Gabrielle Civil

Gabrielle Civil
Born	Detroit, Michigan, US
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Occupation	Performance artist, karimba
Website	https://www.gabriellecivilartist.com/

(Bio)Gabrielle Civil nyɛla American tuun baŋsim lana ŋun kpaŋdi o maŋa, yɛltɔɣa niɣma lana, n-ti pahi karimba.

Bɛihigupiligu mini o shikuru

Civil nyɛla bilchina so ŋun yina Detroit, Michigan. zaŋ gbaagi yuuni 1991 hali ni yuuni 1995 o chaŋla shikuru sheli bɛ ni booni University of Michigan, nimaa ni ka o naagi ni paɣbu ni kpaŋmaŋ pam zaŋ chaŋ yalaa ayi sheli silimiinsi ni boli ni Creative writing mini Comparative Literature la. dini daa niŋ dabaa ayi Civil daa nyɛla ninvuɣ'so ŋun lahi chaŋ shikuru sheli bɛ ni boli New York University la nimaa ni ka o daa lahi niŋ bɛ ni boli sheli ni masiters mini doɣ'tarate la. O daa lahi dɛigi o M.A. din be comparative literature puuni yuuni 2000puuni. O daa lahi niŋ vihigu ni aadalichi , din yina maŋmaŋa behigu pɔlo kamani:karimbu zaŋchaŋ gbaŋ sabila paɣ'ba yɛltɔɣa niɣma dina ka silimiinsi boli sheli ni (Reading Black Women's Poetry) din be tiŋsi kamani United States, Haiti & Canada, zaɣa zaa bela gbaŋsabila paɣ'ba yɛltɔɣa niɣma ni din be United States, Canada n ti pahi Haiti. Civil's ŋun zaɣa zaa laɣimla silimiinsi ni boli sheli ni Black Feminist Theory; African-American Literature; Experimental World Poetry.

Tuunbaŋsim

Civil pilla o wuhibu tuunbaŋsim ŋɔ wuhibu yuuni sheli silimiinsi ni boli ni summers la shikuru sheli bɛni boli ni Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, din be New York la. O daa wuhi siliminsi ni boli sheli ni "strategies for embodied knowledge" Language & Thinking yuuni 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006. Dolla o summers Bard College ni, Civil daa wuhi "Women and Voice: Black Women and Performance" Macalester College ni zaŋ gbaagi yuuni 2005 hali ni winter yuuni 2006. o daa lahi labi chaŋ Bard College, n ti wuhi ti Bard College Prison Initiative, "Language & Thinking, Eastern Maximum Security Correctional Facility," summer yuuni 2011. O daa lahi wuhi shikuru sheli din nyɛ St. Catherine University din be St. Paul, Minnesota, zaŋ gbaagi yuuni 2000 hali ni yuuni 2013 kamani tenured professor in English, Women's studies, n ti pahi Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity. zaŋ gbaagi yuunu 2013 hali ni yuuni 2016, o daa nyɛla tenured associate professor of performance shikuru sheli din nyɛ Antioch College din be Yellow Springs, Ohio. pumpɔŋɔ o wuhirila bɛ ni boli sheli guest faculty din be Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University Boulder, Colorado puuni.

As a curator, Civil worked on the following performance projects:

• "From the Hive presents Girls in their Bedrooms: installations, video & performance", with Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe, PoppyCock ArtSpace, Minneapolis, MN, May 2014
• "Call & Response", a dynamic of Black Women & Performance at Antioch College, organizer and curator of college and community performance art project featuring myself, Duriel E. Harris, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, Rosamond S. King, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Miré Regulus and Awilda Rodríguez Lora, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, July & August, 2014
• "Grief: an Experiment in Joy", MLK Art Intensive with Gabrielle Civil, Miré Regulus, Syniva Whitney and Nyx Zierhut, Pangea World Theater, Minneapolis, January 2016

Tuma

Civil ŋun yina wuhi ni gbaŋ sabila, feminist artist ŋun nia nyɛ "to open up space". O tumya ni salo mini laɣ'ngbiba ni ka nyɛ nasara n gari pihinahi(40)kpaŋmaŋa North America yaɣ'li ŋɔ mini abroad.