ARTIST TALK WITH NJAIMEH NJIE

Join The Nicholson Project for a virtual artist talk with our Artist-in-Residence Njaimeh Njie (@en_jay_me), where she’ll share insights into her residency experience. Her practice centers everyday Black people, narratives, and landscapes. Focusing particularly on how the past shapes the present, Njie’s work consistently includes archival research, oral history collection, as well as nonfiction writing.

Artist Bio 

Njaimeh Njie is a multimedia artist. Working across photography, film, collage, installation, and public art, her storytelling practice centers everyday people, narratives, and landscapes with a focus on how the past shapes the present. Njie’s work has been featured in outlets including CityLab and Belt Magazine, exhibited in spaces including the Carnegie Museum of Art and The Mattress Factory, and she has presented at venues including TEDxPittsburghWomen and Harvard University. Among several awards and grants, Njie was named the 2019 Visual Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh City Paper and the 2018 Emerging Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Njie earned her B.A. in Film and Media Studies in 2010 from Washington University in St. Louis.

About The Nicholson Project

The Nicholson Project is a paid artist residency program and neighborhood garden in Ward 7’s Fairlawn neighborhood. Our mission is to support, provide opportunities, engage, and amplify artists and creatives from our community and the local artist community—particularly artists of color and those from Ward 7 and 8—while engaging our neighbors through community-based programming. Our vision is to serve as a cultural hub and community anchor celebrating Ward 7’s authentic identity, while infusing new vibrancy into Southeast DC. We hope to inspire others to use similar non-traditional arts and community-centered projects as a pathway toward stronger, more vibrant communities. Learn more at  www.thenicholsonproject.org.