Welcome, Beloved.
My name is Jillian Walker. Please call me Gogo. I’m an Ancestral Muse, Sangoma Priestess (afro-indigenous ancestral healer), deep creative collaborator, and the Founding Artist of sacred studio house, Legasea. I am a guide of Ancestral healing, spirituality x creative consciousness through multiple dimensions, back and forward generationally across timelines, bloodlines x legacy.
I have devoted my life to ancient-future remembrance and healing through my own multidimensional artistic and Ancestral practice.
I am a student x reclaimer of Afro-indigenous wisdom, called by my Ancestors to uplift x repair the great rift of the middle passage across the waters through deep study, ritual, and remembrance.
I never expected to find myself introducing myself this way when I started out on my path of becoming an artist. I was just trying to be excellent; aspiring to win a Grammy or two or twelve. And then a Pulitzer, or three. (Still not ruling out either, but I digress :op). I didn’t know that Spirit would call to me, that my Ancestors would call me home through my art.
But now that I’m here, it’s hard to imagine I would’ve ended up anywhere else. I See that Ancestral work is core to reimagining the world and restoring cosmic balance, (re)creating economies of thriving; administering Divine Justice. I have devoted my life to the project of Mass Remembrance. I am here to help us remember.
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collaborations
On and off stage, I work with artists x multidimensional creators in divinatory containers that focus on ancestral acknowledgment x healing in and with the work we share with the world. We go down, deep to the root, move im/moveable grief x narrative, and connect to the heart in order to bring forward glorious new forms of art and structures and systems that break the boundaries of the colonial imagination. Read my full bio at the link below and visit our sacred studio, now open for fellow artists and devoted leaders who are ready to step in to deeper, higher legacy work.
So Much Love,
Gogo ♥
Press
“SKiNFOLK: An American Show is… [a retelling of] Walker’s family history — and by extension, the history of America — in the hopes of reclaiming the joys of blackness in all its complexity.”