It’s easy to forget. What we are made of. In these times. It’s easy to forget who we are. In these times all I can find are affirmations of what is true. And what is not. Declaration. “Let them keep their systems. We are building worlds.’ #DontEverIntegrate
It’s easy to forget. What we are made of. In these times. It’s easy to forget who we are. In these times all I can find are affirmations of what is true. And what is not. Declaration. “Let them keep their systems. We are building worlds.’ #DontEverIntegrate
It’s easy to forget. What we are made of. In these times. It’s easy to forget who we are. In these times all I can find are affirmations of what is true. And what is not. Declaration. “Let them keep their systems. We are building worlds.’ #DontEverIntegrate
It’s easy to forget. What we are made of. In these times. It’s easy to forget who we are. In these times all I can find are affirmations of what is true. And what is not. Declaration. “Let them keep their systems. We are building worlds.’ #DontEverIntegrate
It’s easy to forget. What we are made of. In these times. It’s easy to forget who we are. In these times all I can find are affirmations of what is true. And what is not. Declaration. “Let them keep their systems. We are building worlds.’ #DontEverIntegrate
It’s easy to forget. What we are made of. In these times. It’s easy to forget who we are. In these times all I can find are affirmations of what is true. And what is not. Declaration. “Let them keep their systems. We are building worlds.’ #DontEverIntegrate
It’s easy to forget. What we are made of. In these times. It’s easy to forget who we are. In these times all I can find are affirmations of what is true. And what is not. Declaration. “Let them keep their systems. We are building worlds.’ #DontEverIntegrate
It’s easy to forget. What we are made of. In these times. It’s easy to forget who we are. In these times all I can find are affirmations of what is true. And what is not. Declaration. “Let them keep their systems. We are building worlds.’ #DontEverIntegrate
It’s easy to forget. What we are made of. In these times. It’s easy to forget who we are. In these times all I can find are affirmations of what is true. And what is not. Declaration. “Let them keep their systems. We are building worlds.’ #DontEverIntegrate
It’s easy to forget. What we are made of. In these times. It’s easy to forget who we are. In these times all I can find are affirmations of what is true. And what is not. Declaration. “Let them keep their systems. We are building worlds.’ #DontEverIntegrate
I’m so grateful I was able to work on this very special film with the @laemissary a group of young people who have been tasked with ending youth homelessness in Los Angeles. @whitneyskauge is an incredible director and such an empathetic and wise human being. They captured our characters with such grace and compassion. So grateful for @seattlefilmfestival and @eo.flix for premiering this project! Close to home… is out now and you can watch it until September 7th on @eo.flix !!! We will have community screenings in LA very soon. Please read the wonderful @apnews article written by @aaronlmorrison. Lastly, I grew up with a significant amount of instability. And as a teenager I was an unhoused queer youth. This short doc is a love letter to my younger self. It’s been an honor to work on my art full time and share it with the world. More to come. #abolitionistaesthetics #abolitionistentertainment *this film was made while I was a creative in residence @lacountyarts – in collaboration with the LA Homeless Initiative
#DEI #donteverintegrate
My heart is full as I share that my piece ‘Oturupon Meji’ is part of LACMA’s Imagining Black Diasporas exhibition. I am deeply honored to stand alongside such an incredible collective of Black artists, each of us weaving our own stories of heritage, resilience, and vision. Being included in this show is a profound privilege – a celebration of the threads that connect us across time and oceans. For me, this piece is a conversation with my ancestors. ‘Oturupon Meji’ carries the name of a sacred Yoruba text of wisdom and comes from the odu ifa, and I’ve carefully embroidered that ancestral verse into a vintage mud cloth from Mali — bridging continents and generations in a single work. “Every stitch in ‘Oturupon Meji’ is a whisper from my ancestors, each cowrie shell a vessel of memory bridging past and present.” This exhibition is a testament to the power of our collective stories. Thank you to @lacma and curator @dhyandra for bringing this vision to life and believing in our voices. Your dedication to uplifting Black artists and the diaspora means more than words can express. Special thanks to @latimesimage for the beautiful coverage — especially the group portrait of us artists united in one frame. Seeing all of us together — celebrating, resilient, and joyful — is a memory I’ll cherish forever. 🙏🏾 #ImaginingBlackDiasporas #LACMA #OturuponMeji #BlackArtists #BlackDiasporaArt #DhyandraLawson
My heart is full as I share that my piece ‘Oturupon Meji’ is part of LACMA’s Imagining Black Diasporas exhibition. I am deeply honored to stand alongside such an incredible collective of Black artists, each of us weaving our own stories of heritage, resilience, and vision. Being included in this show is a profound privilege – a celebration of the threads that connect us across time and oceans. For me, this piece is a conversation with my ancestors. ‘Oturupon Meji’ carries the name of a sacred Yoruba text of wisdom and comes from the odu ifa, and I’ve carefully embroidered that ancestral verse into a vintage mud cloth from Mali — bridging continents and generations in a single work. “Every stitch in ‘Oturupon Meji’ is a whisper from my ancestors, each cowrie shell a vessel of memory bridging past and present.” This exhibition is a testament to the power of our collective stories. Thank you to @lacma and curator @dhyandra for bringing this vision to life and believing in our voices. Your dedication to uplifting Black artists and the diaspora means more than words can express. Special thanks to @latimesimage for the beautiful coverage — especially the group portrait of us artists united in one frame. Seeing all of us together — celebrating, resilient, and joyful — is a memory I’ll cherish forever. 🙏🏾 #ImaginingBlackDiasporas #LACMA #OturuponMeji #BlackArtists #BlackDiasporaArt #DhyandraLawson
My heart is full as I share that my piece ‘Oturupon Meji’ is part of LACMA’s Imagining Black Diasporas exhibition. I am deeply honored to stand alongside such an incredible collective of Black artists, each of us weaving our own stories of heritage, resilience, and vision. Being included in this show is a profound privilege – a celebration of the threads that connect us across time and oceans. For me, this piece is a conversation with my ancestors. ‘Oturupon Meji’ carries the name of a sacred Yoruba text of wisdom and comes from the odu ifa, and I’ve carefully embroidered that ancestral verse into a vintage mud cloth from Mali — bridging continents and generations in a single work. “Every stitch in ‘Oturupon Meji’ is a whisper from my ancestors, each cowrie shell a vessel of memory bridging past and present.” This exhibition is a testament to the power of our collective stories. Thank you to @lacma and curator @dhyandra for bringing this vision to life and believing in our voices. Your dedication to uplifting Black artists and the diaspora means more than words can express. Special thanks to @latimesimage for the beautiful coverage — especially the group portrait of us artists united in one frame. Seeing all of us together — celebrating, resilient, and joyful — is a memory I’ll cherish forever. 🙏🏾 #ImaginingBlackDiasporas #LACMA #OturuponMeji #BlackArtists #BlackDiasporaArt #DhyandraLawson
What an amazing moment to be able to re perform ‘Sacred Resistance,’ alongside @ladyblake23 and Darius Williams ( my cousin ). Ashley and I developed this piece for @welcometolace performance series last year! And this year we performed at UCI for Deborah Oliver’s performance series! @bjork thank you for the inspiration. And permission to rage.
In the first week of the new year, we witnessed an incomprehensible tragedy unfold before our eyes: Los Angeles was on fire. From the dystopic haze of political finger-pointing and predatory corporate interests, a simple petition emerged. It called for immediate action to address the firestorm catastrophe through Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). The “Petition for a Climate Resilient L.A.” brought together an unlikely coalition between the artists Lauren Bon (Metabolic Studio) and Patrisse Cullors (The Center for Art and Abolition, Crenshaw Dairy Mart, Black Lives Matter); Anawakalmekak, a K-12 school that centers Native American pedagogy; and the Gabrielino-Shoshone Nation of Southern California. As the woefully deficient State (local, city, state, and federal) response to the catastrophe made clear, community preparedness at a grassroots level is the only way forward. The coalition’s call for an Indigenous-led recovery strategy that upholds traditional knowledge of the land, water and its capacity, charts a path that honors the safety net of mutual aid and hyperlocal community, while seeding a different future for the entire city of Los Angeles. The strength of the coalition emerges in this mutual vision for being in deep relationship with planetary metabolisms. Read the full interview with coalition members Lauren Bon @metabolicstudio , Gabrielle Crowe (vice chair and secretary of environmental sciences, @gabrielinoshoshonenation ), Marcos Aguilar (executive director, @anawakalmekak ), and Patrisse Cullors @osopepatrisse , about the vision of the coalition, its roots in ceremony and reparative justice, and the transformative ways that Indigenous stewardship of ancestral lands charts a more resilient future. 🔗 in bio
On view through May 31st, 2025, don’t miss the film series of works by the founding artists collective and co-founders of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, artists Patrisse Cullors ( @osopepatrisse ), noé olivas ( @calmatetupedo ), and alexandre ali reza dorriz ( @alexandrealirezadorriz ). The film series is part of the City of West Hollywood Moving Image Media Art Program, an exhibition series administered by the City of West Hollywood, as part of its Art on the Outside program exhibiting films by artists accessible on billboards along Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Each of the artists’ film works traverse through the founding tenets of the artist collective – Abolition, Ancestry, and Healing – investigating in their individual respective practices the sacred act of Black womens’ respite, prayers of caution when pulling at ‘the threads of the world,’ and meditations on water privatization and droughts through time. —— Patrisse Cullors: Black Woman Rest at 9157 Sunset Boulevard 9-minute film exhibited at the top of every hour (00:00) on West-facing Billboard __ noé olivas: Una Pagina Mas at 8775 Sunset Boulevard 5-minute film exhibited at the top of every hour (00:00) and each thirty-minute (00:30) mark of each hour on West-facing and East-facing Vertical Billboard __ alexandre ali reza dorriz: Cheshmeh چشمه at 8743 Sunset Boulevard Three three-minute film vignettes exhibited every twenty minutes. One vignette at the top of every hour (00:00), another vignette at each twenty-minute (00:20) mark of each hour, and a last vignette at each forty-minute (00:40) mark of each hour, on West-facing Billboard – 📸: Billboards photo credit Jon Viscott
So glad Patrisse Cullors is a part of the Baldwin For The Arts Family!
What spells are you casting today? #DontEverIntegrate is a map towards our healing. Let’s call on the collective to bring forth a new era that is grounded in our vastness.
The LA Emissary (@laemissary) Youth Advocates draw on their own experiences with homelessness to create systems of support through their program resources. Close to Home captures a glimpse into the reality of these experiences, documenting the impact of how being centered in the conversation regarding resources can ultimately help transform the lives of folks experiencing housing instability into communities that can thrive. Close to Home was produced by Patrisse Cullors (@osopepatrisse) and filmmaker Whitney Gauge (@whitneyskauge) during Patrisse’s time as Creative Strategist for the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture (@lacountyarts) alongside the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative. Close to Home is also a winner for Best Documentary at the LGBTQ Toronto & Los Angeles Film Festival (@lgbttorontola) as well as a Semi-Finalist for the Seattle Film Festival (@seattlefilmfestival). #CloseToHomeFilm #SeattleFilmFestival #LGBTTorontoLA #QueerYouthVoices #ChosenFamily #AbolitionistAesthetics #AbolitionistEntertainment
On view through May 31st, don’t miss the Crenshaw Dairy Mart Co-founders’ and Collective’s billboard film series presented by the City of West Hollywood Moving Image Media Art Program, an exhibition series administered by the City of West Hollywood, as part of its Art on the Outside program exhibiting films by artists accessible on billboards along Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Thank you everyone who joined us for this beautiful walkthrough organized by Steve Galindo ( @thestyleguyde ), with opening remarks by Jessica Rich ( @jecca_ree ), curator for the City of West Hollywood Moving Image Media Arts (MIMA) Program ( @wehoarts ). The film series of works by the founding artists collective and co-founders of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, artists Patrisse Cullors ( @osopepatrisse ), noé olivas ( @calmatetupedo ), and alexandre ali reza dorriz ( @alexandrealirezadorriz ) will be on view continuously and hourly through May 31st, 2025. Each of the artists’ film works traverse through the founding tenets of the artist collective – Abolition, Ancestry, and Healing – investigating in their individual respective practices the sacred act of Black womens’ respite, prayers of caution when pulling at ‘the threads of the world,’ and meditations on water privatization and droughts through time. ___ Patrisse Cullors: Black Woman Rest at 9157 Sunset Boulevard 9-minute film exhibited at the top of every hour (00:00) on West-facing Billboard __ noé olivas: Una Pagina Mas at 8775 Sunset Boulevard 5-minute film exhibited at the top of every hour (00:00) and each thirty-minute (00:30) mark of each hour on West-facing and East-facing Vertical Billboard __ alexandre ali reza dorriz: Cheshmeh چشمه at 8743 Sunset Boulevard Three three-minute film vignettes exhibited every twenty minutes. One vignette at the top of every hour (00:00), another vignette at each twenty-minute (00:20) mark of each hour, and a last vignette at each forty-minute (00:40) mark of each hour, on West-facing Billboard
Sandy Hudson wrote the book we’ve been waiting for. Defund gives us the facts, the gut-wrenching stories, and the unapologetically strategic vision for why policing must be defunded—not just in the U.S., but across North America and the globe. It’s a call to action and a roadmap. It reminds us that divesting from policing and investing in our communities is how we get free. I was honored to be in conversation with Sandy yesterday—this book talk left me lit up, grounded, and ready. Get your copy of Defund now @skylightbooks. Start a book club. Host a gathering. Let’s study this together. @sandymhudson
Sandy Hudson wrote the book we’ve been waiting for. Defund gives us the facts, the gut-wrenching stories, and the unapologetically strategic vision for why policing must be defunded—not just in the U.S., but across North America and the globe. It’s a call to action and a roadmap. It reminds us that divesting from policing and investing in our communities is how we get free. I was honored to be in conversation with Sandy yesterday—this book talk left me lit up, grounded, and ready. Get your copy of Defund now @skylightbooks. Start a book club. Host a gathering. Let’s study this together. @sandymhudson
