Shameekia Shantel Johnson

Shameekia Shantel Johnson is a writer, curator, and researcher of Afro-Caribbean ancestry from New York City. Working from the critical framework of social architecture, she considers the multidimensional relationship between people, politics, narrative, and environment.

Her nomenclature, Red Notes, is an ongoing body of work investigating Black people’s psycho-spiritual-affective relationship to the color red and its presence in social space. Through color theory and synesthesia, Red Notes examines the chromatic intensity of red existing between body,
memory, and landscape. Red Notes is an interdisciplinary experience tracing cultural movements and embodied phenomena, turning fragments into a (in)complete image of Black expression.