Faith McKinnie

Faith J. McKinnie is a curator practicing on the unceded land of the Nisenan. Her practice is multidimensional but remains rooted in the prioritization and care of artists who find their work outside the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchal margins of the art historical canon. Through curatorial intervention and critical discourse, she interrogates visual culture and its relationship to post-colonialism, feminist & race theories, migration, land degradation, and the historicity of the personal narrative.

She has lectured on curatorial activism at the University of Chicago, the University of California Davis, Sierra College, the University of Nevada Reno, and both California State Universities, Sacramento and Stanislaus. she serves as a curatorial mentor for the City of Sacramento's inaugural Emerging Curator's Program and Community Consultant for the Sacramento Public Library's Parks and Tranquility Project, she is the founder of the Sacramento Curatorial Collective, served as the DEIA board chair at Capital Creative Alliance, and was a founding board member of the Sacramento Alliance for Regional Art. She holds a B.A. in Art History.

She is the recipient of:

• Sacramento Bee + Nehemiah Emerging Leadership Program's 2022 Top 25 Black Change Maker award.
• Sacramento Kings + Crown Royal's 2022 Culture Creator Award.
• National Endowment for the Arts + City of Sacramento's 2022 Seeding Creativity Award.
• 18th Street Arts Center's 2023 California Creative Corps Finalist
• Center for Cultural Innovation's 2023 CALI Catalyst Award