esperanza spalding

esperanza spalding is an eaabibacliitoti* artist, trained and initiated in the lineage and tradition of North American jazz. Her work blends various combinations of instrumental music, improvisation, singing, composition, poetry, dance, therapeutic research, storytelling, teaching, curating restorative urban lands and artist sanctuaries, and growing in love as a daughter, sister, cousin, niece, aunt, great-aunt, friend. She founded and is co-director of Prismid Sanctuary, a non-profit that creates and manages artist residencies and workshops in Portland, Oregon (Prismid.org). With her dance project 'Off Brand gOdds' and the Songwrights Apothecary Lab, she leads multi-week performances, workshops, teaching and research residencies in the therapeutic arts. She was awarded the Doris Duke Foundation Artist Award in 2024 and the Ford Foundation "Art of Change" Fellow in 2016.

*Of European and African descent, she is influenced by American cultures living in the indigenous territories of Turtle Island.

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