Aleathea Sapp -Jimenez

Ms. Aleathea Sapp-Jimenez was born and raised ni Brooklyn, New York and is of Caribbean-American descent. One of six children, Sapp-Jimenez fondly recalls watching her big sister Laurie sketch Spiderman at the end of her bed, and a single treasured childhood birthday gift received from her brother Lindel. Sapp-Jimenez' art has been inspired and influenced by family, life experience and community.

In those days, Sapp-Jimenez took what she could from her parents' rearing which was hte gift of a business mind from her mother and an ever evolving art talent from a complex father. Her late mother was a self made woman. Mother Thelma was a registered nurse and then a small business owner of a Beauty and Barber Supply Store. There, Sapp-Jimenez learned how a business functioned, how to provide customer service, how to engage with the community ni a way that would inspire collaboration and the importance of unity amongst marginalized groups. Her late Father Neil, a city bus driver by occupation, was a gifted oil painter. Sapp-Jimenez learned the depth of color from him as he expressed himself via landscapes and the creation of faces. Painting nature and his environment allowed him ot express his inner feelings of darkness. Although initially seeking a traditional path in attending college, Sapp-Jimenez ultimately got the art education she was seeking in her late Uncle Floyd. He was a muralist. His art expressed Black American impressions of culture and Sapp-Jimenez took great inspiration from him. It was evident that the Sapp blood line ran deep with artistic talent. Life experience.

Sapp-Jimenez worked as the Cultural Enrichment Specialist at the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club-Flatbush Unit for 30 years. There she was awarded the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club-Flatbush Unit National Service Award. Working directly with the youth of the inner-city, she established an adept program of artists, dancers, poets, models and fashion designers. Sapp-Jimenez encouraged youth ot also give reason to uplift local communities. Sapp-Jimenez also was awarded the City Council Citation 40th District Award, as wel as the 67th Precinct Community Outreach Award. Sapp-Jimenez also taught at the Community College at Kingsborough during their research foundations art program. Over the years Sapp-Jimenez has participated ni numerous local community works and has her art ni gallery exhibitions and showcases throughout the five boroughs. Community.

The commonality that we all face, acts as a personal outlet for Sapp-Jimenez, that she hopes can inspire others ot seek their own conversations, and their own growth. She si a self-taught, mixed media artist whose art moves where the inspiration takes her, from canvas to clothing and jewelry. Sapp-Jimenez is a highly skilled painter, inspired by Black Culture and the beauty of nature. She also designs her own clothing from upcycled materials and also creates housewares like coasters and magnets. When you visit her showcases, you wil be drawn to whatever you need to uplift you. It is part of her magic.

Sapp-Jimenez art aims to evoke conversation while you experience her work. It is both an emotional and immersive experience. Sapp-Jimenez' love of flowers and patterns consistently represent a growth and a change in real world experience. She encompasses both spiritual and cultural aspects that are grounded ni her roles as a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother

and mentor. Husband and best friend Jeffery, and her two adult sons Gary and Jason are the roots often seen painted into her trees and flowers. They give her strength and stability, as wel as unwavering support and endless joy. Family.

Artists

Gabrielle Shira Broome

Gabrielle Shira Broome is a multidisciplinary visual artist currently based in her studio in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. She was born in Manhattan (2000).

She graduated from the University of Southern California in 2023 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a minor in Religion.

Azin Agharabi

Azin Agharabi comes from Iran. Her father and older sister were both painters, and from an early age she loved to draw and paint, indeed she was obsessed. In high school she took up the formal study of art, and a turning point came when her sister took her to her university and she found out about oil painting. That is when she knew she wanted to be an artist. She went to the leading art school, the University of Art in Tehran. She worked hard there and also spent lots of time with a group of artist friends who socialized and supported each other.

Elisa Buitron

Elisa Buitrón, also known as BitterSweet Art, is a Texas-based mixed media 2D artist whose work explores themes of self-discovery and human complexity. Originally from Mexico, her diverse cultural background deeply influences her art. Inspired by her artist mother and fueled by her travels, Elisa's arts pans from black ink drawings to vibrant compositions filled with humor and wordplay.

Penny DeWind

Penny DeWind became interested in art when she visited the City and Country School in Greenwich Village as a child. The kindly art teacher, Al Freudenberg, set her up with a drawing set and this experience got her doing art for the next seventy or so years until the present day. She took drawing classes at Dalton where she went to high school, and at Oberlin College she majored in Art and Art History.

Robert V. Reid

My subject is primarily the human form. There is no greater joy than capturing the complex human element. With color, light and space, I seek to manifest the energy and emotions of my subjects, offering moments of beauty, serenity, and introspection. I am particularly inspired by the female figure-multi-dimensional, alluring, beautiful and strong.

Yohance Barton

YHNCE is a Caribbean American photographer based in Flatbush, Brooklyn. With an eye for capturing life's most riveting moments, he employs a stimulating photographic style and animated photoshop editing techniques. Yohance's journey as a photographer began in 2010 at MS. 51's photo program in Park Slope, where he discovered his passion for film photography and photoshop collaging.

Stephen Small Warner

Stephen Small-Warner's (b. 1988, Brooklyn ,NY) journey as a filmmaker is rooted in a desire for creative freedom and direct connection with his audience. He once shared, "I wanted to find a way to grow as a filmmaker that wasn't at gatekeepers' hands; A way to practice the craft and share it directly with an audience. Creating a smaller feedback loop and finding an audience for my work. I found creating stories in vertical to be challenging, innovative, and with no specific mandate, I could make the stories I wanted to tell."

Nkosazana B.

Nkosazana B is a mixed media artist, educator and visual storyteller from Brooklyn, NY. Immersed in the arts from a young age, Nkosazana was inspired by the diasporic melting pot that is her community of Flatbush, Brooklyn. The blend of African American, Caribbean and African people and cultures, sprouted in her the desire to capture the beauty of her people; to preserve and share it to the world. Nkosazana wants her work to show the regality in the mundane. She wants to ignite in people the desire to just be.

Janay Williams

I have always had a love for creative expression through many forms of art (dance, drawing and painting, yoga, writing, which led to a development of interests in the movement of words, thoughts, ideas, feelings, and energy through my mind, body, and spirit. In my art, I depict my emotional and natural connection to the world inside and outside of me –those internal journeys, as well as those bonds of all our shared experiences. I seek wellness and community amongst my people, and I hope that the joys of life that seep onto the pages set ablaze beautiful mosaics, diverse flavors of nature, and the tastes rooted in the layers of diasporic waves–all of which live in and through us. 

Stephen Miller

Solidifying his style in the late 2010s while living in Washington DC and attending Howard University. He would go on to do photography for Soho House, Apple and Oscar de la Renta. His work has been featured in The New York Times, ESSENCE and Dwell Magazine. Based in Brooklyn NY, he now works as a freelance photographer –– specializing in portrait and documentary photography.

Terrell Tuggle

Terrell Tuggle  is a Filmmaker, Videographer, Painter, Poet, and Author. Terrell Tuggle is known in the Art Community as ARTPEACE The Chess Artist, the only artist to date that uses actual chess pieces in their work. Terrell Tuggle is also a dedicated educator having served the community working with children in The Department of Education for the past 24 years, where currently he is the Chess Teacher and Dean of Students at Lamad Academy Charter School. Terrell Tuggle is also the owner and operator of two independent film companies (FILMBARNBK), (A DOPE FILM PRODUCTION) geared toward the production of conscious material for the urban consumer.

Kwame Adjei

Kwame Adjei was born in the heart of Kumasi, Ghana. Growing up at Manhyia, the home of the Asante king, his parents did a great job keeping his upbringing tailored to his tribe, the Asante. Witnessing the rich culture of Asante tribe as a child, by the age 11 Kwame began pouring memories into art form capturing the beauty of his African culture. Kwame attempts to use his art as a tool to enrich the minds of his people about the different aspects of the Asante tribe and African culture in hopes of connecting the continent to his audience.

Julia O’Farrow

Julia O’Farrow is the award-winning director of the documentary “Beyond the Bars/No Extended Embraces,” profiling six women who have a loved one in prison. The film has screened at numerous festivals, aired on cable television, and was part of the Langston Hughes and Donnell Public Library’s video collection. She recently completed Bric Arts Documentary Intensive workshop with the film”Resilience”.

Abena Hutchdful

Abena Hutchdful (she/her) aims to use filmmaking to envision more just and liberated futures. She is an advocate for immigrant youth and a member of the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project. She calls Tema, Herndon, and Flatbush home.

Roshumba Llewellyn

Roshumba Llewellyn is a Brooklyn-based creative director, graphic designer, writer, and filmmaker. As a Black, queer, immigrant woman from a low income background, she is driven by a sense of heritage to the communities whose identities she shares. She strives to use storytelling to nuance representation of individuals within these groups, to foster places of belonging and joy, from which we can realize our full potential. Roshumba is inspired by nature, loves to work with color, and is likely to learn a stranger’s life story within five minutes of meeting them.

Karen Marks

Karen Marks is an independent filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY originally from Jamaica.

Chante Graham

Chante Graham the founder of CG Productions as well as an award-winning filmmaker, community television producer, author poet, mentor, and activist. 

Léa Pelleteret

Léa Pelleteret (she/her) is an architect and urban planner based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Her work seeks to offer a better understanding of the invisible in our urban societies, focusing on the role of communities in the process of city-making.

Martin Eaton

Martin Eaton is the Brooklyn author and creator of Tomorrow’s Vig, an ongoing collection of illustrated flash fiction stories created in collaboration with talented artists from around the globe. He’s also the writer/producer/director of the independent TV pilot, Mott & Spy.

Anne Gilman

Anne Gilman is a Brooklyn-based artist whose large-scale drawings and multidisciplinary projects map information, thought and emotion. Her dense scrolls show lines of extemporaneous text interspersed with drawn sections that reference personal and global challenges she observes as she works.

Patricia Broadbelt

Ms Broadbelt is a native New Yorker who has lived most of her life in Brooklyn. She is an emerging artist and has been on her own gradual path as a self-taught artist. After a long career as a lawyer and educator, she made a promise to herself that she would travel and discover the artist within her. She has done both whole-heartedly.

Linda Hiwot

Ms Hiwot’s canvas paintings and hand drawn prints are frequently collaged and constructed. she is noted for her use of color, shape and composition, and she has developed a personal idiom.

Carey Clark

Working between the intersections of community engagement/ theater set design/ and painting, my work takes on many forms in response. Between 2012 and 2018 my work explored video projections over painted surfaces, giving a certain movement to the stillness of painting.

Ann Hinds

Ann Hinds, a spirited Hispanic woman, discovered her love for art in the tranquil later years of her life. After dedicating decades to her role as a school librarian, a profession marked by the quiet rustle of book pages and the steady hum of learning, Ann turned to painting and drawing as a source of joy and relaxation. Her entry into the world of art, though late, was marked by an eagerness to explore and express herself without the constraints of formal training.

Larry Weekes

Larry believes that the role of the artist is to communicate, document and inspire thought. The images of African mask connect to our history and ancestors. “We are not connected to our past; these mask have spirit the energy that I put into them which allows me to connect to that energy.”

Ed Grant

Ed Grant, originally from Vermont, lives and works in Brooklyn. He is a painter, photographer and carpenter. He received his BA in Studio Art from the University of Vermont and a MFA in Painting from UMASS/Amherst. Themes that inform his work often include liminality, yearning, displacement and unease. Increasingly, thoughts of mortality, memory, uncertainty and contradiction are becoming important elements to the work.He has shown throughout the United States and his work is in collections in Taiwan, Australia, the US and Europe.

Doba Afolabi

I have never wanted to repeat the same work twice! Reason my subject, style and palette always appear in different series and outlook.

Louella Jones

I was born in Harlem in the 50’s during what was called the Baby Boomer generation. The 10th of twelve children, I made a splash of an entrance on the front page of our local newspaper having been born with two lower front teeth. Just had to be different even then! Im my 20s I moved to Brooklyn where I currently reside with my loveable, five-pound Maltese, Lola.

Patricia Fabricant

Patricia Fabricant is a painter, curator, and award-winning book designer, born in New York City. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and studied painting in Florence Italy.

Darla Ebanks

Darla Ebanks is a self-taught artist, born in Honduras. The ethos of her art is based on her life: her paintings are an expression, a feeling, or a feeling she is searching to acquire. Her pieces are never titled as she prefers for the owners of her work to name the pieces for what they mean to them.

Victoria Pierre-Jean

Victoria Pierre-Jean, known by her artist name VPJ, is the founder of Visually Painting Jems, LLC. She is an emerging Haitian American artist from Brooklyn, NY. Her use of acrylic is ever evolving and ultimately inspired by her experiences as a mental health professional, nature, music and historical figures. VPJ aspires to create art that moves people to think deeply and be more conscious of the impact we all make in the world.

Miguel Dela Cruz

Born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, he studied at the National School of Fine Arts of Santo Domingo, DR. He has held numerous exhibitions in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico the United States and other countries around the world.

Isaac Paris

I was born in Trenton New Jersey, and originally came to New York to study Graphic Arts & Design at Pratt Institute. I left Pratt Institute after 2 1/2 years and transferred to Parsons School of Design, where I received my BFA with Honors, in Communications Design. I’ve enjoyed making my living as a graphic designer, art director, and teaching in the communication design department at Pratt Institute and the Fashion Institute of Technology. But I’ve been in heaven here on earth when I’m painting portraits.

Nina Meledandri

I am a painter, a photographer and a mixed media artist living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn NY. After graduating from Hampshire College, I returned to NY as a freelance photographer and was published by the NY Times Magazine, Architectural Digest, New York Magazine and the Village Voice among other editorial outlets. After a number of years, I taught myself oil painting and began developing language as an abstract painter. I have shown extensively throughout the NY area and was represented by the David Findlay Gallery in NY.

Desirée Conston

Desirée Conston is a self-proclaimed Android Phone Portrait Artist/Designer. Growing up her household was filled with images of beauty. From the expressive and expansive astrological paintings on the walls, to the beautiful drawings of gods and goddesses from her parents bookshelves. Desirée dreamed she would one day make album covers as beautiful as the ones of Earth Wind and Fire.

Jeff and Susan Hemley

Jeff and Susan Hemley are a husband and wife creative team. Jeff creates abstracts using markers and acrylic paint. His artwork and general perspective are wildly imaginative which serves him well in his other passion career as a Pre-School Teacher.

Susan creates abstracts using acrylic paint, paper and other materials (often found and repurposed). Her passion for repurposing can also be seen in her work as a Costumer and Set Decorator.

Naderson Saint Pierre

Since birth Naderson Saint-Pierre had a destined path as a creator. His hands have been the catalyst for multiple paintings that evoke deep feelings in his viewers. His goal is to provoke thought and conversation that transforms the way that the viewer truly sees the world and their place in society. He started his creative journey as a youth with the basics, drawing being the foundation. In his solitude he used art as a way to detox from life’s daily challenges and allowed the practice to relieve his mind. For him, something so therapeutic became more than a hobby but a journey in finding himself.

CRae

CRae believes that we are all creative beings, we just need to find the outlets that give us joy. Art, as an enjoyable experience was first introduced by a very cool high school teacher. Taking chances and experimentation were the takeaway lessons.

CHIC

With a background in fashion, Chic is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York, who specializes in cartooning, portraiture, sculpture, and mixed media. He embraces the opportunity to push the boundaries of the canvas.

Utilizing mediums such as oil, acrylic, Indian ink, ebony pencil, and modeling clay, Chic's artistic practice draws inspiration from diverse sources such as music, social commentary, animation, fashion, and pop-cultural nostalgia. 

Eddy José Pérez

Eddy José Pérez is a self taught fine art film photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. His current focus is on using various black and white film stocks to capture different states of New York City urban landscapes.

Eurila Cave

Born in California, raised in Brooklyn, NY, Eurila is a mother, lover, and creator. As the sole proprietor of Cali York Photography, a portrait and event photography business her passion for documenting her life started when she was 13. Since starting her own business in 2011, Eurila has photographed hundreds of New Yorkers; famous, notable, and unknown.

Michael Paul Britto

Michael Paul Britto is a visionary artist who pushes the boundaries of contemporary art. With a diverse body of work spanning various mediums, including video, installation, and performance. Britto explores themes of identity, power, and representation. Through his thought provoking creations, he challenges social norms and interrogates cultural constructs, often addressing issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Britto’s art is characterized by its boldness, combining vibrant colors, striking imagery, and a keen sense of story telling. His work has been exhibited globally, earning him critical acclaim and establishing him as a significant voice in the art world.

Nancy La Lanne

Nancy La Lanne is a first generation American, Brooklyn born and raised photographer. She was introduced to the art of imagery through her father, who came to the U.S. from Haiti on a student visa for photography, Overtime, she has captured many humans, experiences, events, and nature as a hobby and later as a profession.

Adwoa Baah

Brooklyn-based, Ghanaian-British artist, Adwoa Baah is a self-taught mixed media artist whose work honours the beauty of her cultural identity and global travel experiences. Born and raised in London, her work explores her “third culture kid” identity, influenced by her Ghanaian heritage and the mainstream British/Euro-centric culture in which she was raised.

Takuma Watanabe

Takuma Watanabe presents a series of acrylic paintings visualizing the energy of unconciousness.

Stanwyck Cromwell

Stanwyck E. Cromwell is a Guyanese-born, second generation visual artist and an Adjunct Art professor at Capital Community College, in Hartford CT. who has spent the vast majority of his adult life in the United States of America and currently resides in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Despite his lengthy absence from his country of origin, his memories of Guyana are rich and abundant. Stanwyck uses a rich colorful palette, that is reminiscent of his cultural identity. The mixtures of cultures in American society, have played a very important role in his ability to create art that speaks to not only to the eyes, but most important, the soul. Stanwyck is a current member of some visual arts organizations, including, WEUS1 Artists Collective, Harlem, NY, Black Dimensions in Art, Inc., Albany, NY and others.

Claudia Mulet

Claudia Mulet was Born in Havana, Cuba. Graduated from the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA) in Cuba, with a Bachelor of Performing Arts, she moved to the United States in 2016 to make her debut on the First National Tour of “On your feet”, the story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan. Performing has been her passion, but now she finds that she can communicate through other mediums such as directing theater pieces, video art and painting.

Solace Duval

Solace is a freelance illustrator living and working in NYC. Her practice is grounded in the process of using traditional materials like gouache and acrylic. She is inspired by nature, her Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage, and loves to tell stories through her illustrations. All of her work is related through a bold and whimsical style. She knew she wanted to be an artist after working in a painting studio during high school. It was there that she learned to paint and was soon teaching classes herself.

Debra Riva

DEBRA RIVA has been in the process of making art for many years. She is committed to her creative impulse, even when struggling to just get into the studio. Debra was drawn to collage, producing eclectic multi-media pieces for her own satisfaction and the enjoyment of friends and family. The last several years have been devoted to an exploration of abstract painting. 

Jean-Claude Cajou

Born and raised in a tight knit community in Haiti. Now, Brooklyn, New York is my adopted home.

One can know an artist solely through their work. It is a privilege to use art to play in the arena of universal ideas and themes. Similarly, the viewers are invited to project and play with ideas as they want without the burden of following another’s narrative or experiences.

Christine Puello

Christine Puello is a Dominican-American mixed-media artist from New York. She is a full-time third-year student at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Christine has had a passion for art from a young age and is committed to earning a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. Her works range from mediums like graphite, charcoal, oil, and acrylic, to photography and found-object sculptures. She is interested in searching for the multitude of ways that art can imitate and define life through its materiality. Her works find a way of redefining the intimacies between relationships with others, ourselves, and spaces.

Brian Branch

Brian Branch is a contemporary surrealist artist living in Brooklyn. In high school he began creating graffiti art on denim during the birth of the hip-hop/rap era in the ‘80s. Years later, his interest in Fine Art evolved towards oil painting, which eventually helped forge his artistic journey.

Beverley Watson

Watson is a ceramic sculptor, art therapist, and small business owner, providing services to children with special needs. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and has been based in Bedford Stuyvesant for more than 35 years.

Sasha Chavchavadze

Sasha Chavchavadze’s drawings, paintings, and installations explore forgotten history and its effect on memory and place. Her mixed media paintings incorporate layers of antique fabric and collaged watercolor/ink drawings, creating ecosystems of image and text evoking disappearance, loss, and change. Words from forgotten women mentors are applied to the warp and weft of the fabric. Her recent paintings reactivate the life and words of American writer, Margaret Fuller, whose powerful voice was erased over time.

Ba Djibril Ngawa

Ba Djibril is from a very small pastoral village called “Douboulde”, south east of Mauritania in the Guidimaka region. His Fulanii family was a bridge between different Mauritanian ethnic groups, which made him a very multicultural person.

Emmett Wigglesworth

Muralist, painter, sculptor, fabric designer and poet, Emmett Wigglesworth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he attended the College of Art and later enlisted in military service.

Jean Dominique Volcy

Jean Dominique Volcy is a natural born talented artist. His passion for art started at a very young age, with his elaborate drawings and watercolor paintings.

Corey Devon Arthur

Corey Devon Arthur is an artist, published writer, and practicing Quaker. His art exhibit, “She Told Me Save the Flower,” presented in March 2023 at My Gallery NYC in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, explores feminism and Corey’s connections with feminist women.

Anne Russinof

Anne Russinof, originally a Chicago native, graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an MFA from Pratt Institute. Russinof has been a resident at the Yaddo and Millay Art Colonies, and is a member of American Abstract Artists. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions in NYC and nationwide. She maintained a blog from 2012–2020 called Gallery Travels featuring mostly abstract paintings shown in NYC.

AV Ryan

AV Ryan received a BA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a BFA in Visual Arts from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Her philosophical and mathematical sculptures and images have most recently been seen at Sweet Lorraine in Brooklyn, and Pen + Ink and the EFA Project Space in Manhattan. During the covid winter of 2020 AV Ryan and lighting designer Linnaea Tillett created a light and sculpture installation in the FiveMyles Plus/Space that could be seen day and night.

Trokon Nagbe

Trokon Nagbe immigrated to the United States from Liberia in the 1980s with his family. He received his MFA from the Savannah College of Arts in 2004 in the Film and Fine Arts program. Nagbe has participated in group exhibitions in Paris, France, New York City and Savannah, Georgia. His work has been written about in Art in America, The New York Times, and in the Village Voice for his installation in the Studio Museum of Harlem “Flow” exhibition.

Nancy Manter

Nancy Manter is a painter born in Maine who lives between Bass Harbor, Maine and Brooklyn, New York. She has exhibited her work in New York City, nationwide, in Europe and in South America in many solo and group exhibitions. She has received many awards and residencies including two New York Foundation for the Arts grants, and the MacDowell Colony, among others. Her work is in the collections of museums including The Whitney, The Metropolitan, The Guggenheim, and MoMA. She is a member of American Abstract Artists.

Carl E. Hazlewood

Carl E. Hazlewood, born in Guyana, co-founded Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ. His awards include The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France; The Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa, Italy; and the Art Cake Studio Residency, Brooklyn. He recently exhibited at Galerie Lelong & Co., in Chelsea, NY., and had solo shows at Welancora Gallery in Brooklyn, and at Art Basel Miami 2022.

Emily Berger

Emily Berger, a graduate of Brown University, received her MFA in painting from Columbia. She has received several awards and residencies including from the National Academy Museum, the Skowhegan School and the Millay Colony. Her work has been exhibited widely in NYC and beyond in many solo and group exhibitions. She is currently included in the traveling exhibition Blurring Boundaries: the Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936-Present.

Daniella Omeruo

Daniella Omeruo is an artist and web developer from Brooklyn, NY. She first fell in love with art when she was 12. Since then, she has enjoyed making collages and digital art using photoshop, procreate and physical media. She is inspired by the Black Arts Movement and Dadaism and got her BA at Dartmouth College in African and African American Studies, Government and Digital Art. 

Karl McIntosh

Karl A. McIntosh is a self taught artist who works in pastel, watercolor, acrylic, collage, stone, wood and metal and is a wizard at transforming found objects into works of art. Born in Kingston, Jamaica McIntosh moved to the United States at an early age and later took up art. Among his mentors are artist Otto Neals with whom he worked at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking workshop and artist Marian Griffin.

Caroline Guilbert

Caroline brings a holistic approach to color, highlighting its beauty in the everyday.

Located in NYC, Caroline obtained their Masters's in Color in France, where they are from.

Miguel Angel Reyes

Brooklyn-based visual artist Miguel Angel Reyes composes compelling, realistic forms rendered in intense color. His small yet evocative oil paintings range from simple, solitary objects set against a single plane of color to complex, multi-subject compositions with distant landscapes in the background.

Fred Bendheim

Fred Bendheim is a contemporary artist working in Brooklyn, NY.

His work includes: paintings, sculpture, shaped paintings/reliefs, public art, drawings, collages and prints. Originally from Arizona, there he apprenticed with the painter, Philip Curtis.

Bonnie Steinsnyder

I get absorbed in balancing flow of watercolor and control of form and space: my narratives are the gestures, colors and atmosphere of orchids.

Susan Greenstein

My parents were passionate collectors of art from around the world, and surrounded me with a treasure-trove of rich hues and textures that continue to influence my work today. While watercolor is the primary focus of my art, I use many other techniques that allow me to explore the color, rhythms and patterns that I love.

Risa Glickman

Risa Glickman has been a working artist for decades. She graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA and MFA. In 2018, Risa retired from teaching after 26 years at The Packer Collegiate Instutute.

Rita Finnegan

Master of Fine Arts degree. Directly after graduating, upon the advise of another graduate student, I became a substitute teacher and I took classes in Education to earn a teaching license. Shortly after that. I got a job teaching in the public High Schools of Brooklyn N.Y.C. I taught  High School Art in public schools of Brooklyn for more than 20 years, first as a substitute and then as an appointed teacher. During all those years, I kept producing art and I also grew as artist by teaching it. I was able to continue showing my art in various galleries. Now that I'm retired I'm going to dedicate the rest of my life producing  and showing my art.

Otto Neals

Mr. Neals describes himself as a self-taught artist although he studied briefly at the Brooklyn Museum Art School with Isaac Soyer and printmaking at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop with Krishna Reddy, Mohammed Khalil and Roberto DeLomanica. He was introduced to stone carving by sculptor Vivian Schuyler Key, who presented him with his first set of stone carving tools.

Nocturnal

Nocturnal (She/They) is a Dominican-American mix media surrealist based out of New York. They are full-time therapist and do consulting work for local nonprofits. Advocating for mental health, minorities, LGBTQIA, and women is a passion of theirs.

Keisha-Gaye Anderson

I am a Jamaican-born poet, writer, visual artist, and communications and marketing strategist based in Brooklyn, NY. My debut poetry collection Gathering the Waters (Jamii Publishing 2014) was accepted into the Poets House Library and the National Library of Jamaica.

Greggory Duggins

"Commitment2diverse eccentric imagery through vibrant colors a design, with an indirect social commentary."

Elton Tucker

Elton Tucker is a native New Yorker and a full-time artists and teaches Arts and Crafts to children of all ages at a New York City after school program. Art is his passion. You can see this in the energy that moves through his work.

Clarence Moore Jr.

I’m  glad to be a professional artist because over the years I was able to teach this talented skill to my students, and had the grand opportunity to paint/draw scenes of colorful flowers, butterflies, astonishing wildlife animals and famous people.

Donna Mason

My process becomes concrete when the words cementing the ideas meets the page. It is first and idea in the mind. Then the components are transcribed as they come. They never all come at once.

Valerie Williams

I'm a native New Yorker, known for my vibrant color 35mm macro floral and bio themed photography, fabric painting and for my more recent scanning electron microscope (SEM) photographs of flowers, seeds, Bermuda beach sand and other tiny objects.

Marienne “Yen” Thomas

Marienne Thomas, artistically known as Yen, is an amazing multipotentialite. She is a multi-talented painter, jewelry maker, natural hair stylist, choir director, liturgical dance choreographer, playwright, actress, and youth leader, bringing her passionate, outgoing, and energetic personality to all that she undertakes.

Robert N. Scott

I've been a practicing artist since the 1950s. I have done extensive printmaking, pen & inks, plus acrylic and oil paintings. Much of my work is abstract and composed of organic and amorphous forms evocative of flora, fauna, and now mostly microscopic and cosmic landscapes.

Gloria “Glori B.” Braxton

I've been a practicing artist since the 1950s. I have done extensive printmaking, pen & inks, plus acrylic and oil paintings. Much of my work is abstract and composed of organic and amorphous forms evocative of flora, fauna, and now mostly microscopic and cosmic landscapes.

Fei Li

I am a visual artist, curator, founder of the collaboration platform-- Accented Projects

Kelly M. Coffey

Kelly M. Coffey is a photographer, creative healing life coach, and Founder & Director of Emergence Arts and vedhead Photography.

Hannah Soule-Powderly

Hannah Soule Powderly is a sought-after fashion & event photographer, painter and the CEO/Founder of Don’t Quit Your Day Job Productions.