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So grateful we got to celebrate and witness the brilliant solo show POWER PLAY by @ella.kirlew @ellassketchbooks last weekend. The show closes today, but maybe you can get another look this morning. Congrats, Ella! What a joy it is to see you create, innovate in your practice, and speak up for women, especially Black women. Your mama is so full of awe and pride and gratitude! Everything is everything—keep touching the dream mi gyal. #visualart #printmaking

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guys i think i found my new fav artist.

@ella.kirlew . twin. This. was. INCREDIBLE. i’m so incredibly proud of you and the work that you put in making this gallery. this was literally the definition of Black Excellence and you should be so proud of yourself for what you came up with! 🩵✨

(p.s: if you can get me a print of your Midnight Ramble that would be actually everything)

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That’s a wrap! 💫Thank you guys for a #swaggedout FDOC and letting us take pics of your fits. We’ll be back... very soon🕺🏽💃🏽

P.S. if we couldn’t tag someone in the zine @ them 🫰🏽

#blackatcornell #cornellfashion #fdoc

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for MOAAP’s Spill the Tea Event!!

A huge thank you to our amazing panelists and moderators for sharing your experiences, advice, hot takes, and insights with the AAP community. We’re so grateful to everyone who attended, asked questions, shared their own experiences, and helped make the conversation so engaging.

Swipe to the end to hear some advice from our panelists!

Stay tuned and keep up with our Instagram for updates on upcoming events, programs, and opportunities. We can’t wait to see you at the next one!

#architecture #art #planning #cornellaapwelcome

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☀️ Summer Highlights: Part II ☀️

Before the semester kicks off we wanted to highlight what some students have been up to this summer. From internships, to volunteering in and out of architecture, art and planning, our members within BlackAAP have been busy and here’s what they’ve been up to.

#architecture #art #planning #cornellaap

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🌳🏔💥🌳🏔💥🌳🏔💥🌳🏔💥🌳🏔✨️🌳🏔💓🥹💫

Images of an amazing week teaching Story Board Intaglio class at @andersonranchartscenter 🪚🔨

Thanks @cr1cke2t + @grace.printmaking for the assistance!

Goodbye my sweet colorado!

#andersonranch #intaglio #grabadoramexicana #grabado

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Say cheese🍕📸 | I love NYC 😊

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21 years ago, I birthed two baby girls in the space of 30 minutes. Somehow, I knew I was having twins even before the sonographer said “I’m going to tell you something that will change your life forever.” I knew. I called them. I wished for them. I prayed for them. And I was overwhelmed with gratitude for these babies.

At times I felt that maybe I was unworthy of such an amazing gift—these wondrous ibeji, marassa, gemelas, Zwillinge. What a privilege to grow them inside me—to give my body over completely to nourishing them. I sang and talked to them. Danced! We spoke in presses and kicks, swirls and sways.

A couple of weeks after they arrived, I sat nursing them and crying—watching the news cameras hover above another Black mother left to suffer after Katrina—her own baby dying of hunger and dehydration in her arms. And now, as then, I ask—what world is this? Who allows children to be killed? What world will my children inherit? I was determined to raise daughters who would defy the world and its atrocities.

Now, as then, I wonder what world is this? The US aids and enables the murder of children. But it is well practiced in that effort. And now, as then, I heap my hopes onto these youngsters’ beautiful, brilliant heads. Grateful to see them grow—all the while seeing danger and monsters everywhere. There must be a different future.

Sometimes, I still feel unworthy in this mothering, but really what matters is not how I feel about my ability but that I do everything I can to ensure that our freedom dreams come into being.

These young women are wondrous people. Amazing and unique individuals bonded by twinship yet distinct in their varied life paths. My God, I love them. I learn so much from them. So we dance on—as we did then—some days fueling our freedom fight with joy.

#twins #freedomdreaming

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twin 1 🍾💫

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Meet Ella Anjali Kirlew!💕 A printmaker and sculptor exploring the perception of Black women and bodies through history, community, and repetition in nature.✨ Stay tuned to see more creatives @the.black.arts.collective 😉

Follow @ellassketchbooks for more!

#printmaking #sculptor #blackartist #supportblackartists #cornellbfa

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Some images of our 2nd Anniversary Group Show

📷 @shannon_n_foreman

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We are so happy to announce the opening of our show, Again and Again, in the Tjaden Experimental Gallery next week. Join us on March 4th for our opening reception to celebrate!!⭐⭐⭐

Again and Again explores patterns and cycles through multiple themes including heritage, the environment, and belonging. Ami Maria Hernandez, Ella Anjali Kirlew, and Rania Amalia Shah (All B.F.A. ‘27) work across different mediums and processes to create, question, and critique visual and historical repetitions. The artists consider their own experiences within broader systems of power and question how to navigate and disrupt cycles that often seem larger than life.

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