Kiki Nicole
Take care your energies - Digital Print - 2022
Kiki Nicole is an agender poet and antidisciplinary artist born and raised around Baltimore, MD. Through poetry, new media, and textiles, they archive, prioritize, and nurture the realms of the Black Interior.
Their work has been published in Scalawag Magazine, The Studio Museum in Harlem, beestung mag, Shade Literary Arts, and more. Kiki’s visual works have appeared in SKEW magazine, VAE Raleigh, Goodyear Arts, PCC Cascade Paragon Arts Gallery, and Advent Coworking. Kiki is the co-founder of the new media/film archival project and screening series, The First and the Last, specializing in uplifting work by Black trans and queer new media artists often overlooked in traditional art spaces. In 2021, they served as the Citizen Literary Fellow at Graywolf Press.
Kiki is currently a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine and a member of North Carolina-based art collectives, Goodyear Arts and Saltwater Sojourn.
They live in Charlotte, NC.
www.kikinicole.com
www.thefirstandthelast.squarespace.com
You can support Kiki via:
Video: negro faerie, or the Unbearable Whiteness of Dreaming
Kiki’s Poetry:
To Become An Error Is To Surrender
Originally published in Scalawag Magazine
I’M GONNA LOOK FOR MY BODY, YEAH—
Originally published in beestung mag
(they am thinking about how she will go)
An earlier draft of this piece was featured in Peach Magazine.
Kiki’s Art
lucky frances
images/words/sounds/wisdom/experimentation/archival
alchemized dreams/flowing/thru life
ancestral connection/Blackness/transition/hereness & thereness
of venus, the ocean, & the moon.
It is with honor and joy that we introduce 2022’s first artist in residency, lucky frances:
lucky frances (they/he) is a photographer/interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Ore.
They are inspired by their communities (Black, queer trans, neurodiverse) to create artwork that exists beyond space & time.
lucky utilizes their inspiration to create artwork that is, in his eyes, truthful, affirming, and timeless.
You can support lucky and their work via:
CashApp: $paylucky7
Venmo: @princelucky
or his Patreon.
Ori Gallery's 2022 Artist Residencies
At the start of the COVID pandemic, Ori Gallery made the decision to switch to virtual residencies. These offer a direct and material way to financially support the lives and work of Black, Trans, Queer, and Neurodivergent artists.