Kevin Claiborne is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist whose work examines intersections of identity, social environment, and mental health within the Black experience. Moving between collage, silkscreen, photography, painting, and sculpture—while frequently using language as material—Claiborne is interested in finding new ways to look at history...
Born and raised in The Bronx, Alex Rivera is a photographer, cinematographer, and graphic designer who makes it his duty to inspire and support creatives in his Bronx community. As owner and founder of The Bronxer LLC, Rivera uses his many talents to design accessories,...
Willy Pilku As CEO of Core Scaffold, I’m responsible for our firm’s long-term growth strategy and business development, from asset procurement, to negotiating large-scale contracts, to overseeing its investments in cutting-edge safety equipment. Day-to-day, I advise and coordinate with my project executives, working to improve our...
Stephanie Vanegas joined SMBC in 2022 as Vice President, covering airlines, aircraft lessors and railcar lessors in the Americas.Leveraging her knowledge of the aviation and railcar sectors, industry relationships, underwriting and structuring skills, Stephanie contributes to developing the SMBC transportation platform as well as fostering...
Elizabeth Kim is a Principal at the leading architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle. In varied project and professional roles, Elizabeth promotes the highest level of design and creativity, from concepts and planning through materiality and architectural details. Her passionate pursuit of architectural and technological innovation...
Paul Deo (he/him) is a Harlem-based multimedia scenic painter and muralist whose Black Indian Indigenous cultural lens informs his mural dreamscapes, which merge history, spirit and technology to create sacred art spaces for communal dialogue. He engages and inspires communities through his work, bridging familiar...
Queens born Fernando Romero creates colorful scenes of urban cities by layering photography, mixed media, and silk screens. Starting out as a graffiti artist in NYC in the 1990’s, his craft has moved onto canvases, buildings, and billboards. As an artist, his desire is to...
Dana Robinson is a multidisciplinary artist who combines, reproduces and deconstructs, vintage materials, found objects, and paint to address the topics of youth, black female identity, ownership and nostalgia. Robinson's work has been written about in NY Mag’s Vulture, VICE, and Ain’t Bad, to name...
Jeff Kasper (he/him) is a Queens-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator, with a background in arts organizing and community engagement design. His creative work focuses on visual art and graphic design as social practice. He will take inspiration from the colorful style of the self-help and...
Glori J. Tuitt (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based painter and illustrator whose work focuses on the intersections of race, religion and pop culture concerning the cultivation of identity. Dedicated to centering Black trans bodies in the arts, she has collaborated with many social justice organizations in...