The Ellies
T. Eliott Mansa
2025 Social Justice Award Winner
2022 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner
2025 Social Justice Award Winner
2022 Creator Award Winner
2019 Creator Award Winner
2022
Room for the Living / Room for the Dead
For an exhibition that recreates the sunken living rooms popular in the 1970s as a shrine to the dead, and is activated as a gathering space to play cards and dominos, or bring flowers and photographs for their departed loved ones.
2019
For an exhibition that honors the African-American victims of state violence, using objects from grassroots roadside memorials, while referencing African sculptural art forms and the vernacular yard sculptures of the South.
2025 Social Justice Award Winner
$25,000
2022 Creator Award Winner
$15,000
2019 Creator Award Winner
$7,000
2019 Creator Award Winner
$7,000