Jayeesha Dutta

Radical Arts and Healing Collective | Radical Arts and Healing Collective, Mind Power Collective, Alternate ROOTS, Gulf Future Coalition, Big Class

Jayeesha Dutta is a tri-coastal artivist scholar pursuing a doctorate at the University of New Orleans researching the intersection of the creative third space, relationship building and social change. She recently co-founded the Radical Arts and Healing Collective, an arts-based direct action & healing support movement space in the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans. She's a board member of Big Class and Alternate ROOTs. Her artistic mediums include photography, painting, Theater of the Oppressed & social praxis. She's an avid traveler, home chef and lover of live music.

Presentations from Facing Race 2016

Arts at the Intersection: Artistic Praxis for Racial, Social and Environmental Justice

A participatory and hands-on workshop using a variety of arts to explore personal identity, interpersonal dynamics and systemic analysis at the intersection of racial, social and environmental justice. How can the arts be used a tool for liberation and revolution? How can the creative third space be a space for radical imagination and possibility? A combination of visual art, theater and storytelling will be used for a lively and in-depth look at ourselves, each other and our world. This workshop will use a combination of workshop methodologies, including mandala making, theater of the oppressed, singing, story circles and collective visioning. Through this workshop, participants will both gain resources in the form of ideas for facilitation in their own work, as well as an experiential understanding of how the arts acts as an intersectional movement building vehicle. In addition, workshop participants will have an opportunity to build with each other, and brainstorm strategies of how the arts can be catalyzed as a revolutionary weapon for justice in their own home communities.

Speakers: Jayeesha Dutta, Yudith Nieto, Ann-Meredith Wootton