Naima Lowe / The Lowes
Jazz Road Creative Residencies Grant Recipient
Recipient Information
Location
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Year of Award
2021
Grant or Fellowship
Jazz Road Creative Residencies Grant
Grant Amount
$40,000
About the Project
Artists travel the South researching all-black towns from OK to SC; residency culminates in a music creation workshop with 4-5 in residency in Bamberg, SC.
Residency Location
Bamberg, SC
About the Artist
Born in 1979 Middletown, CT USA, Naima Lowe comes from 4 generations of Black people who made things. As musicians, fashion designers, teachers, waitresses, and farm laborers, they were steeped in Black cultural production characterized by alchemic survival. She earned her BA from Brown University and MFA from Temple University and has exhibited at Anthology Film Archive, Wing Luke Museum, MiX Experimental Film Festival, and was a featured artist in CONCEPT, Oklahoma’s Triennial exhibition of contemporary art. Naima has been an artist in residence at Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Jack Straw Cultural Center and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Naima spent ten years teaching experimental film and video in higher-ed at Temple University, Goddard College and The Evergreen State College. She’s currently living and working in Tulsa, OK where she sells abolitionist artwork, rides horses and just completed a year-long commission for the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s tri-annual ART365 juried exhibition.