Dr. Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin (Scholartist + Performing Historian)born to African immigrants in Tuskegee, Alabama and raised in Kansas, “Dr. Amma” is a scholartist, performer, and producer who transforms historical material about black identity into performances for the stage and screen. She is a 2019 TED Fellow and best known as the creative force behind AT BUFFALO—a new musical in development about race, America, and the 1901 Buffalo, NY World’s Fair.

AUDIO RECORDING CREDIT ATTRIBUTIONS

This audio recording "BAKING AMERICA: A Presidential Address by Dr. Amma” for the project: Artists in Presidents contains three royalty-free songs created by a third-party artist and licensed under the terms of a specific Creative Commons License. Usage of the following songs do not suggest that the licensor or composer endorses the artistic work, “Baking America: A Presidential Address by Dr. Amma”.

Plain Loafer by Kevin MacLeod 

Link: https://incompetech.filmm!u1s8i4c2.5io/song/4223-plain-loafer 

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Unnatural Situation by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4567-unnatural-situation 

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Clear Waters by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3516-clear-waters 

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Note: This song has been modified for usage in this audio recording.

Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 will be released weekly via podcast, virtual gallery, and social media. To visit the virtual gallery: www.artistsinpresidents.com and follow us @artistsinpresidents

Sound design by Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly featuring Mara Lazer on saxophone. Music by DASK.

Nibia Pastrana Santiago is a Puerto Rican artist based in San Juan. She develops site-specific “choreographic events” to experiment with time, fiction and notions of territory. Her work addresses archipelagic thinking to question the colonial apparatus. In her performances, nibia makes strategic use of materials and text to deal with failure and indisposition. She is the author of the lazy dancer manifesto.

Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 will be released weekly via podcast, virtual gallery, and social media. To visit the virtual gallery: www.artistsinpresidents.com and follow us @artistsinpresidents

Sound design by Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly featuring Mara Lazer on saxophone. Music by DASK.

My Other Me, is a collective acknowledgement of a seamless kinship across the we. Composed of Zoe Blaq an artist, poet and urban gardner who teaches gardening as a form activism and healing, Set Hernandez Rongkilyo an undocumented immigrant filmmaker and community organizer who organizes around various migrant justice issues, King Jaybo a hip hop artist, fashion designer and community organizer working to dismantle the prison industrial complex and Gloria Galvez an artist, organizer, and amateur mycologist that maintains a practice of disrupting, subverting, and dismantling bland and oppressive status-quo norms.

Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 will be released weekly via podcast, virtual gallery, and social media. To visit the virtual gallery: www.artistsinpresidents.com and follow us @artistsinpresidents

Sound design by Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly featuring Mara Lazer on saxophone. Music by DASK.

گاف is an undisciplinary artist and writer who, in 2009 was transplanted from street protests in a city of four seasons to the windowless rooms of the University of Southern California where aesthetics and politics were discussed in endless summers.

Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 will be released weekly via podcast, virtual gallery, and social media. To visit the virtual gallery: www.artistsinpresidents.com and follow us @artistsinpresidents

Sound design by Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly featuring Mara Lazer on saxophone. Music by DASK.

Edgar Fabián Frías, MA MFT is a nonbinary, queer, indigenous (Wixarika) and Brown interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and psychotherapist. Their work traverses academic, social, historical, and relational planes, building bridges and weaving webs.

Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 will be released weekly via podcast, virtual gallery, and social media. To visit the virtual gallery: www.artistsinpresidents.com and follow us @artistsinpresidents

Sound design by Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly featuring Mara Lazer on saxophone. Music by DASK.

Xandra Ibarra is an Oakland-based artist from the El Paso/Juarez border that uses performance, video and sculpture to address abjection and joy and the borders between proper and improper racial, gender and queer subjects. She draws inspiration from sexual subcultures to humorously and defiantly reimagine the aesthetic dimensions of difference.

Curse by Xandra Ibarra and Sound Design by Rosana Caban

Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 will be released weekly via podcast, virtual gallery, and social media. To visit the virtual gallery: www.artistsinpresidents.com and follow us @artistsinpresidents

Sound design by Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly featuring Mara Lazer on saxophone. Music by DASK.

Sasha Debevec-McKenney is a poet who studies the presidents. She is currently the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and she received her MFA from New York University.

Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 will be released weekly via podcast, virtual gallery, and social media. To visit the virtual gallery: www.artistsinpresidents.com and follow us @artistsinpresidents

Sound design by Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly featuring Mara Lazer on saxophone. Music by DASK.

Brontez Purnell is a writer, musician, dancer, and director. He is the author of the books The Cruising Diaries (2014), Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger (2015), and Since I Laid My Burden Down (2017) and the zine Fag School; frontman for the punk band The Younger Lovers; and founder of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company.

Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 will be released weekly via podcast, virtual gallery, and social media. To visit the virtual gallery: www.artistsinpresidents.com and follow us @artistsinpresidents

Sound design by Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly featuring Mara Lazer on saxophone. Music by DASK.

Nao Bustamante is a legendary artist, residing in Los Angeles, California. Bustamante's precarious work encompasses performance art, video installation, filmmaking, sculpture and writing. The New York Times says, "She has a knack for using her body." Bustamante has presented in Galleries, Museums, Universities and underground sites all around the world. She has exhibited, among other locales, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the New York Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sundance International Film Festival/New Frontier, Outfest International Film Festival, El Museo del BarrioMuseum of Contemporary Art, First International Performance Biennial, Deformes in Santiago, Chile and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. She was also an unlikely contestant on TV network, Bravo's "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist." In 2020 Bustamante’s forthcoming VR film, “The Wooden People” received an award from the Mike Kelley Foundation and will be presented at REDCAT in 2021. Bustamante is alum of the San Francisco Art Institute, and in 2020 she was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from her alma mater, SFAI. She also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Currently she holds the position of Professor of Art at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. There, she also serves as the Director of the MFA in Art.

Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 will be released weekly via podcast, virtual gallery, and social media. To visit the virtual gallery: www.artistsinpresidents.com and follow us @artistsinpresidents

Sound design by Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly featuring Mara Lazer on saxophone. Music by DASK.

Jasmine Nyende is a fiber, performance and sculptural artist and musician from South Central Los Angeles. Her work explores holding space in community and decolonizing arts education.

Song is called "Burn Ye Old White Male Patriarchy Burn" by Jasmine Nyende with her band Fuck You Pay Us

Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020 will be released weekly via podcast, virtual gallery, and social media. To visit the virtual gallery: www.artistsinpresidents.com and follow us @artistsinpresidents

Sound design by Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly featuring Mara Lazer on saxophone. Music by DASK.