Amoke Kubat remains curious about self, the natural world, and the Sacred. She reclaims African Indigenous Spiritual sensibilities to reconnect to the first worlds, Spirit and Nature, as practice for holistic wellness. Self-taught, Amoke uses artmaking and writing to continue to heal herself and hold a position of wellness in an America sick with social injustices.

Amoke is an accidental playwright. Her play ANGRY BLACK WOMAN & Well Intentioned White Girl began as a conversation with a friend. Amoke expressed her annoyance with being called “angry black woman.” Her friend responded, “Like the well intentioned white girl'”? This play continues to tour as public readings in Minneapolis and rural Minnesota cities, and is available on Vimeo. As a Naked Stage Fellow, her second play, Old Good Pussy and Good Old Pussy, was performed at the Pillsbury House Theater in 2020. This play explores aging, ageist stereotypes, sexuality, and the social interpersonal tensions between intergenerations.

Fellowship Statement

My artistry is a tapestry of growing relationships, that has been woven from a motherless life, non-traditional black experience, discovery of the self through pain and tribulations as I strive to live my fullest life. I draw upon the strengths of diasporic African peoples and my Ancestors.

In 2020, in the time of COVID and World Wide Socio-political UNRESTS, I fought past, present and future. It was the battle to proclaim and be heard that, MY LIFE MATTERED when growing old is disdainfully feared. Old and aging peoples are more vulnerable and at risk and sometimes seen as collateral damage.

My new work will explore Black women's UNSAIDS about AGING; mind, body, and sexuality. But what if old black women, upon turning 100, revealed themselves to be Goddesses?