I AM YOURS, March 2026 — COLDANDWETFROMTHEEARTH

Mira is an abolitionist artist, educator, researcher, and organizer based in Chicago. Their work explores global histories of resistance with a focus on the role state violence, censorship, and manufactured scarcity have had on our collective ability to imagine other realities and ways of life. Through the pursuit of alternative modes of documentation and cultural preservation, they seek forms and means of memory work that do not rely on imperial and colonial tools of capture and subjugation and instead rehearse collective liberation.

You can find more of their work on Instagram @coldandwetfromtheearth.

They are currently the General Manager at abolitionist gallery and community space Walls Turned Sideways based in East Garfield.

Mira holds 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, The Digs, Patric McCoy Legacy Project/Diasporal Rhythms, Groundcover News, Michigan Student Power Alliance, and NON:Opera Arts & Humanities.

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I AM YOURS March 2026

Stoneware, underglaze, and glaze
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Portrait of Yu Guan Sun (1902-1920) modified from the portrait published in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee (1982).