Rena Anakwe is a Canadian-Nigerian-American interdisciplinary artist, performer, and healer working primarily with sound, visuals, and scent.
She explores the intersections between traditional healing practices, spirituality, and performance. Her works focus on creating alternatives to the existing system of clinical mental health care by creating diasporic healing practices and interventions staged in places in which we gather for arts and entertainment and in the privacy of our own personal spaces.
Portrait by Kofmotivation
Studios
New Hampshire
Chinazo Rena Anakwe worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New
Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain,
Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in
1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed
maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow
Victor
Candell underwrote
the…
