Artist Statement
Photo by Images of Papillon
Stacey Allen is an award-winning performance artist, curator, and advocate for arts education, educational equity, and reproductive justice all while being a wife and mother to three beautiful children. Maintaining her artistic practice while navigating Motherhood has come with challenges, but integrating the art of mothering with her insistence on telling Black stories through movement and material culture has been worth the while. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Nia’s Daughters Movement Collective which received a Congressional Recognition for their mission aligned work of creating and supporting art and wellness initiatives through the lens of Black women and girl and has been featured on National Public Radio and DanceSpirit Magazine and many other publications. Stacey wrote the children’s books A Little Optimism Goes a Long Way and D is for Dance: Dancing through the Diaspora and created The Fairytale Project, a dance theater production centering the Texas Freedom Colony, Shankleville, that is currently touring. Stacey Allen holds a BA in Dance from Sam Houston State University and a MA in Cross Cultural Studies from University of Houston-Clear Lake is raising her beautiful family in the Houston area. Learn more about her work at www.staceyallencde.com IG: @theblackartysmom.