Germaine Ingram is a performing artist, vocal and movement improviser, percussive dancer, cultural strategist, writer, creative thought-partner, oral historian and archivist. A principal focus of her practice is the histories and cultures of Philadelphians of the African Diaspora. She creates songs, texts and choreographies for performance works, and designs and executes projects that tell stories of African American life, arts and culture. She designs and supports environments and creative structures for exploring the power of improvisation to animate performance and hone habits of connection among people and between people and their built and natural environments. Her archival work challenges the ways that conventional archives tell the stories of African Americans and other marginalized people, and supports important African American culture bearers in collecting and preserving their archival assets. Among other awards and honors, she has received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Fellowship, and a Rauschenberg Fellowship.
