Sister Suffragists: Naomi Anderson & Lillian Thomas Fox
Original choreo-poem by Ming Joi | Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts New Works Commission | Watch Sister Suffragists
Sister Suffragists is a one-woman choreo-poem honoring Anderson and Fox, two Black women writers and activists who campaigned for social justice in Indiana during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. The text is informed by research into their published writing as well as contemporaneous news coverage of their travels and speaking engagements. The production includes projected images and live music.
audio labels for Simone Leigh: laboring woman & overburdened with significance
Original poems by ming joi | commissioned by ICA Boston
The exhibition Simone Leigh is organized by Eva Respini, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Anni A. Pullagura, Curatorial Assistant. Thanks to the AUC Art Collective.
Let Them Consume Me in the Light (after Esmaa Mohaumoud)
Original poem by ming joi | video by Tom Clippard
Produced by Good Black Art x Kavi Gupta Gallery at EXPO Chicago
A Black American Portrait in Poetry
Commissioned by the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, this ekphrastic poem references 44 artworks from the hallmark exhibition, Black American Portraits.
