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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Ayana Evans
Ayana Evans is a NYC based artist. Evans earned her MFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. She also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2015 she received the Jerome Foundation’s Theater and Travel & Study Grant for artistic research abroad. During 2016 Evans completed her residency at El Museo Del Barrio. Additionally, she’s performed at: Newark Museum, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, Barnes Foundation, Medium Tings Gallery, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, FIAP Martinique, Movement Research Performance Festival 2016 & 2018, and Ghana’s Chale Wote festival. Evans 2018 fellowships include: the Studio Immersion Program at EFA’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, resident/grant recipient at Artists Alliance Inc., the Franklin Furnace Fund, and NYFA Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Arts. Her press includes New York Magazine’s The Cut, Hyperallergic, the Huffington Post, BBC and CNN.
Performance Artist/Brown University