ANGELA PILGRIM, MONIFA KINCAID, DAMIEN DAVIS
Learning In motion
+ 873 Mayor KENNETH A. GIBSON BLVD.
LEARNING IN MOTION features artists exploring learning, identity, and community through movement, abstraction, and cultural storytelling. Surrounded by schools, daycares, dance studios, and family-centered businesses, this Newark neighborhood reflects a culture of learning and collective care. Nearby schools and Teacher Village help shape an environment where education extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life. Featured artists Angela Pilgrim, Monifa Kincaid, and Damien Davis examine how movement, creativity, and cultural knowledge are passed across generations.
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Angela Pilgrim is a visual artist whose layered compositions and portrait-based works engage themes of beauty, spirituality, vulnerability, and power within Black diasporic identities. Drawing from African diasporic visual traditions and contemporary material practices, her work centers the Black body as both subject and author. A recipient of the 2026 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, her work is held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
angelapilgrim.com | @aplgrmMonifa Kincaid is a visual artist, creative strategist, and community builder whose work is rooted in the language of dance and in the belief that creativity connects, heals, and builds community. Drawing from a lifelong career in movement, her digital artwork captures the body in motion and the spirit it carries. Her community project Newark Dances supported local choreographers through partnerships with Newark Arts, Project for Empty Space, and NJPAC.
monifakincaid.co l @monifa_makesDamien Davis explores cultural representation and symbolic language through painting, sculpture, and installation. Recontextualizing motifs from African diasporic histories and popular culture, his work examines visibility, belonging, and self-definition. Davis has exhibited at institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
damiendavisstudio.com | @damiendavis -
In Newark, learning takes shape through movement, creativity, and community. Schools, dance studios, daycares, bicycle shops, and family-centered spaces create neighborhoods where education extends beyond the classroom into everyday life.
This installation draws from the visual language of books, bicycles, dancewear, play, and gesture to reflect the many ways people learn through their bodies, environments, and shared experiences. Through layered imagery, abstraction, and movement, the featured artists explore how creativity, care, and cultural knowledge are passed across generations. -
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