{"id":4603,"date":"2023-07-31T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:05:46","slug":"maleke-glee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/maleke-glee\/","title":{"rendered":"Maleke Glee, M.A.C.S. \u201920"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">F<\/span>or Stable Arts\u2019 fifth anniversary in 2024, <span style=\"color: #008085\"><strong>Maleke Glee, M.A.C.S. \u201920<\/strong><\/span>, is planning a slate of celebratory programming. Glee, the inaugural director, says he is a \u201cteam of one, board of 10\u201d at the largest art studio in Washington, DC, which provides critical space and freedom for local artists and creatives.<\/p>\n<p>Glee, who graduated from Goucher with an M.A. in cultural sustainability in 2020, has always been quick to respond to urgent needs and inequity through the arts; when he and his friends graduated from Howard University, they rallied together to grapple with the massive wave of gentrification in DC, a town long known as \u201cChocolate City.\u201d In 2016, they founded a nonprofit called Chocolate Redux, whose mission was to \u201csustain the Black Washingtonian experience through community service, cultural sustainability, education, and entrepreneurship,\u201d says Glee. Engagements included afterschool events with Prince George\u2019s African American Museum and Cultural Center, and the institution sparked Glee\u2019s curiosity about arts and museum management, historic preservation, and documenting living cultures, leading him to pursue an education at Goucher College.<\/p>\n<p>Goucher\u2019s curriculum gave him new lenses to view and arrive at a concept of equity he applies in his work today. \u201cAs a Black queer person, I move with an equitable lens in the work I do by trying to emphasize the multiplicity of experiences. I\u2019m thinking about opacity, allowing individuals to be as specific in their experiences as possible without requiring that there is something legible for every single person\u2014whether that be Black, white, gay, straight, nonbinary, trans,\u201d Glee says. This perspective allows his curation to circumvent the art world\u2019s history of limiting narrative expression to be in contrast to, or relationship with, whiteness.<\/p>\n<p>Glee humbly hesitates to label himself as an artist. However, with a robust curatorial and writing practice, his impact on the arts ecosystem of DC speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>While juggling his responsibilities at Stable\u2014scheduling visits with collectors and curators, doing professional development, speaking to resident artists, coordinating the installation of exhibitions, reviewing copy for grants and collateral, and more\u2014in the next year, he hopes to advocate for broader thinking around what it means to be diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible to others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do I distill all of the information provided to me at Goucher for my industry and colleagues?\u201d Glee says. Even as we speak about his work, Glee has a tab open about \u201ccultural voyeurism\u201d; he only knows this language and these theories because of Goucher, he says. \u201cMy industry doesn\u2019t relate to the humanities and cultural studies as much as the Goucher program did. The cultural sustainability M.A. being multidisciplinary really was beneficial because I\u2019m wearing several hats when I\u2019m receiving information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No matter what position Glee fills, his focus always circles back to uplifting people in his community and facilitating difficult conversations. 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