Brian ‘Dyalekt’ Kushner moved from St. Croix to New York to study acting and law. He also liked to rap. After witnessing civil rights injustices at the law firm he worked for, he dropped both the job and the law classes, pursuing the arts instead. Performances at the Nuyorican led him to Hip Hop Theater, writing plays that have been performed on stages across the world. He didn’t sleep on the rapping either, releasing music and touring internationally. His first album/one man play …
Pamela Capalad is a Certified Financial Planner™ and Accredited Financial Counselor™ and has been in the financial services industry since 2008. She founded Brunch & Budget to help people who felt ashamed or embarrassed about money have a safe and friendly place to talk about it and make real financial progress. Her mission is to make financial planning as affordable as possible for the communities who need it most. She co-hosts the Brunch & Budget podcast and co-founded …
Andrew Scoville is a theater director specializing in immersive layouts and hybrid-genre theater-making. He is currently directing Theater of the Mind by David Byrne and Mala Goankar, premiering with Denver Center of the Performing arts in the summer of 2020. Previous credits include The Brobot Johnson Experience (Bushwick Starr, NYTimes Critics Pick), Escape the Planet (NY Hall of Science commission with astronomer Moiya McTier), …
Kristen Crouch (b. 1991) received a BFA in photography with a minor in sculpture from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, GA (2014). She has had solo exhibitions in Savannah (I Will Live On [2014]) and her hometown of Wilmington (Landscape and Memory [2018], a collaboration with LOCAL: Art + Ideas). She has also organized exhibitions in Wilmington, including Full Frontal (2017). Omni (2016), and Thirty Under 30: An International Young Artist Group Exhibition (2015) …
Clara Aden is a passionate painter known for her mind-blowing pencils drawings. Born Elizabeth Omolara Adenugba, she has been illustrating professionally since 1999 and eventually earned her spot as Assistant Production Manager, Hearts magazine in 2000. She studied Painting and Decorating at Federal ...
Steven Montinar was born in Rockville, Maryland to Haitian immigrants in 1999 whose want to assimilate progressed into a loss of culture. This disconnect from Haitian and American customs drove Steven to investigate his identity.
After enrolling at Carnegie Mellon ...
I’ve spent the last 10 years learning and exploring my artistic practice while living through a life of consistent change.
As a human that identifies as Black, Woman, and Queer, it’s impossible to divorce my life or art from the politics of these identities. The challenge I find myself finally ...
After a suburban childhood outside of Boston, in 2003 I graduated from Vassar College and arrived in New York City ready for Broadway: with grainy black & white headshots, upwards of 2 audition songs, a repertoire of male and/or elderly roles, the face of a cherubic ...
I’m Sophie a 19 years old self-taught Mexican artist who has always been an art lover, however in the last two years, I have intensified my study and creation of art due to my growing interest and passion of learning and understanding myself and society. I believe that some ideas and feelings cannot be expressed …
Stevie Famulari, Gds designs and teaches public art, phytoremediation applications, storm water management, landscape architecture history, and specialty green courses. Her research in design explores the relationship, extension, and application of green designs to other professional fields. Stevie’s PhD ...
Alkistis Voulgari was born in Athens. She is an actress and dancer specialized on Isadora Duncan's Dance Technique. The last two years she started her own filming experimentations and performance creations which contain Theatre, Poetry, Literature, Dance, Isadora's choreographies as well as personal ...
Jose Trejo-Maya was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, and spent his childhood in the small rural pueblo of Tarimoró, from where he emigrated in 1988. His inspirations include Netzahualcoyotl, Humberto Ak’abal, Ray A. Young Bear, James Welch and Juan Rulfo. He is published in various journals and sites in the UK, US, Spain, India, Australia, Argentina, Germany …
Simon Benlulu, (Santos, Brasil, 1998). Lives and works in São Paulo, Bachelor of Visual Arts at Centro Universitário Belas Artes in São Paulo. He works with drawing, painting, sculpture and prints in dialogue with notions of art-politics covering urban problems between introspective psychology and the social environment. Participated in group and individual shows.
For Dominican born and New York City raised visionary illustrator Demostina, the world is her canvas and the universe her palette. Driven by music, human interaction, and the metaphysical nature of the feminine, Demostina has been concocting pieces all over New York City since 2002. One of the few pioneers of live painting in New York City’s music scene, …
Claudia Alick is a cultural producer, performer, and inclusion expert. Named by American Theater Magazine as one of 25 theater artists who will shape American Theater in the next 25 years, Alick has served as the founding Artistic Director of Smokin' Word Productions, is a NY Neofuturist alum, published ...
Sydette Harry is always a Far Rock 1st generation Guyanese. She loves to ask questions that help us be as kind or as forceful as possible around media . She is slightly obsessed with information architecture, design, the difference between bias and context, AI, history and performance studies…
Jonathan McCrory is an Obie Award-winning & Audelco Nominated, Harlem-based artist who has served as Artistic Director at Dr. Barbara Ann Teer's National Black Theatre since 2012. Currently serving on the nominating committee for the Tony Awards & The Lucille Lortel Awards. Throughout his career, ...
