Nandy Del Castillo is the CEO/Founder of Shop Salem365 where she creates and sells original artwork inspired by pop culture. Her work has been featured on multiple BUZZFEED lists, favored by celebrities and industry professionals on social media platforms, and displayed in art galleries in...
Noël Copeland was born in Jamaica, and studied at the Jamaica School of Art in Kingston. He then went on to receive an MFA, with Honors, in Ceramics and Sculpture, from Pratt Institute of Art and Design. Copeland’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally,...
Jocelyn Marie Goode creates art as a tool to amplify her voice as an agent of social progress. She focuses on images that are healing, beautiful, and uplifting to counterbalance the prevalence of negative, demeaning, and traumatic media bombarding our mental landscape. Goode received a...
Sophia Victor is a Brooklyn-based visual artist who dedicates her work to exposing the stories and experiences of individuals and communities striving to overcome injustices. By raising awareness, she aims to humanize social justice issues and prevent them from being repeated. Some of her subjects...
Playground, by artist Carlos Torres Machado, is a study of the Brownsville community as observed in their playgrounds. Playgrounds are a community space for kids, teenagers, and adults where people unite, talk, and interact. In the colorful space of Torres Machado’s mural, the rich diversity...
Noble Dre*Ali’s The Mitchel Mandala aims to portray the spirit and strength of Mitchel residents through depictions of front line workers, persons of varied ages and races, and animals that symbolize resilience and rebirth. Responding directly to sentiments shared by residents, the artwork is also...
Dario Mohr’s Sow the Seeds is a call to acknowledge the rich roots of South Bronx residents’ lineages as well as a plea to implement sustainable and healthy environmental practices. A neighbor of Mitchel Houses, Mohr is a witness to the gentrification and heat island...
Blanka Amezkua is a Latinx interdisciplinary artist, cultural promoter, educator, and project creator. She uses crochet, embroidery, and comic book visual vernacular as communicative tropes. Her work has been shown at MoMA/ P.S.1, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, El Museo del Barrio,...
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...
