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Rejjia Camphor

Animation / Video / Film, Craft, Design / Digital, Drama, Drawing, Experimental, Fiber, Fiction, Graphic, Jewelry, Literary, Multidisciplinary, Multidisciplinary Art, Multimedia, Non-Fiction, Painting, Performance, Performance Art, Photography, Poetry, Public Art, Sculpture / Installation, Theatre, Visual / Media

My artistic practice is driven by a commitment to use creativity as a tool for learning, exploration, celebration, healing, service and social change. Through film, photography, graphic design, painting, installation, animation, performance, and various forms of literary expressions such as poetry, creative non-fiction, surrealist fiction, and plays, I strive to inspire introspection, accountability, meaningful conversations and action in others. My work is daring, experimental, immersive, interactive, thought-provoking and fun. By actively engaging my audience as participants, and working with other artists, organizers and community members, I embrace a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach to problem solving, pushing beyond the confines of a single discipline and medium to disrupt traditional boundaries, challenge societal norms and empower others to tackle the critical community issues and injustices that continue to pervade in our world today. At the heart of my work lies a desire to bear witness to the complex and intersectional themes of life including body politics, environmental racism, gun violence, heartbreak, identity linguistic violence, memory work, mental and physical health, representation and s. Additionally, I have a deep need to create a more inclusive, safe and respectful world for all species.

About the Artist

Rejjia Camphor is a Transdisciplinary Eclectic Artist, Organizer and Teacher from Baltimore, Maryland. She currently serves as a Creative Writing Instructor for Writers In Baltimore Schools, a Baltimore Youth Film Arts Fellow at Johns Hopkins and is the Founder of the environmental community project, Sister Stream Catcher. She earned a BA degree in Creative Writing, Visual Culture and Women’s Studies from Hampshire College in 2020. Rejjia has received numerous accolades for her artistic, leadership, research and volunteer service work, including both Silver and Gold Key Awards from Scholastic’s Art and Writing in 2015 and 2016, a Bronze Medallion from the Prudential Spirit of Community Award in 2016, a certificate of Ethical Leadership from the Ethics and the Common Good program in 2020 and two Youth As Resources grants in 2011 and 2021. She has been featured in several print and online publications such as the Afro Newspaper, Baltimore Beat, Brown Sugar Literary Magazine and VoyageBaltimore, as well as showcased in exhibitions and festivals across Maryland including in the 2017 Red Bull Amaphiko Festival at Impact Hub Baltimore, the 2021 Empathy to Solidarity: Activism Through the Media Arts exhibit at Triangle Art Studios in Bethesda, MD, the 2022 Born in Baltimore Film and Photography Festival and multiple Baltimore Youth Film Arts screenings at Johns Hopkins University from 2021 to 2023. She is also one of the co-creators of the touring exhibit, Soul of the Butterfly: Chicory Magazine and Baltimore's Black Arts Activism in 2022. Notable speaking engagements of hers include Baltimore City’s Youth Poet Laureate Competition in 2018, Hampshire College’s Commencement in 2020, Black Writers Read in 2020, Baltimore Urban Waters Partnership’s Boundary Spanners panel in 2022, UMBC’s Imperative Inclusion Teaching Humanities Lab in 2022, Meeting Ground Project in 2022-23, Baltimore Green Space’s Poetry in the Park event in 2023 and Vital Matters Global Waters Dance event in 2023.

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Artist's Statement

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Featured Work

Photos

"Earth D(ec)ay" is about obviously climate change and our natural environments. This piece is named Earth D(ec)ay because it was made in December in preparation for Earth Day in 2020. https://complexartanthology.wixsite.com/coocaa/earthdecay
Official Selection in the Empathy to Solidarity: Activism Through Media Arts Exhibit at Triangle Art Studios in Bethesda, Maryland, April 2nd - 30th, 2021 Original Work in The Chaos of Origins: A Complex Art Anthology Virtual Solo Exhibit in May 2020 This puzzle is for all the black girls and women that have been killed at the hands of police, police negligence and by serial killers and rapists. I believe that the inattentiveness and carelessness of police for reports of violence made by women, especially of color is responsible for their deaths, not just the rapists and killers themselves. Both do not view the mistreatment of black girls and women as wrong as well that by this viewpoint, they do not consider the real dangers that black girls and women face. Please take this time to CIRCLE and remember these black girls and women’s names who are dearly missed and deserved better than what happened to them. You can view more by click on the puzzle to go solve it. Learn more here: https://complexartanthology.wixsite.com/coocaa/rememberme
Official Selection in the Empathy to Solidarity: Activism Through Media Arts Exhibit at Triangle Art Studios in Bethesda, Maryland, April 2nd - 30th, 2021 Original Work in The Chaos of Origins: A Complex Art Anthology Virtual Solo Exhibit in May 2020 THIS PUZZLE IS FOR ALL THE SURVIVORS, THE FAMILY MEMBER LEFT BEHIND, WHO MAY SUFFER FROM SEQUELAE, BECAUSE THEIR LOVED ONES HAVE BEEN KILLED BY POLICE, BY SERIAL KILLERS, RAPISTS, AND BY THE SYSTEM THAT FAILS US. PLEASE TAKE SOME TIME TO REMEMBER THESE SURVIVORS, SOME OF WHO HAVE ALMOST BEEN KILLED THEMSELVES. Learn more here: https://complexartanthology.wixsite.com/coocaa/stillhere
a assemblage collage of Betye Saar and some of her works.

Videos

  • Daylight Savings Short Film

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    This short film explores my journey to raise awareness and address the environmental problems plaguing Baltimore City.
    Medium: Film
    Year: 2022
    Details: 9 Minutes, 34 seconds

  • A Shoe in the Sky

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    An essay film about the beauty of natural environment and the danger civilization poses in relationship to it.
    Medium: Film
    Year: 2021
    Details: 4 Minutes, 22 Seconds

  • Here Lies A Bridge

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    Here Lies A Bridge is a visual poem which is a part of a collaborative, interactive multi-media Map project made as a final for the BYFA Spring 2021 Living Out Loud: Poetry, Multi-media, and Public Engagement workshop involving the mapping of personal stories by emerging writers around Baltimore. Learn more here: https://www.filmartsbaltimore.org/living-out-loud
    Medium: Visual Poetry
    Year: 2021
    Details: 59 Seconds

  • Someday I"ll Love Rejjia Loreal Camphor

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    Spoken Word Poetry Performance
    Official Submission for the 2018 Baltimore Youth Poet Laureate Competition
    Medium: Poetry
    Year: 2018
    Details: 1 Minute, 52 Seconds

Music/Audio

  • INSIDE STORIES: PERSPECTIVES ON INCARCERATION: THE PODCAST

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    In this Podcast, Baltimore Youth Film Arts fellows Rejjia Camphor, Edward Lowe, and Kham Owens worked with instructor Lukas MacKinney to create episodes for the ongoing podcast Inside Stories: Perspectives on Incarceration. The multi-episode series features personal accounts from the formerly incarcerated collected in prior workshops, and shares publicly this important and too often hidden aspect of the American experience. Original accounts are available on video and in MP3s on the BYFA website here: https://www.filmartsbaltimore.org/inside-stories
    Medium: Audio
    Year: 2022

  • Black Girl Rants

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    Black Girl Rants is a passion podcast exploring an array of issues surrounding my life, culture, music, self-improvement, and everything else that comes out of it. I hope to create a safe space for caring, raising community awareness, inspiring social change and lastly, for speaking my truth.

    Please support this podcast by creating conversations in your community, recording voice messages in response to episodes and sharing content. You may also contribute via donations, listener support and sponsorships.

    Contact rejjiacamphor43@gmail.com with any inquiries
    Medium: Podcast
    Year: 2018 - 2022
    Details: Varies

Written Works

Booking

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1. Patrice Hutton, Executive Director and Founder of Writers in Baltimore Schools, patrice@writersinbaltimoreschools.org

2. MJ Neuberger, Co-founder of Meeting Ground Project, mjneuberger1@gmail.com

3, Michele Minnick, Founder of Vital Matters, vitalmattersbaltimore@gmail.com