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Sammantvinnade Exhibit, Hemslöjden i Östergötland, exhibiting Wise Words project June 1st – June 31st 2024.

Practice Based Research Project: For Flax Sake, a cross-atlantic practice-based research project with a mission to capture the tacit knowledges of flax production for the benefit of young urban growers in Providence RI. Funded by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and produced in collaboration with Hawk and Handsaw Farm, 2024-2025, Rejmyre Sweden and RI USA.

Att Sticka en Skog, (to knit a forest) a textile-craft intervention using public participation at the historic Grindstugan property, 2024, Rejmyre Sweden.

Slöjd och Skrift, (Crafts and writing) a writing Residency focusing the language of creating. The residency Slöjd och Skrift 2024 is funded
by the Board for Handicrafts and the Cultural Administration of Västra Götaland, Sweden.

Untitled, ongoing, Artist Residency, videographic project with Drone Dolores Collaborative and Anastasia Sviridenko. Started at artist residency  Proartibus Villa Snäcksund, 2022, Tammisaari Finland.

Tools of Repair, a reiterative fiber and food sovereingty project exploring permaculture and ecological fibers as a way to decolonize and decarbonize structurally oppresive systems as social practice.

Homespun, artifacts from the for Flax Project, an exploration of BIPOC spinners, sailors, and weavers throughout  New England history.

Konstnärsnämnden Fonogramstöd, recipient of a grant to support the release of debut album Drone Dolores, Home Room, 2023, Sweden. 

Sidewalk Tattoo Artist, Tanbou, public art project in cement Providence Dept of Art, Culture and Tourism, 2022, RI USA.

Writer, narrator, producer and sound designer: Kafka, Keats, and Kennedy Plaza for Pageant for Providence walking-tour, 2021, RI USA.

Sound designer; Moral Docs: A Transmedia Story that Reimagines Public Safety as Public Health.  Work conducted as part of Drone Dolores Collaborative. Project led by Shey Rivera, May-June 2021, RI USA.

Project artist, “While You Wait Wild Flower,” a wild-flower-public art/greening intervention at bus stops and forgotten streetscapes, Providence West Side, 2021, RI USA.

Film Festival Featured Artists; Retina Creative Lab 8MM Film Festival. The Emergence Tapes. Writing, acting, producing, music and post production with Drone Dolores Collaborative, 2021, RI USA.

Featured installation by Drone Dolores Collaborative: Performance of New Space, Old Noice at Decameron: Trajectories. Writing, performance,, production,  music and post production, 2021, RI USA.

Featured Videography by Drone Dolores Collaborative: The Birdheaded Girl who Met the World at Luna Loba, Wilbury Group. Writing, directing, original music and post production, 2021, RI USA.

Public Art award: illustration Been Essential, as part of public art project Mi Gente Siempre Responde,  celebrating Latinx frontline workers, 2020. See NPR article

Inclusion of Been Essential, Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council project Art on the Greenway.

Producer, participating artist, grant-writer, and project manager of many cultural and artistic events as the founder of Newport Art House, 2012-2019, namely:

BAFL Market, a Brunch, Art and Flea Market hosted four years in a row at various restaurants in Newport RI, 2013-2018.

STAG, Street Access Galleries, a local-artist showcase of works at various cafe’s in Newport, RI promoting arts and providing access to markets 2017-2018.

Art of the Arbor, an event in collaboration with the Newport Art Museum’s tree funeral with art market and commissioned performances at the Rotary Club, Newport RI, 2018.

Newport Live Sessions, six music videos of local artists, performed on porches throughout Newport RI, produced by Rich Ferri, Newport RI 2017-2018.

ReWind, storytelling and choreography at various churches in Newport, RI 2018.

Future: A visualization, an afrofuturist performance and panel event in collaboration with artists and the Newport Historical Society and First Congregational Church, Newport RI.