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 Caravan of Hope : Ubuntu Taste of Freedom, (2024) and Love Letters to Phoenix (2023),Caravan of  Hope was coordinated by Meera for Family Tree, Caravan of Hope is a unique health equity tour and exhibition for policy makers and leaders to experience they city they serve. 

● 2024, Phoenix Center for the Arts, Certified arts teacher, 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” and 2025 “Real Thugs” Remix.

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

●Murals

●Private commissions 

Curated Exhibitions by Meera

From Turab to Noor , May 2026, The BLACK Gallery PDX, Portland Oregon.

On The Wings Of The Sacred Ibis, Oct 2025,Portland Oregon, 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.

Taste of Freedom, Phoenix Az,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.

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

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

My Dream Community, Mesa Az,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. 

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.

Exhibitions(newest to oldest)

1. From Turab to Noor, The BLACK Gallery PDX, May 2026

2. UNBOUND,Trinity Cathedral Olney Gallery, AZ, 2026

3. On The Wings of the Sacred Ibis,PDX,2025

4. Opposites Attract, GALA, 2025

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

6. We Women, Xico Gallery, 2024

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

8. Taste of Freedom, Community of Hope, 2024

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

10. Resilience, Roosevelt Art Works, 2023

11. Artists with Palestine, Studio One, 2023

12. Bugs and Beetles, Walter Studios, 2023

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

14. Love Letters to Phoenix, 2023

15. We Women, Xico, 2023

16. Metamorphosis, Involve Gallery, 2023

17. Celebrating the Greats, Walter Studios, 2023

18. My Dream Community, AHC Annual Conference, 2023

19. AZOKOZA, 2022

20. We Women, Xico, 2022

21. Fertile Soil, One oh One Gallery, 2022

22. Futuristic Females, AimeeArtink, 2021

23. Grand Unification, AimeeArtink, 2021 

24. Artist Showcase with Mayor of Alexandria Egypt, Alexandria Egypt 2004