Eli Nixon
brine shrimp puppets in Salt Lake City by Eli Nixon, 2023. Cardboard, paint, fringe, cyanotype flags, human-sized. Photo by Anna Pocaro.
Eli Nixon (they/them) builds portals and gives guided tours to places that don’t yet exist, or exist but call for creative intervention. They are a settler-descended transqueer clown, a cardboard constructionist, and a maker of drawings, puppets, pageants, parades, suitcase theaters, and low-tech public “spectaculah.” Nixon collaborates with activists, schools, mental health and recovery centers, libraries, and the more-than-human world to expand imaginative capacity and build muscles for collective liberation. They’re a Rhode Islander living on Narragansett land.