Moments with Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery
Nicole Elaine Avery is a Jamaican-American artist, international award-winning author, award-winning educator, and performer. Her works surround the African-turned-American experience and incorporate multidisciplines. Socially, her art seeks to resist erasure of voice, historical significance, and the existence of Black human beings. Her works have shown across the United States and Brazil. The artist desires to break beyond the borders of hate, invisibility, and racism.
She is a veteran educator who has served both rural and urban communities, facilitating adults and youngsters pre-k through twelfth in curricula ranging from art, literature, and core subjects to ESL. She has also taught dance, drama and physical education.
Her research engages others having them consider the fragility of the Black female among the contemporary convolution of America, and beyond, given historical/religious constructs of the Black female body.
Commissioned Murals
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Directing Debuts
When the past lingers... co-existing with the casual call of the day.
Silenced Dialogues, written & directed by Executive Producer Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery
Beyond the Gate: Your Ride Awaits
Following a reduction-in-force with LAUSD in Wilmington, California Dr. Avery began coining her very first novel based loosely on her zany experiences as a baseball vendor. The Bronx tale follows Nyla, a foster-kid, who navigates through love, loss, and life. As she attempts to escape her abusive foster home by becoming a professional baseball vendor in her local Bronx community, she becomes engulfed in a world of corruption, unbidden sex, and murder. It is a page turner for sure. It is the first edition of a trilogy entitled The Bronx Drama Series.
IN THE VIDEO: As Nyla desperately tries to evade the life given her, she nearly loses her life. (Book trailer to Beyond the Gate: Your Ride Awaits by Nicole Elaine Avery.) Shot, directed and edited by Nicole Elaine Avery. Actor: Sharone' Seaberry as Nyla.
Finding Father
Growing up foster kept NEA from wanting to locate her father. Now, after decades of living without her dad, she begins her search. (Documentary edited and directed by Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery)
Podcast Appearances
What if your childhood trauma wasn't emotional-- What if it was spiritual?
Learn more about my life's journey through my past. Be sure to follow The True Crime Connections Podcast for the full episode and other survivor stories.
The Black female body and unwitting fragility given overtones of past constructs through film and contemporary visuals
Self-Reflection Podcast takes the viewer along a winding trajectory of the Black female body, in American culture, through spiritual revelations and old belief systems coded in today's visual media. Along the way, personal references arise demonstrating how closely aligned Dr. Avery's research is to her own life struggles. Be sure to subscribe: @LiraNdifon
The Detective Writer and I spark a discussion concerning my award winning novel, Beyond the Gate: Your Ride Awaits
Check out my conversation with Sally Barrilla aka The Detective Writer. We laugh, unravel themes, talk topics... then circle back to larger lessons Beyond the Gate offers its readers. Please, make sure you support Sally and her podcast: @maltesefalcon210
Upcoming Podcast with Life as We See it Podcast
Check back for updates, but be sure to peruse previous dialogues.
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