John O’Neal Cultural
Arts Fellowship
The John O’Neal Cultural Arts Fellowship is a program tailored to support New Orleans-based artists involved in bringing attention to and addressing issues of equity in the arts field.
Rooted in Junebug’s core values — New Orleans, Sankofa, Equity, Communities, and Innovation — the fellowship takes a two-pronged approach by supporting individual artists and bringing about systemic change throughout the local and national arts landscape.
MEET THE ‘20/’21 John O’Neal Cultural Arts Fellows
SUNNI PATTERSON
New Orleans Native and Visionary, Sunni Patterson is an internationally acclaimed Poet, Performer, Workshop Facilitator, Certified Spiritual Life Coach/Consultant, and an Initiated Priestess.
Shana Griffin
Shana M. griffin is a feminist activist, researcher, applied sociologist, artist, geographer, and abolitionist. Her practice is interdisciplinary and undisciplinary, centering historic inquiry rooted in Black feminist thought, organizing traditions, and spatial imaginaries.
AUSETTUA AMORAMENKUM
Ausettua AmorAmenkum is a cultural educator, professor of African and Hip-Hop dance at Tulane University, Big Queen of the Washitaw Nation Black Masking Indians, Director of Kumbuka African Drum & Dance Collective, and co-director of the Louisiana Correctional Institution for Women Drama Club and The Graduates, a performance group of formerly incarcerated women.
Kiyoko McCrAe
Kiyoko McCrae is a Japanese-American film and theater director, striving to shift mainstream narratives by telling undertold stories of communities of color.
Photo: Aubrey Edwards
Wood Delahoussaye
Wood is a poet, producer, performer, director, emcee, arts administrator, community leader, and activist whose purpose and passion is the liberation of Black people across the globe.