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Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts

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107:. Based on Cole's previous exhibition in Australia, Saying No combines the religious ceremonial practices highlighted by Indigenous artist with the protest for Indigenous rights and visibility in the public imagaination. The curatorial statement is as follows: "The word 'no' does not exist in the Australian Aboriginal languages. Where it does exist, this powerful word is reserved for the elders and is used with great care and ceremony. As these languages reach the brink of extinction, indigenous Australian artists are using contemporary art to assert their identity and culture and say no to racism, land theft and colonialism in an urban world. Saying No features sculpture, installation, painting, photography, video, audio and mixed media works." Some of the exhibiting artists include 63: 28: 143:
Houses like Walt Whitman, Ingersoll, and Farragut in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The concert series, titled "Public Exchange," attracted talented musicians and drew crowds up to 500 or 600. The following year in 2013, MoCADA launched another art performance series, Soul of Brooklyn, which is "a series of
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designated $ 1.4 million, her largest capital budget allocation, to MoCADA, which she founded and directed before winning a position on city council. This was matched by the same amount of money in the city's executive budget for the 2015 fiscal year. While technically not illegal,
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noted, her support for the museum is "notable chiefly for the sizable, seven-figure contribution, and for her personal closeness to the recipient organization." The blog reported that for most city council members, "the allocations reported on their
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In 2006, MoCADA moved to its current home, an expanded space at 80 Hanson Place, at South Portland Avenue, in
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From 2001 to 2011, Cumbo served as a graduate professor in the Arts and Cultural Management program at
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block-party style arts events meant to bring the community together and promote local businesses."
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to pay for a two-year program that brought monthly concerts to public spaces in
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in a building owned by the historical Bridge Street AWME Church in the heart of
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Saying No: Reconciling Spirituality and Resistance in Indigenous Australian Art
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forms were a fraction of the one to MoCADA." The executive director of
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In 2012, the museum landed a $ 100,000 grant from the
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MoCADA

Fort Greene
Brooklyn
New York City

Laurie Cumbo
Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Fort Greene
black middle-class
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Bindi Cole
Tony Albert
Vicki Couzens
Fiona Foley
Daniel Boyd
Maree Clark
Rockefeller Foundation
NYCHA
Pratt Institute
Laurie Cumbo
Capital New York
conflict-of-interest
Citizens Union
40°41′7″N 73°58′27.5″W / 40.68528°N 73.974306°W / 40.68528; -73.974306
Culture of New York City
"A $ 100,000 grant will bring free concerts to Brooklyn housing projects"
New York Daily News
"MoCADA's Community-Oriented Event Season"
"Alumnae Profiles: Laurie Cumbo, C'97"

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