VISIONARY RESISTANCE FELLOWSHIPS

Alter EnerG

This project will retrofit an existing home in Northwest Detroit to serve as a template for how to ensure homes are sound, relevant and prepared to address climate impacts for generations to come. The front yard will be transformed into a beautiful ecologically responsible space for pollinators and low mow exhibition. The space will serve as a learning hub to assist Black and marginalized homeowners in Detroit and other postindustrial cities across the country.

You Should Ride the Bus 

This project uses art to make public transit more visible, while improving aspects of the transit experience. It includes multimedia and participatory components, as well as workshops. The project will collect stories from community members, culminating in updated signage, maps and links to schedules and arrival times, ultimately creating a “How to Ride the Bus” Zine to provide step by step processes for navigating the bus system.

Detroit Strawbale Revolution

This project will build a prototype of a mud-and-strawbale small structure multi-use building at ECOSphere afrofuture technology campus hosted by Broadside Lotus Press. The building will function as the home for a digital library of Detroiters' art, music, literature, poetry and other productions. The project will also offer a workshop series to train and empower participants and culminate in a freely accessible digital and print copy of a mudbuilding manual.

Naming and Claiming Space and Place in Detroit

This project will utilize digital and analog technologies to engage Detroit residents around place and boundaries, resulting in a series of fuzzy and colorful maps of city neighborhoods highlighting community defined assets. This project seeks to bridge the digital divide often experienced with new technologies and online mediums.

 Watershed Voices: Connecting Communities to the Rouge River

This project will leverage community workshops, the creation of a shared publication, and an outdoor interactive installation to focus on equitable water access, the challenges faced by the Rouge River, and the broader implications of stormwater management for Detroit residents, many of whom face significant barriers to clean water.

The KNOW BETTER Map

The KNOW BETTER Map is a resource that sensualizes data to communicate the pervasiveness of surveillance technology while offering an archive of community sourced solutions for collective safety.

Ain't We The Sun?

“Ain’t We The Sun?” is a photo-foundational exhibition examining the past, present and future of racial equity as it pertains to land, labor and renewable energy. Through photo-collage, steel ‘Grid Mapping’, interviews and an exhibition, it examines the lineages that the data of disinvestment do not consider.

Detroiters In Our Element: 

Snapshots Of Detroit Environmental Activism History

This project will showcase the history of local environmental activist movements in Detroit through the framework of the 5 classical elements: earth, water, fire, air, and spirit - resulting in a pack of 5 free downloadable art prints and an accompanying free downloadable guide booklet and reading list to raise the public’s awareness of local environmental justice struggles and the connections between them.

Localizing Knowledge:  community-embedded black histories

Community-embedded Black histories explores what community-rooted data-technology, divested from Google and big data centers could look like. A server containing digitized Black history will be created in collaboration with a local archivist. Lessons and reflections from community engagement with the archive will be shared in a zine and printed for community.

 Solar Irrigation Pollinators Rock Garden

The solar run irrigation system Pollinators Rock Garden is an underground reservoir, eco-friendly water efficiency structure. The “faux river stream” will mimic natures trickling creek to provide a tranquil setting in nature and include a “puddling station” that prevents butterflies from drowning as they drink water.

Ornament as Shield / Ornamento como Escudo: 

Anti-Surveillance Altars for the Immigrant Body

“Ornament as Shield / Ornamento como Escudo” is a community-based art project examining how immigrant communities navigate state, digital, and social surveillance—and how beauty, ritual, and ancestral knowledge can become forms of protection.

 EII-Go 

This project will redevelop the community “intranet” called EII-Go, making it accessible to anyone using internet through NEWCC’s EII network.

The Equitable Internet Initiative (EII), is a community internet service with tech support. There are three in Detroit. NEWCC’s network expands North End Detroit, Highland Park, and Hamtramck with almost 700 clients and ten public WiFi hot-spots.

Access vs. Information

This project will redevelop the community “intranet” called EII-Go, making it accessible to anyone using internet through NEWCC’s EII network.

The Equitable Internet Initiative (EII), is a community internet service with tech support. There are three in Detroit. NEWCC’s network expands North End Detroit, Highland Park, and Hamtramck with almost 700 clients and ten public WiFi hot-spots.

“GIMME MY FLOWERS”: 

a neighborhood museum exhibition - 2026

MYcelium: 

BREADCRUMBING MYSELF OUT OF THE HEART of DARKNESS - 2026

TOXIC LEGACY:

RACE, CLASS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM IN DETROIT - 2026

ELEMENTAL BLACKNESS: BLACK LIBERATION AND THE NATURAL WORLD - 2026