{"id":26158,"date":"2023-10-10T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/icymi-zellerbach-family-foundation-announces-inaugural-community-arts-fellow\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T22:41:09","slug":"icymi-zellerbach-family-foundation-announces-inaugural-community-arts-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/icymi-zellerbach-family-foundation-announces-inaugural-community-arts-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Zellerbach Family Foundation announces inaugural Community Arts Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Zellerbach Family Foundation is thrilled to welcome Chibueze Crouch<\/a> as its first Community Arts Fellow. An Igbo-American artist & writer, Chibueze Crouch (they\/she) performs and creates immersive, experimental live art spanning ritual theater, song, movement, video, and text.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to introduce this new fellowship and Chibueze\u2019s selection for its inaugural year,\u201d shares Zellerbach Family Foundation President and CEO, Allison Magee. \u201cThe fellowship is part of a broader commitment the foundation has made to deepen its engagement with the arts community and reaffirm the important role arts and culture hold in the health, vitality, and future of our\u00a0region.\u201d<\/p>\n Chibueze organizes with BlaQyard, a land collective centering QTBIPOC in the East Bay, and they perform with BANDALOOP, an internationally touring vertical dance company. They also curate and produce shows with the Performance Primers, KH FRESH Festival and Queering Dance Festival. They are co-director of OYSTERKNIFE, a postdisciplinary performance company, with Gabriele Christian. Chibueze is also the 2019 RHE Foundation Artistic Fellowship recipient, and a 2021 California Arts Council Established Artist Fellow.<\/p>\n The Community Arts Fellowship emerged from the foundation\u2019s effort to activate its strategic framework<\/a>: an integrated approach to grantmaking that promotes belonging, connection, and a shared sense of safety among people and communities across the Bay Area and California. In their role as Community Arts Fellow, Chibueze will help the foundation actualize its belief in the power of arts and culture to bring people together, change hearts and minds, and imagine a better future.\u00a0<\/p>\n