Cullors designed a new online MFA program in collaboration with Prescott College in Arizona. The two year degree, Social and Environmental Arts Practice, combines art, social justice, and community organizing. As faculty director, Cullors will teach a series of courses alongside four LA-based artists who graduated from her USC class. In addition, three of the artists have just opened the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, a new art organization, gallery, and advocacy space in Inglewood, California. Previously, Cullors served as a lecturer for the MFA in Public Practice at Otis College of Art and Design. 

Throughout Cullors’ life, art and activism have been intricately intertwined in her work. In her repertoire of intimate theatrical and movement based performances, Cullors combines themes and creates disruption at the intersection of activism, ritual, and healing, while utilizing raw materials like honey, salt, and coconut milk. Her work seeks to offer respite to Black and brown folks on the margins, while asking audiences to collectively imagine portals for liberation and healing. 

Most recently, Cullors performed  “Fuck White Supremacy, Let’s Get Free” (FWSLGF) at Frieze Los Angeles 2020 and at LTD Los Angeles. FWSLGF invites people to participate in restorative movement work and dance the electric slide as a way to build community and relieve the stresses of living in America. Cullors was also invited to perform at the Broad for their “Allegories of Flight” night of performances during Shirin Neshat’s retrospective. Her piece “Prayer to the Iyami” took a deep dive into the intersections of incarceration, mental illness and resilience. You can see more images of her featured art in her portfolio. 

As a Fulbright scholar, Cullors received her Bachelors of Arts in Religion and Philosophy from UCLA in 2012. That same year, she curated her first performance piece, STAINED: An Intimate Portrayal of State Violence, which addresses the systemic violence of incarceration. While touring, Cullors formed her non-profit Dignity and Power Now, which organizes to end sheriff violence and stop jail construction in LA. 

During her time as an artist-in-residence and social justice fellow at Kalamazoo College in 2014, Cullors developed and directed a series of theatrical pieces titled POWER: From the Mouths of the Occupied, in the aftermath of the police killing of Mike Brown. The cast performed three sold out shows and received acclaim from Mic, Colorlines, The Root, The Stranger, The Seattle Times, and more. 

Outside of performance and activism, Cullors is a New York Times bestselling author of When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (2018). In 2019, Patrisse joined Freeform’s Good Trouble Season two as a staff writer and actor. She has continued writing for its third season.