Speakers
- Scheherazade Tillet
- A Long Walk Home/ Artist in ResidencyArtist In Residence, New Arts Justice and Shine Portrait Studio
Scheherazade Tillet is a Trinidadian and African American photographer, art therapist, and social justice organizer. Her work has been featured in Gagosian Journal, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, The Chicago Tribune, and MSNBC. In 2003, she co-founded A Long Walk Home (ALWH), a Chicago-based national nonprofit, that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women. She is also the Artistic Director of the award-winning multimedia performance, “Story of a Rape Survivor (SOARS)” and the creator of the Girl/Friends Leadership Institute, a yearlong artist-activist program for girls and young women of color. Currently, Scheherazade is 3Arts artist working on photography project a “Prom Send Off: The Rites of Passage for Chicago’s Girls. In 2018 – 2020, Tillet is the inaugural artist in residence for the joint initiative between Shine Portrait Studio and New Arts Justice and is developing her first solo show, “The Visibility Project” and co-curating “Picturing Black Girlhood,” to be exhibited in Newark in Spring 2021.