Ingram Brown

As a minister who loves to dance, Ingram has studied dances of the African diaspora, ballet, jazz, modern, West and South African dance as well as banner making and movement with fabric (flags, billows, veils, dance ribbon) and dancing with tambourines. During the year of 1995 in Houston, Texas, she had the opportunity to combine her passion for dancing with her spiritual life as she joined the dance ministry as Windsor Village United Methodist Church and as well as she danced for an African-Caribbean Company called Ballet Caribe. After this experience, Ingram continued to with church dance teams in Akron, Ohio; Nederland Texas; Jacksonville, Florida and Richmond, Virginia. Over the next 15 years, Ingram would go on to choreograph pieces for church and community events; advise/teach new dance leaders directly or through her Legacy Bearer (general ministry), Representing (the standard and signs and symbols of the church), Victory (tambourine) and Out of Africa into the Diaspora (dances from countries influenced by the continent of Africa) workshops. In 2010, she decided to return the Richmond, Virginia to assist with the care of her disabled father and continued to assist dance ministries at local churches and started participating in the activities of CLAVES UNIDOS. Claves shares and celebrates the historical, political and social connections of African diaspora dances world-wide. In her studio at ArtWorks in Richmond, Virginia, Ingram has designed costumes for dancers and continues to make be a textile artist making wall hangings, rugs and scarves. Day by day, Ingram is discovering the truth that “For in Him we live and move and exist” and her passion is encouraging people to walk in their G-d given purpose and destiny and sharing what she is learning on her adventure in following, trusting and loving God. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.S. in chemical engineering and later obtained a B.A. in Christian Arts and Ministry through Logos Christian College and Graduate School in Jacksonville, Florida.