2021-2022 Louisiana Cultural Equity Arts Recipients

Individual Recipients

	Project Discipline	Artist	Name of Project
1	Documentation	Ahmad White	Destined To Be First
2	Documentation	Shaka Zulu	Sharing The Culture Around The World: No Where Else But New Orleans
3	Drumming	Zohar Israel	Individual
4	Education Materials	Andrew Wiseman	Individual
5	Education Materials	David Batiste	Individual
6	Film	Bianca Siplin	We Must Save Our Schools
7	Film	Christina Hill	Thibodeauxville – The Story of the Thibodaux Massacre: Race, Riot, and Resilience
8	Film	Gian Francisco Smith	Lafitte Suite
9	Film	Jonathan Isaac Jackson	“Streets”
10	Film	Kenneth Brown	Stop…Pause… Jubilee
11	Film	Kiana Calloway	Post Incarceration Syndrome: A NOLA Narrative Told by the Formerly Incarcerated Peer Support Group
12	Film	Renee Nicole Benson	The Black Ophelia
13	Film	Saia Smith	Black Film Festival
14	Multidisciplinary	Alana Harris	“Sacred Journey of a Living Culture Bearer Intersection: Black Masking Baby Doll”
15	Multidisciplinary	Ayo Scott	Renaissance
16	Multidisciplinary	Christine Brown	House NOT For Sale NOLA (A Short Doc)
17	Multidisciplinary	Delaney George	Project Resurgence: Phase 1
18	Multidisciplinary	Geovane Paiva Santos	The Griot Series
19	Multidisciplinary	Greer E. Mendy	Something To Say
20	Multidisciplinary	Keni Anwar	untitled (i am…)
21	Multidisciplinary	Lakeba Angelle	Artist Connection
22	Multidisciplinary	Lemar Arceneaux	Gangs of New Orleans “In the hole”
23	Multidisciplinary	Leyla McCalla	Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever
24	Multidisciplinary	Melanie Greene	Alien Seed, Southern Clay – A Sapphire Film
25	Multidisciplinary	Sha’condria Sibley	Pass It On open mic
26	Multidisciplinary	Shana M. griffin	Theirs Was A Movement Without Marches: Black Women in Public Housing
27	Multidisciplinary	Stephen Montalvo	In That Number
28	Multidisciplinary	Tania Vidal	Estado de Los Unidos y La Migración del Arte
29	Music Performance Series	Nate Cameron	Broadside/For The Horticulture Gardens
30	Music Recording	Darianna Videaux Capitel	“Raíces: Routes to the Roots”
31	Music Recording	Jamal Batiste	Be The Change You Want To See
32	Music Recording	Krystle Sims Cameron	Glbl Wmng Music Presentation
33	Music Recording	Wesley Phillips	New Orleans’ Congo Jazz Drumming
34	Performance, Theatre	Damien L Brown	Nola Gospel Awards
35	Performance, Theatre	Denise Augustine	The Art of Creole Storytelling
36	Performance, Theatre	Dr. Brice Miller	Dwight’s Cultural Garden
37	Performance, Theatre	Kelly Jones	TRUST      (Part 2 of a 3 Part Series entitled We Are Somebody)
38	Performance, Theatre	Saheed Olalekan	Afrobeat Music Festival
39	Publications	Dianne Honore	Black Masking Legacy, Big Chief Darryl Montana
40	Publications	Ronnie Moore	60 Years Later, 40 Years To Go: The Biography of Ronnie Moore
41	Visual Arts, Photography	Angel Omoike	Louisiana music culture exhibit
42	Visual Arts, Photography	Jamar Duvol Pierre	Resilience: The Tchoupitoulas Street Floodwall Mural – New Orleans Musical Influence in America
43	Visual Arts, Photography	Patrick Henry	Music Box: A visual encounter with music
44	Visual Arts, Photography	Sheleen Jones	Sheleen Jones,  President of New Orleans National conference of Artist
45	Visual Arts, Photography	WyShonda Elise Marshall	Nola CultureVated  or  WEthePeople  (either one of the two)

Organization Recipients

	Discipline	Organization Name	Name of Project
1	Film	Bishop Blue of Louisiana	The School Sagas Series
2	Exhibition	Katrina National Memorial Park Charitable Foundation	Katrina National Museum Education Outreach and Katrina List Project
3	Performance, Theatre	Louisiana Afro-Indigenous Society	New Orleans Bounce Music Festival
4	Performance, Theatre	New Orleans Juneteenth Festival	New Orleans Juneteenth Festival
5	Performance, Theatre	N’Fungola Sibo African Dance and Drum Company, Inc.	N’Fungola Sibo Dance and Drum Company Presentation
6	Performance, Theatre	NOLA The Radical Buffoons	Pacman: A Survivor’s Guide to Loving Yourself in a World that’s Actually Trying to Kill You
7	Multidisciplinary	NOLAvate Black	Black Tech NOLA: Artist Summit
8	Documentation	The Original Wild Tchoupitoulas Indians	The Original Wild Tchoupitoulas