✊🏿💜👏🏿🎨#ArtIsAWeapon CONGRATULATIONS to the brilliant @sunrara on being named @opensocietyfoundations' inaugural director of Culture and Art! "Rashida Bumbray will lead work to address the aesthetic, political, and capacity needs of arts leaders, individual artists, and cultural activists, while supporting sustainability for a global network of locally-led cultural organizations and initiatives that work at the intersection of culture, art, and social change." Read full announcement: www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/open-society-foundations-name-head-of-culture-and-art-program ____________________ “Rashida understands the role of culture and art for a robust and courageous civil society at a moment when rights and freedom of expression are under threat,” said Patrick Gaspard, president of the Open Society Foundations. “With her expertise in contemporary art and socially engaged art, she has the vision and creativity we need to steer this exciting new program." ... “I am deeply honored to have the privilege of shaping this new program, building on Open Society’s legacy of support for culture in closed societies,” said Bumbray. “Through an artist-centered approach and support of radical aesthetics in a diversity of forms, we will nurture current and future generations of artists and cultural activists at the forefront of challenging, transforming, and providing alternatives to oppressive power structures and ideologies. As many international institutions find themselves compromised by growing authoritarian regimes and exceedingly populist policies, initiatives like this one—focused on supporting artists to make work on their own terms—will become even more invaluable and integral to the survival of progressive and open societies.” #RashidaBumbray #OpenSocietiesFoundation #ArtsLeader #CulturalActivists #CultureAndArt #BlackWomenAtWork #ArtsAdvocate #ArtsAndActivism #Choreographer https://www.instagram.com/p/B212AH_Fhlx/?igshid=6grp4thq6nr0
