our teaching artists

Working artists passing on skills, culture, and mentorship to the next generation.

TEACHER SHOUTOUT

TEACHER SHOUTOUT

Adeerya Johnson is a digital collections archivist of the early hip-hop collection at the Museum of Pop Culture. As an Atlanta native, she received her bachelor’s in Psychology from Spelman College and a masters in African American Studies at Georgia State University. Currently a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at The University of British Columbia, Adeerya is studying Black women’s connections to southern hip-hop dance cultures through a contemporary hip-hop feminist lens.

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ADEERyA JOHNSON

teaching Artist

teaching artists

Teaching Artists are the heartbeat of The Residency. They bring lived experience, cultural knowledge, and creative skills straight to the young people in our programs. From the studio to the stage, they show what it means to build a career and a life in the culture—and they pass that knowledge forward.

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