Ashley Blakeney (born 1990)
ablakeney23@gmail.com | www.ashleyblakeney.com | 203-675-4372
Education
2012 University of Southern California, BA Creative Writing; Photography
2015 UCLArts and Healing Initiative, Social Emotional Arts Facilitation Certificate
Certifications + Leadership Experience
2024 The Heart of Black Leadership, Rockwood Leadership Institute
2022 Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM) Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Certification
2018 National Guild Community Arts Education Leadership Institute
2015 UCLArts & Healing Social Emotional Arts Certified Facilitator
Presentations + Talks
2024 Schools Not Prisons Podcast - Prototyping the Abolitionist Imagination with Crenshaw Dairy Mart Executive Director, Ashley Blakeney
2024 Abolitionist Sanctuary Podcast - Art and Abolition: Crenshaw Dairy Mart’s Creative Path to Liberation
2023 Visions2030 Armchair Talk: On Abolition and Healing with Crenshaw Dairy Mart at Cal Arts
2023 Southern California Grantmakers 2023 Policy Conference: Freedom Dreaming: How to Change Narratives and Culture for Reparations
2023 Art as Abolition: Ashley Blakeney & Autumn Breon - Firs Things First with Dominque Diprima KBLA 1580
2023 Liberation Ventures Panel - Reparations, Abolition, Liberations: What We Need in this Moment to Win
2022, 2023, 2024 The Getty Foundation Internship Arts Summit - Featured Panelist
2019 Agents of Change: How Youth Living with Cancer Utilize Photography for Healing and Advocacy, presentation for National Art Education Association Conference, Boston, MA. March 2019.
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2024 Sanctuaries of Self: Protection as Healing, co-choreographer and performer alongside Patrisse Cullors, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
2023 Yes on R! Yes on J! Shut Down MCJ, Long Beach, CA, Group Exhibition by Crenshaw Dairy Mart
2023 Ori Whispers, performer in Patrisse Cullors performance in partnership with The House Was Too Small Exibtion, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Disparate: An Exploration of Black as Other, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA, Solo Installation
Residencies
2023 Denniston Hill Residency alongside Crenshaw Dairy Mart co-founders
Selected Press
KBLA Art & Abolition Radio Interview
Hyperallergic Fellowship Article
Employment
2021 - Present Executive Director, Crenshaw Dairy Mart (Los Angeles, CA)
2016 - 2021 Senior Program Manager, The Pablove Foundation (Los Angeles, CA)
2015 - 2016 Foundations of Leadership Teacher, 10th Grade, Achievement First Amistad High School (New Haven, CT)