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​​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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Keywords for an Archival Unraveling: Teaching & Learning With and Against Archives, Spring 2025



Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Art Education at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Spring 2025

    Keywords for an Archival Unraveling: Teaching & Learning With and Against Archives is a contemplation on teaching and learning with and against archives across the boundaries of the university. The project utilizes an in-depth literature review and interview practice to expand on scholarship interrogating the archive as both a physical and conceptual product of colonial-imperial capture. Themes of anti-colonial and anti-imperial pedagogical theory, practice, praxis and archival history are explored in this project through conversation with five educators and researchers, all of whom work with archives in their practices: Josh MacPhee, Maria Cotera, Deirdre de la Cruz, Josh Rios, and Nicole Marroquin. Download Full PDF.