BLAX Museum is a talent showcase created by Cleveland writer and cultural facilitator Michelle R. Smith that is open to all forms and dedicated to honoring notable Black figures in American history and culture. It is an annual event featuring Black artists from Northeast Ohio that pay homage through original art and honorary performances and presentations.
For BLAX Museum 2022, poet Danielle N. Dixon is paying tribute to groundbreaking poet Ntozake Shange with an original poem entitled "Somebody Walked Off Wid Alla My Stuff."
Ntozake Shange (Oct 18, 1948-Oct 27, 2018), born Paulette Williams, was the daughter of an Air Force surgeon and psychiatric social worker. She attended Barnard College and the University of Southern California, where she earned a BA and MA respectively in American Studies. Her college years were difficult. After the end of her first marriage, she attempted suicide several times. While earning her MA, she reaffirmed her new "lease" on life by taking her African name, which means "she who comes with her own things" and she "who walks like a lion." Shange forged a successful triple career as an educator, performer/director, and writer whose work drew heavily on her experiences as a Black American woman. She was perhaps most famous for her choreo-poem play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1975). The play received an Obie Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, and the AUDELCO Award as well as Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award nominations. In 2010, director Tyler Perry adapted the play into a feature film. Throughout her career, Shange taught at numerous universities and was the recipient of numerous honors, awards, and fellowships, including a Pushcart Prize.
Danielle N. Dixon is a published author, poet, and artist. By day, she is an underwriter for an insurance company. She is an alumna of Cleveland School of the Arts and has a BA in Visual Art from Kent State University. She was a Twelve Literary Arts Baldwin House writer-in-residence in 2020. She will be an Akron Soul Train Artist in Residence in 2022. Her work has been published in Neighborhood Voices, Cleveland Stories: Volume II, Inclusion Magazine, and The Luna Negra. Danielle was born and raised in Cleveland, where she still resides.
Contact Danielle N. Dixon here: / danielle.n.dixon.7
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