Writer-
International poet-
Educator-
Creative programmer-
Cultural worker-
Performance-collaborative artist
Arsimmer (pronounced Awe-summer),
is a Miami native, by way of Richmond Heights.
She is a Mother, a griot, and creative.
Arsimmer has been blessed to write for award-winning films, like, "You Can Always Come Home", Directed by Juancy Matos and produced by Monica Sorelle, and The experimental dance film, directed by sculptor GeoVanna Gonzalez, "HOW TO: Oh, look at me".
"You Can Always Come Home" won the Knight Made in MIA Film Award and was screened in 2022 at the Black Star Film Festival.
View Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6UJcAg-hlc
"HOW TO: Oh, look at Me", premiered at Soundscape Park
and screened at the Slam Dance film festival in 2021.
View here with Vimeo Account https://vimeo.com/537790760
Arsimmer was commissioned to write a poem in honor of Bakehouse Art Complex Studio’s 35-year anniversary in 2021. She wrote The poem “Ode” and married it with the cartoonist/sketch work of close friend and collaborator, Chris Friday, via a mural placed on the building’s North facing wall (on display now)
http://www.bacfl.org/exhibitions/odetobakehouse
Collectors organization, COMMISSIONER, called on McCoy to create a risograph with artists Mariana Pariani and Sebastiàn Gagin, for their NADA Art fair tour in New York. “Do you belong” became a poem fused into an infographic with a very serious message about self-validation. read here https://www.commissioner.us/stories/belong
Arsimmer has been an artist-in-residence for several different organizations including Oolite Arts/Atlantic Center of The Arts: Home & Away residency, Locust Projects, Bakehouse Art Complex Summer Open, and AIRIE (pronounced AIRY) which stands for "Artist in Residence in the Everglades", in 2022 https://www.airie.org/fellow/arsimmer-mccoy
She is the winner of the Ellies Creator Award and Wavemaker Grant for her project, "Ms. Mary's House| The Carol City Museum", a museum, gallery, and community hub that will live in her home and is projected to open this year. https://oolitearts.org/grant/arsimmer-mccoy/
Her work has been featured on Sundial (WLRN), Artsy, The Miami New Times, Venice Magazine, Mixed Mag, Creatures Mag, The Lighthouse Review, The Far Gallery, Perez Art Museum, Locust Projects, and several others.
Listen Here https://www.wlrn.org/tags/poetry-month
Arsimmer is also a veteran teaching artist who has and continues to work alongside organizations like O, Miami Sunroom Program, Honeyshine Camp, Urgent Inc., and Everglades National Park.
McCoy has just completed the showing of her first poetry-driven stage play “I’m so Depressed” through the Miami Light Project, May of this year, about her grief experience during the pandemic with her daughter and the dissolution of her marriage.
Arsimmer is a Florida Memorial University graduate and resident of Carol City, aka Miami Gardens. Currently, she is working on her passion projects, Homecoming- a “birthright” trip for Black people to explore and engage with the Florida Everglades and Ms. Mary’s House The Carol City Museum-an art and archive space that will live inside Arsimmer’s home and will be free and open to the public.