Jasmine A. Golphin is
a visual artist, creative producer + director from Cleveland, Ohio. She’s grateful you want to know more about her. Her previous film and video work can be found here and here.
Jasmine’s primary focus today is as an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Her 2018 documentary series The Whitebox Listening Project - an archival work about the history of Black and brown Cleveland artists - was commissioned by Waterloo Arts and supported by Midwest Culture Lab. From 2022 -2024 she was the first projection design apprentice in Dobama Theatre’s FOCUS Program, leading to projection design work on Cinderella at Theater Under the Stars, Matilda Jr at Brooklyn Music School, and King James at Cleveland Playhouse and City Theater. Jasmine’s 2022 VR experience FACEBOOKLAND was supported by SPACES’ The Satellite Fund and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program. Her 2023 essay “Black Woman [Unintentionally] in Tech” premiered in the group exhibition WE REFUSE, WE WANT, WE COMMIT at ABC No Rio and was supported by the Next Web Seed Grant, an initiative of NEW INC and Meta Open Art. In 2024 her latest short film and art installation “Welcome to the Panopticon!” was supported by Dobama Theatre, Maelstrom Collaborative Arts, Cleveland Camera Rental’s 2024 Rental Credit Grant, and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergency Grant.
In the non-profit world, she’s spent 12 years managing film education and community outreach programs for nonprofit organizations such as MyCom, Neighborhood Leadership Institute, Cleveland International Film Festival, SPACES gallery, and Maelstrom Collaborative Arts. In 2020 she founded the community organization Black Spring CLE to create and support existing alternatives to the policing and justicial system. Today she is the Associate Artistic Director at Maelstrom Collaborative Arts, an interdisciplinary arts organization dedicated to improving the creative lifespan of Cleveland area artists.