About the Artist Bonita Oliver is a multidisciplinary artist and improviser. She creates deeply emotional, body-in-space concept art using voice, music, environmental soundscapes, and movement — driven by a motivation to heal personal and ancestral trauma in order to make way for discovery and connection. Her mission is to engage the community through reexaminations of history, ritual, co-creation, facilitation, and activism. Bonita is also a multi-award-winning filmmaker, and member of the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT), and Women of Color Unite (WOCU). Oliver received a 2022 IDEA Opera Residency and a 2023 IDEA Opera Grant from OPERA America for her series in development — AR Arias: Sojourner Truth.
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