Artist Biography

MISSION AND VISION

Ava (Avie) M. Fields, MSCJ

As a media artist and community leader, Ava (Avie) Fields positions her work as immersion therapy, an untapped resource for prioritizing underrepresented communities/voices.

In February 2023, the Mass Cultural Council recognized THA, a pop-culture research project that meets inequities at their root rather than their symptomatic effect, as a critical influence on MA culture. THA uses innovative community response models to reframe and repurposes traumatic content, demonstrating the transformative impact of blending horror film, equity, and compassion. The objective is to transform antiquated social structures that thrive on harm and starve survival.

The Horror Advocate is a pop-culture research project that meets inequities at their root rather than their symptomatic effect.

The horror advocate

WORK EXPERIENCE

[2018-date]

the horror advocate

Creator/Founder

[2017-2023]

ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENTS IN RADIO

OPS Manager/Fiscal Sponsorship Coordinator

AREAS OF FOCUS/SERVICES

[2016-date]

NYT owl writing | GHOSTWRITING SERVICE

+Horror archeology/anthropology

+Pop Culture/Pop [Counter] Culture

+Criminal behavior scholar/Crime trends expert

+Horror film expert +Film/Tv analysis

+ Cultural Crypanalyst

Creator/Founder

Artist Principles

+Compassion or 'A responsibility to bear witness.'

+Repurposing or 'Other peoples Trash, My Treasure.'

+Subversion or ‘Established does not = best’

+Catharsis or 'Horror is cheaper than retail therapy.'

+Perspective or 'We don't get to choose our victims'

PROJECT/WORK SAMPLES

From Rumor to Flesh: How Candyman Treats Tragedy in Villainy

The Horror Advocate project fund

+CHANGEMAKERS COHORT PARTICIPANT [MARCH 2023]

+ MASS CULTURAL COUNCIL AWARD FOR THE HORROR ADVOCATE

[FEBRUARY 2023]🏆

+Graduated from the Majority Leaders program 🎓[SEPT 2022]

+First Place Winner at the 2022 Obsidian WROTE and Black Writers Workspace Writing Competition! [SEPT 2022]🏆

+ The Awesome Foundation Award [April 2021]🏆

DEI Film archive

WRITING SAMPLES

Education

MASTERS (MSCJ ) IN Criminal BEHAVIOR and crime trends

tiffin university

Tiffin, OH [2014-2016)

contact info

Boston, MA

thehorroradvocate@gmail.com

@ahorroradvocate

Introducing me: Ava or Avie

Professional Credits: Ava M. Fields

How do you Pronounce Ava? (see the Austrian pronunciation)

Casual communications + Zoom meetings: Ava or Avie

+ Red=Parent project

+Grey = PROGRAMS

+yellow= values in action

The Horror Advocate is a pop-culture research project that meets inequities at their root rather than their symptomatic effect.

THE MISSION

REC ZOMBIE

[POP]CULT SURVIVALIST

APT, HORROR