ABOUT

Cory Seals is an Interdisciplinary Artist & Community Curator from Decatur, GA and studied jazz voice at the University of the Arts where he received a bachelor of fine arts. He uses his practices including vocal jazz, sonic landscape, and improvisation encompassing voice, text, and contemporary movement as an expression of radical care and to create community around the diversely interconnected experiences of living in blackness and queerness. Alongside his own projects, Seals is currently a cast member of Faye Driscoll’s new work “Weathering” and has had the pleasure of training with Ishmael Houston Jones, Pape Ibrahima N’diaye (Kaolack), Reginald Pindell, Paul Adkins, V. Shayne Frederick, Marguerite Hemmings, Kyle Clark, Curt Haworth, Courtney Henry, Christina Kristal Rizzo, Pietro Gagliano, Marta Bellu, Andrea Lovo, Andrea d’Amore, and Nicki & Jorge Cousineau, among others. He also offers services in event organization, research & development, creative direction, and arts consulting. 

Seals has committed most of his life to his passions for art and activism. He uses performance, two dimensional art, and research to bridge the gap between activism and art practices; and create spaces of freedom and expression to empower others to live in the fullness of their experience. His community engagement derives from his upbringing in the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, a city rich with black activist history, where he created and engaged in several outreach programs, protest demonstrations, and art events as a selected Youth of the Year. He then moved to Philadelphia, PA to attend the University of the Arts to pursue his interdisciplinary practice and further expand his community engagement. During his time at Uarts he was awarded President’s Award for Interdisciplinary Excellence and Inclusive Excellence as an artist and for his leadership in multiple community centered roles including creating diverse programming for the UArts student body and live events in the Philadelphia art community.