amelian kashiro hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist, arts educator, and cultural worker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their practice moves across visual art, painting, writing, sound, wear, textiles, public practice programming, and creative self defense. amelian currently serves as Youth Arts Coordinator at Root Division, Teaching Artist with the Museum of the African Diaspora, and Communications Coordinator at Audium. From 2018–2023, they founded and directed Sisters With Invoices, a platform connecting more than 750 artists and cultural workers through workshops, legal education, public programming, and community events. Across their work, amelian approaches arts education as more than teaching young people how to make things. Their practice is rooted in helping young artists understand how to move through the creative world with imagination, discernment, confidence, and the tools to protect what they create.
