Harmony Witte aka “DissArmoníe” is a Cambridge MA based artist from the Appalachian Diaspora who focuses in surreal watercolors, DIY projects, building community, and dark kitsch. They dabble in fine arts, culture writing, public speaking, and arts organizing– including creating paintings, stickers, cards, murals, giant puppets, and zines. Harmony is a self taught “outsider” artist who has been creating since they were a small child. They live in Cambridge, MA with their husband and cat. Harmony volunteers as a culture writer for Sampan Newspaper and the Cambridge MA based music label, I Heart Noise.
For queries about commissions, projects, public speaking, or collaborations, email harmony.witte@gmail.com
The Vigilantes: Extralegal Justice, Social Control, and Violence textbook is now available for purchase! Harmony illustrated the cover!
The collaborative DissArmoníe Zine Mirrors/Windows is available to order here!
This zine is a collaboration with the multi-talented poet and photographer, Durane West, and was his original vision. It is 24 full color, high quality pages (plus a vellum insert) of poetry, photos, prose, and song lyrics from artists around the country who responded to the prompts “What are some of the mirrors in your life?”
Mirrors and Windows is an ode of a concept honoring Lucielle Clifton, a poet who once said “children and humans, everybody—all need both windows and mirrors in their lives: mirrors through which you can see yourself and windows through which you can see the world.”
Get the Protests in Boston: 2014-2024 Tiny Zine which was featured in the Tiny Zine Fest in Rotterdam in 2024!
This collaborative DissArmoníe/Phostix tiny zine packs quite the wallop with 14 black and white photos taken by Harmony at protests in the Boston area over the last decade. The protest topics range from Black Lives Matters, ending police brutality, anti-fascism, fighting climate change, licenses for all, and ending the genocide in Palestine. This zine will be featured at the Rotterdam Tiny Zine Fest in June 2024, marking the first time showing our work internationally.
Writing:
Press:
Yelp’s Passport to Deep Ellum Mural
Deep Expressions of the Feminine Aura Show
Art & Music Fundraiser for Refugee Health and Human Rights
Selections From Within at Shoe Bones
Click the DissArmonìe logo below to see more of Harmony’s paintings, zines, and other work on Instagram!
Click here for the video of the Driftwood programming portion of the 2023 event and here for a video of the 2022 event.
Driftwood is a Communal Grieving Event in the heart of Cambridge at Starlight Square that Harmony organized in 2022, 2023, and will potentially be organizing again in the future. The event brings artists, musicians, speakers, poets, and storytellers together to express their grief publicly in a way that is not often seen outside of religious contexts.