In 1983, she choreographed a final participatory performance as Mlle Bourgeoise Noire called "Art Is...", which consisted of a parade float she entered in the annual African American Day Parade in Harlem. The float was shepherded up Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard by "O’Grady character as Mlle Bourgeoise Noire and a troupe of 15 African-American and Latino performers, dressed all in white, walked around the float carrying empty gold picture frames." The performance not only encouraged onlookers - primarily people of color - to consider themselves art, but also drew attention to racism in the artworld. Printed for the first time more than three decades later, O’Grady’s photographs from the performance continue its legacy by interrogating issues of representation, celebrating Blackness, and claiming avant-garde art as a Black medium. From 2015-2016, "Art Is..." was featured at the Studio Museum in Harlem, where Assistant Curator Amanda Hunt asserted that O’Grady’s performance “affirmed the readiness of Harlem’s residents to see themselves as works of art.” In January of 2020, four of O'Grady's "Art Is..." photographs were featured in Artpace’s exhibit titled"Visibilities: Intrepid Women of Artpace". As a past summer 2007 International Artist-in-Residence at Artpace, O'Grady's series was included in a show celebrating female-identifying artists.