Faylita Hicks

FAYLITA HICKS (she/they) is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural architect whose practice moves fluently between the literary, the visual, the ceremonial, and the political. She creates work built for institutions that want more than programming — they want a presence that shifts the room. She is most drawn to partnerships with museums, cultural institutions, literary organizations, universities, and advocacy organizations working at the intersection of art, justice, and community transformation.

She has created commissioned works for the Ford Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Illinois Humanities, and Civil Rights Corps — poems built to be spoken aloud, mounted on billboards, and carried into rooms where policy is made. Her debut solo exhibition, The Digital Archives of the Unseen, is currently on view at Walls Turned Sideways Gallery in Chicago, and her durational poetry ceremony series, The Witnessing, most recently performed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Board Chair of The Guild Literary Complex and Adjunct MFA Faculty at the University of Nevada–Reno, she brings institutional fluency, cultural depth, and a singular artistic vision to every collaboration.

Here is the full range of what a collaboration with Faylita can hold.

• Collaboration & co-creation
• Commissioned original works
• Spoken word performances & readings
• Artist talks
• Workshop hosting
• Ceremony & ritual design
• Keynotes: carceral systems & the power of voice · poetry, desire & legislation · art & transformative justice · ceremony as cultural practice · Black feminist inquiry & the literary imagination · the interdisciplinary artist in institutional spaces

FAYLITA HICKS (she/they) is a Hoodoo practitioner, rootworker, astrologer, and diviner whose spiritual practice is as rigorous and rooted as her literary one. She works with writers, artists, and visionaries who sense that the most important decisions in their creative and professional life cannot be made by strategy alone — that something deeper needs to be consulted. Her approach draws on rootwork, astrology, tarot, and divination not as decorative additions but as operational frameworks. She does not separate the spiritual from the professional because she has never found them to be separate.

Some questions are too deep for strategy alone. Here is what becomes possible when you are ready to go deeper.

• Spiritual consultation sessions
• Astrology readings
• Tarot readings
• Divination sessions
• Hoodoo rootwork
• Spirit-guided creative consultation
• Astro-informed career & creative timing
• And more

FAYLITA HICKS (she/they) is a cultural architect, keynote artist, and commissioned writer whose work sits at the intersection of creativity, justice, and community transformation. She is most drawn to partnerships with foundations, nonprofits, corporations, and organizations whose values align with equity, justice, and the transformative power of art — partners who understand that culture is not a marketing strategy, it is a long-term investment in what lasts.

With over twenty years of experience creating work for foundations, nonprofits, museums, brands, and advocacy organizations — including the Ford Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, NIKE, Prisoner Wine Company, the Center for Art and Advocacy, and the de Young Museum — she brings artistic vision and strategic cultural intelligence to every engagement. A voting member of the Recording Academy, Board Chair of The Guild Literary Complex, and featured artist on a Grammy-nominated album, she moves between creative and institutional worlds without losing the integrity of either. Whether you are looking to commission original work, activate your community, or build a longer-term cultural partnership, she creates work that lasts.

Here is the full scope of what a partnership with Faylita can include.

• Commissioned original works
• Poetry-inspired scripting & copywriting
• Keynote & event programming
• Spoken word performances & readings
• Cultural strategy consulting
• Community engagement activations
• Brand alignment & cultural partnerships
• DEI-adjacent programming
• Workshop hosting
• And more