Alicia Grullón, Invited Artist Faculty (2018–19, 2022)
Alicia Grullón is a LatinX artist from and based in the Bronx. Grullón’s works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions including The 8th Floor, Bronx Museum of the Arts, BRIC House for Arts and Media, School of Visual Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Columbia University, Socrates Sculpture Park, Performa 11, Old Stone House and BAM. She has received grants from the Puffin Foundation, Bronx Council on the Arts, the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York, and Franklin Furnace Archives. She has participated in residencies with Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University, Center for Book Arts, Bronx Museum of Arts on 80 White Street AIM Alum, and Shandanken Project on Governors island. Her art activist work led her to be one of the initial and current organizers for The People’s Cultural Plan (The PCP), a collection of artists and cultural workers addressing inadequacies with the city’s first proposed cultural plan. The PCP’s 17-page plan is divided into 3 planks: Housing & Displacement, Cultural Funding Equity & Labor Equity. It launched in July 2017 at Artists Space and in September, The PCP’s response to the city’s plan was published in Hyperallergic. Grullon has co-authored Op Eds on The PCP for Hyperallergic and City Limits and self-authored Organized Hope: Reflections on The People’s Cultural Plan for The Latinx Project at New York University.