Radical Justice

About

Accra Shepp (b. 1962) has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums such as the African American Museum Philadelphia the Victoria and Albert Museum the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum just to name a few. His work is in public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum London the Museum of Modern Art New York the Museum of Fine Arts Houston the Art Institute Chicago and the Whitney Museum New York among others. He has taught at a variety of schools including Princeton University Columbia University Wellesley College Bowdoin College and the School of Visual Arts. Shepp lives and works in New York City. Salamishah Tillet is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in criticism for her New York Times essays on race in arts and culture. She is the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing and the Director of Express Newark a center for socially engaged art and design at Rutgers University-Newark. She is a contributing critic-at-large for the New York Times and the author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination and the recent book In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of An American Masterpiece. In 2003 she and Scheherazade Tillet founded A Long Walk Home an organization that uses art to empower people to end violence against girls and women.