Dr. Jabani Bennett
Visual Artist
2022 Artist Enrichment Grant | (Louisville) $5,000 to create eight large-scale portraits of diverse women leaders in Louisville who fight for climate justice and resist environmental racism. Each portrait will stage them in settings reflecting their joy and vision for a sustainable city, with symbolic cues of collective wellbeing. Integrating fiber arts, figurative traditions, collage, and poetry drawn from interviews, the series honors portraiture history while revealing the complexity of advocacy and climate action. This project builds on her existing art samples in portraiture, collage, and fiber arts that employ a feminist storytelling approach.
Previous Grants
2022 Artist Enrichment Grant | (Louisville) $4,650 to create a body of work of mixed-media portraits that feature Black women creative professionals over the age 55 who are longtime residents of Louisville. As an emerging artist-mother, this project will provide an opportunity to build out her creative practice and support her ongoing research into cultural equity in Louisville through a Black feminist lens.