Clarivel, daughter from Ayiti Kiskeya (aka Hispaniola aka Dominican Republic and Haiti), raised in New York City on the ancestral bones and covered shrines of the Lenape people. Our art practice is to decolonize and unravel the racialized framework we live in to heal wounds created by eurocentrism.
In 2016 we initiated Dominicans Love Haitians Movement an art-based non-profit organization. We are using various art modalities to unlearn racism and decolonize. Our goal is to celebrate our commonalities and honor our differences. Art is the pathway for community healing, enabling us to envision and create a new future.
We are alumni of Hemispheric Institute's EmergeNYC, Culture Push's Utopian Fellow, a Civic Practice Seminar participant at the Metropolitan Museum, The Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship at CCCADI, a 2019 Brooklyn Arts Council award recipient and an MFA graduate of CUNY, City College.
You can find out more about us at www.clarivel.com and donate at https://www.culturepush.org/dominicanslovehaitians-donation-page