Arsimmer McCoy is an inter-disciplinary artist who merges poetry, archive, performance, and audio/visual sculpture, into a conduit for advocacy. McCoy uses poetry and performance as a “vehicle” for storytelling. McCoy’s poems have been included in Venice Magazine, RootWork journal, Creatures Mag, and several others.
Her reflective/narrative style, can be seen in poems like Still got that ringin’ in my ear, published by O, miami and Edited by journalist & archivist Nadege Green and the Miami Film Festival “Made in Miami” Award winning film “You can Always Come Home'' Directed and edited by Juan Luis Matos, written and narrated by Arsimmer McCoy and visual artist Reginald O’Neal, and commissioned by Architectural League Prize winner Germane Barnes for his “Housekeeping” online exhibition.
McCoy activates spaces through performance and workshops, like Cornelius Tulloch’s solo show Bougainvillea for the FAENA art studio, The Perez Museum’s “The Artist as Poet” exhibition, Chris Friday’s “One More River” at Austin State Peay University in Clarksville,Tennessee, and the Edge Zones performance art festival in the Dominican Republic.
This year Arsimmer debuted her poetry driven stage play “I’m so Depressed” for her Miami light project Here and Now artists group show which was covered in the Miami New Times. The influence behind the work comes from her upbringing in historic Richmond Heights, Florida; an all-black neighborhood, built in 1952, for black WWII vets. It was there where she had the privilege to bserve a community, built on history, family, and spirituality; Arsimmer currently resides inCarol City with her daughter.
