Ujima Invests $80,000 in Boston’s Arts & Cultural Ecosystem

The Boston Ujima Project’s Arts and Cultural Organizing Fellowship supports emerging artists and cultural organizers, and is awarded to an Ujima member who demonstrates a commitment to their artistic practice and to the principles of the Boston Ujima Project. The Ujima Arts & Cultural Organizing Fellow spends two years — an extension intended to provide deeper engagement and long term support — in an emergent, self-determined program tailored to the needs and interests of the fellow. Shantel Miller’s figurative paintings create visual language to transcend the lived and imagined experiences of her inner world. While exploring constructs of race, gender, and religion, she pulls from personal narrative as a departure point for understanding broader social realities — and uses a syntax of metaphors to represent complex emotions, themes and experiences relevant to spirituality and faith. <a href="https://bostonujima.medium.com/ujima-invests-80-000-in-boston-arts-cultural-ecosystem-1dc70cfea766">Learn More</a>