PROJECTS + COMMISSIONS

Butterfly Boyz
2023

Short Film

Written & Directed by Zola-Jourdan Savage

  • Executive Produced by the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts as a part of MoCADA films.

BLACK LIVES, BLACK HISTORY, BLACK JOY, AND BLACK FUTURES

Black Lives, Black History, Black Joy, and Black Futures is more than a photographic group exhibition, serving as a living testament to the Black community in and around Brooklyn. Here, we witness the making of belonging–cultures preserved in every gesture, every shared glance, as they carve out a future that glows with possibility. With these images, the everyday becomes sacred, the mundane transforms into a quilt of lived Black experiences, woven tightly into the fabric of this borough. 

The Fort Greene Park Conservancy organized this exhibition in partnership with MoCADA, Photoville, The Lay Out, and Weeksville Heritage Center. This exhibition is presented as a part of NYC Parks' Art in the Parks program. Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Curatorial Committee: Emily Anadu, Amy Andrieux, Shaquana Boykin, Jasmin Chang, Erica Harper, and Manushka Magloire.

Emerging Arts Administrator Zola-Jourdan Savage.

I contributed to the curation, production, and programming.

Aftermath Analyzing Anguish

A theatrical staged reading produced by the viBe Theater Experience at the Flea Theater.

Written by Nina Riley | Directed by Kenya Lewis & Murphy Applin Jr. | Stage Manager: Jonathan Buckingham | Creative Direction by Zola-Jourdan Savage

June 2024

Stage design, costuming, lighting, projections etc.

Flaunt: Being the Dream

Curators: Zola-Jourdan Savage & Amy Andrieux

MoCADA Abolition House (2024)

Artists: Ajamu X, Alanna Fields, Ava Tuitt, Avion Pearce, Blaize Sanford, Chiffon Thomas, Darryl Deangelo Terrell, Frank Xarate, Jhona Xaviera, Joshua Obawole, Keioui Keijaun Thomas, Lindsay Perryman, María José Maldonado + Latavia Young, Moses Leonardo, SHAN Wallace, Texas Isaiah, Tyler Andrew, Tyler Cala Williams, Utē Petit

YAMI (Act 1)
2024

Staged Reading

  • Presented at Lincoln Center

    This farcical play by Murphy Lorenzo Applin, Jr. tells the story of the Black experience in America through the musical genius of Black women who have sung its tale for the last 300 years. With Black femme and queer folx at its center, this work in progress investigates: How can the act of choosing love, community, and the natural forces that hold humanity together overcome entities that bind us to unnatural and systemic oppression?

    Written & Directed by: Murphy Applin Jr.

    Stage Manager: Jonathan Buckingham

    Set Designer : Zola-Jourdan Savage, Romello Huins

    Graphic Designer: Zola-Jourdan Savage

The Bandung Residency Process Book
2023

Book

  • MoCADA + Asian Arts Alliance

    The Bandung Residency 2021-2023, the first printed publication for the collaborative residency program that fosters Black and Asian solidarity. The process book, which chronicles the formative years of the program from collaborative concept to community engagement via our residents, serves as a learning tool for organizers, educators, and activists alike.

    I was one of the producers and acted as the graphic designer.

Virtuoso, Swordsman, Revolutionary
2020

Office Magazine Editorial

Ti Mache
2023

Fashion Installation

  • Ti Maché is a fashion installation by New York Times celebrated photographer and fashion designer Daveed Baptiste refocusing Haitian-American life through the lens of ceremonious spaces.

    Artist: Daveed Baptiste in collaboration with Masisi Collective

    MOCADA curatorial team: Amy Andrieux, Zola-Jourdan Savage, Run P.

Brooklyn Bronzes
2024

Public Art

  • Brooklyn Bronzes is a permanent sculpture series by artist/architect Kholisile Dhliwayo, curated by Amy Andrieux, that celebrates Brooklyn’s living legends –the Black pillars of our community who have contributed greatly to arts, education, and advocacy through their work. Each sculpture is accompanied by audio spoken in the voice of each honoree documenting their legacy, their joy, and resilience. The first 20 unveiled as part of the ongoing series, which will continue to roll out with new sculptures over the months and years to come.

    Featured in MoCADA's Ubuntu Garden.

    Artist: Kholisile Mazithulela Mufari Dhliwayo

    MOCADA curator: Amy Andrieux

    MOCADA curatorial team: Zola-Jourdan Savage

    I supported the organization of participant interviews/scans, documented the sessions, and was one of the producers for the launch event.

West Baltimore Center for the LGBTQ+
2020

Architecture Proposal

  • Made in collaboration with Stephane Mullen

Big Sean

Coachella 2022

Collage Design: Zola-Jourdan Savage

Creative Director: Mike Carson for @the92group

Creative Direction Team: Poetik

Creative Producer: Amish Dani for @frameworxla

Stage content design, 3D animation, Editor: Fezz Stenton