“Untitled (Washer Woman Was Here) no. 1–3,” 2025, fiber-based textile sculptural installation. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Nicoletta de la Brown
Teaching Artist Cohort
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2026
Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown (she/they) is an award-winning Panamanian-American interdisciplinary artist, teaching artist, and wellness educator whose practice bridges contemporary art, ancestral ritual, and embodied care. Born in Baltimore and raised in New York, she draws upon her Panamanian heritage and lineage of healers to create immersive performances, sculptural installations, fiber works, and video artworks that foster playful exploration, healing, and belonging.
A former sculpture professor at Towson University and MICA MFA in Community Arts faculty member, de la Brown is currently a faculty member at the Baltimore School for the Arts. She has led workshops at Brown University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Kennedy Center. She founded the Art Antidote Project, providing art-making experiences to organizations serving young families and children, including Johns Hopkins Pediatric Hospital. Through her studio, she leads the Making as Medicine Lab, bringing healing-centered art-making directly to the community, including a collaboration with the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Her work has been presented by the Phillips Collection, the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the National Aquarium, the Tribeca Film Festival, and KODA Governors Island, with presentations at FEMME Art Fair and SCOUT Art Fair. She is an artist-in-residence at the Creative Alliance, a Vermont Studio Center Marshall Frankel Fellow, and a MacDowell Fellow. Honors include the MAP Fund Grant, Ruby Artist Grant, LTYC Community Artist Award, and a Golden Apple Award for arts education.
Selected works
“Ghost Mola,” 2016, fiber, textile, organza, cotton, thread, 9 × 9 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Untitled (silk prints),” 2024–2025, fiber, textile, mixed-media sculpture, organza, silk, chiffon, gel medium, paper, ink, dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Untitled (botánica),” 2024, fiber, textile, print on velvet embellished with lace and Swarovski crystals, 53 × 48 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“El Barrio Bodega (series),” 2013, embroidered corner store grocery bags, dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Untitled (Our Babies),” 2023, archival photographs from the African American Real Photo Postcard Collection at the Sheridan Libraries, 11.5 × 8 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“BE(LONGING),” 2023, installation including video, photographic self-portraits, and site-specific performance. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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