{"id":8998,"date":"2019-04-09T11:34:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2019-04-16T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:55:41","slug":"negarra-a-kudumu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/negarra-a-kudumu\/","title":{"rendered":"Negarra A. Kudumu"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_962\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8998-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/NegarraAKudumu.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/NegarraAKudumu.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/NegarraAKudumu.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/negarraakudumu.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8999 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image1-e1555342626693-225x300.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image1-e1555342626693.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image1-e1555342626693.jpeg?resize=315%2C420&amp;ssl=1 315w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image1-e1555342626693.jpeg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Negarra A. Kudumu<\/a> works simultaneously as a healer, essayist, curator, and independent scholar of contemporary art. She engages with pre- and post-colonial artistic and spiritual outputs of West and West Central Africa, the Americas, and South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>She is interested in cultural products as evidence of in tact connectivity to indigenous knowledge systems and pre-existing non-western cultural canons. Negarra investigates the ways in which contemporary makers continue to adapt their ancestral knowledge and technologies &#8211; consciously and subconsciously &#8211; and (re)invigorate generative discourses around art, trauma, healing, liberation, spirituality, and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Negarra earned a BA from Dartmouth College and her MA from Leiden University. She holds the title of Yayi Nkisi Malongo (priestess) in the Brama Con Brama lineage of the Afro-Cuban spiritual tradition Palo Mayombe. She is a lay practitioner in the Pimienta lineage of the Afro-Cuban, Lukumi spiritual tradition. Negarra is also a level II Reiki practitioner and herbalist. She lives and works in Seattle where she is Manager of Public Programs at the Frye Art Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more here &#8211;\u00a0<b><\/b><b>Social Media &#8211; IG:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/negarraakudumu\">@negarraakudumu<\/a>, Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/negarraakudumu\">@negarraakudumu<\/a>, FB:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/NegarraAKudumu\">facebook.com\/NegarraAKudumu\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9005\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9005 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0004.jpeg?resize=640%2C643&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0004.jpeg?resize=1020%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1020w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0004.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0004.jpeg?resize=768%2C771&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0004.jpeg?resize=696%2C698&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0004.jpeg?resize=1068%2C1072&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0004.jpeg?resize=419%2C420&amp;ssl=1 419w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0004.jpeg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0004.jpeg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Wagner, Mike, seated exposed breast (hyper sexualized), 2018, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. Image courtesy of artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9007\" style=\"width: 648px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9007\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/9-LinaIrisViktor2016.jpg?resize=648%2C790&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/9-LinaIrisViktor2016.jpg?w=488&amp;ssl=1 488w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/9-LinaIrisViktor2016.jpg?resize=246%2C300&amp;ssl=1 246w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/9-LinaIrisViktor2016.jpg?resize=344%2C420&amp;ssl=1 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lina Iris Viktor, The Dark Continent Series, No 09, 2016. Image courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/NegarraAKudumu.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listNegarra A. Kudumu works simultaneously as a healer, essayist, curator, and independent scholar of contemporary art. She engages with pre- and post-colonial artistic and spiritual outputs of West and West Central Africa, the Americas, and South Asia. 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