Mission
Just South of Manchester and off of Crenshaw stands tall a former dairy mart,
home to an artist collective and art gallery dedicated to shifting the trauma-induced conditions of poverty and economic injustice, bridging cultural work and advocacy, and investigating ancestries through the lens of Inglewood and its community.
What these black and transnational identities seek is an imagination of new collective memory through programming, events, and arts installations which cultivate and nurture communal arts and education.
The Crenshaw Dairy Mart emerges from an investment in abolition, modes of accessibility in art practice, and weaving community solidarity through new memories.
Guiding Lights
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To generate a space where families and the community have an experience of freedom, the sublime, and hospitality.
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To be a cultural playground where families and communities engage in the arts.
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To create a deep profound feeling of connectivity to people, land, vision and Practice.
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Through our work, generate less contact with police, less incarceration, less Caging, less trauma and more healing
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To build on the functions and practices of being a community space.
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To create a more supportive environment for artists at the margins.
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To create a space to practice re-iterations.
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To create a felt sense of nationhood.
Graduation Ceremony for Essie Justice Group
at the Crenshaw Dairy Mart
History
“The Land of Milk and Honey” was of the few names the West, and the North, was given during The Great Migration. For Black Americans, the “Promised Land” was met with subsequent waves of White Flight and re-segregated redlining tactics in spaces which had been adhered safe. The Crenshaw Dairy Mart hence began far before us, far before this building was erected in 1965, and at the moment of its conception by three artists - for over a year of quietly building and acquainting ourselves with passerbys in Inglewood - it has been decided that its responsibilities are in mining these histories, archiving, preserving, and tracing the outlines of trauma and its scarring cartographies at the prospects of sports stadium-driven displacement and gentrification.
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