Dr. Roseline Armange is an Afro-Caribbean multi-medium artist and writer who holds an MFA in Writing (2025) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their work weaves ceramics, visual arts, and literature to investigate repair, race, queerness, and eco-poetics. They earned a doctorate in cognitive psychology with summa cum laude distinction from EPHE–Sorbonne and have held fellowships at the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Their poetry, scholarship, and visual-textual work appear in Antennae, Social Science Information, and in the series Comparative Literary Histories of Slavery: The Atlantic World and Beyond. They have been awarded a Scholar-in-Residence position at the Newberry Library for the 2025–26 academic year to further their decolonial inquiry into Atlantic slavery and archival silence.
Tales of Shells, 2025, Tales of Shells, Mixed media on panel, 16 × 16 in., Photo by Lucy Jane-Rose
Collaged panels layer acrylic, fabric, and archival fragments to reimagine historical narratives through Caribbean memory. This work maps tensions between absence and presence, offering a visual act of speculative repair.
Marching Still, 2025, Marching Still, Sculptural ceramics installation in red clay., Photo by Lucy Jane-Rose
Clay body parts—legs, feet—and driftwood form a corridor of remembrance and ancestral presence. Rooted in red clay and haptic poetics, the installation invites embodied witnessing and quiet repair.
Marching Still, 2025, Marchin Still, Sculptural ceramics installation in red clay., Photo by Lucy Jane-Rose
Clay body parts—legs, feet—and driftwood form a corridor of remembrance and ancestral presence. Rooted in red clay and haptic poetics, the installation invites embodied witnessing and quiet repair.
I use the roots of my Caribbean history and geography to investigate how brown, female, queer people and bodies of nature are heightened as radical spaces for restorative healing and acts of political and epistemic repairs. I work from a locus originating from my unique cultural, ecological, and ethnic expression as a valid tenant in my artistic praxis. I like to work large but I can also convey details. I use poetic writing, collage, drawing/painting, fabrics, materials of nature, and ancient ceramic practices to explore the endless polyphonic languages expressed through our humanness in the world we live in.