The Righteous Soul
Spoken Word: Ackurate
Artist: Brittni Mosby
Video: Dancing Fox Pictures
CommUNITY Arts STL is 501(c)3 organizations with a mission to mobilize the arts community to aid the healing of Saint Louis's violence. "The Righteous Soul" is a CommUNITY Arts's commission partnering with Crime Victim Center connecting local artists with mothers who lost their children to violence. We challenged spoken word artist, Ackurate, and visual artist, Brittni Mosby, to use their artistic voices to shed light on the ripple of pain left behind after an act of violence.
Brittni Mosby is an St. Louis-based artist whose artwork is intended to explore the emotional labor that is carried among African American people whilst also designing environments that use elements of black culture and nature to reaffirm pride and peace. Exploring this subject aesthetically and analyzing it conceptually. She graduated from the Department of Art and Design at the University of Missouri-St. Louis with a BFA in Studio Art in 2019. Her work has been exhibited in group shows throughout the Midwest. Her work can be found on Instagram @brittnidianeart.