Research + Development Grant, $1500
John Alleyne: A consciousness like a Sun (@johnalleyne_) johnalleyne.com
This project will enable foundational research that will inform the curatorial framework of the forthcoming group exhibition titled “A consciousness like a sun” highlighting the deep historical, cultural, and diasporic ties between New Orleans and the Caribbean. These funds will help cover travel and lodging to facilitate visits to studios of Caribbean and Caribbean-American artists and to select the artworks to be included in the exhibition. Multidisciplinary artworks that explore themes of migration, memory, resistance will be selected. “A consciousness like a sun” seeks to engage and amplify the voices of the Caribbean community living in New Orleans.