Grant Amount: $20,000 over one year
Award Category: Project Support
The Pittsburgh Glass Center will produce a collaborative project featuring Marques Redd’s background in traditional African cosmology and multi-media art as well as the multi-media art and engineering background of Mikael Owunna. The project will bring Owunna’s “Infinite Essence” series to life in an exhibition opening in March 2024. “Infinite Essence” strives to rebut media imagery that reduces the Black body to death and state violence by creating life-size glass sculptures of Black figures glowing with stars within their bodies, embodying eternal life. The $20,000 grant will be used to fund direct artist costs, program expenses, promotional costs and other affiliated expenses.
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