Smart Ass Cripple: The Movie is a short biographical documentary about Mike Ervin, a playwright, disability rights activist, and writer of the blog “Smart Ass Cripple.” As a disabled artist myself, I have always appreciated Mike’s work and felt that …

Building a Wall Through My Father is a longterm, multifaceted project that centers on the construction/destruction of a 65 foot block wall across family property in Jamaica. The construction of the wall allows me to apprentice with my father, a …

As a teaching artist with nearly twenty years of experience working in schools and arts organizations, I am excited to create a “Mobile Street Art Cart” that will bring collaborative, community-relevant artmaking to the streets of Chicago. For the past …

EveryBODY Has a Story is a six-week workshop for adults with disabilities to learn to share and perform their personal stories. As a performer, playwright, and person with a disability myself, I know the transformative power of storytelling and the …

The 2016 Chicago Jazz String Summit (CJSS) is a weekend festival of performances that will highlight the achievements of local, national, and international string players who make bold statements in jazz, improvised, and new music today. There are few music …

Fielding is an educational program geared to empowering young women and gender variant youth (ages 14-18) with design and build skills. Working in collaboration with a team of other skilled artists, I am raising funds to organize two week long …

Ma(s)king Her is an AfroSurrealist dance theater work centered on women of color as empowered future beings, countering a real life narrative where their presence is more often subjugated to silence and/or invisibility. Honey Pot Performance (HPP), our creative collaborative …

As a dance artist influenced by feminism and the queer experience, I have been developing a multifaceted project called Tones of Belonging that merges dance performance with somatic healing. After presenting a series of performances in partnership with sculptor Corinne …

As a filmmaker who hails from West Africa, Ghana, I explore through my work the lived experiences of African people around the globe and how identity is constructed for survival, struggle, resistance, and reinvention as it relates to colonialism, slavery, …

Amok Festival '15 debuts the performance work, Amok, and a series of related events inspired by the show as part of a weekend-long festival taking place December 4-6 at Links Hall. Focusing on Indonesia, my ensemble theater piece, Amok, …