About Nikesha Breeze

Nikesha Breeze is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and scholar whose work is deeply rooted in the exploration of Black, Indigenous, and Queer identity, history, and futurism. With a practice spanning sculpture, performance, film, and community engagement, Breeze uses their art to interrogate histories of racialized violence, erasure, and resilience while creating spaces for healing and transformation. Their work often embodies a profound connection to land, ancestry, and the sacred, inviting audiences to reflect on themes of liberation, decolonization, and embodied memory.

As a direct descendant of Blackdom, New Mexico—the early 20th-century all-Black freedom town—Breeze carries a unique and personal connection to the Southwest's overlooked histories of Black resilience and ingenuity. This heritage has informed much of their artistic practice, including Stages of Tectonic Blackness, an ongoing collaborative series of durational performances, ritual mourning rites, and community engagement projects. These works center Black bodies and Earth bodies in acts of resistance, reclamation, and reimagined futures.

This website was launched as part of Nikesha’s solo museum exhibition at the University Art Museum in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in collaboration with New Mexico State University. It serves as an educational portal, a space to share the evolving Stages of Tectonic Blackness project, and a digital repository for the stories and oral histories of Blackdom. By weaving together archival research, community storytelling, and creative practice, Nikesha envisions this platform as a living archive of Black history and futurism, amplifying voices that have been historically silenced.

Through this space, Nikesha Breeze invites audiences to engage deeply with the legacies of Blackdom and the ongoing work of collective remembrance and restoration. Whether through artistic projects, historical storytelling, or community collaboration, this platform honors the vision of freedom, sovereignty, and ingenuity that lies at the heart of Blackdom’s history—and carries it forward into the future.