brontë velez
brontë’s (they/them) work and rest is guided by the call that "black wellness is the antithesis to state violence" (Mark Anthony Johnson). as a black-latinx transdisciplinary artist, designer, trickster, and wakeworker, their eco-social art praxis lives at the intersections of black feminist placemaking & prophetic community traditions, environmental justice, and death doulaship.
they embody this commitment of attending to black health/imagination, "commemorative justice" (Free Egunfemi) and hospicing entanglements with systems of oppression through serving as creative director for Lead to Life design collective (leadtolife.org), educator for ancestral arts skills and nature-connection school Weaving Earth (weavingearth.org), and quotidian black queer lifemaking ever-committed to humor & liberation, ever-marked by grief at the distance made between us and all of life.