Media Artist | Writer | GenderQueer | Contemplative
M Freeman lives and works at the southern tip of the Salish Sea on the unceded land of the Medicine Creek Treaty Tribes. They work in myriad ways with reckoning and resiliency, queerness and film, and contemplative, creative and social art practices.
“Why wake up? Because the world is beautiful. Because the world is terrible. Because we live in urgent times with no time to waste.” — The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory and Contemplative Practice of Media Art (3rd Thing, 2020) by M Freeman
Freeman’s text and media arts lyric essays/poems have been published/
exhibited in/at Blackbird, The Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, TriQuarterly, Rolling Stone, Abbey of the Arts, The 3rd Thing Press Good Symptom video anthology, Experiments in Cinema, Cadence, MicroActs…. Their films are screened on PBS and in galleries, retreat centers, museums, and festivals worldwide.
Creator of Cinema Divina and Contemplative Rest, and author of The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory & Contemplative Practice of Media Art (The 3rd Thing, 2020, winner of the Nautilus Book Award’s Gold Medal for Creativity & Innovation), M is the recipient of multiple Washington State Artist Trust Media Arts Fellowships, Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects, The Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation Grant, and The Evergreen State College Faculty Foundation Grant. Their work has garnered numerous accolades.
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