VENT at Soapbox Gallery 636 Dean Street, Brooklyn NY

Writer, vocalist, and sound artist, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of three chapbooks, Ichi-Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press), Manuel is destroying my bathroom (Belladonna Press), and the album, Televisíon. Her work has been published in Rattapallax, Black Renaissance Noir, Nocturnes, Spoken Word Revolution Redux, The Black Scholar, P.M.S, Jubilat, Everything But the Burden, Muck Works, and Ploughshares forthcoming.   As a vocalist and musician, she has worked with many artists at home and abroad. She has received scholarships, residencies, and fellowships from Cave Canem, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Naropa Institute, Caldera Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts (2003/2009), the Eben Demarest Trust, Harlem Community Arts Fund, Barbara Deming Memorial Grant for Women and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. As an independent curator and director, LaTasha has produced several events with The Black Rock Coalition Orchestra. A native of Harlem, LaTasha is a 2010 Pocantico and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Writer in Residence and a 2010 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant recipient.

http://www.latashadiggs.com/