IMAGE: Kevin J. Miyazaki
Wilson, a professor of art and art history at Columbia College Chicago, is an object and image maker whose work celebrates the Black imagination as a technology of resistance and self-determination. She is a co-founder and principal of blkHaUS studios, a socially focused design studio based in Chicago that uses design as an agent of change to uplift and transform marginalized communities.
“I am pleased Folayemi Wilson has agreed to join our leadership team in the College of Arts and Architecture,” said B. Stephen Carpenter II, dean of the College of Arts and Architecture. “As our inaugural associate dean for access and equity, her experience as a visual artist, educator, designer and administrator provides a powerful perspective from which she will lead us in questioning and addressing assumptions about diversity, inclusion, access and equity. Her efforts will lead us forward in response to our commitment to addressing social, cultural and institution
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(New York, N.Y.) ESSENCE, the leading and only 100% Black-owned media, technology and commerce company at scale dedicated to Black women and communities, announces its stellar talent line-up for its 2021 ESSENCE Festival of Culture Presented by Coca-Cola the world’s largest cultural, entertainment and empowerment experience.
Incorporating virtual for the second year in light of the pandemic, this year’s event will live up to its theme of “Live Loud” by featuring exciting content across all of its stages centered around culture, equity and celebration.
As the nation continues to reopen, ESSENCE’s exciting and elevated hybrid experience will present a celebration of the resilience, power and achievement of our community and omnipresence of our culture and a tribute to the city that the Festival has always called home. The star-studded lineup will feature performances by: