500 Park Ave #308 Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown Baltimore, MD 21201 Panamanian-American, b. Baltimore, MD 1981 (646) 640-6230 Lives and works in Baltimore, MD [email protected]
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE RECENT CREATIVE HIGHLIGHTS
Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore MD — Adjunct Pratt>FORWARD 2021 Selected Faculty Artist for Inaugural Program at September 2020 - Present Pratt Institute Fine Arts Sketchbook & Mindfulness Instructor in Visual Arts Department. LTYC 2019 Community Arts Towson University, Baltimore MD — Adjunct Faculty Leadership Award Winner August 2020 - Present SciArt Initiative 2019 The Bridge Sculpture Instructor in the Department of Art + Design, Resident Art History & Art Education.
Walters Art Museum 2019 Artist in Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts & Project Row Houses, Houston TX — KGMCA | PRH Fellow Residence January 2020 - January 2021 Robert W. Deutsch Foundation PRH Fellow with the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts & 2018 Ruby Artist Grant Project Row Houses. Year-long program that invites artists and cultural practitioners to Houston's Third Ward to work alongside BmoreArt Magazine 2018 Cover urban planners, educators and policymakers. Home Issue Featured Artist
Maryland Citizens for the Arts, Baltimore MD — Artist Kennedy Center 2018 Citizen Artist Navigator Fellow Fellow Recognition Finalist November 2019 - Present As Artist Navigator, designing a program to empower independent The Baltimore Artist Retreat 2018 artists and connect them with resources to build capacity. Selected Artist Attendee
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD — Adjunct Faculty SELECT PERFORMANCES January 2018 - Present
Making Art In Community Instructor in MFA in Community Arts Brilliant Baltimore 2019 (MFACA) graduate program. Bathed in Light (Bañada en Luz) Daily Performances throughout Vida Magica Love, Baltimore MD — Founder Light City & Baltimore Book August 2017 - Present Festival A wellness practice and creative platform dedicated to spiritual wholeness through manifesting moments of joyous connection. Maryland Art Place 2019 Providing healing-centered arts services through talks, retreats, Bathed in Light (Bañada en Luz) workshops, interactive activations, and multi-sensory installations. Performance at MAP for Maryland State Arts Council Benefit PROFESSIONAL CREATIVE EXPERIENCE CON’T SELECT PERFORMANCES CON’T
New Creatures, Baltimore MD — P roducer The Smithsonian 2019 By the April 2015 - March 2020 People Festival Summer Solstice, Produced experiential activations and large-scale multimedia Earth Mother Performance events for diverse populations across the United States. Maryland Institute College of Art 2018 MFACA Exhibition, Baltimore School for the Arts, B altimore MD — Adjunct Faculty Conversations with Earth Mother August 2016 - June 2018 Performance Sculpture & New Media Instructor in Visual Arts Department. Y:ART Gallery B RA Show 2018 T e Amo Te Amo Tambien Performance
Kaiser Permanente, B altimore MD — Youth Arts Program MICA Place Gallery 2017 Portraits Designer of People We Love Exhibition, October 2015 - August 2017 Womb Rebirth Performance Designed a pilot arts program for underserved high school age youth in Baltimore City for KP Community Outreach Department. Eubie Blake Cultural Center 2 017 Red Bull Amaphiko Academy, Convocation Ritual Performance BOPA, Baltimore MD — Arts Education Coordinator November 2014 - June 2016 Light City Baltimore 2 017 Managed all arts education outreach programs for Baltimore Office BirthMother of a Nation of Promotion and The Arts (Baltimore City’s Arts Council). Performance LabBodies Retrospective 2 016 Baltimore School for the Arts, B altimore MD — Program Negrita Doctress Performance Manager Area 405 2016 TRACES, Ni de aquí, August 2013 - June 2014 Ni de allá Exhibition N egrita Assisted in overall program planning, exhibition curation, and Doctress Performance general student/faculty support for BSA Visual Arts Department. Creative Alliance 2015 Neighborhood Voices Storyteller
PROJECTS ARTSCAPE 2 014 Yo Vengo de Panama Performance Bathed in Light ( Bañada en Luz) — Maryland Art Place November 9 2019, A ritual performed by Nicoletta, honors the Mothers of Living Waters, Lemanjá (Yemoja), and Yemaya. Clothed SELECT EXHIBITIONS in enigmatic shades of the deep ocean floor, Nicoletta’s body is transformed into an alter; her movements serve as offerings to the Baltimore Museum of Art goddesses. She bathes; cleanses space and sculpts the air with light. 2020 Video Art Featured in Online Her Crown adorned with stardust is a conduit to the nurturing Screening Room Exhibition moonlight which she calls upon during her performance. Baltimore Museum of Art Bañera de Flora (Floral Bath) — Walters Art Museum 2019-2021 Video Artwork Featured August 8-11 2019, SOLO Installation in galleries of 15th-century in Mickalene Thomas: A Moment's Northern Art. Endurance performances throughout the Walters Art Pleasure; an Immersive Two-Story Museum. Installation. Selected by Mickalene Art Antidote Project — Johns Hopkin Pediatric Hospital January 2016-June 2016, Founding artist of a program designed to SELECT EXHIBITIONS CON’T aid youth in recovery from trauma through art activities. IA&A at Hillyer Gallery 2019 Video Artwork Featured in Reverb; Pediatric Hospital Photographer —University of Maryland Labbodies Performance Art Lab Hospital Exhibition June 2015 – December 2016, Provided mothers of critically ill infants complimentary photography services in the Maternity Pediatric Walters Art Museum 2019 Bañera NICU de Flora ( Floral Bath) SOLO Installation
EDUCATION Cardinal Gallery 2 019 Intention/Resolution Exhibition Holistic Massage Training Institute, B altimore MD Spiritual First Aid Kits Installation 2017 - 2018 Therapeutic Touch + Wellness Modalities Baltimore School for the Arts 2018 Faculty Exhibition Rebirth Series Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD Installation 2013 - 2016
Interdisciplinary Sculpture + Film/Video Baltimore School for the Arts 2016 Alumni & Tribute Exhibition SVA (School of Visual Arts), N ew York, NY 1999 - 2000 The Feminist Art Project 2014 “The Film + Animation Last Time” Short Film Screening
Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore MD 1996 - 1999 Visual Arts