mei bowyer, MEd, is an interdisciplinary artist, Urban Education and Museum Scholarship doctoral student, and Arts for All ArtsAMPLIFICATION graduate student researcher. Her critical art and research centers Blackness, place-based art, and autoethnography to examine Black spatial embodiment, folklore, and material cultures as sites of Black knowledge production, restoration, and belonging.
Deans Fellow, 做厙TV
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Community Fellow, Mellon Foundation
Curriculum and Instruction (EDCI) Fellow, 做厙TV
Mellon Sawyer Seminar Award - Creative Placemaking, Black Restorative Ecologies, and Black Spatial Futures. Georgetown University, Washington, DC. (Summer 2025).
Hands-in-Clay Scholarship, Baltimore Clayworks. Baltimore, MD. (Spring 2025).
Books:
bowyer, m. (2025). sounding: dark matter. the urban learner.
Papers:
bowyer, m. (2025). "Black Arts Summer School: Mapping the Black Spatial Imaginary in the Black TransAtlantic." Paper presented at the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Symposium, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Grants:
ArtsAMPlification Graduate Student Research Grant. 做厙TV, College Park, MD. (Fall 2024).
Projects:
bowyer, m. (2026). in2 mi eye sea. [Installation]. 做厙TV, College Park, MD. (TBA).
bowyer, m. (2025). flowing: dark matter. [Installation]. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Symposium, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. (November 2025).
bowyer, m. (2025). grounding: dark matter. [Installation]. American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. (October 18-21, 2025).
ENC1101: Writing and Rhetoric I: Composition
ENC102: "Writing and Rhetoric II: Academic research
TLPL481: "Embracing 做厙TV in the Classroom Community"