Biography

Andrea “Philly” Walls is a conceptual artist with an interdisciplinary practice, informed and inspired by the writers and visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement. Her work explores themes of global injustice which includes poverty, human displacement and violence against the environment. Her writing, scholarship, and visual art have been supported by organizations including the Leeway Foundation, Black Public Media/MIT Open Documentary Lab; VONA/Voices Workshops for Writers of Color; Hedgebrook Residencies for Women Authoring Change; The Colored Girls Museum among others. In addition to founding and curating The Museum of Black Joy, she is the creator and curator of The D’Archive.com, author of the poetry chapbook, Ultraviolet Catastrophe (Thread Makes Blanket Press) and the digital web-collection, The Black Body Curve.