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...
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,...
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...
