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STAFF
Faith J. McKinnieshe/her
Executive Director
McKinnie is a curator and Black visual culture scholar practicing on the unceded land of the Nisenan. Her practice is multidimensional but remains rooted in the prioritization and care of artists who find their work outside of the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchal margins of the art historical canon. She has held leadership positions at Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento Theatre Company, Bigger Than Us Arts, and Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum. She has consulted on projects with California's Governor Gavin Newsom and Sacramento's Mayor Darrell Steinberg. She is the founder of the Sacramento Curatorial Collective, DEIA board chair at Capital Creative Alliance, and a founding board member of the Sacramento Alliance for Regional Art. She holds a B.A. in Art History and is pursuing an M.A. in visual & critical studies.
She is the recipient of the following:
- Sacramento Bee + Nehemiah Emerging Leadership Program's 2022 Top 25 Black Change Maker award.
- Sacramento Kings + Crown Royal's 2022 Culture Creator Award.
- National Endowment for the Arts + City of Sacramento's 2022 Seeding Creativity Award.
- 18th Street Arts Center's California Creative Corps Finalist
"CLOUDY" Rhodes Carriershe/her
Program Coordinator
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Cloudy is a young performance poet and Sacramento Native. Through her work, she uplifts & critiques the communities in which she occupies. Cloudy, at 17, became Sacramento’s 2020 Youth Poet Laureate and a founding member of The Black Artist Foundry’s advisory board. Cloudy was a member of Crocker Art Museum’s community engagement and education program, Block by Block. She continued her community development work as a program advisor and programming specialist in Pan-African spaces on UC Riverside's campus. She enjoys most of the performing arts and building people as well as communities, up. Cloudy self-published her first book, Receipts of Ungiven Gifts, in November of 2019 and is a proud alumna of the Creative Writing department at the University Of California, Riverside. She is now more committed than ever to the success and improvements of the historically marginalized artists in Sacramento.
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Cloudy will design and lead various Black Artist Foundry programs. She will coordinate internal and external funding opportunities for Black artists and advocate for the Sacramento region's performing and literary arts.
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