Zeelie Brown
About Zeelie Brown
Zeelie Brown is a jazz cellist and multimedia artist investigating the vernacular culture of the Black Gulf and Global South as a means of overcoming the legacies of genocidal white greed that threatens to drown our world. They studied Black performance, jazz cello, and Black vernacular art at Oberlin College.
They have been a Create Change Fellow with the Laundromat Project, a Forge Fellow, a Climate Rising fellow at A Studio in the Woods, a FARMS apprentice at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, an apprentice butcher at Fleishers, and a Transjustice Community Fellow at the Audre Lorde Project. They’ve lectured at MIT, Tulane, York University, Beam Camp, and the University of Southern Illinois.
They’ve performed at CACNO, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, El Museo del Barrio, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, the Caribbean Cultural Center and Afro-Diasporic Institute, and Recess Gallery. Their exhibitions have been mounted at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Harvestworks, Elsewhere Museum, and Flux Factors, and have been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and Franklin Furnace. Zeelie is interested in envisioning the healing potential of nature on land that their ancestors bled on, and wants to merge the arts in a way familiar to the communal rural lifeways that their grandparents gifted to them as a child through making art that holds Black abstract articulations of wilderness.
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