Art installations
Ameila Carter
Amelia is a Black lesbian multidisciplinary artist and cultural producer from Philadelphia. For eight years, she has used film, installation art, and creative programming to organize communities around LGBTQ, racial, and economic justice issues. Her films, direct actions, events, and installations are community-driven and have participatory art at their core. Through her art activism with Penn Community for Justice (PCJ), Philly Human Rights Appeal (PHRA), Germantown United CDC (GUCDC), iMPeRFeCT Gallery, Kolkata Anandam for Equality and Justice (KAEJ), and beyond, Amelia engages themes like gentrification, police accountability, racial inequity, sustainable economic development, and human rights advocacy.
Beth Lewis
Beth is a Black mother, art educator, and freelance artist from Philadelphia whose illustrations have been published in children’s books, magazines and corporate websites.
Beth earned her Masters in Fine Arts at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she specialized in Studio Art and Art History. For the past eight years, she has been a teaching artist and instructor for various art centers and institutions in Pennsylvania. Beth has enjoyed creating work and teaching with the Please Touch Museum, Taller Puertorriqueño and Bloomsburg University. More recently she has illustrated several books through her work with the Jubilee School and has continued to work with youth through art instruction at Bartram's Garden.
Li Sumpter
Li Sumpter, is a mythologist, educator and multidisciplinary artist based in Philly. She employs strategies of world-building, D.I.Y media, afrofuturism and gameplay to cultivate eco-awareness and community action around the “art of survival”. Li’s artistic practice and collaborative design initiatives explore real and imagined existential threats to mind, body and spirit while also offering creative solutions to address them. Through speculative stories and immersive experiences, Li aims to illuminate patterns of change and paths toward rebirth in dark and uncertain times.
Planning Committee
Tayyib Smith
Co-Founder of
Little Giant Creative
Britney Elayne Coleman
Founder of
BE Creative Marketing
Sam Katz
Planning Committee
Lenwood Sloan
Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Monument Project
Esther Park-Clemetson
Vice President of
Programming Oolite Arts
Sunanda Gosh
Nonprofit Strategy Consultant
Jane Golden
Executive Director at
City of Philadelphia’s
Mural Arts Program
Jim Leonard
Commissioner of Records for
the City of Philadelphia
Tracey Williams
Deputy Commissioner at
City of Philadelphia
Heike Rass
Principal of
Heike Rass Art Consulting
Mikhaile Solomon
Founder and Director at
Prizm Art Fair & Prizm Projects
Amy Cohon
Guest Speaker
Amy Hilliard
