STORYTELLER. TRUTHTELLER. MULTIHYPHENATE.
STORYTELLER. TRUTHTELLER. MULTIHYPHENATE.
STORYTELLER. TRUTHTELLER. MULTIHYPHENATE. STORYTELLER. TRUTHTELLER. MULTIHYPHENATE.
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Join me monthly at Soho House NYC in conversation with artists and changemakers who, through their work, exemplify how stories can help us to create more just and pleasureful futures.
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What does it mean to be a first responder artist?
Conjured and conceived by Andrea Ambam, Liza Jessie Peterson, and Dria Brown – First Responder Artists Collective is made up of independent artists (read: writers, directors, producers, musicians, designers, curators, activists, thinkers, and dramaturgs) heeding Toni Morrison’s call for artists to “go to work” when cultural and political crisis emerge, and thus collectivizing in search of answering the question: “What does it mean to be a first responder artist?”
We make high art/eye level to meet the challenges of the times and put a battery in the back of the people.
Through active listening and centering the voices and topics/themes of the directly impacted and historically marginalized, we pop up and deploy art into the community like a medicinal balm. Art is the prescription.
Look out for FIRST RESPONDER ARTISTS COLLECTIVE all 2025 and beyond.
As a Hi-ARTS 2024-25 CRITICAL BREAKS Artist in Residence, I will continue the development of Twelve Angry Black Women.
CRITICAL BREAKS is a residency program for artists who are in a pivotal phase of developing new work.