Farima Kone Kito (pronouns: she/they) is a New York-based creative strategist and cultural producer. Viewing art as a powerful tool for social change, Farima has dedicated their practice to facilitating the ascension of tomorrow’s creative voices by providing support with research, strategic planning, project management, content production, fundraising, and curation to individuals and organizations.
Farima’s work is primarily guided by her research on the process of identity reconstruction within a “post-colonial” West African context. Holding visual cultures as focal points of exploration in her curatorial practice, Farima pays particular attention to African and Diasporic arts and histories. Farima has developed and managed projects with organizations such as NPR, The Apollo Theater, The New York African Film Festival, The Africa Center, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Villa Albertine, Lincoln Center, Warner Music France, and more. Farima is also the founder of Petite Monsieur Studio, an organization dedicated to producing and propelling work concerned with the recognition and emergence of new African youth cultures and creative economies.
Farima holds a BA in Africana Studies and a BA in Comm/Media Studies from The University of California Davis, and continue their personal studies in creative entrepreneurship and business, and in understanding the elements of thriving creative economies.