From Keith Haring to Extinction Rebellion, the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, what does a revolution look like? Discover the power of words and images in this thought-provoking look at protest art by highly acclaimed artivist, De Nichols.
Read MoreDe Nichols curates “In the City: Memories of Black Presence,” a exhibit of works by six selected Artist Fellows of the Harvard Commonwealth Project’s In the City fellowship, which she helped co-create. Artists include Collin W. Elliott, Shabez Jamal, Alana Marie, Tiffany Sutton, Cami Thomas, and Nyara Williams as they explore how film and photography can visually unearth spatial histories, capture nuanced familial rituals, and weave new narratives about what it means to be Black in St. Louis.
Read More“Show U.S. Justice” is a billboard designed as part of the “I watch for good news. I work with folks to create good news” series of works in collaboration with The Luminary gallery and STLMADE campaign in St. Louis, MO.
Read MoreThis digital drawing depicts the portrait of a loved one lost to the COVID19 pandemic and highlights upon his collar how “hope is all many of us will have left,” as communities across the nation navigate the public health crisis. It was created as part of a public art series at Harvard University and will be installed across Cambridge, MA, throughout the 2020 summer.
Read MoreThe Continuum on Becoming An Anti-Racist Arts & Cultural Organization is a common racial equity tool utilized by organizations to assess, evaluate, and enhance their institutional policies, practices, pedagogy, programming, structure, and culture towards being an actively anti-racist entity.
Read MoreGrowing Griot is a collaborative initiative and series of engagements helping The Griot Museum of Black History develop vision and strategy towards its future.
Read MoreFor this year-long project, De Nichols partnered with The Soulard School (TSS) to produce a series of learning experiences, tools, and artworks for its “Sticky Note to Self—Social Justice, Identity, and Action” series.
Read MoreAs a culmination of the year-long partnership between De Nichols’s Sticky Note to Self Project and The Soulard School of St. Louis, MO, this mural presents a social mantra that will govern students academic year and the school’s social culture.
Read MoreThis participatory art project explores perceptions of how the Summit's themes of authorship, agency, and allyship show up in different types of spaces that attendees navigate. In this activity, each person is asked to use yarn to navigate through various statements that rank and assess the depths of which they have power to share their own voice, self-govern their own actions, and feel support for their existence within the space they live, learn, work, and play. The compilation of our collective answers then begin to weave together and form a visualization of who we are and how we are liberated to show up in our respective worlds.
Read MoreDe Nichols is a featured artist of Counterpublic, a major new triennial exhibition by set to animate the everyday spaces of Cherokee Street with expansive artist commissions, performances, processions, and public programs.
Read MoreFilmography for Adobe’s World Interaction Design Day
Read MoreThe In My Blackness series discusses different parts of my life, experiences, and perspectives through the lens of my racial identity and ethnicity. From family, to love, to style, each video starts by defining what the chosen topic/word means to me and then elaborates with stories and related historical accounts.
Read MoreFoodSpark is a series of monthly, themed, and potluck-style dinner parties that allow individuals to make connections, start conversations, spark ideas on social topics that matter to them.
Read MoreFilm & Documentary | Gender & Identity
Read MoreThe Mirrored Casket project is a collaborative sculpture I designed and orchestrated with local community artists in St. Louis. Shaped like a closed coffin, the Mirrored Casket is made of mirrors to challenge on-lookers to question, empathize, and reflect on their own roles in remediating the crisis of countless deaths that young men of color experience in the United States at the hands of police and community violence.
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