The Department of Music is thrilled to announce Samora Pinderhughes will be the 2025 Adobe Creative Resident at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. During his residency, Pinderhughes is proposing the creation of sonic healing rooms to facilitate the grieving and healing needs of people who have experienced high levels of structural violence, including poverty, environmental racism, policing, detention, and the carceral system. These spaces use performance, installation, film, songcraft, and language to shape and hold space for community engagement, collective exchange, and participatory action. This process will take place in collaboration with community organizations across New York City. This project reflects a commitment to building worlds in which narrative and structural change live side-by-side, where those who are most affected by institutional violence and the prison industrial complex have a direct say in how to build better futures.
This initiative seeks to support equity, learning, and creativity by providing vital resources for an artist to work with Museum experts and an artist mentor on a community-based project.
Photo: Ray Neutron Courtesy Samora Pinderhughes