Stories allow us to practice empathy, to process and disrupt generational trauma, and to support and uplift generational joy and love. Join us for a conversation about the power of storytelling moderated by Triennial artist Alison Croney Moses and featuring playwright Mfoniso Udofia, educator + award-winning director Ng’endo Mukii, and educator + puppeteer Tanya Nixon-Silberg.
This conversation is held in partnership with the Huntington Theatre and Roxbury Community College.
This event is generously made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' Public Art Program with funding from Barr Foundation.
Alison Croney Moses (b. 1983) is a Boston-based artist primarily working in wood, investigating craft, community, identity, and motherhood. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Rose Museums, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. She is a recipient of the 2022 USA Fellowship in Craft, and 2023 Boston Artadia Award, a finalist of the 2024 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize and the recipient of the 2024 Black Mountain College International Artist Prize.
Mfoniso Udofia is a first-generation Nigerian-American storyteller and educator. From 2024-2026, a consortium of theatre companies and activation partners across Boston will produce all of Mfoniso’s 9-play UFOT FAMILY CYCLE, which follows three generations of a Nigerian-American family. SOJOURNERS, THE GROVE, RUNBOYRUN, HER PORTMANTEAU and IN OLD AGE have been seen at the Huntington Theatre, Round House Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, American Conservatory Theater, Playwrights Realm, Magic Theater, National Black Theatre, Strand Theater, and Boston Court.
Ng’endo Mukii is an Annie award-winning and British Animation Award-nominated film director. She is most well known for ‘Enkai,’ an episode on the Disney+ animated anthology, Kizazi Moto. Her mixed-media and inter-genre approach to filmmaking, particularly focused on the experiences of indigenous African women, gives her an incredibly unique visual language and a preeminent voice in animation.
Tanya Nixon-Silberg is a Black mother, multi-modal artist, native Bostonian, educator, and founder of Little Uprisings—an organization focused on centering artivism, racial justice, and liberation with kids and their adults. Her primary artistic identities lie in puppetry, storytelling, and craft, and her work moves through the lens of liberation for Black folks. Tanya is currently in a multi-year partnership with Boston and Brookline Public Schools, leading anti-bias/anti-racism professional learning and curriculum development.