• Scheherazade Tillet
• Artist and Activist
• A Long Walk Home, Inc.

Scheherazade Tillet is a photo-based artist, curator, and feminist activist who explores the themes of Blackness, play, freedom, trauma, and healing. Blending social documentary, portraiture, and social practice, Tillet intimately photographs the inner lives and public performances of Black girlhood throughout the United States and the Caribbean, while also centering the gaze of and actively collaborating with her Black girl subjects. Born in Boston, growing up in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Newark, NJ, and now working in Chicago, Tillet received her B.A. in Child Development from Tufts University with a minor in Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and her Masters of Art in Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited at Columbia University, Rutgers University, Newark, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and featured in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Teen Vogue and Vice. She is currently the Executive Director of A Long Walk Home, a nonprofit that she founded with her sister, Salamishah, in 2003, that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women.

 

Speaking In:

• Picturing Black Girlhood: Moments of Possibility