The Method

Charlie Michelle is a Black queer artist, graduate student, and scholar from the United States, interested in African Diaspora art, reclaiming African/African Diaspora Traditional Religions (ATR) for healing and liberation, and Afrofuturism as a method of decolonizing modernist curatorial and art education practices. Born and raised in the Southern United States, they are deeply connected to their southern identity as a Black genderfluid artist and use these experiences in their artwork. Informed by Black feminism, queer theory of color, queer craft theory, hoodoo/conjure, and Afrofuturist theory, they are working on a new series of work in which they investigate bodies that are invisible and have been erased in a second death. This exploration includes found objects, performance, marking making with the body, rituals, and altars. To learn more, click here .