Integrity

Intisar Abioto (b. Memphis, TN. 1986) is an artist working across photography, dance, and

writing. Moving from the visionary and embodied root of Blackgirl Southern cross-temporal

cross-modal storytelling ways, her works refer to the living breath and breadth of people of

African descent against the expanse of their storied, imaginative, and geographic landscapes.

Working in long-form projects encompassing the visual, folkloric, documentary, and performing

arts, she has produced The People Could Fly Project, The Black Portlanders, and The Black.

She is the guest curator of Black Artists of Oregon, exploring the history of Black artists in

Oregon, currently open at the Portland Art Museum. With the five women artists in her family,

she is the co-founder of Studio Abioto, a multivalent creative arts studio.

AnAkA is a holistic world builder, story doula, film director, photographer and creator of Angel Music. As a gender fluid Afro-Indigenous person, AnAkA is focused on reclaiming ancestral memory and holistically empowering those preserving their own cultural wisdoms. AnAkA is the founder of AKTIV8 Creative Research Center, a sacred wisdom movement focused on strengthening the heartbeat of the global Indigenous movements and rituals of our current time. For more than ten years, AnAkA has been documenting liberation movements, healers, artists and revolutionaries across North America, South & Central America, Africa and the Caribbean. She has also cultivated worlds, films and creative productions for clients such as Nike, Janelle Monáe, Chief Adjuah (FKA Christian Scott), FKA twigs, Vogue, WeTransfer and Levi’s. AnAkA has shown works at The Shed NY, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Chale Wote Festival, Lagos Photo Festival, the Portland Art Museum, and has curated solo shows in Cape Town, New York, Paris and Los Angeles. As a co-founder of Black Oregon Land Trust, AnAkA is focused on land and natural healing justice as a certified herbal physician and full circle doula. Through this work, AnAkA advocates for the rights of artists and healers desiring the freedom to exchange wisdom in sovereign modalities.