About the Artist
Zaneta (they.them) is a queer, multi-Filipinx interdisciplinary artist and nature field recordist based in Ramapo Lenape territory. Their work in sound addresses climate action from the internal, local, and sacred experience. Drawing upon the work of their lola sa tuhód (great-grandmother) as a village hilot healer, Zaneta’s work reimagines our relationship with our local wilderness through the relationality and reciprocity of sound as a form of ecological care.
Weaving local field recordings and environmental studies, sound art, community storytelling, and ancestral Filipinx traditions of tending to ecological relations, Zaneta’s work explores the role of sound in the somatic experience of ecological belonging. Specifically how listening and sounding are essential social practices that not only raise awareness of our close connections to non-humxn kin, but cultivate a unique sense of empathy and reciprocity that is foundational to stewardship, and ultimately plays a vital role in environmental futures.
Zaneta’s work has been presented in spaces such as the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, and at the Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island. Their upcoming project, Invitations from the Land: the Zena Highwoods (2025), was created in partnership with the Woodstock Land Conservancy and in collaboration with the Zena Highwoods, and will be premiering on Wave Farm streaming December 21, 2025.
Their past projects Sacred Seasons (2020) and Where Land Meets Sky: Geophonic Transmissions for the Body (2022), were awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council grants. To learn more about follow them on IG @soundartmagic, or listen to their sound Substack, Moon Pool.
Art Witch and
Readings for Artists
Zaneta is the host of the Art Witch podcast, where they explore the intersection of creativity, magic, healing, and spiritual-energetic practices such as psychic and mediumship.
On the podcast, they interview artists who interweave these practices in their artwork and explore modalities such as tarot, ritual, and magic in creative process and empowerment.
They specialize in reading for art and career and supporting artists of all modalities and levels of experience in creative thriving and navigating their work. Their readings combine psychic, mediumship, and channeling, along with their 33 years as an artist, 20 years as an arts educator, and 11 years of work in the arts education non-profit world.
They currently run a monthly artist’s support circle called Art Witch on Patreon, where they teach tarot and witchcraft for artist empowerment and thriving.
Teachers, humxn and non-humxn alike, who have deeply influenced their work: Steve Sykes, Eaton Canyon, Hook Mountain, the River that Flows Both Ways, Sugar Maple, Lola Sa Tuhód, Starhawk, Lenny Strobel, JL Umipig, Eliza Swann, Mary Oliver, and Willa White.
Percussion and Arts Education
As an intergenerational multi-percussionist, Zaneta’s work has been featured at the Brooklyn Museum, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, and on national television with Alicia Keys and America’s Got Talent.
In 2016, they served as director of music for Art Slope, a 10-day multi-arts festival in conjunction with Park Slope Civic Council, where they curated over 90 musical performances in over 75 venues including the Brooklyn Public Library and Prospect Park.
Currently they serve as Director of Music Education for Inner Arts Initiative, a Brooklyn-based non-profit that promotes creative empowerment and self-expression for personal and collective well-being through educational and performance programming.
With 20 years experience as an arts educator, Zaneta has facilitated workshops for the Brooklyn Museum, taught for programs such as Girls Inc, Girls Rock Philly, the leadership program, and the go project. They specialize in listening, sound art, percussion, decolonizing music ed, and creative empowerment. Their educational work firmly supports students to self-determine their art and reframe music education through the lens of decolonization and center authenticity and creative joy.
Their educational writing has appeared in publications such as Tom Tom magazine and cited on NPR.