Lashonda Love is an interdisciplinary artist and community arts advocate based in central Ohio. They hold their BA in Music from Denison University and are currently enrolled at the University of Nevada, Reno in pursuit of an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts. Their work explores the cultural hauntings of colonial, patriarchal, and capitalistic corruption and oppression, trauma resilience, environmental decay, and cosmic & ecological kinship and intersectionality. Their work seeks liberatory and subversive methods of resistance as paths forward through darkness, offering a counter-narrative to despair.

 

Lashonda works in a variety of mediums including music, voice acting, projection, and filmmaking, but is currently focused on works that include audio, performance, and social practice at the forefront.

 

Lashonda has performed alongside the ETHEL Quartet, as well as a range of instrumental and dance works at Denison University. Their research and creative written works have been published independently and in collaboration with Denison University, The Ohio State University, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. They have also served in a number of leadership and service roles across multiple art collaboratives, nonprofits, and within their state art agency.