ELIAICHI KIMARO
Artist Bio
https://elikimaro.com/

Eliaichi Kimaro worked for 12 years as a community organizer and crisis counselor supporting survivors of rape and abuse before she found filmmaking. She has produced over 80 videos for nonprofits addressing social, racial and economic justice issues.

Her feature film A Lot Like You (2011) won six Best Documentary Awards on the film festival circuit before being broadcast nationally on PBS. A Lot Like You shows how our experiences of culture, race, class, gender and trauma shape our understanding of who we are and where we come from. After eight years on the international campus/conference lecture circuit, Eliaichi distilled her keynotes in her 2016 TEDxSeattle talk, “Why the World Needs Your Story.”

In 2014, visual art became her primary focus. Eliaichi was selected for the Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) Gallery's Artist Residency in 2017. Since then, she has been the recipient of the Artist Trust Fellowship, two CityArtist Grants through Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture, and a scholarship from the International Encaustic Association. Eliaichi has served on numerous nonprofit Boards, art grant panels, film festival juries, museum exhibition planning committees, and advisory committees. She is a member artist at Columbia City Gallery and the COCA Gallery, and a juried member of the City of Seattle’s Ethnic Artist Roster and the Art In Shops program.