Joni Renee Whitworth is an artist and writer from rural Oregon.
They have performed at The Moth, the Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Art alongside Marina Abramovic. They teach poetry at the MacLaren Correctional Facility in Woodburn, Oregon, in partnership with the Morpheus Youth Project.
Their writing explores themes of nature, future, family, and the neurodivergent body, and has appeared in Lambda Literary, Oregon Humanities, Proximity Magazine, Eclectica, Pivot, SWWIM, Smeuse, Superstition Review, xoJane, Unearthed Literary Journal, Dime Show Review, and The Write Launch.
Portland Parks and Recreation selected Whitworth as a Spring 2019 Artist in Residence, and Oregon State University will welcome them as a Trillium Project Resident later this year.
They have performed at The Moth, the Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Art alongside Marina Abramovic. They teach poetry at the MacLaren Correctional Facility in Woodburn, Oregon, in partnership with the Morpheus Youth Project.
Their writing explores themes of nature, future, family, and the neurodivergent body, and has appeared in Lambda Literary, Oregon Humanities, Proximity Magazine, Eclectica, Pivot, SWWIM, Smeuse, Superstition Review, xoJane, Unearthed Literary Journal, Dime Show Review, and The Write Launch.
Portland Parks and Recreation selected Whitworth as a Spring 2019 Artist in Residence, and Oregon State University will welcome them as a Trillium Project Resident later this year.
SELECTED PROJECTS
- 2019, Featured artist at Risk/Reward Festival
- 2018, Released Top Ten Memories of the Green Chair, a visual elegy
- 2017, Published Your Full Real Name, a poetry chapbook
- 2016, Hosted Moon Prism Power Sailor Moon Art Show at The Galallery in San Francisco, California
- 2015, Produced "Queering the Wedding Industry", an LGBTQ wedding industry conference
- 2014, Won The Moth Story Slam at the Secret Society in Portland, Oregon
- 2013, Published an essay for xoJane (now known as HelloGiggles)
- 2012, Choreographed dances for Chautauqua with Stacy Dawson Stearns at the Segerstrom Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, California
- 2011, Performed a two-day live and interactive art piece with Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Contemporary Art Annual Gala in Los Angeles, California.
- 2011, Released In the Valley of Secrets, an EP of folk music. The full album can be heard here.
- 2010, Founded a coalition of artists to support artists of color, autistic and differently-abled artists, and other minority artists living and working in Santa Ana, California. Managed this group for two years under the City of Santa Ana Planning Office and Downtown, Inc.
- 2010, One of Joni's original art works, a painted piano commissioned by the Pacific Symphony of Orange County, was selected for a two-year installation and display in the Santora Building of the Artists' Village in Santa Ana, California.
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