About Poto

Poto is a cultural platform that supports Black, Indigenous, and queer artists whose practices engage the social, ecological, and historical conditions shaping contemporary life.

Through residencies, gatherings, exhibitions, and collaborative research, Poto creates space for artists to work across disciplines, outside rigid categories, and in sustained relationship with the communities and contexts that inform their work.

We prioritize practices that are formally experimental, grounded in lived experience, and in conversation with both ancestral and contemporary knowledge.

Poto takes its name from potomitan, the central structure in Haitian spiritual rituals that supports movement and gathering. It reflects our role as a connective platform across the Black Atlantic, creating pathways for work already in motion to circulate toward new contexts, audiences, and opportunities.

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The Team

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Founding Director

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Jono Lena

Communications Manager

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Tuzi Camb

Cultural Strategist