Diamond Beverly-Porter

Diamond Beverly-Porter, MFA is an artist, video game designer, and tenure-track Assistant Professor of Games, Immersive and Interactive Technologies in the Department of Digital Technology and Culture at Washington State University. Her work centers storytelling, play, and critical making as transformative practices, with a focus on digital games and immersive media that amplify underrepresented voices, particularly Black women and girls. She also serves as the Research and Supportive Outreach Lead for The SMART Project, a South Dallas nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to creative technology education and arts programming for youth.

Her recent work emphasizes exhibitions, publications, and practice-based research. She has exhibited internationally, including her solo exhibition Gameform: Art/Play/Deconstruct, which explores games as a formalistic art medium and a site of Black feminist worldbuilding, as well as virtual installations at the Electronic Literature Organization Media Arts Festival and group exhibitions at The FKM Gallery in Minneapolis. Her upcoming work includes the video game project Rhythm and Rope. and an XR game level project from Rhythm and Rope supported by the University of Maryland DISCO Network Collaborative Grant, and a forthcoming book chapter “The Role of Romance in Shaping Player Interactions in Thedas: Deconstructing Misogynoir and Fan Interpretations of Vivienne De Fer” (Routledge Press), alongside additional scholarly publications on games, identity, and media studies, and “Afrofutures and Perspectives on Black Girlhood in Digital Games” in the sixth edition of Race, Gender, Class, and Media. She is also the 2025 Artist Trust Fellowship recipient for Washington State, and the recipient of the 2026 Douglas L. Epperson award for Social Justice continues to develop interdisciplinary research and public-facing projects that bridge game design, culture, and technology.

She makes games as a way to build worlds where Black life, imagination, and experience are centered, preserved, and expanded through interactive form. Highlighting Black experiences in her work is essential to challenging dominant narratives in games and creating space for histories, futures, and ways of being that are often excluded from digital culture.

Links to work:
• Website: http://www.diamondebp.com/
• Games: https://diamondebp.itch.io/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diamondebp.art/