“How do we do this work, this laboring…we are working horizontally…to reimagine how education, how teaching can really happen inside this moment, so we can be human.”
”It’s a humbling moment…to be an artist, to be a Black artist, to be a Black dance artist.”
Jaamil
“As a woman and as an artist, I’m experiencing this renaissance, this redirecting and repurposing of those creative energies that were really honed into my familiar and community building organizing practice. It’s a really exciting time, a really revealing time.”
Chanon
Chanon Judson Johnson
Artistic Director
Chanon Judson’s been growing with the acclaimed Urban Bush Women (UBW) since 2001, as performer and now Co-Artistic Director and Coordinator for BOLD, UBW’s facilitation network. She’s a director’s fellow with New Perspective Theatre and Chicago Director’s Lab. Projects include “The Invention of Tragedy” (choreographer,...
MoreJaamil Olawale Kosoko
Performance Artist, Poet, and Curator
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko is a Nigerian American performance artist, poet, and curator originally from Detroit, MI. His creative practice draws from Black study and queer theories of the body, weaving together visual performance, lecture, ritual, and spiritual practice. Recent awards include: 2020 PEW Fellowship in the arts, 2020-21 Resident...
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