Vivianne A. Njoku

Vivianne A. Njoku (she/her) is a multi-media artist and educator based in Mexico City, MX. In addition to her work as a visual artist, musician, and performance artist, since 2008 Ms. Njoku has instructed youth and adults in video production, music, and conceptual, liberatory media-making.

Ms. Njoku holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychological and Brain Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University, a Masters Degree in Art Education from New York University, and is licensed through the state of New York as a Visual Arts Instructor for all grades. She has collaborated with a number of non-profit organizations, including the Tribeca Film Institute, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, and Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls.

In her capacity as a public school teacher she taught film and media at the International High School at Union Square (serving recently arrived immigrant youth) and Frank Sinatra School for the Arts. In addition to her youth work, Ms. Njoku has led workshops internationally, focusing on the ways that youth workers and creatives can use art as a means of discussing issues of anti-oppression in both formal and informal spaces.

Most notably, she has worked with educators through Harvard's AiE Conference, the African Film Festival, Ifetayo Cultural Arts, The New School, NYU, Rutgers, and the NYC Department of Education. In much of her professional work, Ms. Njoku has created positions and systems in order to address the necessity of intentional communication between organizations and the communities they aim to serve.

Her most recent endeavor, theurbanX.org, is a cultural exchange and international residency program that supports Black and Brown creatives in exploring collective technologies of resistance and resilience through art.

Vivianne is currently celebrating and visibilizing the synthesis of her work of the past decade and a half through all manner of critically resistant artistic expression, education, and radical love.