Nora Almeida
Nora Almeida is an urban swimmer, social practice artist, educator, and activist based in Lenapehoking. Her work explores intersections of ecological investigation, spatial disruption, and urban autonomy. Recent public artworks—Last Street End in Gowanus (2021), Land Use Intervention Library (2022), Open Water (ongoing), and Creek: Two Cavities of the Heart (ongoing)—focus on relationships between people and environmentally disturbed waterfront spaces. Her art and research involves methods including: performance, installation, stewardship, oral history, public printmaking, counter-mapping, and somatic movement.
Nora was a 2023-2024 Climate Justice Fellow with Culture Push, a 2022 Water Connector with Works on Water, and a 2021 Social Practice CUNY Faculty Fellow. She works at the City University of New York, volunteers at Interference Archive, and is a printmaking apprentice at Shoestring Press. She is co-founder of the Hydrofeminist Map Collective. Her book, The Social Movement Archive, co-authored with Jen Hoyer, was published in 2021.