Chelsea Call (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, art therapist, ritualist, and community facilitator. Her work explores queer theory, interspecies relations, ancestral folklore, and climate change. Amalgamating visual, somatic, and eco-social processes Call's practice traverses the mediums of photography, ancestral craft, installation, fiber art, poetry, and performance.
Through rituals of embodiment Call collaborates with local ecology, generating visual dialogues with the more-than-human. She is devoted to integrating her education in therapeutic methodologies into her creative research to foster kinship across species. The work is centered around creative curiosity as a pathway to healthy, ecologically-oriented futures that support regeneration for all.
Call holds an MA in Art Therapy & Counseling from Southwestern College and a BFA from Colorado State University. She has participated in residences at the Burren College of Art, Walkaway House, Bilpin international ground for Creative initiatives (BigCi), and Land Arts of the American West. Call has exhibited at museums and galleries across Turtle Island. She is currently practicing art psychotherapy in her private practice Curam, primarily working with adolescents and adults in the LGBTQIA+ community. Call has been honored to collaborate with organizations such as Into the Unknown Together, Loam, Our Climates Voices, and Meow Wolf.
Chelsea is currently rooted on the unceded territorial lands of the Tewa and Tanos people in O’ghe P’oghe—the original Tewa name for Santa Fe, which means White Shell, Water Place.