Ada Reso is a queer woman, an immigrant, Albanian-American, and an artist. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History at the University of Virginia and her Master of Science in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She currently works as a qualitative researcher in public health and has also worked as a health educator. She is a hoop dancer, and collaborated with a collective of artists, teachers, and activists in Guatemala using theatre-based techniques and the flow arts as part of a strategy to engage communities and promote health and environmental justice. She is also yoga student. Her photography is a practice of personal documentation and reflection. Her menstrual paintings are one component of a larger body of multi-disciplinary performance work. She opens her ritual practice to all beings by providing some guiding principles and inviting individuals to create collectively. By disrupting the act of dumping and disregarding menstrual blood, she hopes to open the present to new ways of being and feeling, consequently reclaiming the body from effects of capitalist, patriarchal power. Her menstrual art is an attempt to reconnect to obscured, mystical knowledge, to perceive liberation, and to open space for healing of past psychological imprints (resilience). She believes all her art carries messages from Spirit.
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Featured Artist in The Art of Resilience gallery show in Poetic License 2019: Resilience
Featured Visual Artist in Poetic License 2020: Renewal Gallery