Who She?

Kendra Ware is a performance-based multidisciplinary artist who creates hybrid staged environments using experimental approaches to art-making, live performance, video, and installation to explore the intersections of race, gender, class, cultural politics, and identity while challenging social norms and notions of otherness. She has staged work site-specifically in a women’s prison, under a freeway, on street corners and dirt roads, in bookstores, plazas, and parks. A self-proclaimed experimental urban griot, a weaver of images at once beautiful and grotesque her work fuses ritual theatrics with experimental performance concepts to intone stories still unearthed.