Prerana Reddy - Arts & Community Fellow - Recess | LinkedIn (original) (raw)
Arts Worker, Community Organizer
About
Prerana Reddy is the Artist & Community Fellow at Recess, an abolitionist arts organization in Brooklyn NY, overseeing Session, their artists project space, and their Critical Writing Program, while making suggestions on program design that helps the organization align with their care and accountability framework. During the pandemic she did consulting work for Amy Kaufman Cultural Planning, and was a Think Tank Member at both Creative Time and the Creatives Rebuild New York initiative.
Previously, she was the Director of Programs at A Blade of Grass which supported socially engaged artists nationally through financial support, independent research, and content creation. Previously she was the Director of Public Events at the Queens Museum of Art, where in addition to organizing their screenings, performances, discussions, and community-based collaborative programs and exhibits both on and offsite, she developed an intensive arts and social justice program for immigrant youth as well as a community development initiative for Corona, Queens residents, many of whom are new immigrants with mixed status families and limited English language proficiency. She has also curated Fatal Love, an exhibition of South Asian American Contemporary Art as well commissioned two editions of Corona Plaza: Center of Everywhere, Queens Museum's socially-interactive public art projects.
Reddy was also a documentary filmmaker and researcher whose work has explored such topics as alternatives to juvenile detention, the history of slavery in New York City, and the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai. She has a Masters degree in Cinema Studies & Anthropology from NYU, and has extensive film programming experience, having worked for several years with the South Asian film & video collective "3rd i NY;" the NY Arab & South Asian Film Festival, and the New York African Film Festival, and is currently on the board of Alwan for the Arts, a Arab & Middle Eastern cultural organization based in lower Manhattan.
Specialties: project management in the arts, youth program design, grant-writing for nonprofits, exhibition, event and festival production, documentary production and research, community development, program development for Limited English Proficiency populations
Activity
Experience
Arts & Community Fellow
Recess
Oct 2021 - Present3 years
Brooklyn, NY
Think Tank Member
Creatives Rebuild New York
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022 7 months
2021 Think Tank Member
Creative Time
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022 2 years 2 months
Director of Programs
A Blade of Grass
May 2018 - Oct 2020 2 years 6 months
Greater New York City Area
Director of Public Programs and Community Engagement
Queens Museum of Art
May 2005 - May 2018 13 years 1 month
Board Member, Film & Video Programmer
Alwan for the Arts
Jan 2006 - Jan 2015 9 years 1 month
Asia Pacific Leadership Program Fellow
East-West Center
2010 - 2010 less than a year
Co-Director
NY Arab & South Asian Film Festival
Jul 2006 - Jul 2009 3 years 1 month
Co- Founder
3rd i NY South Asian Film/Video Collective
2002 - 2007 5 years
Program Administrator, Co-Curator
New York African Film Festival
Jan 1999 - Aug 2005 6 years 8 months
Collective Member
Youth Solidarity Summer
1999 - 2005 6 years
Board Member
South Asian Women's Creative Collective
2000 - 2003 3 years
Education
New York University
MA Cinema Studies
1998 - 2000
Completed the Culture & Media program, jointly between Cinema Studies and Anthropology Depts.
Duke University
BS with Honors Cell & Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Film & Video
1992 - 1996
Activities and Societies: Music Staff and DJ at WXDU College Radio Station, Student Organizer of NC Student Documentary Film Happening with the Center for Documentary Studies, Member of the Green Earth Gang, providing free environmental science education to public school students, Researcher on project regarding enzyme replacement therapy at Duke University Medical Center
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