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Cita Sadeli

Cita Sadeli (also known as Miss Chelove or CHELOVE) is a D.C. based art director, muralist, designer and illustrator. Sadeli has worked with the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Smithsonian Institution.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Personal life

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Sadeli was born in Bloomington, Indiana.[7] Sadeli's family moved to the Washington, D.C., area when she was four, and she grew up in Hyattsville, Maryland.[7][8] She has cultural ties to Java, Indonesia.[3][9]

Career

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Sadeli was the co-founder of Protein Media, an interactive art agency based in Washington DC and Brooklyn NY from 2000-2013.[10]

Sadeli's mural was one of six original pieces to populate the D.C. Alley Museum at its opening in 2015.[11][12] In 2016, Sadeli completed a commission for &pizza's Washington D.C. Chinatown location.[13] Sadeli is one of the many artists who worked on a collaborative 400-foot piece called “Mural23".[14] In 2017, she finished a commission for the Mexican restaurant - La Puerta Verde - that included animal masks and cacti.[15] Sadeli designed artwork for the 2017 Smithsonian Folklife festival.[9] In 2018, she completed a colorful, floral mural on the Unity Health Care building to celebrate the cultural diversity of Columbia Heights for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities' initiative - MuralsDC. Sadeli completed another mural for Murals DC titled “You Are Welcome” (3020 14th St.).[1] Her piece "She Smiles 100 Suns" is located near Kennedy St NW in Washington D.C.[16][17]

In 2020, Sadeli completed “Guardians of the Four Directions,” a seven-story painting of two warrior women on the outside of Hotel Zena in Thomas Circle, during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.[4][18][6] She also completed a mural depicting Zitkala-Sa “Red Bird” and suffragist Mary Church Terrell to commemorate the contributions of the Native and African-American communities in the D.C. area.[19]

In 2021, Sadeli painted “Crossroads" in collaboration with Colbert Kennedy and Pose 2 (Maxx Moses) that depicted Asian-style demons racing cyclists on the adjacent Metropolitan Branch Trail in NoMa.[20]

Sadeli is one of several women artists who were chosen to present monumental works in the National Museum of Women in the Arts's Lookout series of installations while the museum is being renovated. In 2022, Chelove's four-story mural Reseeded: A Forest Floor Flow was printed on mesh fabric and displayed over the scaffolding on the museum’s façade. It showed a woman surrounded by Indonesian botanicals, emphasizing the importance of the natural world, women, and ecological activism.[21][22]

References

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  1. ^ a b McGlone, Peggy (June 17, 2020). "Missing art museums? Take a mural stroll though Washington's art-rich streets". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2020-06-27. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  2. ^ Levy, Piet. "Milwaukee nonprofit True Skool preps block party — with help from hip-hop pioneers, Joyce Foundation". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  3. ^ a b "(At Home): Artist Talk with Miss Chelove". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  4. ^ a b Bloom, Laura Begley. "Welcome To The World's First Women-Themed Hotel". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  5. ^ Jenkins, Mark (2015-12-29). "Murals and mosaics enliven an already bustling Blagden Alley". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  6. ^ a b "These Artists Are Still Making Public Art Even When The Streets Are Empty". WAMU. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  7. ^ a b Prisco, Jacopo (2022-05-13). "Decoding the hidden messages in one city's street art revival". CNN. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  8. ^ "5 DC Street Artists We Would Have Chosen to Do the New "Let Girls Learn" Mural at Union Market". Washingtonian. 2016-01-19. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  9. ^ a b "Smithsonian Folklife Festival to Spotlight Immigration, Migration and Cultural Identity From an Intergenerational Perspective". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  10. ^ "#TakeTimeThursdays: Art, Inspiration, and Challenges During COVID with Cita Sadeli (aka Miss Chelove)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 2020-03-24. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  11. ^ Cohen, Matt (2015-10-30). "The D.C. Alley Museum Opens In Blagden Alley". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  12. ^ Cohen, Matt (2016-10-20). "End of An Alley". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  13. ^ "New &pizza In Chinatown Comes With Cocktails and Table Service". DCist. Archived from the original on 2018-11-29. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  14. ^ "Where to find all those D.C. murals you've seen on Instagram". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  15. ^ Sietsema, Tom (July 5, 2017). "At La Puerta Verde, the Mexican flavors are a precious cargo". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2017-07-05. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  16. ^ Korff (ABC7), Jay (2019-12-26). "Work of D.C. mural artists celebrated with bus tour". WJLA. Retrieved 2021-11-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ Koslof, Evan (August 18, 2019). "6 new murals are on the way to DC. Here's where you can find them". wusa9.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  18. ^ Mitchell, Jennifer (April 15, 2020). "How a New D.C. Mural Delivers Peace and Strength During the Coronavirus Crisis". Washington Citypaper. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
  19. ^ "Weeks Before Election Day, Three Murals Depicting Women's Suffrage Go Up In D.C.'s Ward 8". WAMU. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  20. ^ Jenkins, Mark (July 9, 2021). "In the galleries: Posters as a medium for serious but jubilant communication". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  21. ^ "Lookout: MISS CHELOVE | Exhibition". NMWA. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  22. ^ "Women's Museum announces monumental mural project by MISS CHELOVE". ArtDaily. December 15, 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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