Andrea “Philly” Walls

Andrea “Philly” Walls is a multidisciplinary artist, informed and inspired by the writers and visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement. She is pleased that her writing, scholarship, and visual art have been supported by organizations she admires, including the Leeway Foundation, Black Public Media/MIT Open Documentary Lab; VONA/Voices Workshops for Writers of Color; Hedgebrook Residencies for Women Authoring Change; The Colored Girls Museum; Writers Room at Drexel University; The Studio Museum of Harlem; The Women’s Mobile Museum, Eastern State Penitentiary; Mural Arts Philadelphia; and FabYouth Philly. 

Andrea is the founder/curator of The Museum of Black Joy and The D’Archive.com. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Ultraviolet Catastrophe (Thread Makes Blanket Press), and the poetry and digital art web-collection, The Black Body Curve.com. Andrea encourages you to use her bio as a map to make connections with organizations that make a daily commitment to uplift work and workers who emerge from diverse origin stories. 

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