Meet the OAI Inaugural Arts+ Resident: Harmony Holiday

Join us in welcoming our first Office for Arts Integration Arts+ Resident, Harmony Holiday. We are excited to celebrate the beginning of her residency with us at the Siebel Center for Design, in the main lobby area, from 5 - 7:00 pm. Food and drinks will be served after an introduction from Dr. Irvin Hunt, the Acting Special Advisor to the Chancellor for Arts Integration. We are grateful to Chancellor Isbell for his support of our new Arts+ residency program and eager to introduce Ms. Holiday as she begins her research and conversations with us at Illinois.  

Holiday is an LA-based writer, dancer, filmmaker, and archivist. Her work explores jazz, celebrity, the female body, genocide, and displacement. She is the author of five poetry collections, including "Maafa," and creator of the 2026 multimodal REDCAT exhibition "Spectacular Brooding," which probes the public and private lives of black grief. Recipient of the 2026 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, she is completing a new poetry collection, a documentary on Lonnie Holley, and a biography of Abbey Lincoln.