sonata for cello, electronics and voice to seed whatever flourishes after the end of the american empire 

Zeelie Brown is a cellist, composer, multimedia artist, farmer, and chef. Their first art museum was the loblolly pine woods in coastal Alabama and the limestone walls of San Antonio. Their work investigates the vernacular cultures and ecologies of the Black Gulf and Global South as a means of overcoming the plantation to petroleum legacies of genocidal white greed that threaten to drown our world. They studied Black performance, jazz cello and Black vernacular art at Oberlin College. They have been a Create Change Fellow with the Laundromat Project, a Forge Fellow, a Climate Rising fellow at A Studio in the Woods, a FARMS apprentice at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, an apprentice butcher at Fleishers, and Transjustice Community Fellow at the Audre Lorde Project. They've lectured at MIT, Tulane, Harvard, York University, Beam Camp, and the University of Southern Illinois. They have performed at CACNO, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, El Museo Del Barrio, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, and The Caribbean Cultural Center and Afro-Diasporic Institute. They've mounted exhibitions at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Harvestworks, Elsewhere Museum, and Flux Factory and have been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Jerome Foundation, and Franklin Furnace.