My name is Jason Brown (He/Him), and my independent concentration is Black Speculative Arts and Afrofuturism AB. I’m a graduating senior and writer-actor-producer from Kansas City. My career goals include becoming a multi-hyphenate talent with the ability to write, produce, and perform in the stories I create.
Black Speculative Arts and Afrofuturism uses Creative Writing and Performance Acting as an artistic vessel for exploring the Black diaspora and Black culture in extraordinary situations, such as; alternate histories, futures, Earths and parallel dimensions. Afrofuturism is a Black liberation creative methodology in music, fashion, and visual media where the experience of the African diaspora intersects with twentieth-century performance, digital culture, creative writing, techno-culture (sciences and technologies), and philosophy. The purpose of Black Speculative Arts and Afrofuturism is to develop skills in dramatic writing, long prose, and performance acting, while also fostering knowledge of Black cultures.
My Honors thesis is a performance play called Afrofantasia: The Journey Of Iyanu. I was advised by Professor Elmo Terry-Morgan of Rites and Reason, Professor Matthew Guterl and Professor Kiana Murphy of American Studies.