About

Southern borne interdisciplinary artist
B.S., Graphic Design, Alabama A&M University
M. ED., Art Education, Alabama A&M University,
M.F.A., School of The Art Institute of Chicago

Currently works out of studio in Huntsville, AL
called the C.H.U.R.C.H. (Come Help Us Restore Cosmic Harmony)

As an educator, Jahni has taught art from kindergarten to the university level. An artist and activist, he has created numerous murals and public works from Chicago to Colombia, South America, where he twice served as Art Ambassador. His work also resides in the famous Fernando Botero Library in San Cristobal. Jahni embodies a creative spirit manifest in the flesh.

Jahni’s work examines life at the crossroads of ancestry and alchemy. He honors the Lifeblood/Earth/Clay connection, striving to invoke a spirit of resurrection, remembrance, revival, and restoration. Whether through acrylic paint, red clay, mixed
media altars, or writing, his work operates as a sacrament on these pillars. It is an invocation – an invitation to reconnect to the sanctity and mystery of life. Growing up in the American South, he faced the complex positionality of the Black body in that history.

His work grapples with this duality, the double consciousness of the Black body as both metaphor and mystery.

In his art, Jahni draws the line, highlighting the path in the golden route that defines us from an endless space. This single traveling line represents a coded map from a subordinate past to a self-determined future – a technique he calls goldmapping. Each person walking this planet has a blueprint – a goldprint – individual units of theurgical energy that fit into the larger context of our connections. We each determine where we stand in the space we share, positioning ourselves on the cosmic continuum.

Through a.r.t. (a resurrecting truth), Jahni seeks supernatural clarity, a revelation of the essence that makes life what it is. His perspective on art deviates from the canonical narrative. He is not interested in creating paintings just to see colors intermingle or to demonstrate technical prowess. Such solipsistic positions are binary and thus limited.

For him, the goal is to explore what art can do, tapping into the creative spirit’s ability to transform art from a mere object to an arc – the action, the spark that ignites and awakens humanity to a thirst for all of life. His intent is to create a paradigm shift, using materials and ideas to transform common perceptions in a practice he calls switchcraft.