Maceo Paisley

For the past decade Maceo Paisley has danced professionally, performed on national stages as a dancer, spoken word and performance artist. As an artist and curator Maceo has collaborated with director Leila Jarman, and composer Michael Sempert, to create the short film Dynamite that won the Grand Jury Award as well as the Social Justice Award from the 2019 In/Motion Film Festival. His first book Tao Of Maceo: Identity, Relationships, Work: A Journal On Living, is available from Correspondence Print where books are sold. His TedxCrenshaw talk, How To Make Time, can be viewed on their site.

He is currently on curatorial fellowship at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

Maceo will be sharing his perspective on radical new ways to think about how we listen, what we hear, and how that affects our conversations and interactions.