FOUNDER/DIRECTOR,
STooPS ART & COMMUNITY

Kendra J. Bostock is a professional dancer, choreographer, teaching artist, pilates instructor, and community organizer from Detroit, MI, who now lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY. Kendra is the Founder/Director of STooPS Art & Community, an organization that uses art as a catalyst for community building by curating art in unconventional spaces such as stoops, sidewalks, parks, and block parties. She is a facilitator and former Coordinator for Urban Bush Women’s Builders, Organizers, and Leaders through Dance (B.O.L.D.) network. Kendra has worked as the Director of Programming and Artist Development and Teaching Artist at Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance. As a performer, Kendra has traveled the world dancing for Urban Bush Women, D.J. Kid Koala, MBDance, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances, Movement for the People Dance Company, and many more. Kendra has presented choreographic work at the Florida A&M University, the off-Broadway show 7 Sins, Museu de Arte in Salvador, Brazil, Dixon Place, Ailey Citigroup Theater, and Actors Fund Theater. She has been an Artist in Residence at Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Bates College, and The Neighborhood Project Through 651Arts, a B.A.X. Space Grantee, and a Visiting Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts. She was recently the Inaugural BedStuy Artist in Residence at The Laundromat Project. She is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Learn more at www.thekendrajbostock.com and www.stoopsbedstuy.org.