About the Artist

Alycia Kamil is a 24-year-old multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and freedom fighter from the South Side of Chicago who uses the power of words and creative expression to create movements and spark change. She is a self and spirit-taught creator. An empty canvas acts as a microphone for her inner thoughts and visions placed within her from guiding forces. She places a heavy emphasis on highlighting Blackness and the global culture that surrounds it. Her chosen mediums are home to Black identities from across the diaspora. She believes that art is healing justice and a revolutionary practice to engage in. Black liberation is at the root of all her work. She translates all the emotions it encompasses through paint, ink, and the flash of a camera. With an innovative style, distinctive characteristics, and a hypnotizing precision within her craft, Alycia is emerging onto the artistic scene breaking boundaries and presenting work that has never been seen before.

Aside from her artistic work, Alycia has been doing on-the-ground community work for the past 9 years emphasizing the importance of mutual aid efforts and accessible arts/radical education. She is the founder of Undoing Our Erasure. UOE, born in 2020, is a podcast turned workshop series that cultivates the building blocks needed to help us achieve our Black-liberated future, as well as providing a platform to Black voices across the diaspora that are typically silenced. For the past four years, Alycia has been creating curriculum, facilitating workshops, running seasonal book clubs, hosting free pop-up stores, hosting programming that assists writers in their creative endeavors, and creating mutual aid initiatives working to provide free books and art supplies to Chicago youth 12-24.