Art
Jessica Spence
Jessica Spence is a Jamaican-American artist whose work is inspired by her life, and topics relating to black female identity. Here amazing pieces often feature the hair experiences of Black children and women. She works predominantly in portraiture and is based in New York.
Jeremy Biggers
Jeremy Biggers is an award-winning creator. Dubbed "Dallas' Hardest Working Multi-Hyphenate" by D Magazine, from drawing to painting to graphic design to photography to film making, Jeremy Biggers has been involved with image making his entire life.
Cristina Martinez
Cristina Martinez's formal foray into the art world was in fashion illustration. She was inevitably driven to more expansive forms of self-expression, self-exploration and articulations of self-love through painting—from thought-provoking self-portraits to boundless abstract pieces.
Trap Bob
Tenbeete Solomon AKA Trap Bob is a visual artist, illustrator, and animator. Her work is socially conscious and frequently inspired by activism and community issues, with an aim to bridge the gap between her audience and her message.
Jamilla Okubo
Jamilla Okubo is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the intricacies of belonging to an American, Kenyan, and Trinidadian identity. Combining figurative painting, pattern/textile design, fashion, and storytelling, she celebrates the Black body in relation to movement, expression, ideology, and culture.
Derrick Adams
Derrick Adams artwork merges the ways in which individuals’ ideals, aspirations, and personae become attached to specific objects, colors, textures, symbols, and ideologies. His work probes the influence of popular culture on the formation of self-image, and the relationship between man and monument as they coexist and embody one another.
Uzo Njoku
Uzo Njoku is a visual artist working with oil paint, acrylic, and elements of collage. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria and moved to the United States at the age of 7. She received a B.A in Studio Art from the University of Virginia and is currently an MFA Candidate at the New York Academy of Art.
Milo Matthieu
Milo Matthieu is a contemporary artist who was born in 1990. He creates pieces that are raw and provocative, combining strong imagery with bold color and texture. After studying photography, Milo began experimenting and mixing different mediums: photography, painting, and collage.
Nina Chanel Abney
Combining representation and abstraction, Nina’s paintings capture the frenetic pace of contemporary culture. Through a bracing use of color and unapologetic scale, Abney’s canvases propose a new type of history painting, one grounded in the barrage of everyday events and funneled through the velocity of the internet.
Ijania Cortez
Focusing on portraiture, Ijania’s work uses vibrant colors and scale to evoke a sense of divinity in her subjects. Handcrafting customized canvases from salvaged wood and building material, her pieces have been described as soulful and provocative.
Imani Shanklin Roberts
Imani Shanklin Roberts is a Washington, DC native currently based in New York. As an artist and enthused educator who peels apart topics on race, gender, and identity, she seeks to create and facilitate socially responsive work that encourages ideas of self-realized liberation.
Elise R. Peterson
Elise R. Peterson is a multimedia storyteller with a focus in visual arts, community building and writing. Her multidisciplinary visual work is informed by the past, reimagined in the framework of the evolving notions of technology, intimacy and cross-generational narratives.