[citation needed] Blount Moorhead has produced public art events, gallery exhibitions, film screenings, and education programs since 1991.
[2] Blount-Moorhead co-founded Red Clay, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit arts organization dedicated to providing a platform for emerging media and experimental artistic expression.
[4] With Red Clay Arts, Elissa Blount-Moorhead traveled to Jamaica, where she and her team taught children photography, photojournalism, new media and experimental artistic expression.
[1][4][5] She was co-curator of Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, a collaboration between with Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center.
There are more alternative platforms now, like Netflix, that are now commissioning and financing work that will go directly through their channels—those are the ways you are able to provide an outlet for people and to hopefully allow filmmakers to create a voice that is not contingent on mainstream and Hollywood expectations.