alea adigweme
Artist-in-Residence
August 23 to September 5, 2021
alea adigweme is an anti-disciplinary Igbo-Vincentian-U.S.-ian cultural worker who utilizes the mediums of nonfiction writing, book arts, performance, installation, and video. Her work is undergird by interests in archives, microhistory, the body, and the book.
She is the author of the poetry chapbook birdbolt idolatry (dancing girl press, 2015), and [untitled] , her first experimental short film, screened in competition at the 2020 New Orleans Film Festival.
After studying Russian literature at Reed College, alea earned an MFA in nonfiction writing, an MA in media studies, and a graduate certificate in gender, women's, and sexuality studies from the University of Iowa. She is currently an MFA student in interdisciplinary studio art at UCLA. You can find out more about her work on her website www.alea.me.