Mama Nef's profile
Baltimore native Lenett Partlow-Myrick aka Mama Nef is a transdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, spirARTtual activist, and Elder. She creates art out of her lived experiences as an African female in America residing on occupied Native land. Her work is published in several anthologies, including A Community of . . . VOICES, When Divas Laugh, Little Patuxent Review, Dancing Shadow Review, Passager, and Poetry Baltimore. She has held writing residencies and commissions with the Ripken Reading Center, Baltimore Homeless Union, Maryland Food Committee, The Way Space, and Miami Light Project. Her works for the stage include the 2-act dramedy The Conjure Woman Episode, The Dance We Do When We Be Sistas! one-act play, and jazzoetry collaborations. She also serves as a story editor for Imani Network.
Mama Nef’s visual art has been featured at the Ecomedia Blagden ArtScience Warehouse, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, on the covers of Passager literary journal, in the Dos-à-Dos book art exhibit with Jenny O'Grady, and in group exhibitions at the Hamilton Gallery. She curates visual-literary exhibits, most recently Healing Bridges Across the Divide: Baltimore with Rain Pryor. In 2022, she wrote and produced her first documentary video, Making Our Spaces Sacred.
Mama Nef has taught literature, writing, and sacred space practices at Goucher College, the Osher Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Howard Community College, and the OMEGA Institute for Holistic Studies. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English, a master’s degree in Leadership for Sustainability, attended the Creative Writing and Publishing Arts MFA program at the University of Baltimore, and is currently completing her Ph.D. in Transdisciplinary Leadership, Creativity, and Sustainability. She is an Artists U Baltimore co-leader with Victor Rogers and a member of the Artists U national leaders community.
