All About Avery!
Visual & Performing Arts
International Award Winning Author, Illustrator & Orator
International Award Winning Author, Illustrator & Orator
Visual Arts
(Photographed Above:) Dr. Avery with Kendrick Lamar (not shown) at The Long Beach Art Center in Los Angeles, Ca. Circa 2015. The show, hosted by Cleveland Palmer, celebrated Compton natives positively impacting their community and The Los Angeles community at large.
Aside from teaching art in NYC to elementary and junior high s
Visual Arts
(Photographed Above:) Dr. Avery with Kendrick Lamar (not shown) at The Long Beach Art Center in Los Angeles, Ca. Circa 2015. The show, hosted by Cleveland Palmer, celebrated Compton natives positively impacting their community and The Los Angeles community at large.
Aside from teaching art in NYC to elementary and junior high school students, drawing & painting at Phineas Banning High School in Wilmington, Ca, and art courses at various community colleges, Dr. Avery continues her own art trajectory as a creative, focusing in cardboard, found objects, sculptures from nature, painting & drawing, and video editing.
Dance
In 2012, Dr. Avery earned an AFA in Dance from Compton College where she also facilitated art instruction. While attending Compton College, she completed anthropological research in Senegal, West Africa. Soon after, she joined Faithful Central Dance Company in Los Angeles. Subsequently, Dr. Avery began teaching dance privately, as well as to adolescent student populations, in Los Angeles and New York. As a doctoral candidate, Dr. Avery amplified the unwitting silence felt by Black women creatives in her research, through a solo performance during her certification hearing at Columbia University. The audience, restricted from hearing musical accompaniments afforded the dancer, were immersed in quietude experienced by the study's participants while the dancer (Dr. Avery) moved uninhibitedly.
Fashion Design
Admiring her former foster mother's (Mrs. Thelma Marie Griffin of Savannah, Georgia) ability to sew, Dr. Avery re-lit her own passion for designing clothes. During a break from teaching, she secured an MFA in fashion design, specializing in costuming, from The Academy of Art in San Francisco in 2022. Dr. Avery has designed costumes for Adrienne Unae's Universe, sourced costuming for Black & Brown Theater, (Superheros, Luna Vacia), floats for The African American Day Parade, the photo shoot for the Victory art show, and a variety of docu-shorts. Shy of only a few credits, Dr. Avery returns to The Academy of Art to complete an MFA dedicated to knitwear, and will be presenting her clothing line in Fall 2025. Be sure to check back for updates.
Acting
As a professional voice over artist, Dr. Avery's voiced online commercials, documentary (10:33-11:27) segments, and is currently voicing her novel, Beyond the Gate: Your Ride Awaits. Here is one of her voice samples. Affectionately known as Broadway for her animated charisma, she's worked behind the scenes as a stand-in, stunt double, and featured talent. Her first principal role as Dan ended in a failed pilot. In 2024, she and her former student starred in a stage play entitled, "No One Cared." A member of SAG AFTRA & AEA, these experiences sparked her independent peregrination. Silenced Dialogues, her directing debut, encompasses tvicissitudes of black female body-politics in early America. The title birthed out of Professor Lisa Delpit's academic work in which Dr. Avery co-presented at Teachers College's Re-imagining Education conference in NYC in 2020.
International Award Winning Author, Illustrator & Orator
International Award Winning Author, Illustrator & Orator
International Award Winning Author, Illustrator & Orator
Authorship
An international award winning author, Dr. Avery currently has 20 titles, written across genres, awaiting your perusal.
Beyond the Gate: Your Ride Awaits, her signature novel earned two-finalist awards: one from Readers' Favorite and the other from National Indie Excellence Awards. Her newest Novel, Queen of the South Bronx gar
Authorship
An international award winning author, Dr. Avery currently has 20 titles, written across genres, awaiting your perusal.
Beyond the Gate: Your Ride Awaits, her signature novel earned two-finalist awards: one from Readers' Favorite and the other from National Indie Excellence Awards. Her newest Novel, Queen of the South Bronx garnered her semi-finalist status in America's Next Great Author challenge.
Due to Covid regulations, she couldn't compete to become a finalist. Dr. Avery's books are available on Amazon, Goodreads, Google Books, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.com, and more. She has also illustrated two children's books: Black & White Make Gray, but I'm not an Elephant by Lesley Anderson, and Michelle and Misty by Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery (currently in-press)
Dr. Avery earned her BA from The University of Charleston in West Virginia specializing in English Literature & English Education. Utilizing her knowledge of literature, she has spearheaded her own publishing company: Broadway Empire.
An orator since her teens, Dr. Avery uses her gift-of-gab to speak on pressing topics, such as Satanic Ritual Abuse, sexual abuse, abandonment, work place bullying, Black women's bodies, and the arts to audiences of all ages.
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Creative Arts Consultant, Wellness Instructor
International Award Winning Author, Illustrator & Orator
Creative Arts Consultant, Wellness Instructor
In 2017, Dr. Avery earned a doctorate degree in Art & Art Education hailing from Columbia University, where she also obtained two masters in art: an MA in Art & Art Education, and an EdM in Interdisciplinary Arts.
The core of her research speaks to the unwitting silencing of Black women given historical constructs/imagery. Aside from her
In 2017, Dr. Avery earned a doctorate degree in Art & Art Education hailing from Columbia University, where she also obtained two masters in art: an MA in Art & Art Education, and an EdM in Interdisciplinary Arts.
The core of her research speaks to the unwitting silencing of Black women given historical constructs/imagery. Aside from her dissertation: The Space between Role and Code of the African American Female Choreographer when in Concert with the Dominant Voice of Society, Dr. Avery penned a journal review for the The End of Men: And the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosen. Additional commentary on issues of silencing reside amongst
Dr. Avery's non-fiction book titles.
As a visual artist, Dr. Avery explores spiritual intersections of the human body and cosmic flow... exhibiting her art throughout the United States & Brazil. Recently, she published a table book entitled, Victory, in which she face-painted, photographed, and styled/costumed darker hued women in hopes of upending societal norms of beauty.
A consummate award-winning educator, Dr.
Avery's amassed almost 30 years of experience in the arts as a facilitator and creative. Additionally, she has supervised the construction of several murals, as well as creative arts installations. in NY
& LA.
She has taught pre-school through college in a variety of subjects including English Composition, dance, ELA, ELL, math, science, social science, physical education and visual arts. A veteran in the field, Dr. Avery continues her educational journey as a professional consultant in the field.
Employing art practices (art-making, dance, poetry and drama), Dr. Avery assists clients with stress management.
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