Center Citizen Artist fellow and was recently voted both one of the “20 Most Talented and Most Influential People in Seattle” by Seattle Magazine. She is a recent Jacob Lawrence fellow at the University of Washington and the winner of the Museum of the Northwest Luminary Award in Innovative Media. Tiona Nekkia McClodden (Philadelphia, PA) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose practice explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. McClodden has exhibited and screened her work at many institutions and galleries, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and more recently, Performance Space New York. The recipient of many awards and fellowships, she was most recently awarded the 20182019 Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism and won the 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. McClodden also curated the exhibitions A Recollection.+ Predicated. featured within Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, presented in collaboration with Bowerbird in Philadelphia in 2017 and The Kitchen in New York earlier this year.
Kaj-anne Pepper aka "Pepper Pepper" (Portland, OR) is a multidisciplinary performance artist, drag entertainer, and dance maker. Their work explores vulnerability, artifice and identity. Pepper uses improv, play, and theatricality as a way to turn tragic into magic and trauma into drama. They have presented their work regionally, nationally and internationally at spaces like PICA's TBA Festival, Risk/Reward, OFF! Biennale Budapest, The Lucky Penny Atlanta, Pelican Bomb New Orleans, SPACE Gallery Maine and once did a special appearance at a national ceramics convention called NCECA. ariella tai (Portland, OR) is a video artist, film scholar, and independent programmer from queens, new york. they are interested in the materiality of black bodies and black performance as vernaculars which subvert, interrupt or defy the diegetic cohesiveness of narrative. they currently re-appropriate, glitch and video process existing media in attempts to rupture and reconstruct some of the messier emotional realities of black femme existence. they are one half of “the first and the last,” a fellowship, workshop and screening series supporting and celebrating the work of black women and femmes in film, video and new media art.
Roza Moshtaghi (Norway/Iran) lives and works in Oslo. Her works are situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer and performer. Questions of how she, buildings, streets, nature, events, bodies, and objects in general react or adapt to structures have been crucial to most of her work. Roza holds an MA in Choreography from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She presents her works internationally and continues to develop projects with other artists, both as a collaborator and as a performer. Her most recent 092 projects are ONLY FOREVER (2018), FLINCH (2017), THE SMELL OF ITS SHIRT (2016), and WATER GRAFFITI (2016). INSTITUTE
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