solo magic curatorial team
JADE SOLOMON CURTIS
(She/Her)
Jade Solomon Curtis is the Founder of Solo Magic, a non profit arts initiative that creates socially relevant multi-sensory engagements. She is the visionary and Lead Curator for RBFP and is a Texas born Seattle-based curator, choreographer and dance artist.
Her work explores the body as an artifact of memory, space and time, while integrating Black vernacular movements with mixed-media, contemporary dance and Hip Hop cultural influences.
Curtis received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Southern Methodist University and is a recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project Award and Production Residency Grant for her most notable work Black Like Me: An Exploration of the Word Nigger. Curtis is also an Artist Trust Fellow and a University of South Carolina Inaugural Visiting Fellow. She has received awards from Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture, the Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Artist Trust, and Central District Forum for Art & Ideas. Residencies that have supported her work include Base Experimental + Art Space and the SLIPPAGE Lab at Duke University.
Curtis is also the subject of an Emmy Award-winning short film, Jade Solomon Curtis directed by Ralph Bevins. In 2016, Curtis was selected to tour Cuba as part of Common Ground Music Project; and her solo, Emancipation was produced as part of the landmark exhibition, Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic. Her solo work has also been commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum and the Northwest African American Museum as a part of Complex Exchange: Jacob Lawrence's Great Migration and has toured inter/nationally to places such as South Korea, Canada, Los Angeles and New York.
Follow her on Instagram @jade_solomon_
RANDY FORD
She/Her/Goddess
Randy Ford (Associate Curator), is a Seattle-born Creative. She created and co-produced her first full-length evening show QUEEN STREET at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute with CD Forum in September of 2019. She takes part in many collaborations and collectives: Au Collective, DANDY, The Living Room podcast, and recently the WA Black Trans Task Force. As an artist with many gifts and passions her 2020 Census project will be a peak into how she as a performance artist adjusts to our new virtual reality. She’s also ⅓ of The Living Room Podcast a weekly live podcast where Queer Black Trans folx talk their shit.
Follow them on Youtube|FB|IG @thelivingroomseattle.