Artist | Educator | Astrologer
Dr. Eva Peskin
movement researcher, study partner, earthlover, learning from planetary movements and the Tree of Life: how to sing and how to write a poem, how to find the rhythm of mutually nurturing relationships, how to practice ethical collaboration, how to be at home in my body, how to honor the moon.
[image description: white settler queer jewish art witch lunatic perches among orange flowers and foliage of varied greens and yellows, wearing a Power Outfit, feeling witnessed on Christopher Street by Lola Flash for Queer | Art | Mentorship’s 2019 Community Portrait Project]
My work emerges from a life-long study of creative process and embodied practice, and how they relate to transformation. I recognize access and consent as pre-conditions for creativity; I cultivate the capacity to read and understand histories of power in situated contexts; and I approach collaboration as a training in collective survival. Drawing on my background in play/making and creative practice-as-research, I engage art, education, and astrology as time-based arenas for enacting self-determined and mutually empowering relations with ourselves, each other and all our living companions, informed by the cycles of our celestial and terrestrial bodies. I hold a PhD from the Harriet Tubman Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, a Permaculture Design Certificate from Earth Activist Training, an MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Art from CUNY-Brooklyn College, and a BA in Music from Barnard College.