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    Iiyah Isha

    Visual Artist

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    Iiyah Isha is an award winning theatrical designer, Cautauquan and Agri CULTURAL artist whose spoken word and fabric/ visual art fosters the ultimate in the intergenerational oral tradition...she centers all artistic initiatives with multi-cultural/ ancestral focusing as she utilizes the interdisciplinary eclectic communication systems to educate, to encourage, to empower, to bless and to heal. Iiyah Isha describes herself as an Amer Arican Humnist Words Woman...she is the founding mentor of The ULTRA YOUTH! Intergenerational Agri CULTURAL Arts COOPERATIVE COMMUNIVERSITY, 1985. She travels globally to create or perpetuate community gardens and share as one of the world's GRIOT-PSALMISTS...by using the NGUZO SABA (7 principles of Kwanzaa) as a model for PEACE, JUSTICE, and COMMUNITY. EMPOWERMENT...Iiyah Isha has been an arts educator and performer under the umbrellas of the GREATER MEMPHIS BLACK ARTS ALLIANCE ARTS COUNCIL, and ArtsMemphis for more than two decades.


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      Iiyah Isha

      P.O. Box 40854
      Memphis, TN 38174

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