
Shakia is the recipient of a 2024 NEFA Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant–a $30,000 award! Find more details and a list of the other artists awarded financial support in this grant cycle here.

Read about Shakia/Kia the Key & Company’s performances and contributions to the Wandering Dance Festival in the Berkshire Edge and on Macaroni Kid!


Dance Teacher Magazine article featuring Shakia: “PS DANCE! The Next Generation” Documentary Reveals What Happens When Students Become Teachers

Shakia Barron and Barbie Diewald have received a New Work New England grant of $12,000 through the New England Foundation for the Arts, for their project entitled “Concourse”. See more details on the NEFA website.
Race…AND DANCE Updates:

Shakia has received a Mass Council Cultural award of $1500 for Race…AND DANCE Series 2– Fall 2021.

Click here to read about Race and…Dance in the Mount Holyoke News.
In the Daily Hampshire Gazette:

The Daily Hampshire Gazette released an article entitled, “Celebrating Blackness through movement: Five College dance teacher creates online series of dance classes” covering Shakia’s latest project, Black Beauty Dance. Read the full article here.