Our first Third Thursday "Meet the Fellows" event will introduce our Fall Fellow Courtney Desiree Morris who will discuss upcoming projects, their course, and chat with of CEE community.  Join us in the CEE Lounge RM 438 for exciting discussion, snacks and refreshments.

Courtney Desiree Morris is a visual and performance artist and associate professor   of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her mediums include large-format portraiture and landscape photography, experimental video, performance art, and installation art. Thematically, her work is concerned with ancestral memory, African-based spiritual traditions, ecology, black place-making, and the everyday ritual aesthetics of diasporic communities. She explores how we inhabit places and how places come to inhabit us. This interplay between landscapes and human subjectivity is evident in the ways that she uses her own body to reimagine black people’s relationships to the complex social and natural landscapes in which they live. She has shown work at the National Gallery of Jamaica, the Ashara Ekundayo Gallery, the Photographic Center Northwest, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain) , the Jordan Schnitzer Museum, Fototeca de Havana, the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), JACK (Brooklyn), SOMArts (SF), C3A (Córdoba, Spain), A.I.R. Gallery, Performance Space New York, and the Berkeley Art Center. She is a national member of the AIR Gallery and an alumna of The Austin Project, founded by Omi Jones and facilitated by Sharon Bridgforth.