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Pia Monique Murray is a multidisciplinary artist and creative producer. She leads Pia Monique Murray Dance Collective (PMMDC), producing movement-based multidisciplinary performance works that include community engagement and audience interaction as an artistic practice. She is the creator of BLACK DAISIES, a multidisciplinary project that centers joy as political activism. As a 2025 Recess Session Artist in collaboration with Kendra J. Ross and Ziedah Diata, Pia created the interactive installation performance PORTALS: Traversing Black Continuums. She created SPREAD LOVE, a traveling multisensory installation and community-centered variety show as the 2023 ICAC Artist-in-Residence with BRIC and University Settlement. As a 2022-23 Urban Bush Women CCI 2.0 Producing Fellow Pia was Associate Producer of Haint Blu, the Bessie Award-nominated site responsive installation performance by Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis. She also co-produced When Black Women+ Speak (2023-24) with Lai-Lin Robinson for Urban Bush Women’s 40th Anniversary Season.

Much of Pia’s producing and creative work is concentrated in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and aims to engage local residents. Pia is Creative Producer of Kendra J. Bostock’s Kendra J. Ross & Dancers and the STooPS Summer Festival, an annual art crawl and block party in Bedford-Stuyvesant. As the Producing Artistic Director for Bailey’s Cafe she produces and curates As Quiet as It’s Kept, a multidisciplinary ethnography project about longtime residents in Bedford-Stuyvesant. In 2023 she launched FREE Friends’ Fest, an 8-week festival hosted by the Friends of Jackie Robinson Park Playground that offers free art activities, exhibits, and performances by local artists.

PIA MONIQUE MURRAY DANCE COLLECTIVE (PMMDC) celebrates the powerful potential of collaborative art by connecting like-minded artists of various disciplines who are committed to making valuable artistic contributions to the world. Together we fuse artistic expressions of movement, video, sound, and installation art until the boundaries no longer exist. PMMDC produces movement-based multidisciplinary performance works that include community engagement and audience interaction as an artistic practice.