JJJJJerome Ellis: Offerings

Performance still from Harriet Tubman (Brandon Ross, Melvin Gibbs, JT Lewis) / JJJJJerome Ellis & Holland Andrews, at Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, 2021. Performer: JJJJJerome Ellis. Photo by Cameron Kelly Mcleod, courtesy of ISSUE Project Room
Organized by guest curator Taja Cheek for Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, JJJJJerome Ellis’s (2022 Awardee) Offerings is a series of sound and text performances based on the musical score they created for the Biennial, as well as the billboard they created as part of the collective “People Who Stutter Create.”