Mikal Floyd-Pruitt
Creative Curator
[Focusing on ideation + innovation + experience cultivation]
Mikal Floyd-Pruitt is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes visual art [in several mediums], music, and experience curation. Along with his personal art practice, he is also a community artist and cultural producer. In addition, he is the creator of, I AM Milwaukee, a lifestyle brand that promotes unity, creativity, pride, and ownership in Milwaukee. Mikal studied film in college, earning a Bachelors of Art from Harvard University. As the mastermind behind large thematic art installations and experiences including Art House Trap and SPLASH!, Mikal advocates for the psycho-spiritual life of the citizenry and financial pathways art with infrastructure can create. As a creative and community member he uses aesthetics, performance, and programming to challenge the boundaries of society as we know it.
Mikal’s dynamicity has allowed him to facilitate several community engaging experiences that cultivate art as an existential part of a place. He was the lead artist during his residency at the Spot 4MKE - a piloted public space in downtown Milwaukee - supported by Project for Public Spaces and co-directed HERE! CNI for the Choice Neighborhood Initiative with the local public housing authority. Vocalizing a need for artist supportive infrastructure, Mikal was featured on the cover artist housing report for Bronzeville, questioning public officials about vacant city-owned properties and community need for housing. As he interrogates policy as a creative he also offers open participation by way of ideation and innovation in the pursuit of social change.
As a co-founder of HomeWorks: Bronzeville, Mikal curates programming opportunities that can help engage and amplify the community in which the initiative operates. His balance of creative practices allows him to navigate the positive and negative dualities of change. Mikal approaches development as a way to house and stabilize entrepreneurial pursuits, with the proximity of creatives catalyzing its creative economy.