Nicoletta Darita de la Brown is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and curandero chamána (shamanic practitioner). Her artworks re-conceive the life of an artist as thriving, nourishing others during and through her art practice, while healing herself in public space as a Black-Latin woman.
She is artist-in-residence at Baltimore School for the Arts, 2022-24 Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, 2023 artist-in-residence at The National Aquarium, 2023 JJC-MICA-BMA artist-in-residence. She is a former sculpture professor at Towson University and former adjunct faculty in the M.F.A. in Community Arts Graduate Program at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Her performances have been presented at The National Aquarium; The Phillips Collection in Washington DC; The Hirshhorn Museum; The Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building; Walters Art Museum in Baltimore MD; and Eubie Blake in Baltimore, MD.
Exhibitions of her video artworks and installations have been presented at Bennington College Usdan Gallery, The Tribeca Film Festival, IA&A at Hillyer Gallery in Washington DC, and in Baltimore, MD, The National Aquarium, Baltimore Museum of Art, Cardinal Gallery, Pinkard Gallery, The Segal Gallery, Leidy Atrium, and MICA PLACE. Her work is included in private and public collections, such as The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University, GLB Memorial Foundation Collection, The National Aquarium.
While at MacDowell, Brown activated garments honoring the women in “mi familia (my family).” She painted studies that will inform public installations, performance art, large-scale video projections, fibers-based sculptures, and other flat mixed-media artworks.
