Bianca Garay is a Queer Caribbean art illustrator from Brooklyn, New York. She is on a mission to spread authentic and visibly inspiring messages to communities around the world. She has close familial ties to the NYCHA developments in the Lower East Side and wants...
A multidisciplinary artist and storyteller, Coraima Santana creates space for expression to shift and transform. Her subjects are often grassroots issues that call for increased public participation, self-empowerment, and centering of underrepresented groups. She wants her art to resonate with people of all backgrounds and...
Dister is an artist from Washington Heights, NYC. He is also a member of I Love My Hood, a collective of worldwide artists, educators, and activists dedicated to serving the greater good through Hip Hop. He has created and collaborated on projects worldwide, ranging from...
Gwendolyn Black is an award winning artist who started her career as a fashion illustrator. She later moved to fine arts, where she found her niche organizing and curating exhibitions and programs. Since 1991, she has been using her work to uplift the community, most...
Andrea Arroyo works in painting, sculpture, artists books, site-specific installation, and public art. Her art has been exhibited in 50 individual, and numerous group shows in the US and abroad. Permanent collections include The Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Institution, The New York Public Library,...
George Torres Jr. sees himself as a visitor to this earth. A self-proclaimed observer, he uses his art to narrate the world around him. He traverses the borough of New York on a motorized scooter, always with pen and notebook in hand. Torres grew up...
Nancy Saleme is a Latinx visual artist and industrial textile designer. Her art is a visual testimony of her existence and reveals her personal experiences as a woman of color. Since 2010, she has been creating temporary and permanent artworks to transform and claim public...
Ashes57 is an illustrator, painter and photographer who has captured some of the most iconic images of the underground bass music scene from the early days of dubstep to footwork and beyond. She produced flyers and posters for the legendary Dub War parties and record...
Massah Fofana is a multi-media collage artist. She has worked in Red Hook as a teaching artist for eight years. She centers youth leaders and community stewardship using documentary practices. Her artwork is meant to bring awareness and encouragement towards community maintenance, while also providing...
Paul Kamuf is an artist working with video, animation, and new technology. An alumni of commercial television and the commercial art world, his personal work focuses on how technology re-routes relationships. Tony Schloss believes that self expression is the key to a rich life, and...