upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Genesis’ project, La Gran Herida (The Grand Wound), will be an assemblage of photographs and drawings examining personal displacement within the gentrifying landscape of Philadelphia. Genesis’ series seeks to dismantle an overarching stigma that artists are responsible for gentrification by expressing the diasporic state of artists of color. This multi-contextual body of work will be exhibited in spaces that will also function as "talk back" caucuses, where critique, strategies, and information can be exchanged about how to challenge systems of oppression. In these spaces, Genesis will feature voices of those who resist academic definitions of a successful artist.