Portrait Photography, 8x10in, 2024
A self-portrait in photography, taken during my emerging artist Chateau Orquevaux Artist Residency, capturing the fluidity and inherited softness of my Black woman and nonbinary journey in a sliding spectrum of being perceived.
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Sabriaya is a Philadelphia-based storyteller, educator, and community ethnographer determined to cultivate performance art and archival spaces centered around the expressive freedom of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities both locally with organizations such as Artwell Philly, The Painted Bride Art Center, Power Street Theatre and internationally with Residency 11:11 in London and the Chateau Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France. A recipient of the 2021-2022 Philadelphia Foundation and Forman Art's Initiative Art Works grant and the 2022-2023 Rosine 2.0 Past Visions/ Future Archives Micro-Grant, Sabriaya currently serves as the Executive Director of Theatre Philadelphia and looks forward to continuing to collaborate as an educator, artist, and artistic advisor in sustaining equitable and ancestral means of storytelling in the Philadelphia community.
