D.A. Bullock

D.A. Bullock

2017

Bush Fellowship

Term

24 months

Minneapolis, MN — D.A. Bullock is a community organizer who uses art to supplant narratives of hopelessness with ones that promote and inspire collective understanding. He wants to foster a radical reimagining of north Minneapolis that impacts how long-standing community issues are addressed. He seeks to develop new social art and engagement practices to affect public policy change in the areas of criminal justice, economic development and social and racial justice. With his Bush Fellowship, he will lay the groundwork and prepare to study at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

Minnesota

Reports

Learning log 4

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May 2019

It is probably too early, too close for me to consider this well or to provide anything profound. So, I want to try to give a visceral instinctual response, this will be quite the stream of consciousness, so please bear with me.

Learning log 3

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November 2018

My ideas, my vision of what a real grassroots coalition looks like has changed and grown drastically. I've realized that without a significant mixture of inside and outside players, moving together in parts (often in secret for the inside members); real change does not happen.

Learning log 2

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June 2018

What stands out to me? What has surprised me? What was I not prepared to encounter, or what came at me from a different angle?

Learning log 1

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November 2017

I would tell a new fellow, once you release yourself from all those chains, all the ties that have bound you; you are in for one hell of a ride. You will be transformed.

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