Vanessa Adams-Harris

Vanessa Adams-Harris

Artist, Lions and Butterflies Artswork

United States

Vanessa Adams-Harris is Muscogee Creek American Indian with African-American/European ancestry.  She is an artist/actor giving particular interest to the historical accuracy of the African-American and Indigenous aesthetic. A producer, director, documentary filmmaker AACT-adjudicator, workshop facilitator/presenter, playwright, docent, human rights community activist/peace-builder and spirit walker. She has performed and/or presented both nationally and internationally. She is Outreach & Alliances for The John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, where trains community members to become docents discussing the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot/Massacre and the history of African-American and Native peoples in Oklahoma as well as a 2018 Oklahoma Chautauqua Scholar, and is training with an international coalition of Women as Drivers Towards Peacebuilding – Just Governance Human Security-X Initiatives of Change-Caux, Switzerland. Currently she is pursuing an MFA-Interdisciplinary Studies Degree from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. Her emphasis is on theater arts/place & identity.