Sacred Hoops Profile

For 15 years, Najja Moon avoided basketball. The Miami-based artist and cultural practitioner, assumed life after college demanded practicality rather than an ongoing practice of basketball and art. By finding her community in non-traditional spaces, Moon is now making work that fulfills her two greatest passions. Her merger of art and basketball has even taken on a spiritual and community-based practice built from a desire to connect her past to her present. On the eve of opening her mural court titled Uncommon Routes at Legion Park in Miami, FL, Moon admits her journey back to basketball was itself uncommon.

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