Spiritual is Political (SIP) blends the curation of space making, art making, education, and design as a method for our practice. We exist to showcase soul provoking art that explores histories, realities, and narratives that often go unnoticed and erased. Through research and discussions amongst our community, we reflect a spiritual drive toward a more just world, which is a political stance that must be bold. Must be rooted.

CURATORIAL DIRECTOR

CHEYENNE WYZZARD-JONES

“As Curatorial Director of the contemporary art company, Spiritual is Political, my work is to design spaces that present stories through collective vision. I connect the works of interdisciplinary artists into environments that foster conversation and embodied wisdom. My particular curatorial research explores the landscapes of place in relation to time, climate, gender, and politics.

I make work to merge academic and experiential research with material exploration and oral storytelling traditions, which have been essential to my own journey of fugitivity. For the past ten years, my own artistic practice spans the areas of international development, race and gender studies, spatial design, reproductive justice, abolition, reparations, and land sovereignty.

I am committed to interrogating the impacts of globalization, colonial modernization, and the environmental exploitation violently imposed on Black, Indigenous, queer, and migrant communities. Whether through writing and producing intimate character-driven plays or multi-sensory exhibitions, I seek to create spaces where audiences can experience what is, what was, and what could be.”