Cita Sadeli

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Cita Sadeli (also known as Miss Chelove or CHELOVE) is a D.C. based art director, muralist, designer and illustrator. Sadeli has worked with the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Smithsonian Institution. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Personal life

Sadeli grew up in Hyattsville, Maryland. [7] She has cultural ties to Java, Indonesia. [3] [8]

Career

Sadeli was the Co-founder of Protein Media, an interactive art agency based in Washington DC and Brooklyn NY from 2000-2013. [9]

Sadeli's mural was one of six original pieces to populate the D.C. Alley Museum at its opening in 2015. [10] [11] In 2016, Sadeli completed a commission for &pizza's Washington D.C. Chinatown location. [12] Sadeli is one of the many artists who worked on a collaborative 400-foot piece called “Mural23". [13] In 2017, she finished a commission for the Mexican restaurant - La Puerta Verde - that included animal masks and cacti. [14] Sadeli designed artwork for the 2017 Smithsonian Folklife festival. [8] In 2018, she completed a colorful, floral mural on the Unity Health Care building to celebrate the cultural diversity of Columbia Heights for the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities' initiative - MuralsDC. Sadeli completed another mural for Murals DC titled “You Are Welcome” (3020 14th St.). [1] Her piece "She Smiles 100 Suns" is located near Kennedy St NW in Washington D.C. [15] [16]

In 2020, Sadeli completed “Guardians of the Four Directions,” a seven-story painting of two warrior women on the outside of Hotel Zena in Thomas Circle, during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. [4] [17] [6] She also completed a mural depicting Zitkala-Sa “Red Bird” and suffragist Mary Church Terrell to commemorate the contributions of the Native and African-American communities in the D.C. area. [18]

In 2021, Sadeli painted “Crossroads" in collaboration with Colbert Kennedy and Pose 2 (Maxx Moses) that depicted Asian-style demons racing cyclists on the adjacent Metropolitan Branch Trail in NoMa. [19]

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