MaKshya Tolbert

Artist-in-Residence, Artist Exchange, Exhibiting Artist

MaKshya Tolbert is a poet, potter, and shade walker who recently made their way back to Virginia, where their grandmother raised them. They are a 2024-2026 Fireline Fellow (Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts), and serve on the Charlottesville Tree Commission. In their free time, they are elsewhere— where Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. calls, 'that physical or metaphorical place that affords the space to breathe.' Shade is a place is their first book.

Instagram: @processdaily

Bio courtesy of the artist.

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