Born in 1998 in Prince George’s County, MD, R. Treshawn Williamson is a Chicago-based Essayist and Multidisciplinary artist of black American Descent. He earned his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Majoring in Visual critical studies and Interdisciplinary Studio practices. Williamson’s work meditates on obstructing and surveilling Black Americans’ lived histories. It investigates the application of cultural re-imagination in the African Diaspora through the engagement of oral histories, post-colonial theory, folklore, and ethnomusicology.

Contributions: Two works [Spring 2024]