Sister Stream Catcher is an ongoing interdisciplinary environmental art project that blends public art, cleanups, performance, film, sculpture, and education to deepen people’s relationship with nature. Rooted in Baltimore’s Hanlon Park, the project includes leading community cleanups, teaching environmental literacy through workshops on tree anatomy and water systems, creating participatory installations like The Wish Tree, and guiding collective rituals like processions and labyrinth-building. Through these acts of care, Sister Stream Catcher invites participants to reflect on their ecological impact and reclaim public space as sacred. The project reframes conservation as not just environmental work, but emotional, creative, and spiritual labor—an offering of restoration, memory, and future-building.
Rejjia Camphor is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and organizer from Baltimore whose work explores Black girlhood, ecology, memory, and healing practices. She creates across writing, performance, visual arts, film, design and digital, and craft and public practice, mapping intersections between creative expressions to invite reflection, belonging, orientation, play, and social change. She is the founder of Sister Stream Catcher, an environmental art and organizing project that blends community ritual, public art, and ecological education. She holds an art studio at the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower.
Rejjia earned her BA in Creative Writing, Visual Culture, and Women’s Studies from Hampshire College. Since 2015, she has served as a Creative Writing Instructor with Writers in Baltimore Schools and, since 2020, as a Teaching Mentor for its Johns Hopkins University partnership course, supporting both Baltimore youth and emerging teaching artists. Currently, at MICA, she teaches in the Open Studies department, supporting young artists in cultivating their artistic practice and voice in writing, website development and creative portfolios.
Her work has been exhibited and performed across Maryland, including the Creative Alliance, The Peale, 410 Gallery and Area 405 as well as in publications such as The Afro, Baltimore Beat, Brown Sugar Literary Magazine, and Voyage Baltimore. She is a co-creator of Soul of the Butterfly: Chicory Magazine and Baltimore’s Black Arts Activism, a traveling exhibit that reactivates the Baltimore’s cultural archive, Chicory Magazine, through youth and intergenerational storytelling.
Rejjia has received numerous awards, including Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a Prudential Spirit of Community Award, CERF+’s Get Ready Grant, and support from Youth As Resources and Maryland Philanthropy Network. In 2025, she received a Fall 2025 Faculty Grant from MICA's Creative Entrepreneurship Center.
In addition to exhibiting, Rejjia frequently leads workshops, speaks on panels, and performs original work. Recent engagements include the American Studies Association Conference, Maryland Arts Summit, CityLit Festival, Global Waters Dance, and judging DewMore Poetry’s Youth Poet Laureate competition.