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I work with artists, activists, and communities to create art and design public programs that drive social change.
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Alliyah Allen is an Associate Curator and Senior Program Coordinator for Express Newark, a center for socially engaged art and design at Rutgers University—Newark. She has worked on exhibitions and public art projects including Picturing Black Girlhood: Moments of Possibility (2022), Will You Be My Monument (2021), and A Call to Peace (2019). She has also written for publications including Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadephia and The Online Gallery.
Her research interests include contemporary art, socially engaged art practices, the African American and Africana Diaspora, and Queer and Feminist studies. She hopes to explore the process of cultural reproduction and social change through art and civic engagement, particularly as it evolves both in cultural institutions like museums and galleries, but also in the public sphere and underserved communities.
Background
Associate Curator & Senior Program Coordinator
Express Newark | Newark, NJ
2022 - current
Program Coordinator
New Arts Justice | Newark, NJ
2019 - 2022
Project Specialist
Monument Lab | Philadelphia, PA
2019
Community Outreach Coordinator
The Wight Foundation | Newark, NJ
2018 - 2019
M.A., Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies
Columbia University
2022 - current
B.A., Religion with a concentration in Africana Studies
Haverford College
2018
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Supporting art, activism, & community
Connect with me
email
alliyahmallen@gmail.com
INStagram
@alliyaha_
Linkedin
www.linkedin.com/in/alliyah-allen-4b5676a0/