2017. Sweet Thing. 6ft x 6ft x 5.5ft, Plaster, Clay, Lace, Scrim Cultural appropriation is destroying and erasing the identities of black women. Black women are somehow seen as both the taboo and the coveted, where we are berated for taking part in our culture and in the same instance
How We Exist is an experimental sound project that highlights the way we become who we are by asking questions that pry into our intrinsic emotional structure. This project was created in the “Melanges De Fruits” collective, which consisted of five MFA students from Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England.
To be sensitive is to be human. It is to feel not only by touch but by taste, smell, sound, and sight. It is to use these feelings to create emotion and thought; these are two very different things. When emotion is created through sensibility the host has no choice
2016 – Indie Capitol Awards – Best Student Film – Nominee 2016 – Lightstruck Film Festival 2016 – UMBC Visual Arts Senior Exhibition
2017 – Garnish Pop-up Film Festival 2016 – Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival – Best Sound/Music 2016 – Indie Capitol Awards – Best Animated/Experimental Film – Winner 2016 – Baltimore Student Film Showcase V.III 2015 – Lightstruck Film Festival
Arit Emmanuela Etukudo 