Janice Patrignani is a design professional, visual artist, and art educator. She develops and teaches programs in many mediums, including watercolor, acrylic, silk painting, mosaic, encaustic, and mixed media sculpture. Her mixed media sculptures have been exhibited throughout New York. In 2005, Patrignani received third...
Imara Moore is a photographer and educator from Staten Island. Her work explores ideas of community, family, history, and memory. She uses photo-illustration and compositing techniques to articulate her concepts. Moore holds a MA in Media Studies from The New School, and a MA of...
Colleen Kong-Savage is a fine artist with a penchant for paper. Her first children’s picture book, The Turtle Ship by Helena Ku Rhee, was illustrated in her signature style of paper collage. Since then, Kong-Savage’s artwork has crossed into the digital realm, but still adheres...
Chey Nelson is a visual and tattoo artist residing in NYCHA’s Woodside Houses. Inks and acrylic paints are her current mediums of choice, though she has dabbled in painting on textiles, watercolors, and mural collaborations. She also creates work digitally, and often depicts characters from...
Natasha Herring is a genre-busting storyteller, mixed-media healing artist, writer, and entrepreneur. She is a Kimbilio and Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA) recipient and has been published in TriQuarterly, OyeDrum, and Operating System 30/30/30. Growing up as a latchkey kid in the Lower East...
Álvarez Díaz is a Spanish muralist and visual artist based in Brooklyn. Her large-scale murals incorporate symbols, patterns, and words, often with slogans or pithy poetry. Her work has been selected for international competitions, such as Pinta Malasaña (Madrid Street Art Project) and adorns institutional...
Alice Mizrachi is a New York based interdisciplinary artist and educator working in painting, murals, and installation. Centering compassion and empathy, her work explores the interconnectedness of individuals and communities. An advocate for socially engaged art, she has developed arts curricula for various nonprofits and...
Shanice FIgeroux is a self taught artist born in Queens. She works in multiple mediums including painting and spray painting and is known for her custom murals and clothing design. She has painted numerous murals for local businesses throughout NYC and has received multiple grants,...
Kiki Bencosme is a Dominican-American interdisciplinary artist from Jamaica, Queens. Her work poses questions to prompt social progress. Emerging from generational poverty, she creates socio-political sculptures, installations, and illustrations that arise from her own experiences and confront issues like housing insecurity, gender-based oppression, and racism....
Geobany Rodriguez grew up in NYC and was heavily influenced by 90’s graffiti. After studying psychology at Boston University, he used art as a medium for self-expression, and enrolled in classes at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology. He completed...