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Internationally-acclaimed artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed will work with Cleveland students to develop a community art project in conjunction with the . Rasheed was also named a Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts this year.
FRONT International Executive Director Fred Bidwell said the working title of the project is 鈥淲hat If This Sentence Never Ended?鈥� Rasheed will encourage the students to complete an unfinished sentence, based on their life experiences.
鈥淭hat's very much rooted in Kameelah's practice, which is a lot about stimulating conversations with open ended questions,鈥� Bidwell said. 鈥淪ort of putting out the stimulus 鈥� an uncompleted sentence 鈥� and asking the audience, the viewer, the participant to finish it as a way of sort of creating a conversation.鈥�
Rasheed will take these Cleveland-generated conversations and fashion the sentences into a mural, due to be unveiled in time for the opening of the FRONT Triennial in July 2022.
鈥淧lans are to have it located at the new Hough library branch,鈥� Bidwell said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not determined yet whether it will be an outdoor mural in the planned garden for the library or inside the reading room.鈥�
FRONT was awarded a $75,000 grant for the project from the Joyce Foundation, which focuses its philanthropy on social justice issues in the Great Lakes region. Bidwell said 鈥渁 very significant part鈥� of the grant money will go to Rasheed.
The mural project is in addition to a separate public art project, 鈥淪coring the Stacks,鈥� that Rasheed is also doing in conjunction with the library and FRONT.
