Aambr Newsome is a first year interdisciplinary artist that navigates their practice via performance, public art, installation, and printmaking.

They are currently exploring the ancestral memory that exists within cotton and the materials of their lineage. Art is our biggest tool for social change, in Aambr’s current practice she asks: What do our ancestors want to say? What does the land want?

Through sculpture, performance and site specific installation, their current practice focuses on the interrogation of spirituality and religion in collaboration with land and labor rights.

Aambr Newsome’s practice sprouted from the seeds of their Afro Indigenous Roots. They combine stolen histories, vivid painting, and life experiences to curate both installation and assemblage pieces that aid in rewriting the Black narrative.

Their work is an offering of truth and love, and proposes to celebrate and connect the varying intersectionalities existing within complex Black Identities. Through this work their attempts to refute hegemonized dialogues that surround the Black Experience, by offering a visual archive that heals our past, rejoices in the present, and proclaims peace in our future. 

Guided by their Ancestors, they explore, uncover, and apotheosize the unspoken narratives of African, Black, and Indigenous people. The genesis of their work, arrives in retelling stolen myths and silenced stories, investigating communal erasures, and sharing hopeful triumphs that transmute harm and uplift joy. 

Their work explores art and how it can be used to modify the typification of Black People and her practice is vitalized by the passion to understand how focused reception and autonomy can help heal the racial traumas and inequities within these communities. 

Over the last 10 years, they have worked with Political Gridlock to curate a series of political posters to bring awareness to the Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter Movements. Their Oscar Grant Memorial Poster was even featured in the film Fruitvale Station.