Alonna Shaw is a California-based voice and visual artist, writer, and filmmaker.
Her diverse background in theater, film, television, and fine arts meet in her work, often using techniques borrowed from sculptural collage, chance operations, and hybrid poetics to challenge everyday experience.
She distills consumerism, feminism, and environmental issues into works of place and identity. Her projects offer permission to grow beyond past experiences to develop an increased connection with the greater world.
Upcoming projects include her memoir-based conceptual play and accompanying visual poetry short film Memory’s Line: how does your memory see?
Past projects include the Halloween parody documentary Sweets are Pleasure Foods; and Tidal Language, an eco-poetic photographic/text exploration of the language breaking the surface at coastal boundaries. Her condensed poetry has been published in NOON: journal of the short poem, Otata, and filling Station.
