Black the Creator is a queer, Afro-Indigenous healing and teaching artist passionately weaving artistry with advocacy and ancestral veneration. Black alchemizes the elements of sound, language, movement, and attunement into mixed-media meditations and ritual performance art while cultivating communal healing and learning spaces that center collective freedom through artistic expression. Every facet of their artistic and cultural work is devoted to troubling and transcending colonial notions of identity, divinity, and belonging in ways that open portals for healing, discovery, and transformation. At the heart of Black’s offerings as a trans-disciplinary creator, therapeutic arts facilitator, creative coach, and cultural organizer lies a fervent commitment to community care and intergenerational healing.

Black is a 2025 Platforms Research Fund grantee through Antenna, a 2022-2023 Last Call Fellow through the National Performance Network, and a two-time We Create Fellow with Danza Organica (2021-2022). Their creative work has been presented by The Theater Offensive, The Strand Theater, Hibernian Hall, American Repertory Theater, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum amongst many others.

Black leverages wisdom gained from lived experience as well as formal training and education in their two decades of experience as an arts educator, arts administrator, and organizational consultant. Their educational background includes a B.A. in Communication with concentrations in Theater and African Diaspora Studies (Boston College, c/o 2015) and an M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, specializing in Expressive Arts Therapy (Lesley University, c/o 2022). They hold certification as a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator (REACE) from the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association.