Tavares Strachan and Amanda Williams have also received the award, which increased from $625k to $800k, no strings attached.
Amanda Williams
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In Reconstructions, Black Artists and Architects Move Beyond the Limitations of the Present
What would happen if Black people had or were currently given the time, space, energy, and funding to build alternative futures?
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Winning Artists Announced for Monument to Shirley Chisholm, the First US Black Congresswoman
Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous have won the inaugural She Built NYC commission with their dynamic proposal, “Our Destiny, Our Democracy.”
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Pushing Back Against the Sensational Image of Chicago as “Chi-raq”
Amanda Williams, an architect turned artist, has shifted her practice from constructing buildings, to making work that understands and reveals the social implications of how and when they are destroyed.
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A View from the Easel
This week, studios in California, Illinois, Rhode Island and New Zealand.
