Shaw Osha is an artist and educator and has just finished an assemblage that reimagines her work over the last ten years as an artist’s book. The book mixes painting projects with writing to contemplate the relentlessness of racialization in American culture since slavery. Using fragile and unstable materials like pigments, flowers, paper, emotions, and language, her book compares, intersects, and maybe fleetingly locates a haunting of a personal, collective, and social ghost that resists comprehension or meaning but returns and repeats. 

She has exhibited work in venues including New York’s Pocket Utopia; The Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University; Satellite UNC in Chapel Hill, NC, and the Ali Center in Louisville, KY. She is a member of the faculty at Evergreen and teaches an interdisciplinary arts curriculum that allows students to study at the intersections of intellectual, research, and creative activity.