FREEDOM TO GROW
Colloqate worked with artist Jackie Sumell to craft the visual language for Freedom to Grow—an abolitionist-driven initiative at the intersection of art, land-based healing justice, community empowerment and archival practices.
NEW ORLEANS, LA
Client/Centered Communities: Freedom to Grow, Promise of Justice
Project Budget: $30,000
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10/2024- 12/2024
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02 Cease Implementation of Hostile Design
03 Abolist Carceral Spaces
04 Restructure Relationship to Power + Capital
The organization’s visual identity centers the resurrection fern, a powerful symbol of resilience and renewal. The fern, emerging from an organic, earth-like form, represents Freedom to Grow’s core values and beliefs: resilience, community, growth, and grounding. The web platform was designed to host a virtual archive of figures like John Thompson, Herman Wallace, and Malik Rahim, whose contributions to the movement have yet to be consolidated for public education.
Colloqate worked with artist jackie sumell to craft the visual language for Freedom to Grow—an abolitionist-driven initiative at the intersection of art, land-based healing justice, community empowerment and archival practices. The three-year vision for Freedom to Grow is to establish a permanent Legacy Center and Archive in New Orleans dedicated to documenting the lives and contributions of leaders who began their organizing journeys while incarcerated.
The project envisions a future where people are free from the systems that have historically oppressed them, with a particular focus on amplifying the legacies of abolitionist leaders and fostering spaces for formerly/currently incarcerated, transformation, and resistance.