Nisa Brooks is a material artist and founder of Evergreen Studios working across printmaking, painting, photography, and sculpture. As an Afro-Mexican American, Brooks' practice centers the interior life of the diaspora: excavating generational memory, the labor of self-actualization, and the convergent patterning languages that trace her many inheritances back to one another. Drawing on visual traditions like Talavera tile and the domestic image-languages women have long woven into everyday life, and in the tradition of what scholar Tina Campt calls Listening to Images, Brooks treats patterning, color, and lens-based media as a living vocabulary: tools for connection rather than division, and portals toward ancestral return and cultural continuity.

Her work asks what it means to deprogram inherited narratives—to listen back into images that have been limited or misrepresented and to find, within that listening, a path toward wholeness.

Brooks holds a BA from Georgia State University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Through Evergreen Studios, she extends this practice of revision into the public sphere, partnering with nonprofits and corporations alike to model intentionality and the transformative power of representation in branding.