Join us digitally for our tour program, Local Views at PAMM, where select local artists will speak about their creative process and artistic practice. This week, T. Eliott Mansa will lead the tour on Facebook Live and YouTube Live. Subscribe to our YouTube channel.

T. Eliott Mansa has developed an assemblage practice that incorporates materials from roadside memorials, applying ritual practices from West African, Caribbean, and Southern religious and vernacular sculptural traditions. Mansa was born in Miami, Florida and took a circuitous educational path through the Yale School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, to receive his MFA from CUNY-Hunter College in 2018, and his BFA from the University of Florida in 2000. He is interested in questioning the efficacy of political art-making, and looks to apotropaic art-making practices, and creates with a conceit of creating a ritual practice to honor, memorialize, protect, and defend Black Lives, from state and extra-judicial violence. His work is in the permanent collection of the African American Museum of the Arts in Deland, FL. Mansa received the 2019 Creator Award from Oolite Arts.