Candice D’Meza

Multidisciplinary Artist, Worldbuilder, Ritualist | 200+ hours trained in Dagara Spirituality under Dr. Malidoma Somé | $200,000+ Art & Institutional Funding | Herb Alpert Award Nominee | 50K+ audience reach across platforms

I am an African-American and Haitian multidisciplinary artist, ritualist, performer, and world-builder based in Houston. My work lives at the intersection of African cosmologies, ancestral memory, grief work, speculative liberation, film, performance, and ritual practice. I create embodied, spiritual, and imaginative work across stage, screen, and community, crafting world-scapes where Black people can breathe, remember, repair, and imagine futures on their own terms.

My artistic practice has been supported by over $200,000 in institutional and grant funding, including commissions, residencies, and presentations with Catastrophic Theatre, Blaffer Museum of Art, DiverseWorks, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, University of Houston, Rice University, Colgate University, and others. I am a four-time local theater award recipient, a 2024 Herb Alpert Award nominee in Theatre, and have been described as “an archaeologist of the soul,” and “one of Houston’s most innovative voices.”

My Cosmology & Message

I teach the Aje Cosmology of Imagination™ — a framework that restores Black imagination to its original role as ancestral, matriarchal, world-building technology.

My work arises from the rupture and brilliance of the African diaspora: a lineage disrupted by enslavement, yet cosmologically alive. I create art and guide others through a world-experience where imagination is infrastructure, ritual is technology, memory is instruction, and world-building is liberation.
My practice emerges from grief, ancestry, and futurity — and invites others to become creators of worlds, not just survivors of the one we inherited.

My Authority

My authority is not capitalist; it is ancestral, artistic, matriarchal, ritual, and lived.

I stand as:

• the daughter of a disrupted lineage,

• the mother of a regenerated one,

• a world-builder whose imagination has received substantial institutional investment,

• an artist whose work transforms audiences, communities, and space,

• a guide whose cosmology comes through embodied experience, not abstraction.

The distance I have traveled — as a single Black mother, artist, and descendant of enslavement who continues to dream, create, and build worlds — is my authority.

My Lineage as Teacher & Guide

I am a practitioner of African cosmologies and have completed over 200 hours of study in Dagara spirituality and ritual under Elder Dr. Malidoma Patrice Somé.
This lineage deeply informs my work in:

• elemental cosmology

• grief ritual facilitation

• ancestral communication

• spiritual technology

• wombic imagination

• cosmological repair and return

My teaching bridges:

• ancestral cosmology

• somatic expansion

• ritual technologies

• speculative world-building

• performance practice

• spiritual futurism

Through these traditions I guide visionaries, artists, healers, and creators into deeper cosmological identity and liberated imaginative power.

The Aje Cosmology of Imagination

This is my proprietary framework — the living engine behind all my work.
Its five pillars are:

1. Cosmological Reclamation

2. The Imaginative Nervous System

3. Imagination as Ancestral Technology

4. World-Building for Liberation

5. The Cosmological Artist Identity

This is not simply pedagogy; this is lineage repair.
This is how I build worlds — and teach others to do the same.

🌑 Begin Your Journey

If my work resonates with you, there are two ways to enter this cosmology:

1. Download the Free E-Book

Quantum Physics and Worldbuilding Liberated Futures
→ Unlock the foundational cosmology behind my artistic and spiritual work.

2. Join the Free Masterclass

A live portal into imagination as ancestral technology and world-building praxis.

3. Initiate within The Imagination Institute.

From here, I invite aligned students into my signature 9-week cosmological school:
The Imagination Institute.

⭐️ Welcome to my world — and to your own.

I don’t just imagine futures.
I birth them.
And I guide others to become matriarchs of imagination — creators of worlds that honor their ancestors, heal their lineages, and expand what is possible.

My art is my research. My teaching is my transmission.
Every ritual, performance, installation, or theatre production I create is a site where cosmological knowledge is tested, discovered, and embodied.
The Imagination Institute is the applied educational form of the same lineage, giving students access to the worldbuilding methodologies behind my award-winning, grant-funded artistic work.

To Contact Me.

candice@candicedmeza.com