Muse's profile
Muse Dodd or MUSE(O)FIRE is a Baltimore-based filmmaker, sound artist, and creative technologist with deep ancestral roots in the River Parishes of southeastern Louisiana. Their work explores how Blackness exists in the near future, borrowing from personal and collective histories, both actual and imagined. Muse holds a B.A. in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. They have been a recipient of several fellowships and residencies, including the inaugural Corrina Mehiel Fellowship, a Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship, a Squeaky Wheel Artist Residency, and a Theater Mitú Hybrid Arts Lab Fellowship. Muse is a 2025 Rubys Artist Grant Awardee as well as a 2025 Our Art Room Agency Fellow. Their work has been screened at The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Lincoln Center, The Shed, and The ARoS Museum, and they are currently directing the forthcoming documentary, Black in Both Directions. Through their work, Muse hopes to create space for Black people to be free, both in and out of frame.
