Nia Holley

Photos courtesy of the artist

Project Description

Nia Holley's project will center curating and supporting spaces that allow for folx to ‘just be’ for a moment (or more). Nia imagines and affirms that racial justice is just that-- an allowance for us to be our full selves as living beings. It is clear that for over the last 500 years, specifically Black and Indigenous communities have yet to have the space in this world to just exist. Existence and continuance as something radical is so largely misunderstood; but to have this space, to just exist, is truly radical.

Artist Bio

Nia Holley is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is deeply influenced by what survival and healing look like within Black and Indigenous communities. Her work ranges from printmaking, ceramics, metalsmithing, and traditional arts to bringing tribal communities together around food justice, agroecology, land, and history. She strives to cultivate relationships across tribal borders to rebuild a more inclusive and historical process of kinship and survival. She has actively engaged with Indigenous-led grassroots organizations as an outreach and project coordinator and has participated in Nipmuc programs since before she could walk and talk. Nia is a co-founder of the Eastern Woodlands Rematriation collective.