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January 19, 2024 at 4:05 PM

Don’t Miss A4J Grantee Directory, Evaluation Materials, and Lessons Learned

Don’t Miss A4J Grantee Directory, Evaluation Materials, and Lessons Learned View this email in your browser A photo by Grantee partner Beverly Price from her series Royal Blue (The Essence of Innocence).  Photo courtesy of the artist.…
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January 18, 2024 at 5:04 PM

Please check out A4J’s Website and Resources

Please check out A4J’s Website and Resources View this email in your browser Please check out A4J’s Website and Resources Art for Justice Fund (A4J) is announcing the launch of its archival w…
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November 7, 2023 at 1:24 PM

Fall Updates from A4J

Fall Updates from A4J View this email in your browser Artist and A4J grantee partner, Mary Baxter, wearing one of her own T-shirt designs.  Photo by Erin Baiano. COMMUNITY BULLETIN   11.…
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September 12, 2023 at 11:44 AM

End of Summer Updates from A4J

End of Summer Updates from A4J View this email in your browser A Call and Response installation and excerpt from The Writing on the Wall, a collaboration between Hank Willis Thomas and Baz Dreisinger, were part of th…
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June 30, 2023 at 12:37 PM

A4J Fund Sunsets While Artist, Advocate, and Allied Donor Community Remain Strong

A4J Fund Sunsets While Artist, Advocate, and Allied Donor Community Remain Strong View this email in your browser Grantee partners jackie sumell and Sherrill Roland at the opening of No Justice Without Love at the Ford Foundation Gall…
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May 30, 2023 at 8:10 PM

May A4J Community Bulletin

May A4J Community Bulletin View this email in your browser The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth team embrace fellow A4J grantee partner Halim Flowers.  Photo by Jane Kratochvil COMMUNITY BULLETIN…
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April 4, 2023 at 5:10 PM

April A4J Community Bulletin

April A4J Community Bulletin View this email in your browser Last month, grantee partner Samora Pinderhughes performed a concert version of The Healing Project at New York's Carnegie Hall. He was recently awarded a $1 M grant from the…
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December 23, 2022 at 2:03 PM

Holiday Greetings from Agnes Gund

Holiday Greetings from Agnes Gund View this email in your browser   Agnes Gund, Dwayne Betts, Catherine Gund, and Michelle Jones. Photo © 2022 Maurice Sartirana. Friends, Season’s greetings to…
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October 19, 2022 at 1:04 PM

October A4J News—The Power of Imagination

October A4J News—The Power of Imagination Marcus Manganni’s Queens (A Love Letter) lights up the night sky. Photo by LeAnne Alexander A Time of Harvest Art for Justice (A4J) Fund aligns artists…
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December 21, 2021 at 10:46 PM

Gratitude for Artists, Advocates and Allied Donors

Gratitude for Artists, Advocates and Allied Donors Art for Justice Board members Agnes Gund, Darren Walker and Ava DuVernay. Photo courtesy of Ford Foundation. Dear Art for Justice Grantee Partners, Allied Dono…
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September 29, 2021 at 9:54 PM

Celebrating Our Movement Geniuses

Celebrating Our Movement Geniuses “That Dwayne Betts, Nicole Fleetwood and Desmond Meade were recognized with MacArthur Foundation awards makes me hopeful for the future. As grantee partners of Art for Justice, we’ve long known that each of…
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September 27, 2021 at 1:49 PM

Coming Soon: Lynn Nottage's New Play

Coming Soon: Lynn Nottage's New Play View this email in your browser Friends,   Art for Justice is proud to support the upcoming production of Clyde’s by playwright Lynn Nottage at Second Stage Theater.  Set in a truck stop sandwich shop tha…
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August 25, 2021 at 2:32 PM

Allies Meet at Spring Hill Arts Gathering

Allies Meet at Spring Hill Arts Gathering Allies Meet at Spring Hill Arts Gathering Worth Rises, Right of Return, SHAG and Art for Justice Fund team members. Front row: Diane Lewis, Nicole Fleetwood, Russell Craig, Dana Glu…
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July 15, 2021 at 8:36 PM

Invitation to Arts Festival in CT

Invitation to Arts Festival in CT An Arts Gathering That Lifts Up Justice Artist Gilberto Rivera stands in front of his work at the MoMA PS1 exhibition of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Photo by Erin Ba…
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June 2, 2021 at 7:24 PM

Watch Art for Justice Celebrate Julie Mehretu and Grantees

Watch Art for Justice Celebrate Julie Mehretu and Grantees Thank you for joining Art for Justice Fund celebrates Julie Mehretu and The Art of Ending Mass Incarceration View this email in your browser Darren Walker asks Julie Mehretu to des…
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May 17, 2021 at 2:58 PM

FINAL Chance to Register / Julie Mehretu Program Announced

FINAL Chance to Register / Julie Mehretu Program Announced Art for Justice Fund celebrates Julie Mehretu and The Art of Ending Mass Incarceration View this email in your browser FINAL CHANCE TO REGISTER PROGRAM JUST ANNOUNCED …
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April 28, 2021 at 1:47 PM

Please RSVP ASAP!

Please RSVP ASAP! Art for Justice Fund celebrates Julie Mehretu and The Art of Ending Mass Incarceration View this email in your browser Julie Mehretu in her studio with works in progress. Photo by Josefina Santos. Courtesy the artist and …
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April 14, 2021 at 4:26 PM

[RSVP link corrected] Art, Justice and Julie Mehretu / A Celebration

[RSVP link corrected] Art, Justice and Julie Mehretu / A Celebration Art for Justice Fund celebrates Julie Mehretu and The Art of Ending Mass Incarceration View this email in your browser Julie Mehretu in her studio with works in progress.…
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April 14, 2021 at 2:53 PM

Art, Justice and Julie Mehretu / A Celebration

Art, Justice and Julie Mehretu / A Celebration Art for Justice Fund celebrates Julie Mehretu and The Art of Ending Mass Incarceration View this email in your browser Julie Mehretu in her studio with works in progress. Photo by Josefina San…
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December 21, 2020 at 8:55 PM

Wishing You Peace

Wishing You Peace 2020. A global pandemic causing more than 300,000 American deaths. A climate crisis with fierce hurricanes and raging wildfires. Economic insecurity and record levels of unemployment. Political volatility, “facts” that are fi…
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November 2, 2020 at 6:53 PM

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

This Is What Democracy Looks Like The 2020 election is destined to be historic for many reasons: For Florida’s returning citizens, it will be the first time hundreds of thousands are eligible to vote in decades. Because of structural condi…
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September 1, 2020 at 4:55 PM

The Art of Alchemy

The Art of Alchemy “The global demonstrations for racial justice give me hope that we’ll meet this historic moment with lasting change. As a result of this overdue reckoning, more of us understand the urgent need for our country to add…
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July 10, 2020 at 3:17 PM

COVID-19 Rages Through San Quentin

COVID-19 Rages Through San Quentin A prison sentence should not be a death sentence. Art for Justice board and staff members visited San Quentin during the Fund’s first year to learn about the experiences and concerns …
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June 25, 2020 at 8:43 PM

We Must Not Be Silent

We Must Not Be Silent In a poem accompanying Titus Kaphar’s “Analogous Colors” on the cover of TIME, he writes: “In her expression, I see the Black mothers who are unseen, and rendered helpless in this fury against thei…
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June 12, 2020 at 3:34 PM

A Clarion Call to Action

A Clarion Call to Action Protest art from the streets of lower Manhattan. Friends, We’re witnessing an uprising for justice across American cities and rural areas that has quickly spread around the globe…
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June 4, 2020 at 9:37 PM

Making Lasting Change Together

Making Lasting Change Together A COUNTRY BUILT ON FREE LABOR, 2018, by Xaviera Simmons, artist and grantee partner “I speak these words in an attempt to break the silence and bridge some…
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May 13, 2020 at 1:52 PM

Advocates, Artists and Donors Unite to Protect Incarcerated Youth

Advocates, Artists and Donors Unite to Protect Incarcerated Youth Advocates, Artists and Donors Unite to Protect Incarcerated Youth — About the Fund  The Art for Justice Fund is a time-limited grantmaking …
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April 17, 2020 at 5:06 PM

INCARCERATED YOUTH IN CRISIS

INCARCERATED YOUTH IN CRISIS INCARCERATED YOUTH IN CRISIS “The coronavirus has laid bare gaping disparities in our society. It isn’t impacting us equally—death rates among Black and brown people, poor p…
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April 3, 2020 at 7:02 PM

THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW

THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW “Governors, sheriffs, judges and county officials who want to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections in their communities must get serious about reducing …
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March 20, 2020 at 9:25 PM

Courage and Community

Courage and Community Dear Friends, We hope you and your loved ones are safe and well. Dear Friends, We hope you and your loved ones are safe and well. In times of crisis, we rely on one another to persist. For the Art f…
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February 27, 2020 at 5:50 PM

Engaging Los Angeles Allies to End Mass Incarceration

Engaging Los Angeles Allies to End Mass Incarceration We appreciate your support Some of Art for Justice Fund’s leadership, grantee partners and staff recently traveled to the west coast to expand support for ending mass incarceration. …