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Jjjjjerome Ellis a multi-instrumentalist, writer, composer, and disability advocate. He was born in 1989 in Connecticut to Jamaican and Grenadian parents. He was raised in Virginia Beach, VA and studied music theory at Columbia University. [1] [2] He resides in Norfolk, Virginia with his wife, ecologist and poet Luísa Black Ellis.[ citation needed]
Ellis received a Fulbright fellowship in 2015 to study samba in Salvador, Brazil [3], and is a two-time MacDowell Fellow. [4] In 2022, he has received the United States Arts Fellowship [5] as well as a Creative Capital award. [6]
Ellis has an ongoing practice of spelling his first name with five j's as a way of honoring the fact that he often stutters the most on his name. [7] His work, spanning across photography, poetry, and music, explores divinity, time, and the politics of Black dysfluency. Ellis has referenced Black liturgical traditions and improvisational practices as core artistic influences, citing especially his grandfather, who was a Pentecostal minister. He also cites Saidiya Hartman, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Christina Sharpe as influences. His debut album and songbook, The Clearing, grew out of his essay "The clearing: Music, dysfluency, Blackness, and time,” published in 2020 in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies (Volume 5, Issue 2). [8]
His second book, Aster of Ceremonies, was published by Milkweed Editions in October 2023. It is a collection of poems, prayers, and essays contending with the archives of "escaped slave advertisements," dealing especially with advertisements referencing enslaved people who were said to have spoken with a stutter. [9] His second studio album, Compline in Nine Movements, is a contemplative, improvisational piano album. [10]
Ellis is active in the stuttering pride community, a movement that repositions stuttering as a valuable way of speaking. He was a part of the team that developed the stuttering pride flag [11] and, when asked to design the billboard for the 2024 Whitney Biennial, founded the group People Who Stutter Create to create a design honoring those who stutter. [12]
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Jjjjjerome Ellis a multi-instrumentalist, writer, composer, and disability advocate. He was born in 1989 in Connecticut to Jamaican and Grenadian parents. He was raised in Virginia Beach, VA and studied music theory at Columbia University. [1] [2] He resides in Norfolk, Virginia with his wife, ecologist and poet Luísa Black Ellis.[ citation needed]
Ellis received a Fulbright fellowship in 2015 to study samba in Salvador, Brazil [3], and is a two-time MacDowell Fellow. [4] In 2022, he has received the United States Arts Fellowship [5] as well as a Creative Capital award. [6]
Ellis has an ongoing practice of spelling his first name with five j's as a way of honoring the fact that he often stutters the most on his name. [7] His work, spanning across photography, poetry, and music, explores divinity, time, and the politics of Black dysfluency. Ellis has referenced Black liturgical traditions and improvisational practices as core artistic influences, citing especially his grandfather, who was a Pentecostal minister. He also cites Saidiya Hartman, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Christina Sharpe as influences. His debut album and songbook, The Clearing, grew out of his essay "The clearing: Music, dysfluency, Blackness, and time,” published in 2020 in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies (Volume 5, Issue 2). [8]
His second book, Aster of Ceremonies, was published by Milkweed Editions in October 2023. It is a collection of poems, prayers, and essays contending with the archives of "escaped slave advertisements," dealing especially with advertisements referencing enslaved people who were said to have spoken with a stutter. [9] His second studio album, Compline in Nine Movements, is a contemplative, improvisational piano album. [10]
Ellis is active in the stuttering pride community, a movement that repositions stuttering as a valuable way of speaking. He was a part of the team that developed the stuttering pride flag [11] and, when asked to design the billboard for the 2024 Whitney Biennial, founded the group People Who Stutter Create to create a design honoring those who stutter. [12]