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faith j. mckinnie is a cultural critic + writer.
practicing between the unceded lands of Northern California and The Greater Bay Area.
through curatorial intervention, institutional critique, and critical discourse, she interrogates visual culture and its relationship to post-colonialism, queer, feminist & race theories, migration, land degradation, and the historicity of the personal narrative.
she is the recipient of:
- Sacramento Bee + Nehemiah Emerging Leadership Program's 2022 Top 25 Black Change Maker award.
- Sacramento Kings + Crown Royal's 2022 Culture Creator Award.
- National Endowment for the Arts + City of Sacramento's 2022 Seeding Creativity Award.
- 18th Street Arts Center's 2023 California Creative Corps Finalist
- Center for Cultural Innovation's 2023 CALI Catalyst Award
she has lectured on curatorial activism at the University of Chicago, the University of California Davis, Sierra College, the University of Nevada Reno, and both California State Universities, Sacramento and Stanislaus. she serves as a curatorial mentor for the City of Sacramento's inaugural Emerging Curator's Program and Community Consultant for the Sacramento Public Library's Parks and Tranquility Project, she was the founder of the Sacramento Curatorial Collective, the DEIA board chair at Capital Creative Alliance, and a founding board member of the Sacramento Alliance for Regional Art. she has held leadership positions at Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum, Sacramento Theatre Company, and Crocker Art Museum. She holds an undergraduate degree in Art History and is pursuing a graduate degree in visual & critical studies.
she is the founding director of the
- The First Negroes 8/23/24 - 9/29/24
- A Family Affair 7/13/24 - 8/11/24
- Eidolon 6/1/24 - 6/30/24
- Mini Midtown Love - 5/11/24
- Black AF Art Auction 5/10/2024 - 5/26/24
- Profile 9/23/2023 - 10/22/2023
- When We See Us 8/19/2023 - 9/10/2023
- Are You In The Middle? 4/29/2023 - 4/30/2023
- Changing The Landscape, 9/2/2022 - 10/2/2022
- Black Creativity at the Heart of Sacramento, 4/8/2022 - 5/7/2022
- Sacramento Black Art History Timeline v.I, 4/8/2022 - 6/19/2022
- Coordinates: Ice Pac, 3/4/2022 - 3/26/2022
- Remainders, 1/7/2022 - 3/26/2022
- From The Original, 2/19/2022 - 4/9/2022
- Su Presencia 1/29/2022 - 2/27/2022
- N.G.G.R 11/20/2021 - 1/2/2022
- Gastinell's 10/15/2021 - 11/14/2021
- Predictions 9/3/2021 - 9/26/2021
- Gather Together In Our Name 8/14/2021 - 8/29/2021
- State of the City of Sacramento Mayoral Address 2021
- San Joaquin Delta College Juried Exhibition 2021
- Pence Gallery Juried Exhibition 2021
- Axis Gallery Juried Exhibition 2021
- The Distance Between Black & White 1/2020 - 8/2020
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