ART presents
DNA: Mercury Company
A devising group named OXYGEN, made up of nine Black artists in the company. The name OXYGEN is in honor of the many black people whose final words were, “I can’t breathe” before being killed by police. Produced by ART Development & Marketing Director, Kisha Jarrett, and created by collaborating artists Vin Shambry, Josie Seid, Lava Alapai, Jeff George, Ayanna Berkshire, Andrea Vernae, Pancho Savery (ART Board Vice-Chair), and Kristen Mun (Line Producer). The group’s first project will be a short film called See Me, which is a slice of life of seven black people interwoven with animated fantastical dreamscapes and will be filmed in September 2020. This group will expand to include BIPOC artists and will continue to devise works beyond June 2020.
Advisory Committee
Kisha Jarrett
Jeff George
Pancho Savery
Josie Seid
Lava Alapai
Vin Shambry
Ayanna Berkshire
Andrea Vernae
Better Maybe
Coming in December
A video project of Obie Award winner Caridad Svich’s short play Better Maybe that will be shared this summer and features the entire company. Originally commissioned by the Play At Home project, the piece is a choral poem and features...
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Forget Me Not America
November 2020
written by Josie Seid Forget Me Not America is a FREE video. However, your gift today ensures that this resilient artistic home continues to produce complex, challenging, and diverse bodies of work like Forget Me Not America. “We continue to...
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See Me
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written by Kisha Jarrett, Dawn Jones Redstone, Aki Ruiz, Josie Seid, and Vin Shambry Description coming soon.
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