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Naima Lowe received her B.A. in Africana Studies at Brown University, 2002, and M.F.A. in Film and Media at Temple University, 2008. She is currently a member of the faculty at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.
Naima Lowe’s films, videos, performances and writings have been seen at the Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, The Knitting Factory, The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific Islander Experience, The Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, The International Toy Theater Exhibition, and Judson Memorial Church.
Her first film "Birthmarks" was a Student Academy Awards Finalist, won Best Experimental Film at the Newark Black Film Festival and was honored for Best Sound Design in the NextFrame International Student Film Festival. Her collaborative performance and installation Mary and Sarah and You and Me made its New York debut at the historic Judson Memorial Church.
Recently she has been working with letterpress printing, handmade 16mm film, and other forms of archaic producible visual media. Her 40 page, limited edition, looseleaf book Thirty-Nine (39) Questions for WHITE PEOPLE was shown at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle from May-November 2013.
While in Lethbridge, she is performing Richard Simmons ‘Til you Die, part of The Missing Body: performance in the absence of the artist exhibition (August 15 to September 7, 2014), curated by Cindy Baker.
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca