Jaguar Mary is a performance artist, glossolalia vocalist, filmmaker, and hoop dancer. Her specific concerns, and the directives that have driven her work, engage black feminist discourse, ritual performance in community, and practices of liberation and freedom-making. JM has shown films and performed internationally at the Havana and Johannesburg Biennials, KARST (UK), Museo de Belles Artes (Venezuela) and more. She began her radio journey with the program, WOKE AMP (art+music+presence) featuring interviews with performance artists, scholars, and presenters which broadcast on Pratt Institute’s internet radio outlet, WPIR, for three years. JM is originally from Washington, DC and currently lives in the Rondout area of Kingston.
Made in Kingston, NY