I am Chaunesti Webb-Johnson, PhD, an Atlanta-based an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, curator, and death doula working at the intersection of performance, ritual and Black feminist thought. My practice moves across live performance, writing, curatorial projects, and floral-based ritual work, and is rooted in a deep curiosity about how Black women artists use aesthetics to blur boundaries, disrupt norms, and reimagine identity and belonging. 

I am drawn to avant-garde practices that privilege experimentation and abstraction as pathways into the subconscious, the dream world, and embodied knowledge. I am particularly invested in questions of time and endurance. 

Across my work, I ask how art might practice care collectively, how it can hold grief and pleasure at the same time, and how we remain connected to ourselves and one another in moments of transition and difficulty. 

I hold a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and an MFA in Theater and Contemporary Performance from Naropa University, and I have worked across museums, universities, and cultural institutions as a curator, writer, and educator. I remain committed to creating spaces onstage, in galleries, and in community where transformation is made possible.