American-Bahamian, Alexis Alleyne-Caputo is an anthropologist, award-winning interdisciplinary artist, photographer, poet, writer, filmmaker, curator of performance art and social justice practitioner. She is a graduate of Goddard College, MFA, New York University, MA, BS/MA, BMCC – The City University of New York, AA, a certified Arts in Medicine practitioner and Dr. John Graham-Pole scholar (University of Florida – Center for Arts…
Jean-François Boclé is an artist based in Paris. He was born in Martinique in 1971 where he lived for 17 years. He studied art at the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges (1992-95) and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (1995-98). His work has been displayed, among other places, at the Van Gogh…
Born in 1968 in Guadeloupe, Francoise lives and works in Marseille, France. After a short period at the École du Louvre (the Louvre School) in Paris in the ’90s, in the year 2000, Françoise Sémiramoth settled in Marseille. In 2021, Francoise completed her first year of her Master’s in Fine Art at the Fine Art…
Paul Goodnight was born in Chicago Illinois 1946. He was raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and New London Connecticut. After serving in the Vietnam War, Goodnight returned to Boston and pursued a career as an artist. He received his B.F.A. and an honorary M.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art. Goodnight’s learning continued under the tutelage of…
Adejoke Aderonke Tugbiyele is a queer, Nigerian-American artist, architect, educator and advocate. Her practice explores queer Yoruba aesthetics thus challenging homophobia and standing in solidarity with the notion that “Queer Love is Not UnAfrican!” Tugbiyele’s work reveals how Yoruba philosophy and indigenous aesthetics contribute to Western thought, as successfully found within applications of Buddhist and…
Breaking The Vision, draws from Trinidadaian/Canadian poet and writer Dionne Brand, who stated that we “must return to come forward, must break the vision of us that we did not make…must reclaim history.” The Caribbean region was created through the oppressive “civilizing’” colonial expansionist project, a project we see that continues even today. People brought…
Francks F. Décéus was born in Cap-Haitian, Haiti 1966. He currently resides and maintains a studio in Brooklyn, NY. Décéus received a B.A. in sociology from Long Island University, NY, in 1992. Décéus has studied printmaking at the venerated Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and in June of 2007, he completed a month-long printmaking residency in…
Lewinale Havette’s artwork has been featured in exhibitions in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe, including Christie’s London, Art Cologne in Cologne, Germany; 1-54 Contemporary African Fair in NY, Delphian Gallery in London, UK; Cierra Britton Gallery, New York; Black Cultural Archives, London, UK; Launch F18 in New York, NY; Alan Avery…
Vitus Shell is a mixed-media collage painter born in Monroe, LA, where he lives and works. His work is geared toward the black experience, giving agency to people from this community through powerful images deconstructing, sampling, and remixing identity, civil rights, and contemporary black culture. He received a BFA from Memphis College of Art, in…
Born in 1985 in Nakuru, Kenya, David Thuku is a painter and mixed media artist currently living and working in Nairobi. A recipient of the Langalanga Scholarship Fund (a U.K based Charity Organisation that supports the education of bright and needy Kenyan children and young adults), David graduated from the BuruBuru Institute of Fine Arts…