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  1. Janice Reid

    Janice Reid (Canadian, Jamaican, b.1987) is an emerging artist who grew up in Toronto, currently based in Brampton, On. About 3 years ago, Janice delved further into her practice and focused on themes of identity, gender, blackness and community.  Reid’s vibrant, colorful contemporary style has captured her subjects in beauty expressed in love, celebrating the…

  2. Gavin Benjamin

    Gavin Benjamin is a multifaceted artist who combines original analog photography and appropriated images with collage, paint, and varnish to create rich and luxurious works that call back to baroque traditions while incorporating elements of current culture to provoke, critique, and explore. Born in Guyana, South America and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Benjamin received…

  3. Jessica Gaynelle Moss

    Jessica Gaynelle Moss (b. 1987) is an artist, curator, custodian of Black art and creator of platforms and spaces that invest in and support Black artists. Melding her dedication to making art, supporting artists and developing more equitable and just policies, Jessica’s creative practice and projects transcend any one medium, discipline or field, coalescing fine art…

  4. LaKeisha Wolf

    LaKeisha Wolf is a self-taught artisan, whose insightful skills were honed in the embrace of the Africana cultural community in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the founder of a micro-enterprise centered on making and wellness. This multidisciplinary creator has grown her competency working to uplift and center her own healing, as well as that of Black…

  5. Nakeya Brown

    Nakeya Brown was born in Santa Maria, California in 1988. She received her Bachelor of Art from Rutgers University and her Master of Fine Arts from The George Washington University. Her work has been featured nationally in solo exhibitions at the Catherine Eldman Gallery (Chicago, IL, 2017), the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art (Grand Rapids,…

  6. Francisco Vidal

  7. Nic Brierre Aziz

    Nic[o] Brierre Aziz is a Haitian-New Orleanian Interdisciplinary artist and curator born and raised in New Orleans, LA. His current practice is deeply community focused and rooted around the utilization of under discussed personal and collective histories to reimagine the future. His work is also very centered around the Caribbean Diaspora and he is very…

  8. sarah huny young

    sarah huny young (she/they) is an award-winning photographer and deejay exalting Black womanhood and queer communities through visual art and music. With the archival of resilience in mind, she primarily shoots and performs on-location across the country in the thick of QTBIPOC nightlife and in public settings. huny’s professional memberships include Women Photograph, Diversify Photo,…

  9. Glenn Saffo

  10. Nyugen Smith

    Bio: Nyugen E. Smith is a first-generation Caribbean-American interdisciplinary artist based in Jersey City, NJ. Through performance, found object sculpture, mixed media drawing, painting, video, photo and writing, Nyugen deepens his knowledge of historical and present-day conditions of Black African descendants in the diaspora. Trauma, spiritual practices, language, memory, architecture, and climate change are primary…