OF NOTE magazine
OF NOTE is a New York-based nonprofit arts journalism initiative and free digital publication where art meets activism. Published biannually, it brings awareness to how contemporary global artists use the arts to create social change. Past issues include: The Gun Issue, The Unsheltered Issue, The Water Issue, The Burqa Issue, The Imprisoned Issue, The Immigrant Issue, The Girls Issue, and The Guyana Issue.
OF NOTE's focus is on increasing visibility of women artists and artists of color around the globe. Artists have ranged from Afghanistan-based graffiti artist Shamsia Hassani to formerly incarcerated poet Reginald Dwayne Betts to sculptor Vanessa German, and more. Public engagement includes salons and gallery exhibitions, such as 2017’s Liminal Space at Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute and 2016’s Un/Fixed Homeland at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, both which explored issues and ideas around migration. In 2016, after the publication of The Burqa Issue, the Museum of Modern Art invited OF NOTE founder Grace Aneiza Ali to talk about V= Veil for their Items Abcedarium: Is Fashion Modern? public discussion.
OF NOTE’s work has also been featured in classrooms at The City College of New York where The Imprisoned Issue was used as a “textbook,” and as part of the curriculum for the “Artists, Social Change, & the Role of Journalism” course at New York University, taught by Grace Aneiza Ali.
OF NOTE was founded in 2012 by Guyanese-American Grace Aneiza Ali, an Assistant Professor of Art & Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (NYU) and a Curator. Ali is a former Andy Warhol Curatorial Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, World Economic Forum "Global Shaper," and a 2018-2020 Provost Fellow at New York University.
OF NOTE's focus is on increasing visibility of women artists and artists of color around the globe. Artists have ranged from Afghanistan-based graffiti artist Shamsia Hassani to formerly incarcerated poet Reginald Dwayne Betts to sculptor Vanessa German, and more. Public engagement includes salons and gallery exhibitions, such as 2017’s Liminal Space at Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute and 2016’s Un/Fixed Homeland at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, both which explored issues and ideas around migration. In 2016, after the publication of The Burqa Issue, the Museum of Modern Art invited OF NOTE founder Grace Aneiza Ali to talk about V= Veil for their Items Abcedarium: Is Fashion Modern? public discussion.
OF NOTE’s work has also been featured in classrooms at The City College of New York where The Imprisoned Issue was used as a “textbook,” and as part of the curriculum for the “Artists, Social Change, & the Role of Journalism” course at New York University, taught by Grace Aneiza Ali.
OF NOTE was founded in 2012 by Guyanese-American Grace Aneiza Ali, an Assistant Professor of Art & Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (NYU) and a Curator. Ali is a former Andy Warhol Curatorial Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, World Economic Forum "Global Shaper," and a 2018-2020 Provost Fellow at New York University.
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