Berette S. Macaulay
Berette S. Macaulay (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer with creative and cultural practices in photography, mixed media, curating, and art organizing. She identifies as an Afro-Caribbean Creole woman of multi-im/migrant routes whose heritages guide her deep interests in community and cultural be/longing, the performance and embodiments of identity, trans*national personhood and ghosthood, re/membering love, and the il/legible powers of myth/making. Berette has exhibited and published nationally and internationally, with works acquired by National Gallery of Jamaica and International Center of Photography (as ‘SeBiArt’). She has received grant support and residencies from 4Culture, National Performance Network (NPN), Vermont Studio Center, Jack Straw Cultural Center, CENTRUM, and others. Her photography and writing have been published in academic journals, magazines, and exhibition media, with recent contributions to the O Quilombismo Reader by Archive Books/Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin (2023). Berette organized and curated the MFON in Seattle series of exhibitions and programs (2019/20) featuring Afro-diasporic photographers. She received the UW Ottenberg-Winans Fellowship for African Studies for Embodied Witness - her ongoing research on diasporic Afro-gestural vocabularies. As the inaugural Curatorial Fellow with On the Boards, Berette recently presented a collaborative immersive and site-specific theatre project “UN-[TITLED]”, addressing urban development/displacement histories and community resistance stories in Seattle’s Central and Int’l Chinatown Districts. She is the founder of Black Cinema Collective (BCC) which celebrates African and Afro-Diasporic films, and is a project of her collaborative arts incubator, i•ma•gine | e•volve.