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Educator. Writer. Curator.
Curatorial Studio🌻| @sipcurationco__
🌅💐@insolidarityofficial

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@sipcurationco__ heads to New Orleans to present…

Introduction: Black Spiritual Ecologies, a first presentation in an evolving inquiry! A three-artist exhibition on place, memory, and the practice of getting well.

In conversation with Toni Cade Bambara’s 1980 novel, The Salt Eaters, spiritual in form and political in tone, the exhibition asks a question the novel poses in its opening line: “Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?”. Like the material and rememory of salt, Black Spiritual Ecologies as a framework layers Black spiritual meaning-making across past, present, and future ecologies. It invites artists and audiences alike into collaboration with materiality, placemaking, storytelling, and the global political conditions of Black life.

Focusing on the pillar of place, each artist converses with the history and spiritual making of a place/places; whether on the ground or in the air. All places that refuse to be forgotten. As a collective story, the artists represent the layering of mediums as a methodology for meaning making. Individually, each artist’s work represents methods for getting well; through flying, portals, or community remembrance, Black life is honored.

- Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones @cheyennewj

Presented at The Front, 4100 St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans’s Bywater
August 8 – September 6, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 8, 6–10 PM

More information can be found via our website. by @cheyennewj

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QUEER [RE]PUBLIC FESTIVAL: THE MESSENGER

Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones is TTO's Level 1 Resident Artist. Their offering for the Queer [Re]public festival is a staged reading of The Messenger.

The Messenger is a play with music that shares an intimate “coming of age” story about a young femme, Zanyah, who has been chosen to become the next Messenger for her nation, The In-Between. As Zanyah goes on a spiritual journey with her elders, she meets people that each share a lesson about what Zanyah needs to know about her past, present, and future.

The Messenger shares with the audience the complexities, sacredness, and love of what it means to take on the role of a Messenger within a community.

Experience The Messenger Saturday, June 28th and Sunday, June 29th at 5:00pm

Tickets available in bio and at www.thetheateroffensive.org/messenger

All photography by Tavon Taylor Promotional poster for Queer Republic Festival featuring Cheyenne Wyzzard-Joens standing in a field of tall grass, wearing a black top and white jacket. by @cheyennewj

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a year ago

THANK YOU to everyone who came out, sent love, and supported the opening of Black Shedding(s)! I am beyond grateful to have @sipcurationco__ first in person exhibition receive so much love. I am in deep gratitude for my community, it would not have been possible without me saying people need this & you showing up to receive it! To the artists, the level of gratitude cannot be explained. We did it!

I am a learner & storyteller who wants our knowledge and narratives to be visualized and embodied. I appreciate the trust in me to make that real. Our liberation is connected & the shedding to get there is happening. This is really the beginning to so much more, follow @sipcurationco__ to stay updated!

Black Shedding(s) is open until July 10th at The Longwood Art Gallery. by @cheyennewj

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2 years ago

Introducing Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones, Floating Museum’s first Burroughs Resident!
@cheyennewj @sipcurationco__ @insolidarityofficial

We are excited to welcome Cheyenne as an inaugural resident of the Burroughs Residency, a pilot program inspired by the life and legacy of Dr. Margaret Burroughs and her commitment to art, education, community, and cross-cultural exchange. Through research, retreat, and engagement with Chicago’s creative communities, the residency creates space for artists and cultural workers to exchange ideas, build relationships, and explore new possibilities.

Cheyenne (they/she) is an interdisciplinary curator, educator, theatre artist, writer, and researcher whose practice is grounded in Black and Indigenous methodologies of storytelling and research. Their work explores transformative justice, land sovereignty, and the impacts of colonialism and environmental exploitation on Black, Indigenous, queer, and migrant communities. Cheyenne is the curator of Spiritual is Political, a curatorial studio working at the intersection of art and global politics, where they bring their collaborative methodology, Ensemble, into exhibitions and cultural programming.

As our first resident, Cheyenne marks an exciting milestone for the Burroughs Residency and the growing network of artists and cultural practitioners who will shape its future.

Please join us in welcoming Cheyenne! We look forward to sharing more about their practice and the connections and conversations that emerge during their residency.

Photos from The Messenger (2025) at Queer [Re]Public Festival. Photographed by Micah Fong. taken in Bronzeville, Chicago by @cheyennewj

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Sherae Rimpsey speaks with Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones (@cheyennewj) about Toni Cade Bambara's "The Salt Eaters", Blackness and the politics and spirit of place found in "Introduction: Black Spiritual Ecologies" at The Front, New Orleans (@thefrontnola).

"The historical significance of each material and the place it was sourced from is important. It is a direct response to the continued practice Black people experience from colonial and supremacist systemic violence, always an extraction of the material or land. That for me is why placemaking is so central, and why it became the first pillar in this inquiry."

Read more from their conversation at the link in bio.
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1. Darryl DeAngelo Terrell (@blkboyshine), "42º NE 14º49’58″N 17º14’24″W, Dakar, Senegal", 2021, wheat paste installation, 34 x 40 inches. Photograph by and courtesy of the artist. 2. Ingrid Raphaël (@movingbodyofwork), "Buried Under Water, I Remember – Enterré Sous l’Eau, Je Me Souviens," 2026, 46 x 63 inches, textile, canvas, raffia, flower, paper, leather, cyanotype, ink. Photograph by and courtesy of the artist. 3. Installation view of "Black Spiritual Ecologies" (2026) at The Front, New Orleans. Photograph by and courtesy of the Front. by @cheyennewj

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9 days ago

Happy Libra Season!! This is the best time to share that I am an Aries moon if you can’t tell from these clips 🤪💫 figured I run it back with these 20 TikToks to giggle a lil and be for real🙂‍↔️ by @cheyennewj

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I reflect on my year every August by the Atlantic. It was a long & big year. The conversations I have & prayers I give let me know where I am. Noepe is where I come to rest & reground with family, friends, and myself. It is where I know myself clearly. It is home. I have been home a lot more recently, that feels right. by @cheyennewj

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2 months ago

Happy Solstice Juneteenth Pride. Moments of a Black Queer life 🌱 I’ve been more and more thankful for the spontaneous moments that are reminders of the life I continue to cultivate. by @cheyennewj

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4 months ago

Amplify me. Study me. I am Black History.
First half of 2026. A blessing in rooting. by @cheyennewj

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4 months ago

truthfully still here, in the details 🌻 by @cheyennewj

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7 months ago

my best friend said “ofcourse your road song is encore. you’re a performer.” and she’s not wrong aha! I was with other performers at a young age, us creating something for the stage. but cyah behave is definitely the song of the people.

the road is such an act of freedom. I felt it all on the road. Until soon Trinidad 🌻🇹🇹 by @cheyennewj

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8 months ago

Now on our website, read a new essay by Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones (Mississippi River Basin Curatorial Research Fellow, 2026). In a poetic exploration of their curatorial practice, Wyzzard-Jones introduces Backwater Truths, an ensemble exhibition of eight artists whose work and livelihoods are rooted along the Mississippi River. Through an act of “ensemble-building” and frameworks of Layering, Aliveness, and Black Cartographies, they explore the power and complexity of the term “backwater” in conversation with themes of reimagining and remembrance. Backwater Truths “continues a conversation about how the river is discussed and engaged across different regions, from the Midwest to the Gulf South, an exhibition that evolves as it moves upriver and downriver along the Mississippi River… allowing St. Louis narratives to flow to New Orleans, New Orleans stories to return to St. Louis, and new meanings to emerge along the way.” If backwater has historically signified stagnation, neglect, or lesser value, especially when applied to Black and Indigenous geographies, then Backwater Truths insists otherwise.

#MissRiverBasin #ICIFellows @cheyennewj by @cheyennewj

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