Sannii Crespina-Flores
Sannii Crespina-flores is the founder of the Un-Inhibited Muse Film Festival, the global youth initiative Do Remember Me and the art collaborative Yram Collective. She has screened work at the 60th Cannes, the United Nations and is an award-winning storyteller of the 15th Sundance Film Festivals. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. She has also contributed to academic publications and created learning guides for TED Ed, National Geographic, the Hip Hop Education Center and Changemakers! Practitioners Advance Equity and Access in OST Programs.
Awarded Grants
2018
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Sannii Crespina-Flores will curate When the Dust Speaks, an exhibition that will blend still images, poems, short video and audio that excavates layers of myth, memory and the culture of silence taught to Black and Afro-Latin women of child sexual assault. The stories on display will be from Philadelphia women who understand and encourage open dialog about sexual abuse in a safe space. Her goal is to explore the impact of culture and society, and compassionately examine the intersection of sexual child abuse and feminism.
Partner
2006
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Sannii will facilitate a series of workshops for youth using art, music, and spoken word to explore concepts of love in her own community of Mount Airy. As a woman of color who remembers what it was like to be a youth who needed a place to create, evolve, and revolutionize her way of thinking regarding love, relationships and her community, Sannii is hoping to provide a multi-layered and deep approach to thinking about love. Different local artists will come to Sannii’s studio to support and develop the youth’s artistic expression through the mediums of wood, paint, fabric, casting and journals. The art will be exhibited at the Art Noir Gallery. A portion of all sales will go to an existing scholarship fund for young artists.
