Sultana Harris

Executive DIrector of Woodland Plantation Museum

Sultana Harris is a social practice artist and the Executive Director of The Descendants Project’s Woodland Plantation Museum. Her professional interests foreground ecosystems and ecologies, and internal and external landscapes at the intersections of art, culture,somatics, and the psyche. She has curated and produced projects of large scale public art, horticulture, and film.

Sultana has also participated as both presenter and panelist at arts conferences and professional development and cultural adaptation workshops. Her background in anthropology, psychotherapy, and cultural resource management allows her to articulate and navigate the precarious relationship of equity, solidarity, and collaboration while exploring Black creative processes in the visual and performing arts. Sultana has worked with organizations such as Holistic Resistance, Grief to Action, Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Xavier University of New Orleans’ Department of Psychology, the Gulf Coast Fellowship for Community Transformation and the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs. She serves as board President of the Seattle based nonprofit Color of Sound, which supports artists of color filmmakers creating film projects with an emphasis on social and environmental justice. Sultana stands in solidarity with the land, its travelers, and all earth-others.

Amaya Cooper

Senior Coordinator of Administration and Exhibitions

Amaya Cooper