Naima Lowe - www.naimalowe.net

EDUCATION

Temple University​ - MFA Film and Media Arts (2008) Concentrations in Documentary, Performance Art, Video Art

Brown University​ - BA Africana Studies w/focus in Playwriting (2002) Designed and completed independent study evaluating training and pedagogy of volunteer tutors in adult education programs at the Center for Public Service

Fellowships, Awards, Residencies Visual Art Fellow, Tulsa Artist Fellowship ​2019 Artist-In-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art ​2018 Artist-In-Residence, Jack Straw Cultural Center ​2018 Artist-In-Residence, CoCa UN(Contained) ​2017 Visual Art Fellow, The Vermont Studio Center ​2017 Artist-In-Residence, The Millay Colony ​2017 Artist-In-Residence, The Colored Girls Museum ​2017 Paul Robeson Award for Best , Newark Black Film Festival ​2008 Regional Finalist-Alternative Category, 35th Student ​2008 Winner- Best Sound Design, NextFrame International Student Film Festival ​2007

Exhibitions, Performances and Publications 2018 Seen Clearly Single Channel Video Group Exhibition “Endless Editions Biennial” New York, NY

Seen Clearly ​and ​Hearing In The Dark Single Channel Videos Group Exhibition “You Don’t Disappear” Seattle, WA

Hearing In The Dark Single Channel Video Group Exhibition “Creativity Persists” Seattle, WA

Trouble Single Channel Video Group Exhibition “it went like this: the skyline was beautiful on fire” Johnson, VT

2017 Trouble Video Installation Group Exhibition CoCa UN(Contained) Artist Reception, Seattle WA

Hearing In The Dark Traveling Group Exhibition “Transgressors” National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco CA; MIX Experimental Film Festival, New York NY

2016 Trouble Print, Photo, Video Solo Exhibition The Art Department Gallery, PA

2015 Thirty-Nine Questions for White People Letterpress, 8 x 5 Notecards Group Exhibition “Sensations That Announce The Future” The Evergreen Gallery, Olympia WA

Bluest Experimental Film, HD Video Group Exhibition “You’ve Got Me Feeling” Stable Studios, Olympia WA

2014 Richard Simmons ‘Til you Die and Thirty-Nine Questions for White People Participatory Performance and Letterpress, 8 x 5 Notecards Group Exhibition “The Missing Body: Performance in The Absence of the Artist” various venues, Lethbridge, Alberta Canada

2013 Birthmarks and Cant be Frantic Experimental Video Works Afro-Asian Visions: Exploding Lineage II at the 26th MIX Festival of Queer Film and Video Mix Factory, New York City November 2013

Thirty-Nine Questions for White People Letterpress, 8 x 5 Notecards Group Exhibition “Under My Skin: Artists Interrogate Race in the 21st Century” at The Wing Luke Museum for the Asian American Experience Seattle, WA May-November 2013

The Writing On The Wall Artist Tape, Marker Group Exhibition at The Evergreen State College Gallery Olympia, WA May-June 2013

2012 …In the Wilderness Still Images, Text Headmaster Magazine, Fall 2012 Issue

2009 Now, I’m 30 and an Artist Video, Still Images, 4x6 Note Cards 1.5 Million: Invitational Exhibition at Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia PA Oct 7-17 Richard Simmons ‘Til you Die Participatory Video Performance Habitatings at Denniston Hill, NY Sept 20, 2009; Sedgwick Theater, Philadelphia PA, Sept 12, 2009

Mary and Sarah and You and Me: A Series of Tiny Spectacles Performance, Film and Video Installation, Toy Theatre Judson Memorial Church New York, NY, June 23-28th, 2009

2008 Mary and Sarah and You and Me: A Series of Tiny Spectacles Performance, Film and Video Installation, Toy Theatre Group Show: The International Toy Theater Exhibition at Saint Anne’s Warehouse New York, NY May 2008 Solo Show: The Parlor, Philadelphia PA, August 2008

2007 Birthmarks Experimental Non-Fiction, (16mm, Digital Video, Archival Footage) Screenings: New Filmmakers at Anthology Film Archive, Black Lily Film and Music Festival, Athens Film and Video Festival, Scribe Video Center, Cinema du Parc in Montreal, Drexel University Television, Open Student Television Network, Emerson College, Hayti Heritage Film Festival Awards: Best Sound Design, NextFrame International Student Touring Film Festival Best Experimental Film, Newark Black Film Festival, Regional Finalist, 35th Student Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

2006 Residue Mixed Media Performance (16mm, Stop-Motion Animation, 5 channel video projection w/live feed) Solo Show: Television Studio 1, April 2006

2005 Devices Mixed Media Performance (35mm Stills, Audio, Live Performance) Traveling Group Show: Ann Arbor Film Festival, The Knitting Factory, UT Austin, UCLA, Capitol Theater, Café Du Norde, Bard College, Zeitgeist Gallery, Flying Monkey Arts

Whores, Pigeons and Other Things of Beauty Performance and Writing Solo Show: The Philadelphia Fringe Festival

A Simple White Dress Full Length Play Sedgwick Cultural Center – Philadelphia, PA

College Teaching Experience

2010-2017 Associate Professor​/The Evergreen State College

2009-2010 Visiting Professor​/Goddard College

2007-2009 Adjunct Instructor / ​Temple​ ​University