Spring 2022 RITM Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellows

Sonia E Barrett performs composites of plants, animals, elements and people to create interventions that presence their objectification and commodification, she also thinks about how to change perceptions of phenomena in “nature” that are a given...

Rodney Gomez is a poet and urbanist whose work explores the intersection of place, culture, and history in the South Texas borderlands. He has a particular interest in Latinx poetry, ekphrasis, and visual poetry...

akua naru is a hip hop artist, poet, producer, lecturer, and activist. She was called the “Toni Morrison of hip-hop” by renowned scholar and public intellectual Dr. Cornel West for the unique and layered ways she inscribes and expands the possibilities and nuances of language within the hip hop context...