We were so thrilled to have Ariana Faye Allensworth as a guest speaker for the NYU Art+Ed program. Ariana Faye Allensworth is a participatory artist, designer, and activist based in New York City. Her work bridges education, visual storytelling, and community-based research. She is a long-time member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), a data visualization and storytelling collective that reclaims technology as a means to embolden housing justice movements. She also shared her work with Staying Power, a print and online publishing platform dedicated to amplifying a people’s history of public housing. Ariana’s socially engaged art and research practice builds upon interests in Black visual and spatial histories, as well as the connections between cultural production and radical social change. NYU Art+Ed students had the opportunity to ask Ariana questions for guidance on their own socially engaged projects and discussed the ethics of participatory research.
Learn more about Ariana’s work here: https://www.arianaallensworth.com/
