Savannah Imani Wade is an interdisciplinary artist organizer, grant consultant, and Creative Director of OARA based in Baltimore, MD. They make work incorporating illustration, painting, mask-work, puppetry, and performance, as a methodology of remembering the forgotten spiritual traditions of their lineage, while revealing and reimagining contemporary and playful spiritual realms. Wade’s practice draws on the commonalities and contradictions of their Black Southern Christian, Mexican-American, and White heritages as a solid and expanding foundation to their work.

Wade holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art with honors as a scholar from the Eddie & Sylvia Brown Foundation. They have performed and collaborated with Pulitzer Prize winning opera, Omar, Bread & Puppet Theater, as leading actor in the play, Thicket, Theater for the New City, and The Kennedy Center. In 2023, Wade founded Our Art Room Agency (OARA),  a creative and care-centered initiative focused on advancing financial liberation, holistic development, and community-supported sustainability for emerging artists, prioritizing QTBIPOC creatives. They currently work as the Creative Director for OARA, as well as a grant consultant for creatives and large organizations.

OARA delivers targeted programming that fills critical gaps in artist support. The agency hosts an annual incubator for artists to expand networks, share resources, and have accountability to their practices in a supportive community context through the format of the artist critique, professional development workshops, a group show, and an artist retreat. OARA creates a thriving ecosystem for the emerging creative. In 2025 OARA has collaborated with Creative Alliance, Sleepwalker Collective, MDVLA, Making Space Gallery, AYA House, Blackberry Zine Collective, Unity Hall, Red Emma’s, Black Alliance for Peace, Charm City Cultural Center, Eubie Blake Cultural Center, The Peale Museum, and Bmore Art Connect + Collect Gallery.