Taller Electric Marronage [electricmarronage.com] is excited to welcome performance artist and cultural organizer Rebecca Mwase to the Taller as its Spring 2021 artist-in-residence!
Rebecca Mwase is a Zimbabwean-American theater and performance artist, creative consultant, producer, educator and cultural organizer working at the intersection of art and social justice. She has trained with ArtSpot Productions, Dah Theater, the Highlander Center for Research & Education, Urban Bush Women and Junebug Productions in cultural organizing, devising and storytelling.
As an ensemble member of ArtSpot Productions, Rebecca received a 2010 Big Easy Award for Best Original Work for "Go Ye Therefore...", and a 2013 Big Easy for Best Ensemble for "Kiss, Kiss Julie." She also received a Grinnell College Wall Alumni Service Award in 2011 for her work as Program Director with ArtSpot’s educational program Individuals Relating & Overcoming Conflict, a theatre-centered character development and conflict resolution program.
Her work has toured nationally and internationally, and her projects have been funded by Alternate ROOTS, the Network of Ensemble Theaters, the National Performance Network, the Rockefeller MAP Fund, Theatre Communications Group, We Shall Overcome Fund, Platforms Fund and the Arts Council of New Orleans. She is a 2016 A Blade of Grass-David Rockefeller Fund Joint Fellow in Criminal Justice. Rebecca's most recent original works are her solo piece Looking at A Broad, Last Call’s Alleged Lesbian Activities, and ArtSpot Productions’ Cry You One. She is a co-director and co-founder of LOUD (New Orleans Queer Youth Theater).
Rebecca is a 2007 graduate of Grinnell College with a B.A. in Chinese & Theater.
You can read more about her work here [http://www.rebeccamwase.com/] and here [http://www.vesselsperformance.com/]/
Electric Marronage has organized four (virtual) events for faculty, students, staff, and the Baltimore community to engage with her and her work this spring: An artist talk moderated by Jessica Solomon (February); two workshops, one for the public and one private one for Electricians and LifexCode members and affiliates (March), and a virtual showcase (April/May). In the meantime, Mwase is available for class visits, workshops, and individual meetings on an appointment-by-appointment basis. Please don't hesitate to reach out to Halle Mackenzie-Ashby (hasby1 at jhu dot edu) to discuss your ideas and schedule a booking.
Mwase's first event, an artist talk moderated by Jessica Solomon of Art in Praxis, will be on February 6, 2021, at 1:00 pm as part of the Critical Conversations on Reproductive Health/Care: Past, Present, and Future Conference (https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/reproductive-health-care-past-present-and-future/). Register for the conference to receive the zoom link.
And don't forget work by our first artist-in-residence, José Arturo Ballester, Caribe Fractal/Fractal Caribbean, is still available via the virtual gallery [https://tinyurl.com/CARIBEFRACTAL] and for browsing on the Electric Marronage site [electricmarronage.com/moodboard].
Taller Electric Marronage artist residencies are brought to you by LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure [lifexcode.org], the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University, the Program in Museums and Society, the Sheridan Libraries, and #ADPhDProjects. The Taller Electric Marronage collective ("The Electricians") is co-directors Drs. Jessica Marie Johnson and Yomaira C. Figueroa, Lead Editor Christina Thomas, and Assistant Editors Halle Ashby, Kelsey Moore, Ayah Nurridin, Sarah Bruno, Jada Similton, and Stephany Bravo.