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KEITA ANNIE WHITTEN
Interdisciplinary Artist | Founder, Keita’s Pathways | Soul Mapping
Phone: (207) 632-6167
Email: keitaawhitten@gmail.com
Website: www.keitawhittenfoster.com
Facebook: Keita A Whitten Interdisciplinary Artist
Location: Bowdoin, Maine
Maine-based interdisciplinary artist working across mixed-media painting, assemblage, sculpture, writing, sound, movement, and performance. Creator of Soul Mapping, an intuitive process joining material, memory, ancestry, Spirit, and embodied knowing. Founder of Keita’s Pathways, a restorative arts sanctuary for elder multicultural, Aboriginal, Indigenous, and mixed-race women artists. Earlier career spans social work, somatic practice, higher education, community organizing, cultural equity, radio, and public writing.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Heart Works: Art That Moves Us, juried group exhibition, curated by Art Agent Maine.
2026 FREEDOM, juried group exhibition honoring Black History and Women’s History Months, SMI’s Leach Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey.
2026 The Water Guardians, essay and visual-art publication, Wabanaki REACH: Voices of Decolonization.
2025–26 Art Inspired by Nature, juried online exhibition, Manhattan Arts International and The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS.
2025 SNOW I, juried small-works exhibition, Freeport, Maine.
2025 Microplastic Series, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
2024 Water-Life-Flow, debut solo exhibition, Denmark Center for the Arts, Denmark, Maine.
2024 BIG Show, Western Maine Art Group/Main Street Gallery, Norway, Maine.
2022 Re-Editioning Black + Native Histories: Re/Union, Indigo Arts and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine.
2021 Freedom in Captivity: Art on Abolition, Somatic Liberation Dance performance, Space Gallery/Indigo Arts, Portland, Maine.
Selected Earlier Leadership & Professional Experience
Founder and Private Practitioner, Redefining Therapy / Ready, Set, Thrive | Portland and Western Maine | 2014–early 2020s
Developed body-centered approaches to adversity, intergenerational trauma, family systems, racialized stress, and embodied liberation; created Somatic Liberation Dance Waves.
Clinician, Community Counseling Center / Portland Public Schools / Connections for Kids | Maine | 2010–2015
Provided school-, outpatient-, and home-based services to youth and families, including rural communities.
Co-Interim Director, Multicultural Student Affairs, University of Southern Maine | Portland | 2005–2008
Led student support, programming, cultural-equity initiatives, staff supervision, and campus/community partnerships.
Founder/Facilitator, Cultivating Multicultural Alliances | Maine | 2006–2011
Provided anti-racist facilitation, mediation, conflict resolution, and multicultural organizational development.
AmeriCorps VISTA, Maine Coalition for Food Security | Portland | 1997–1999
Coordinated community food-access initiatives, organizing, and advocacy.
Education & Training
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MSW, University of Southern Maine, 2005
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BSW, University of Southern Maine, 2002 — magna cum laude; Phi Alpha Honor Society president
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Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, 2016
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Kripalu Yoga Teacher certification, 2008
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Mixed-Media Intensive, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Media, Performance & Community Leadership
Producer/Host, Mama Afrika Show, WMPG Community Radio | Community Voices columnist, Portland Press Herald | Vocalist with Maine reggae and acoustic musicians | Portland Community Dance DJ | Brooklyn Immersionist performance artist | Founder, Harriet Tubman Movement Coalition
Founder | Somatic Liberation Dance Waves for BIPOC Communal Healing
Founder | The Harriet Tubman Movement Coalition
Founder | Ready, Set, Thrive
Founder | Redefining Therapy
MEDIA & PERFORMANCE
Sacred Rebel DJ Space Holder | Harrison Me,
Community Dance DJ | Portland, Maine
Producer & Host | Mama Afrika Show, WMPG Community Radio
Contributing Writer | Portland Press Herald
Vocalist | Portland-based reggae bands and acoustic collaborations
Brooklyn Immersionists | Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
For inquiries, commissions, and current projects: