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Cory Seals is an interdisciplinary artist & community curator born in Atlanta, GA and based in Philadelphia, PA. Seals uses his practices including vocal jazz, sonic landscape, and improvisation encompassing voice, text, and movement as an expression of radical care and to create community around the diversely interconnected experiences of living in blackness and queerness. Alongside his own projects, Seals has had the pleasure of training with Reginald Pindell, Paul Adkins, V. Shayne Frederick, Marguerite Hemmings, Kyle Clark, Curt Haworth, Courtney Henry, Christina Kristal Rizzo, Pietro Gagliano, Marta Bellu, Andrea Lovo, and Nicki & Jorge Cousineau, among others. His most recent work includes SOUNDS OF SPIRIT, a soundscape of traditional spirituals and sonic musings meant to conjure a continuum of African American presence as a dialogue with the Arthur Ross Gallery’s exhibition “John E. Dowell: Path To Freedom.”