Change Has No Curfew

Thank you for being a contributor to and supporter of the Art Monu and Close Friends project. With this project we hope to enact change through action and community. Art expresses the sentiments of the time and documents the process of change throughout history, telling stories that would otherwise be overlooked in the history books. Thanks to you, we raised over $1000 dollars (in only 5 days!) for the Art Noir Jar of Love fund - a micro grant initiative to provide artists, curators, and cultural workers of color relief during these times. This relief will give recipients a chance to create without worry and change the narrative of inequality.

On this project, we elicited the help of two amazing, passionate, and inspiring artists, Bernadette Little and Rhema Jordan, who created custom artwork on the back of each shirt in correspondence to the slogan. Please enjoy their stories below, spread the word, and remember - Change Has No Curfew. It’s up to us to continue to fight for the rights and life we, as humans, deserve.

Stay Close, Friends.

Bernadette Little

“I would like my work and the work of Aaron and Rhema to serve as a reminder for all of us to continue to communally support each other in our collective fight for justice and equality. Let’s love and keep creating together.”

Rhema Jordan

“My work evolves from a conviction about how words and visual forms influence our understanding of shared experience from a non-linear conception of identity. I believe the soul of shared human existence and presence is a space for our evolution - something that will impact our trajectory into change”