Arielle Julia Brown

Arielle Julia Brown is a creative producer, social practice artist and performance curator. Emerging from her work and research around U.S. slavery, racial terror and justice, Arielle is committed to supporting and creating Black performance work that commands imaginative and material space for social transformation. She is the founder of The Love Balm Project (2010-2014), a workshop series and performance based on the testimonies of women of color who have lost children to systemic violence. The Love Balm Project was developed and produced at cultural institutions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Atlanta. More recently, Arielle developed The DoubleBack, a site specific performance about three enslaved Black women in Providence RI while in residence at the Center for Reconciliation. She is also the creative producer of Black Spatial Relics, a new performance residency about slavery, justice and freedom. Arielle’s work and writing on Black political performance has been published in the anthology Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines. Arielle has taught and guest lectured at; Destiny Arts Center, Streetside Stories,and Liberation Songs (at Morehouse College) UC Berkeley, Mills College, Boston College, College Unbound, Pomona College and many more. As an arts administrator and cultural producer, Arielle has worked with Theatre Without Borders, SF Emerging Arts Professionals, The Latino Theatre Company - The Los Angeles Theatre Center, Teatro Luna, AlternateROOTS, Andrew W Mellon Foundation among others. Arielle received her B.A. from Pomona College and was the 2015-2017 graduate fellow with the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University where she received an M.A. in Public Humanities.