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.
Through their work against the archive, they have developed an interest in countersurveillance and the practiced subversion and denaturalization of colonial and imperial tools such as archives, maps, and databases. Their work to counter the countless tools of death that proliferate in our lives is sustained by their commitment to imagining other ways of living, being, and caring for one another. Accumalation and abundance as practice provides a lifeline for their work, allowing them to explore alternative forms and means of memory work that rehearse kinder ways of being, knowing, and remembering. Their work is highly informed by the resilience of organizing movements for abolition, self-determination, and liberation in Chicago, SE Michigan, and the broader Midwest.
Mira is currently pursuing their Master of Art’s in Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has a BA from the University of Michigan where they studied Ethnic Studies, Art History, and Ceramics.
They currently work with the following organizations: Groundcover News, the Patric McCoy Legacy Project, and Walls Turned Sideways.