Nicoletta Darita De La Brown

Nicoletta Darita de la Brown is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and curandero chamána (shamanic practitioner).

Her artworks re-conceive the life of an artist as thriving, nourishing others during and through her art practice, while healing herself in public space as a Black-Latin woman.

She is a MacDowell Fellow, Artist-In-Residence at Baltimore School for the Arts, 2022-24 Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, 2024 KODA Mental Health Resident Artist, 2025 Vermont Studio Center Marshall Frankel Fellowship Artist in Residence.

Former sculpture professor at Towson University and former adjunct faculty in the MFA in Community Arts Graduate Program at Maryland Institute College of Art.

Nicoletta’s performances have been presented at The National Aquarium, Baltimore MD; The Phillips Collection, Washington DC; The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC; The Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building, Washington DC; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore MD; Eubie Blake, Baltimore, MD.

Exhibitions of Nicoletta’s video artworks and installations have been presented at Bennington College Usdan Gallery, Bennington, Vermont; The National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD; The Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY; Baltimore Mu...