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A portrait of a man standing on a Harlem street in autumn. His brown skin is illuminated by the sunlight, giving his face a gentle yet passive expression. His hands are clasped under a charcoal-colored overcoat that rests over his shoulders and his olive-and-white striped shirt.

Photo by Marc J. Franklin.

Artists

JJJJJerome Ellis

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Composer and Poet

Norfolk, Virginia

JJJJJerome Ellis is a blk disabled animal and artist. Ellis prays, stutters, reads, gardens, cycles, wanders, and plays. Through music, literature, performance, and video, he researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants, he grew up and lives by a heron rookery in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Donor -This USA Fellowship was generously supported by the Mellon Foundation. Disability Futures is supported by Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 08.20.2024

Music
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EVENSONG by JJJJJerome Ellis, 18 minutes, single-channel video, 2020. Commissioned for 2020 Summer of Music at MacDowell artist residency.

Video courtesy of the artist.

<em>Responsory; or, when shall we Walk clumsy into the Snow of now</em> by JJJJJerome Ellis thumbnail.

Responsory; or, when shall we Walk clumsy into the Snow of now by JJJJJerome Ellis, 2021. 17 minutes, single-channel video.

Video courtesy of the artist.

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Impediment is Information by JJJJJerome Ellis, 2021. 14 minutes, single-channel video.

Video courtesy of ISSUE Project Room.