Faced with the influx of demographic shifts happening throughout Nashville, participants were led to several sites and asked to tune into the sounds emanating from these changes. Upon their return to the Art center; supplied with black chalk and white paper, participants each centered or de-centered themselves and began to move in directions intuitive to their interpretation of the sounds heard.
504 Project
Tougaloo College 2016
A social sculpture project designed to bring awareness to the campus community regarding extrajudicial killings nationwide by law enforcement. Each balloon (504) accounted for an unknown individual marked the death via an encounter with the police from the day of the project's inception to the day of its exhibition on the lawn of Tougaloo College. This participatory project allowed community members to burst each balloon, simulating the sound of gunfire while 504 names of the deceased were read allowed.
Mississippi Museum of Art
Jackson, MS 2015
Two-week long material exploration into to 3D design with youth ages 9 to 12
Oakley Training Center
Raymond, Mississippi 2008
Juvenile offenders engaged active-learning of how to airbrush vehicles.
Cane River Girls Home
Natchitoches, Louisiana 2007
Theatrical writing and theater production with female juvenile offenders
Project Exposure: This is My Natchitoches Too
Morrison Institute of the Arts
Natchitoches, LA 2007
Photography project with urban youth culminating in an exhibition and sale of their works
Images through the Eyes ofNashville's Community
Village Cultural Center
Nashville, TN Fall 2003
Inter-generational photo-documentary project consisting of a scavenger hunt of pictorial facts about Nashville, TN.
Art for a Better Understanding
Village Cultural Center
Nashville, TN Summer 2002
Printmaking, weaving, & paper-making 6-week workshop with elementary school children.
Teachers' Training Workshop-Art in the classroom
Delta State University
Cleveland, MS 1998
Madison Cultural Center
Canton, Mississippi 1999
Silk-Screening & Economic Development project for rural youth
Trash Art
Anderson Elementary
Bonneville, Mississippi 1997
Large-scale sculpture project made from recycled items collectively created by the 5th-grade classes of Anderson Elementary School.
Barrelas Community Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico 1996
Bi-lingual video documentary created by the youth of the Barrelas community of Albuquerque. The 30-minute video aired on Public Access television.
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Albuquerque, Public Library
Albuquerque, New Mexico 1996
Six-week project introducing to fine and performance Art to the youth of the Barrelas Community of Albuquerque.