Author: Janyce Denise Glasper
Janyce Denise Glasper is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and independent scholar from Dayton, Ohio. She obtained a drawing emphasis BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and a post baccalaureate certificate and MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her artworks have been exhibited in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, Michigan, and New York, and her writings have been published in RaceBaitr, Wear Our Voice, Black Youth Project, midnight & indigo, SONKU Literary Magazine, Dayton City Paper, Soap Opera Digest, Decorating Dissidence, and Moonstone Art Press’s anthology, Philadelphia Celebrates Gwendolyn Brooks. She previously presented Metaphoric Idiosyncrasies: A Fable in the Vine at Black Portraiture[s] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures in Johannesburg, South Africa. Currently, she is a remote contributing writer for artblog in Philadelphia, runs AfroVeganChick, femfilmrogues, and Black Women Make Art (BWMA). Recently she spoke on The Power of Black Feminist Creatives in the Arts, an upcoming SXSW Online panel. Follow Janyce on Twitter @blackartwriter and on Instagram @janycedeniseglasper. For more information about Janyce see her website here: https://jdglasper.wixsite.com/artist-cv