Mira is an abolitionist artist, educator, researcher, and organizer based in Chicago. Their work explores spacial justice and global histories of resistance with a focus on the role state violence, censorship, and manufactured scarcity have had on our collective ability to imagine and enact other ways of life.
They are currently the Director of Operations at Walls Turned Sideways, Assistant Studio Manager at The Digs Chicago, and a teaching artist with REAL Youth Initiative.
Mira received a Master of Art’s in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Michigan where they studied Ethnic Studies, Art History, and Ceramics.
They have worked with the following organizations: Walls Turned Sideways, Real Youth Initiative, The Digs, Patric McCoy Legacy Project/Diasporal Rhythms, Groundcover News, Michigan Student Power Alliance, and NON:Opera Arts & Humanities
You can find more of their work on Instagram @coldandwetfromtheearth.
October 2024
Soft book, made from scrap laser-engraved scrap fabric.
- This piece began in November 2023 and has transformed continually over the last 300 days, representative of a sustained experience of meaning-seeking amidst loss and violence. Through the mechanized process of burning text onto found fabric via a laser cutter, scholarly legibility becomes tenuous and material loss inevitable. Invoking the medium of the archive, and its fallibility, as we remember reflects on epistemicide and scholasticide and material violence and our responsibility to the stewardship of resistance and revolutionary thought as a collective generational inheritance.