Meera Norris Artist CV 

Professional Experience

● Masters In Global Family and Child Public Health, University of Arizona, 2015

● Grant writing, grant management.

● Curator/Project manager for Ubuntu Taste of Freedom, Caravan of  Hope health equity tour and exhibition for policy makers and leaders. 

● 2024, Phoenix Center for the Arts, selected Teaching painting artist for BIPOC Teaching Artist Program.

●2023, Arizona Arts Commission, Youth Arts Programming grant recipient.

● 2024, Portrait of BOSCO, Qwauntay Adams in the film biography, Chasin Freedum. 

● 2024,Portrait painting featured in Snoop Dog/Dave East music video “Love you More”. 

●Curator for art exhibits with intersections of social determinants of health and artistic expression.

●Art class teacher, youth and adult with tailored unique classes.

●Workplace creativity workshop facilitator.

●Art featured in reputable exhibits/galleries

●Community building through art expression and sharing.

●Murals

●Private commissions 

Curated Exhibitions by Meera (oldest to newest)

Fertile Soil, May - April 2022-  One oh One Gallery, Mesa, Az, the first show Meera curated displaying her own work alongside 10 of her artist friends. The shows theme was on the development of connection with land and self.

My Dream Community, April 2023, Arizona Housing Coalitions Annual Conference, hired Meera to curate a show with a theme highlighting artists dream Community. Meera ans 15 Artists interpreted our housing crises, their visions and innovations to address the national housing crises. 

Love Letters to Phoenix, Oct 2023, Meera curated and coordinated the exhibition/art auction,this show was  part of Caravan of Hope health equity tour meera coordinated. featuring meeras work and 7 artists. 

Gogirls, Dec 2023, art exhibition for young women ages 12-18, featuring 15 artists from immigrant, refugee and displaced homes. 

Taste of Freedom, June 2024, Ubuntu meera curated an art exhibition at a respite/cooling center featuring meera and 5 artists, the exhibition part of Caravan of Hope, Juneteenth health equity tour that meera also organized.

On The Wings Of The Sacred Ibis, Oct 2025, commemorating lives lost to overdose. This show features a series of paintings by Meera on the afterlife and work by more than 7 talented American artists who experienced loss due to drug overdoses. Exhibition held in the historical building of Portland Oregon, the Melvin Mark. Musical featured by the Yugen Music Project.

Exhibitions(newest to oldest)

1. Opposite attract, GALA, 2025

2. Jump The Tracks, AH!HA! Gallery, 2024

3. We Women, Xico Gallery, 2024

4. The Art of Wellness, Mesa Art Space, 2024

5. Taste of Freedom, Community of Hope, 2024

6. Black Women Make the Difference, Phoenix Center for the Arts, 2024

7. Resilience, Roosevelt Art Works, 2023

8. Artists with Palestine, Studio One, 2023

9. Bugs and Beetles, Walter Studios, 2023

10. My Sisters and I, Phoenix Center for the Arts, 2023

11. Love Letters to Phoenix, 2023

12. We Women, Xico, 2023

13. Metamorphosis, Involve Gallery, 2023

14. Celebrating the Greats, Walter Studios, 2023

15. My Dream Community, AHC Annual Conference, 2023

16. AZOKOZA, 2022

17. We Women, Xico, 2022

18. Fertile Soil, One oh One Gallery, 2022

19. Futuristic Females, AimeeArtink, 2021

20. Grand Unification, AimeeArtink, 2021