In the City: Memories of Black Presence (2021)

De 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.

"What We Deserve" (2020)

2020, Public ArtDe NicholsNovember 24, 2020

"Show U.S. Justice" (2020)

“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.

Hope Is All (2020)

This 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.

Sticky Note to Self & The Soulard School (2019)

For 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.

Be Strong, Be Proud, Be Free Mural (2019)

As 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.

Live Visualization of Agency, Authorship, and Allyship (2018)

This 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.

Counterpublic Public Mantras (2019)

De 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.

Public ArtDe NicholsMay 8, 2019sticky note to self

Mirror Casket (2014)

The 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.

Public Art, Protest ArtDe NicholsSeptember 23, 2015mirror casket, mirror coffin, ferguson, ferguson protests, ferguson uprising

Yarning to Know You (2013)

Yarning to Know You: St. Louis was actualized through the Contemporary Art Museum to creatively inquire connections that exist between residents of three neighborhoods in St. Louis: Cherokee Street, the University City Loop, and The Grove.

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