This week on First Coat we have Amina Cooper. Amina is a curator, public arts consultant and public art policy strategist and founder of Amewa Fine Art.  She has over a decade of experience working with fine art and public art collections for leading municipalities, museums and galleries in Washington, DC and Boston, MA.  She currently manages over 3 million dollars in large scale public art projects as a public art consultant. She is also the inaugural Forecast Change Lab Research Fellow and initiated a broad survey of black public art. She created and runs the Instagram account @Blackmonuments.

In this episode we talk about how to create more equity in the public art space and learn from Amina's experience leading large-scale public art projects.

This interview was recorded in July, 2021.

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• Podcast: Public Art & Black Lives Matter with Amina Cooper, Arts & Science Council

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• Art at LaGuardia Airport

• Project Row Houses in Houston

• The Roll Up in Charlotte, NC and on Instagram

• Inaugural Change Lab Research Fellow: Amina Cooper

• Black Monuments

• Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompson

Guest | Amina Kache Cooper, Curator, Public Arts Consultant and Public Art Policy Strategist

Amina Cooper is a curator, public arts consultant and public art policy strategist.  Amina has over 10 years of experience working with fine art and public art collections for leading municipalities, museums and galleries in Washington, DC and Boston, MA.  She currently manages over 3 million dollars in large scale public art projects as a public art consultant. In 2021, Amina became the inaugural Forecast Change Lab Research Fellow and initiated a broad survey of black public art and public art policies, in a continuation of her work recording public art by Black creators via @Blackmonuents on Instagram. She is a member of the Americans for the Arts Public Art Advisory Network. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Howard University and a Master of Science degree in Arts Administration from Boston University.  

Find Amina on Instagram @blackmonuments and on her website at www.amewafineart.com.

Your Host | Stephanie Eche, CEO & Founder of Distill Creative

Stephanie Eche is an artist and art consultant based in Brooklyn, NYC.
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