IV AMENTI
as part of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival Dallas
Saturday, January 10, 2026, at 3:30 PM
Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Iv Amenti is a Creative Social Practitioner in the city of Dallas for more than 15 years. As a professional in the performing arts, she partners with communities to create storytelling opportunities using various artistic mediums. She prides herself in presenting the performing arts as a platform for social commentary and community engagement in a way that creates voice and identity for communities.
She studied theater at the University of Texas at Arlington and is an AmeriCorps alumni who received intensive service training on how to enter into communities, administer asset mapping, and build on those assets in a way that empowers low-income or underserved neighborhoods. Through arts and service she has developed a sustainable practice in creative social engineering.
Well known for thinking outside of the spectrum when it comes to designing and executing projects, her practice has extended into the likes of the TRANSLATION Project, TWU’ Lend Us Your Voice, BC Workshop’s Activating Vacancy, SMU’s Arts and Urbanism’s Complex Movements Cohort, Bricks and Bones performance Cohort, to name a few. She is the sole creator of the annual !Felabration Dallas!, a music tribute celebrating the life of famed Nigerian Musician and Activist Fela Kuti. She is also a 16 year veteran on the Community Arts Program roster of Dallas’ Office of Cultural Affairs, Cultural Vitality Award Recipient, and a self-proclaimed master collaborator.
Please email questions to andrea.tosten@dallas.gov