Tanika I. Williams (b. St. Andrew, Jamaica; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is an eco-feminist filmmaker and performance artist. She investigates women's use of movement, mothering, and medicine to produce and pass on ancestral wisdom of ecology, spirituality, and liberation. As a Mother, Creator, and Embodied Black Woman, she centers her heritage as an African-Jamaican woman of Maroon heritage to frame her understanding of ecology, spirituality, and liberation.
Williams holds a BA from Eugene Lang College, New School, and an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary. Her films have been screened in national and international festivals and broadcast on American television.
Williams has been awarded fellowships and residencies at Residency Unlimited, NYU Tisch School, Wave Hill, New York Foundation for the Arts, Hi-ARTS, Cow House Studios, MORE Art, and BRIC. Her additional awards and appearances include En Foco Media Arts Fund, 99.5 WBAI, Art in Odd Places, Creative Time, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Civic Art Lab, GreenspaceNYC, Let Us Eat Local, Just Food, and Performa.
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