Joyce LeeAnn is a certified archivist, an interdisciplinary artist, and the founder of Archival Alchemy®. She has worked for a community archive, a corporate archive, a large public library, and a prestigious museum. However, her archival praxis began as a young Black girl, and as an act of decolonization she centers her innate methods. In 2011, Joyce LeeAnn self-published her archival text, somethymes grief goes for a walk. In 2013, she completed the Broad Squad Institute with Brown Girls Burlesque, and co-curated The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving at the Schomburg Center. She’s been: an Archivist/Artist-in-Residence at the Heidelberg Project, a House of Noire gem, a featured artist in The Noire Pageant, a Create Change fellow with The Laundromat Project, alumni of the EmergeNYC incubator, and a MoCADA Creator in Residence. She has performed at the RUTAS and 7A11D festivals in Toronto, Jeezy’s Juke Joint in Chicago; variety show at the Bijou Theater in Bridgeport; various venues and productions within NYC, including the Brooklyn Museum, Laurie Beechman Theatre, House of Yes, Shades of Burlesque, Coney Island USA, Underground Cabaret, as well as with Dandy Wellington and his band.
