Eli Nixon builds portals and gives guided tours to places that don’t yet exist or exist but call for creative intervention. They are a settler-descended transqueer clown, a cardboard constructionist, and a maker of drawings, plays, puppets, parades, pageants, suitcase theaters, and low-tech public spectaculah. For over 20 years, Eli has been collaborating with artists, activists, and the more-than-human world, as well as with schools, senior centers, libraries, and addiction recovery/mental health programs to expand imaginative capacity and build surprise muscles. Eli’s performances, installations and workshops occur on street corners, stages and parking lots. They’re a New Georges affiliated artist. Eli organizes with Showing Up for Racial Justice-RI and has been co-facilitating an antiracism working group for white parents since 2015. Eli is a Rhode Islander living on Narragansett land. Eli’s book- “BLOODTIDE- A new holiday in homage to horseshoe crabs” is available through 3rd Thing Press