Muse Dodd (They/Them) is an Anti-disciplinary Artist, Curator and DJ from Severn, MD based between Baltimore, MD and Jamaica, NY. Their work centers on the questions, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse was a 2022 Artist in Residence at Stove Works and the summer 2022 Workspace Resident at Squeaky Wheel. Muse was a 2020 Corrina Mehiel fellow and a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for performances at The Shed, Mabou Mines Theater, and Dixon Place. Through their work, Muse hopes to create space for Black people to be free, if only for a frame.
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