Black Pruitt is a renaissance, embodying the legacies of artists like Josephine Baker and Ntozake Shange who were unapologetic and unbound in their creative expression. They are a Black, genderqueer healing and teaching artist based in Bulbancha (so-called New Orleans, LA). Through anti/interdisciplinary creative practice, Black transcends the boundaries between art and form to create space for healing, discovery and transformation. They’re an Afrofuturist, conjuring and world-building through creative expression in ways that facilitate a sense of collectivity, wholeness, and embodied wisdom. It is through this work that Black strives towards liberation.

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Likes to talk to artists about: Creativity as ritual, art as spiritual practice, creative wellness, therapeutic art-making, pleasure-centered creative practice, embodiment/somatics, community building/organizing, social and civic arts practice, decolonizing creativity, anti/interdisciplinary arts practice, building sustainable systems, visioning/organizing/strategizing, healing justice, art as activism, Afrofuturism, queer identity, Blackqueer poetics, mysticism, ancestor veneration.

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PHOTO: Raven Daniels