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Awards and Commissions:
2002 Sound Poetry Installation, Whitney Biennial, New York
2002 Commissioned project, Afrofuturistic, The Kitchen Performance Space
2000/2001 Commissioned project, MIST, The Kitchen Performance Space and Mass MoCA
2000 - 2004 Commissioned project, The East New York Project , Creative Capital Foundation
1999 Fellowship, Creative Capital Foundation
1999 Performance Commission, "Sonic Synthesis" project, The Kitchen Performance Space
1998 Commission for "Grown Over Ivy" project International Festival of Arts and Ideas
1997 Fellowship for Haiku research, Asian Cultural Council
1997 Writing Commission for "Geography" project forRalph Lemon and Yale School of Drama
1995, 1996 Franklin Furnace Artist in Exile grant
1990 - 2002 Popular Awards panel Special Award, ASCAP
1995 New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry fellowship
1994 Full Scholarship, Action Poetry Program, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff Canada
1994 Friends of the Davis Center, New Faces, New Voices, New Visions artist Fellowship
1993 National Haiku Slam Champion
1993 Nuyorican Poets' Café Grand Slam Champion
Teaching Residencies:February, 2000 Pingry School, New Jersey
July, 1999 & 2000 Summer Artists' Camp, Sarah Lawrence College
July, 1997 Summer Writers' Camp, National Book Foundation
February 1996 Guest lecturer, Rutgers University
February, 1996 Staten Island Public Library
Nov., 1995 Greater Hartford Cultural Council
October, 1995 Master Class, The National Writers' Voice program
1995, 1996, 1998 East Flatbush Brooklyn Public Library
April, 1995 Philadelphia Public School, # 76
Sept., 1995 Riverside Church, Language and Responsibility, New York
Education:Guest Faculty, Writing Program, Sarah Lawrence College (1998 - Present)
Adjunct Professor, Queens College CUNY, Worker Education Center (1999)
Bachelor of Arts, Hunter College
Master of Fine Arts, Poetry, Hunter College
Masters of Arts in Performance Studies, New York University
Cave Canem Summer Institute, aluma
Hemispheric Summer Institute, New York University, alumna
Panels:
2002 "Notes on Lagston: Hughes' Prosody Today" Langston Hughes Centenary Conference, Yale University2002 Poetry and the Body, Associated Writing Programs Conference
2003 Hip Hop Rhyme Formations, Associated Writing Programs
2001 Poetry Society of America: "What's African about American Poetry?"
2000 Associated Writing Programs, Exhaltation of Forms panel
2000 Re-Imagining Society conference, Riverside Church
2001 Globalism and Feminism panel, Beijing + 5 conference, CUNY Graduate Center
1998 Sacred Circle, Spoken Word, NJ Perf. Arts Center
1997 Poetry in the Public Sphere Conference, Rutgers University
1994 Poetry Project, Politics of Accessibility Panel
1995 Soul Conference, New York University, paper: Sex and the Sister Rapper"
1996 Poets' House, Structure in Poetry and Hip Hop panel
1995 New Music Seminar, spoken word panel
Theater Projects:
"Sonic Synthesis", The Kitchen Performance Space, 1999
"Grown Over Ivy," The International Festival of Arts and Ideas
"Geography," (writer) for Ralph Lemon and Yale Repertory Theater
"Black to the Future," presented at PS 122, 1996
"Goin' Through Changes", presented at Aaron Davis Hall, May, 1995
"Afrofem", presented at PS 122, 1995
"Afrofuturistic" - The Kitchen Performance Space, (upcoming 2003)
"The East New York Project" - co-produced with 651 Arts, (upcoming 2003-2004)
Registeries:
Who's Who of America 1999, 2000, 2001
Who's Who of American Women, 1999, 2000,2001
Outstanding Young Women of America, 1998Artistic Affiliations:
Bandleader: Tracie Morris' Sonic Synthesis
Tracie Morris' werdz-n-muze(sic)
TM and Friends
Nuyorican Poets' Café poetry ensemble
Butch Morris' Chorus of Poets
Black Rock Coalition, Founding member
Collaborators:
Dance:
Ralph Lemon (African/Modern)
Sudha Seetharaman (Indian/Avant-gard)
Trey McIntyre (Modern/Ballet)
Visual Arts:
Arthur Jafa (experimental video and film)
Xenobia Bailey (fiber art)
George 'GEO' Smith (printmaker)
Musical:
Vernon Reid (Rock)
Donald Byrd and the New Blackbyrds (Jazz)
Butch Morris (Avant-garde Jazz)
Graham Haynes (Jazz, Ambient)
Kevin Bruce Harris (Jazz/Rock)
Joe Bowie (Funk/Jazz)
Cecilia Smith (Jazz)
Marvin Sewell (Jazz/Blues)
Suzie Ibarra (Free Jazz)
DD Jackson (Jazz)
Uri Caine (European Classical)
Badal Roy (Jazz/Indian Classical)
Mulazim Hussein (Indian Classical)Extras:
US representative, Poetry Africa Festival, Durban, South Africa, 2001
Attendee, Bouki Blues Festival, Dakar & Saint-Louis, Senegal
Artist consultant, New York City Cultural Blueprint panel
Co-editor, Ravers Magazine of the Black Rock Coalition
Freelance Art Critic, Amsterdam News, 1990-1994
Compere, New York, videolink simulcast with London for 40 Acres and a Microchip productions at the
Kitchen, 1995
Lead performer, Juno the Universal Power Chile (written by Jake Ann Jones), National Public Radio Broadcast, 1995
Coordinator/Curator, St. Mark's Poetry Project Monday Night series (1996-1998)
Commissioned poet, US Parks Radio Project, National Public Radio (1999)