photo by Latricia Morgan

Aleta Brown: Educator & Artist

Aleta Brown is an educator, researcher, and movement artist who believes access to arts education and creative expression is essential to cultivating a liberated society. With roots in Texas, New York, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and England, their work explores healing, liberation, and imagination. Drawing inspiration from queer theory, Afrofuturism, and Black feminist thought, Aleta explores the interstitial spaces of their identity through their artistic and scholarly practice.

Aleta has left teaching in a traditional classroom to pursue dance and a PhD in Culture, Curriculum, and Teacher Education. By blending their passion for education and artistic expression, Aleta’s work pushes at the seems of who is included in the stories we tell. Through performance, education, and research, Aleta’s work asks: Who is part of our imagined community? Who holds us? What inputs (information) shape us? Who is lost, forgotten, erased? How do we mold ourselves to fit societal structures? How do we break free?