https://www.zakiamelliott.com/movement daily 0.75 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/93077139-5360-40c7-952c-a9516d195baa/IMG_6980+%281%29.jpg https://www.zakiamelliott.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/8d45e6c0-5fcb-47b4-8e65-6702c432a483/IMG_2636.jpg https://www.zakiamelliott.com/home daily 1.0 2026-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/1787604052176-QHZZYOIA2QUGNVI64ELB/Screenshot%2B2026-08-24%2Bat%2B4.14.17%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png Home "Artist spotlight: Zakia M. Elliott. Philadelphia-based artist Zakia M. Elliott’s work centers ritual, healing, and liberation. Rooted in her work as an organizer and educator, her practice explores identity, vulnerability, and the transformative power of slowing down to reconnect with oneself. Through painting, Zakia invites us to see self-love and introspection as radical acts that nurture both personal and collective healing." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/07f64dd4-428d-4e06-8cad-0d75ad147aa8/Screenshot+2026-08-24+at+3.34.59%E2%80%AFPM.png Home "Dreams, Nightmares & Everything in Between explores fantasy, fear, memory, and the spaces that exist between them through the work of Varvàra Fern, Kelly Seim, Mel Rosen, DeVaughn Jerrell, Leah Pandiscia, Gabi Madrid, Zakia M. Elliott, Marius Andres, Emily Smith, Maryam Adib, Chanelle René, Brady Pappas, D'Mia Britton, Aeva McLellan, Chelsey Luster, Margaux McAllister, and Ozodinobi Onyeabor. Curated by Luster Gallery + Studio founder and director Chelsey Luster, the exhibition brings together a range of artistic perspectives that examine the relationship between imagination, memory, and the emotional spaces between dreams and nightmares." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/aae3550a-c5b1-4acd-b3f9-cb834e2d0250/Screenshot+2026-08-24+at+4.17.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Home "The deadline may be approaching, but the impact of the Black Artists Fellowship lasts a lifetime. We asked a few of our past fellows: How did the fellowship impact your career or creative journey? Their answers speak to growth, opportunity, and transformation that continues long after the program ends. If you’ve been thinking about applying, this is your moment. @zakiamichelle, @jollivierre and @taylored__faces offer a glimpse into what this experience can hold." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/9ba3959f-5903-4815-8a72-38f0c9b854c9/Screenshot+2026-08-24+at+3.48.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Home "Set along the Tapajós River in the Amazon, the film explores Munduruku cosmology, where humans are believed to have transformed into elements of the forest. The evening will conclude with a post-screening Q&A featuring Gabriella Watson-Burkett (filmmaker and founder of Inti Media), Zakia Elliott (Soil Generation), and filmmaker Cass Gardiner." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/09b6574e-f312-41c5-a94a-8d69b098bb47/Screenshot+2026-08-24+at+3.52.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Home "That’s a wrap on our Artist Appreciation Month Live Artist Talk with members of our 2025 Black Fellowship Cohort — @taylored__faces, @jollivierre, and @zakiamichelle. We explored their journeys, practices, and the power of creating a vibe while building a tribe. Today’s exchange was a reminder that art not only tells our stories but also grounds us in community and vision for what’s ahead. " https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/022f5e02-8ed4-43ff-8352-92e5884c6149/Screenshot+2026-02-12+at+5.45.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Home "Zakia M. Elliott, who had two pieces on display titled “She Came to Me Free” and “Anima Mundi: A ReIntegration,” is also a local environmental activist. She’s always been an artist, but has been trying to bring her artistic skills back to the forefront in recent years." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/dec25cf6-7178-46f4-b944-77a28866280b/Screenshot+2026-02-12+at+5.50.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Home "The featured artists include ASHY ARTT, Kameo Chambers, Prince De León, Temple Douglass, Keiko El, Zakia M. Elliott, Jermaine Ollivierre, Malayah Reynolds, Jazlyne Sabree, Tisha Taylor and Levester Williams." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/1752605815331-9CTH0N72TW7CLNFJMKZP/Screenshot%2B2025-07-15%2Bat%2B1.24.36%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png Home Zakia Elliott, Sonia Galiber, and Suad Mana review six critical resources have helped guide us through the inevitable messiness from shaping the future while simultaneously dismantling the existing conditions. Published in The Land, Food, and Freedom Journal Volume II Issue I in July 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/1753208739535-MTMIH8NH7B18XEFL3PV2/Screenshot%252B2025-07-22%252Bat%252B2.23.28%2525E2%252580%2525AFPM.png Home This piece is inspired by Zakia Elliott's collaborative work with Soil Generation and their forthcoming publication, "Soul ReIntegration: An Artistic Self Exploration & Healing Journey Curriculum Guidebook." She engaged in her personal ritual of tarot to depict three transformative chapters of her career in response to Prompt #1, “The Terrain I’ve Traveled.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/de838e5e-edff-41c1-b3dd-39e8149971ee/ISIMG-950884.jpg Home Zakia M. Elliott is announced to be a 2025 cohort member of the Mural Arts Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/1740785448880-5HPHAEJGRXPZV0WVPWXV/IMG_054585B8855F-1.jpg Home Zakia Elliott, during the Climate Justice Alliance's 2024 Black Caucus Jubilee: "Nothing can stop the water! ...and that's how I feel about us." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/4c3a67bc-89b6-48d1-b830-432860bff06c/Screenshot+2025-02-28+at+6.35.04%E2%80%AFPM.png Home Zakia Elliott and Sonia Galiber of Soil Generation, featured in "Future Visions Lab" documentary, Episode 6: Environmental Justice (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/ae84edb0-dc0a-4f60-bc98-121fc806c956/Screenshot+2025-02-28+at+5.19.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Home Zakia Elliott, Soil Generation is awarded the 2022 Sustain PHL Sustainability Next Gen Award https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/6b5e2c59-e369-4ade-80f3-186497fcf03e/IMG_9D77BB4F398E-1.jpeg Home “Racial justice and transit justice, they’re all tied up together,” said Elliott. “Transit issues are an environmental justice issue.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/0857fbaa-103e-41e6-834b-0e67edb3f50c/Screenshot+2025-02-27+at+3.53.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Home The oral histories collected from the workers of AFSCME DC 33 Local 427 is a collaboration with Professor Alison Kenner of Drexel University’s Philadelphia Health & Environment Ethnography Lab and Zakia Elliott of Philadelphia Climate Works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67a7cab05e58dc2d9abf859d/391a71ce-a0ac-41d2-a43a-ea9f31f081cf/IMG_7F5A4F6AE71D-1.jpeg Home “The issues that we’ve been talking about in the 1860s are still the issues that we’re talking about today,” said Zakia Elliott, coordinator of the Philadelphia Climate Works coalition and the lead organizer of the event. “Who is able to ride our trolley system, our transit system in general. 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