Get To Know Me
I'm Roan Wade
Roan Wade is a multi-media artist, activist, and archivist from New Hampshire. Their work draws from their activist practice conceptually and inspires what materials they utilize to create their work. They began organizing in 2020 around environmental justice issues, leading them to join the Sunrise Movement. They now work for the Sustainability Office at Dartmouth College, creating a circular and community-based economy through the development of mutual aid networks that redistribute and divert items from going to landfills. Centering sustainability in their art practice, they prefer to work with found objects, primarily to reduce their work's environmental impact but also to infuse their work with the symbolism found objects inherently contain from their previous lives.
Whenever they're not in their studio, they can be found on the picket line or in the streets protesting. Their activism covers a wide range of issues, however the primary focus of their organizing work is centered around the labor movement, Palestinian liberation, and reproductive justice - while emphasizing the intersections of all movements for our collective liberation. They are one of the founding members and currently serve as the vice chair of the Student Workers Collective at Dartmouth, UAW Local 2322 - one of the first labor unions in the country representing undergraduate student workers. They also work for the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire, the only abortion and gender-affirming care fund in the state of New Hampshire. Through their work with the Reproductive Freedom Fund, they are working to expand access to abortion care, emergency contraception, and gender-affirming health care in the Upper Valley. Wade's lived experience as a queer non-binary person and work increasing access to critical resources to the queer community is often reflected in their art, and they aspire to utilize their art practice as a means of continued advocacy for the queer community.
