Multicultural Lectures - video

damali ayo is a Portland-based artist perhaps best known for her web-art-performance “rent-a-negro.com,” which explores the commodification of race and relationships between blacks and whites. “rent-a-negro” was featured in Salon.com, The Village Voice, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Harper’s magazine, and on the BBC, ABC Australia, and NPR. A resident of Portland since 1997, ayo has exhibited her work in Portland, Seattle and New York. The Oregonian recently named her “One of 12 Emerging Arts Players You Don’t Know But Should.”