Damali Abrams the Glitter Priestess embodies Afro-Caribbean watery expressions of the Divine Femme, swimming the depths of the Black radical imagination in order to collage alternate realities in intergalactic spaces under the sea. Damali is a New York City based artist, reiki practitioner, and educator. Damali attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA from New York University. Damali is a member of SEQAA (Southeast Queens Artist Alliance) and was a Creative-In-Residence at Brooklyn Public Library. She is a recipient of the Women's Studio Workshop Right Now! Production Grant and the Queens Council on the Arts New Works Grant. She has been a fellow at Culture Push, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, A.I.R. Gallery, and apexart in Seoul, South Korea. Damali has also been an Artist-in-Residence at RU (Residency Unlimited), Fresh Milk in Barbados, Groundation Grenada & The Center for Book Arts