Ang Bennett

Ang Bennett first joined the Union team as a classroom assistant for Art Club in the fall of 2018. Returning in 2020, Ang will lead painting workshops for youth in our Art Club program on Saturday afternoons. Ang has been involved with youth advocacy work for over three years as both a foster parent and an advocate for youth in the foster system. Ang is a self-taught artist with a background in Art History. Their work could be described as contemporary pop art, with a focus on social inequities. Showcasing marginalized communities through art is important to Ang, because visual representation matters, especially for youth. It helps them to understand their own identities, and become comfortable in them.

What are you passionate about and why? I’m passionate about preserving history and telling stories through the arts. I also have a passion for serving youth, because they are the future that we’re heading towards.

If you could visit any place in the world you haven’t been, where would you go? I would go to Freetown, Sierra Leone. It was a settlement founded in the late 1700s by former slaves and free peoples. It is said to be the oldest capital founded by African Americans.

What is your favorite quote or motto? “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” - Toni Cade Bambara