Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
manuel arturo abreu & JJJJJerome Ellis

Reading
February 5, 2022, 5pm

This reading is presented as part of the Segue Reading Series.

White text overlays a dark blue background. The top left corner reads: manuel arturo abreu / JJJJJerome Ellis. The middle reads: Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “Saturday, February 5, 5pm / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / Suggested donation $5."
Flyer for Segue Reading Series featuring manuel arturo abreu and JJJJJerome Ellis. February 5, 2022, Artists Space. [White text overlays a dark blue background. The top left corner reads: manuel arturo abreu / JJJJJerome Ellis. The middle reads: Segue Reading Series & ARTISTS SPACE.” The bottom left reads: “Saturday, February 5, 5pm / Zoom ID: 893 9594 7519 / Suggested donation $5."]

Segue Reading Series: manuel arturo abreu & JJJJJerome Ellis. February 5, 2022, Artists Space.

manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a non-disciplinary artist who lives and works on unceded lands of Multnomah, Cowlitz, Clackamas, Confedered Grand Ronde, and Confederated Siletz peoples. abreu works with what is at hand in a process of magical thinking with attention to ritual aspects of aesthetics. Since 2015, they have co-facilitated home school, a free pop-up art school in the Pacific Northwest with a multimedia genre-non- conforming edutainment curriculum. They also compose worship music as Tabor Dark. Recent projects at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark (Graz), Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna), Veronica (Seattle), and Athens Biennial 7 (Athens).

JJJJJerome Ellis is a blk animal who stutters. He plays music, writes poems, and makes performances. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants, he grew up and lives near a heron rookery in Virginia Beach, USA.