Jameelah Platt
Artist Statement
As a proud Pittsburgh native, Jameelah Platt enjoys engaging with her community. Some of her formal training and education include studying Fine Art at the University of art in Philadelphia Pa. As well as being a teaching artist at Assemble Gallery. Her most recent interest has been in retrieving and unveiling soft and almost dream-like parts of our imaginations. In her own words she stated the following:
“I am a story teller. I look for the anecdotes and fables of people of color, to reanimate the familiar narratives we are told and experience as children. I want to translate the nostalgic moments that we can mutually acknowledge and embrace as a community through the language of gestures and movement with the human figure.”