Yvonne Shortt
Visual Artist
New York City| USA
Yvonne Shortt is a multidisciplinary artist who takes a question-based approach to understand and activate the community around her. Recent questions include, “How does one care for community spaces left to decay?”, “How does one respond to racism using art?”, and “How does one heal from trauma?”. Her areas of focus are equality, disability, race, and sustainability. Her mediums include sculpture, installation, mural, and social practice art.
Some of Ms. Shortt's projects include African American Marbleization-An Act of Civil Disobedience, The School Fence Project, Underpass Murals, and Woman Who Build.
Ms. Shortt's selected awards include NYC Parks Public Art Award, NYC Department of Education Art in Schools Award, Illumination Fund Award, Queens Council on the Arts New Works Grant, Elmhurst Sculpture Garden Public Art Award, and The Burning Man Educational Grant.