Imani Dennison
Media Artist
2024 Art Meets Activism | (Louisville) $10,000 to create an 8-week Super 8 self-portrait film workshop for Black women and gender-expansive people. Participants will learn analog filmmaking and create 3-minute cinematic self-portraits documenting their lives, bodies, memories, and environments. By equipping participants with the tools to author and preserve their own cinematic representations, the workshop increases artistic capacity, confidence, and authorship, contributing to a broader cultural shift in who has the power to create, control, and preserve visual history.
Previous Grants
2024 Art Meets Activism | (Louisville) $5,000 to produce “The People Could Fly,” a poetic documentary rooted in principles of liberation and freedom about the history of Black gathering spaces in Louisville from the 1960’s to mid-2000’s. Using archival footage, still photos, newsreel, and newly shot material, the project will explore the history of a segregated Louisville and Black resistance through the ritual of roller skating and how roller rinks emerged as sanctuaries for Black culture.