Arneshia Williams

Project

Seasoned Right Here(s)

Arneshia Williams collaborated with BIPOC dancers and choreographers to create the video for "Seasoned Right Here(s)". Below you will find accompanying essays that document the project process.

Artist
Arneshia Williams

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Arneshia Williams
about"Into the Deep, Unto the New" is an exhibition that navigates the continuum of collective healing from racial trauma.
Hosted by Inbreak and Dea Studios is the culminating exhibition of the 2021 Inbreak Residency. This exhibition is a virtual showcase featuring works by Inbreak residents Andrew Nemr, Steve Anthony Johnson, Liberty Worth, and Arneshia Williams. Into the Deep, Unto the New provides a lens through which we see the impassioned overflow from art as practice to art as community-building in an effort to bravely uncover racialized trauma and to reimagine a post-racialized society. The reception will feature a brief introduction to the exhibition, interactive activities, and a toast to the artists.
The Inbreak Residency is an incubator for artists of any discipline, writers, curators and preachers to foster a brave space that facilitates a raw exploration of art, faith, and race in the United States. Over the course of three months, residents engage in texts, open dialogue, and somatic practice to metabolize themes surrounding racial trauma in the U.S. Each resident is encouraged to reimagine their individual role in generating social healing through self-led community projects using their practice and tools provided by the residency.
artists The work of Marcus is immediately identifiable in it’s ability to tell a narrative that is at once evocative, gripping, and uncommonly romantic.
2018
Grand Prize Lux → Consumed
Grand Prize Lux → Terroir
Lux → Travel Design Awards

2017
Applied Arts → Make-Up
Applied Arts → Interior design
Lux → Interior design

2016
Grand Prize Lux → Agnus Dei
Lux → Food Carving
Applied Arts → Food Carving
Lux → Pur Vodka
Lux → Formes et Réflexions
Applied Arts → Shapes
Lux → Le Beurre allume vos aliments
Lux → Les fromages d’ici
Applied Arts → Les fromages d’ici

Events

  • Some Studio Name
    — Designer, Head of Design
    2019—Present
  • Some Studio Name
    — Partner, Lead Designer, Art Director
    2015—2019
  • Freelance
    — Graphic Designer, Web Designer
    2012—2015
  • Some Studio Name
    — Designer, Co-founder
    2012—2015
About"
Residency Year: 2021

Originally from Oklahoma, I am a dance artist currently practicing in Minnesota. I think of my artwork as snapshots into the social and cultural dimensions of life. Often referencing history as a distanced conceptual backdrop, my work explores contemporary relationships through performance. Dance, voice, and multimedia overlap, reframing commonly known stances into layered formations and breaks into something new. For my current work, the sites of exploration are diverse, pulling from multiple canons of movement that invite viewers to think about community.

Project "
"Seasoned Right Here(s)" is a come as you are – glad, angry, tired, or well-rested – space that reveals subtle layers of together-ness and we-ness as artist-participants, fellowship with each other. This space was created for participants to chill, give support to each other, and center their voices: the voices of self-identifying Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) community members. Freedom, truth, and care are some of the primary components of this project. The "Seasoned Right Here(s)" video features the responses of participants to this project through voice, dance, and composition. "Right here", in this space, we trust the bodies, voices, and ways of being/knowledge our community members share.
Participants"
Keith Haynes
Vivian Kim
Samantha Salters
Yan Pang

Events

  • Some Studio Name
    — Designer, Head of Design
    2019—Present
  • Some Studio Name
    — Partner, Lead Designer, Art Director
    2015—2019
  • Freelance
    — Graphic Designer, Web Designer
    2012—2015
  • Some Studio Name
    — Designer, Co-founder
    2012—2015

Events With Arneshia

  • Some Studio Name
    — Partner, Lead Designer, Art Director
    2015—2019
  • Freelance
    — Graphic Designer, Web Designer
    2012—2015
  • Some Studio Name
    — Designer, Co-founder
    2012—2015
More from "into the Deep, Unto the New"
  1. Steven Johnson

    Left On Read

  2. Andrew Nerm

    What We Leave Behind