| Boxx The Artist synthesizes expressionistic portraiture through acrylics, digital, and public art that examines the African Diaspora providing cultural images that honor a marginalized community and expresses her love for Blackness. She is an Indianapolis based full-time, visual artist practicing for 6 years, from Gary, Indiana. Boxx has featured work in several exhibitions including the Black Creativity Juried Exhibit 2022 and 2023 (Chicago Museum of Science and Industry), the 26th African American Art Exhibition (Roanna H. Victor Gallery at Actors Theatre of Louisville), and honored as a 2023 and 2024 Hoosier Women Artist by the Indiana Lt. Governor with two consecutive one-year art installations in the Indiana State House. Boxx was awarded the DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award for 2022, and recipient of the 2022 Power Plant Grant provided by Big Car Collaborative and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Arts to create an independent creative project. Continued –> | Boxx The Artist has served in various residencies, fellowships, apprenticeships, including serving as the 2021 Maker-In-Resident for the Ignite Studio in Fishers, Indiana; 2021 Artist and Curator for Cat Head Press Artist Residency, and was a 2021 Fellow for the Indiana Arts Commission, On Ramp Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator. She has over 10 mural installations in the city of Indianapolis notably serving as an apprentice to install a 5-story civic mural for the City of Indianapolis, a permanent mural installation in the Indiana State Museum, as well as a mural for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit at Conner Prairie: Living History Museum.Boxx currently serves as PATTERN Magazines Artist-in-Residence with a long term creative entrepreneurship residency. Her work has been featured in the Indianapolis Airport, as well as several media publications such as Fox59, WishTV, WRTV, Indystar, Nuvo, Indianapolis Recorder and more, and is a Certified Minority/ Woman Owned Business in the State of Indiana.Connect with Boxx The Artist on social media, @boxxtheartist on all platforms. |
