Swoon

Caledonia Curry, known as Swoon, is a contemporary artist and filmmaker recognized around the world for her pioneer- ing vision of public artwork. She is best known as one of the first women street artists to gain international recognition in a male-dominated field.

Recent work has focused on the relationship of trauma and addiction. Through community partnerships that center compassion and the transformative power of art, Curry draws on her personal history growing up in an opioid-ad- dicted family as a catalyst for connection and healing. Over the past ten years, she has founded and developed collabo- rative multiyear projects in Braddock, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Komye, Haiti, addressing crises ranging from natural disasters to the opioid epidemic.

She is currently developing a full-length narrative movie that will bring together drawing, immersive installation, stop-mo- tion animation, and her collaborative work.