| Title | The Black School |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Shani Peters (author) |
| Joseph Cuillier III (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0367.1.33 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/out-of-place-artists-pedagogy-and-purpose/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Shani Peters; Joseph Cuillier III |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2021-10-28 |
| Page range | pp. 359–371 |
| Print length | 13 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Shani Peters is Co-Director and Director of Education of The Black School, and is a multidisciplinary artist based in New Orleans. She holds a BA from Michigan State University and an MFA from the City College of New York. Peters has presented work in the US and abroad at the New Museum, The Studio Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon in South Korea, and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare. Selected residencies include those hosted by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, The Laundromat Project in New York City, and Project Row Houses in Texas. Her collaborative and solo work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, Creative Capital, the Rauschenberg Foundation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Peters is a university and museum educator, focusing her teaching at the intersection of art, design, and social change. She has been a part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design The New School, the Pratt Institute, and The City College of New York.
Joseph Cuillier III (b. 1988, New Orleans) is Co-Director and Creative Director of The Black School and is a New Orleans-based multidisciplinary artist, designer, educator, and the co-director of Black Love Fest. His work engages with textile art and fashion as Black architecture, abstraction as a technology, and Black radical pedagogy. His practice, intersecting social practice, installation, fiber, design, and education, centers on deconstructing history and creating counter narratives. He achieved an MFA from the Pratt Institute and has been a faculty member at Parsons School of Design The New School and the Pratt Institute. His work has been exhibited and presented internationally in galleries and museums, including The Studio Museum, New Museum, Bronx Museum, and MoMA Library. Cuillier has been an artist-in-residence and fellow at Sweet Water Foundation, Ideas City NOLA, Antenna, New Museum, The Laundromat Project, and A Blade of Grass.