(T)Sedey Gebreyes

Ethiopia, United States

Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (T)sedey is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and beekeeping enthusiast. Her creative work and teaching style are greatly influenced by the wonderful visual artists, theater performers, and storytellers of her childhood community. After moving to the United States, she studied studio arts at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and fine arts and Spanish at University of Veracruz, Mexico.

Following her passion, she moved to San Francisco, California in 2007 where she has held a variety of positions including senior education program manager at Museum of the African Diaspora, adjunct educator at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, teaching artist at the DeYoung Museum, co-founder and teaching artist at MiCultura Art Project, and after school program manager at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and San Francisco Unified School District.

Work from this contributor

Art

The Kaleidoscope of Black Life (I)The Kaleidoscope of Black Life (I)

Seven artists deftly deploy diverse materials and techniques—bamboo, archival research and projection, painting, pen work and photography, and collage, digital manipulation, and installation—in their explorations of urban Black life, womanhood, personal and collective memory, and identity.

By Janine Gaëlle Dieudji, (T)Sedey Gebreyes, and Liz Ikiriko

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