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Image description: A lightskinned Black femme with blond curly hair and wearing a dark cotton top stands in front of leafy bamboo that is rich and green. She has tattoos on her arms, which are crossed in front of her chest as she stares head-on at the camera. Photo by DJ Schaller.
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Council of the Three Fires (Odawa, Ojibwe, Potowatami), also the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sauk and Meskwaki; the Kiikaapoi, Peoria, and the Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) Nations; Chicago, IL.
Anna Martine Whitehead does performance. Their work considers embodied epistemologies of Black queer time and their expressions in liminal sites like prisons, attics, and churches. Their solo and collaborative work has been presented by the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; the Museum of Modern Art; San José Museum of Art; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. They are a 2022-23 Vera List Center Fellow, 2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant recipient, 2020 Graham Foundation Fellow, and an awardee of MAP Fund grants in 2020 and 2021. Martine has written about blackness, queerness, and bodies in action for Art21 Magazine, C Magazine, frieze, Art Practical and Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (Oxford, 2017); and is the author of TREASURE | My Black Rupture (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016).
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