I design learning experiences where digital media, sound, performance, and Afro-diasporic history meet. With an MFA from UCLA, I teach creative studio processes, communication, and language courses that help students build new skills and a stronger creative voice.
Teaching
2022-2024
UCLA
Undergraduate Instruction
Assisted with instruction and demonstrations for Drawing and Color, Design Cultures, and Ecological Arts and Justice. Mentored students in visual communication, portfolio development, and critical design practice; created and taught a grant-writing mini-workshop equipping artists with practical skills for funding their work.
2026
Habla Bonito
English Instructor
Teach virtual 1:1 and small-group English courses for adult learners (B1–C2), integrating digital media, academic communication, and professional writing. Developing an original AI literacy curriculum focused on critical engagement with emerging technologies.
2020-Present
Curriculum Design & Workshops
Curriculum Design and Community Education
Designed and taught The Artist’s Way REMIXED, a 12-week program for BIPOC and Queer adult learners, and a virtual playwriting course for teens at Dallas Theater Center. Facilitated arts-based and somatic workshops for community groups.
Creative Work
2024
LIMINOIRE
Creator, Director, Composer
Immersive audiovisual installation | Sound, video, projection mapping
BLACK PACIFICA / The Black Image Center + NewCrits Mentorship Program
Alabaster Projects - Los Angeles, CA
An immersive sound-healing environment exploring Black futurity, ancestral frequencies, and ritual as technology. Integrating archival footage, original compositions, and projection mapping, LIMINOIRE transforms diasporic cultural memory into a multisensory experience of collective rest and speculative possibility.
2023
Unfinished Business
Artist, Sound Designer
Immersive multimedia installation | Sound, archival video, spatial design, assemblage
New Wight Gallery - UCLA
An exploration of ancestral memory, unresolved grief, and the lingering effects of colonial histories. Combining experimental sound, archival video, and assemblaged furniture, UNFINISHED BUSINESS creates a spatial encounter with unfinished rituals, mourning, and the possibilities of transformation.
2020
INTO THE AFROFUTURE: SOUND + VISION ACTIVATION
Creator, Editor, Composer
Sound composition, moving image, guided meditation
Black Womxn Time Camp - Black Quantum Futurism
A virtual sound-and-vision experience translating oral histories and Black futurist temporal frameworks into an experimental digital soundscape. The work explores how sound, memory, and speculative time can activate alternative ways of imagining Black futures.
2010
AIN'T NO RESPECT (FOR THE SOULSINGER)
Creative Director, Composer, Editor
Audiovisual immersive performance / moving image
Five Myles Gallery - Brooklyn, NY
An interdisciplinary work connecting sound, image, and vocal expression through an experimental approach to Black diasporic memory and cultural presence. The work reflects an evolving practice of using composition and audiovisual storytelling to explore the relationships between identity, history, and embodied expression.
Photo by carlosnycphoto.com
Education
UCLA School of Arts & Architecture
MFA in Design Media Arts
Dean’s Student Council
Department Scholarship Recipient
Brooklyn College
B.S. - Interactive Media & Performance Structures
Independent Study, Afro-Brazilian Music & Ceremonial Rituals - Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Dharma Moon
Meditation Teacher Certification
100 hr Meditation Facilitation Certificate from Dharma Moon via Tibet House
Grants & Fellowships
CERF+ Grant, American Craft Council (2025)
The Black Image Center, NewCrits Mentorship Program (2024)
Emerging Artist Grant, California Arts Council (2023)
Rauschenberg Grant, NYFA (2021)
Alissa Bierra Graduate Fellow, UCLA Barbra Streisand Center (2024)
VR Storytelling Fellow, UNCSA (2021–2022)
DEAR Artist Fellow, Caribbean Cultural Center (2021)
Contact
Looking for an adjunct, lecturer, or workshop facilitator?
I’d love to hear from you!
[email protected]
(c) Karine Fleurima | 2026