FOUNDER & CEO,
BETTY'S DAUGHTER ARTS COLLABORATIVE

Ebony Noelle Golden is a ceremonialist, culture worker, public scholar, and entrepreneur from Houston, Texas. Wielding womanist and Black feminist practices, Golden’s work invokes messy, magical, and medicinal methods to weave liberated worlds ripe with creativity and thriving. Since 2009, Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative, her consulting practice, has served more than 100 social justice, education, arts & culture institutions. In 2020, she established Jupiter Performance Studio as a space to practice and perform Black diasporic, spiritual, and cultural traditions.

Ebony’s work has been profiled by the New York Times and National Endowment for the Arts.  Her work has been commissioned by National Black Theatre, The Shed, Apollo Theater, and Double Edge Theatre. Golden is an esteemed alumna of Cave Canem, Yaddo, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, MacDowell, Hi-Arts, and Princeton University's Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Additionally, Golden has received Creative Capital, National Theater Project, and Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Transformational Practice Awards. 

Ebony’s recent work includes: The Divining (a theatrical ceremony), specter of sunlight//(an evening-length dance ritual), and 79 Moons (a performance film).  Her current work, again, the watercarriers, is the next episode in In The Name of the M/other Tree, which uplifts Black femme healers over the age of 60, the primordial mothers described in Yoruba cosmology as the Iyaamí, and her own maternal lineage. The work is slated for a 2025 tour.  Learn more about what Ebony is up to by visiting bettysdaughterarts.com or via Instagram @ebonynoellegolden.