Born in Sydney, Australia and now based in Brooklyn, NY, Caroline Garcia is a culturally promiscuous, interdisciplinary artist of Filipinx descent. She works across performance, video, and installation while exploring themes of botany, martial arts, pop culture, dance, virtual reality, augmented reality, and more.
Read MoreKayla Rodgers is a Los Angeles-based producer, journalist, and Founder of KSK Productions, LLC. Kayla has had many opportunities to produce for companies like CNN and CBS and recently produced the CNN documentary Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street, recounting the racist massacre of the affluent renaissance black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Read MoreLe’Andra LeSeur is a multidisciplinary artist whose work celebrates Blackness, contemplates the experience of invisibility, and seeks to dismantle and reclaim stereotypes surrounding Black female identity. Le’Andra’s latest multichannel video and performance piece for The Shed’s Open Call, There is no movement without rhythm, dissects the effects rhythm has on the body in its quest for liberation.
Read MoreBorn and raised in NYC, Vanessa Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American illustrator and designer. Vanessa’s work focuses on their Vietnamese upbringing and how we can bond cross-culturally over food, cheeky designs, generational healing, and self-awareness.
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Jada-Amina is a South Side Chicago born and based, Black Indigenous American writer, interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, cultural worker and musician. Their work is deeply committed to protecting Black children, women, of trans and queer Black life and ensuring they feel seen and heard.
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Jenny is an illustrator & designer based in NYC who is currently working at NBC as an Art Director on the Today Show. Raised in Vancouver, Canada, She graduated at the School of Visual Arts with her BFA. Her client list includes companies such as TIME’S UP, Zappos, Allure, Nike, and Buzzfeed.
Read MoreVanezza Cruz is an AfroLatina visual artist and designer based in NYC. Vanezza’s work centers her experience as a darker-skinned Latina who is challenging the Eurocentric standards of not only beauty but the fine arts world that disempowers the BIPOC community and in particular, black women.
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Anisa Olufemi M. is a Washington, D.C. based curator, writer, multidisciplinary artist, and art related programming coordinator of Afro-Trinidadian and Black American descent.
Read MoreOriginally from Lisbon, Portugal, Mariana dos Santos Pires is a London-based photographer of Mozambican and Portuguese descent. Mariana describes her photographs as “capturing the moment” and not controlling it, a distinction that speaks to the effortless and authentic representation of her subjects.
Read MoreCharlee Black is a photographer and creative director based in the Midwest. Charlee’s photography is meant to take up space both physically and figuratively as she encourages BIPOC women to unapologetically command any room. Growing frustrated with the lack of representation of people of color in mainstream branding, Charlee launched Good Friends Studio
Read MoreAlbany Andaluz is a Caribbean and Mestizan multidisciplinary artist from the South Bronx. By integrating various mediums such as textiles, photography, paint, and sculpture, Albany’s art focuses on de-centering westernized perspectives and habits such as wastefulness for a more culturally responsive outlook.
Read MoreMaya Table is an incredibly skilled producer, content creator, and budding director based in Georgia and acts as the executive producer of her production company, Sam Frank Productions, named after her grandfather. Her production credits include producing music videos for Janelle Monae, Usher, Teyana Taylor, Travis Scott, Summer Walker and the Migos.
Read MoreOriginally from California and now based in Barcelona, Carmen Daneshmandi is a Spanish-Iranian photographer, videographer & visual artist. Carmen’s work combines portraiture and storytelling and disrupts it with a sensibility of color, playfulness, and mixed media
Read MoreNatalie Bui is an illustrator and co-founder of a racial and gender equity consulting business called SHIFT. Natalie’s work centers on self empowerment, community empowerment, and cultural exploration with a visionary approach that emphasizes our collective liberation across communities.
Read MoreCrystal Kayiza is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Her most recent film, See You Next Time, captures the intimate moments shared between a Chinese nail artist and her Black client in Brooklyn and was an official selection of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Read MoreAmara Ramdhanny is an Afro-St. Lucian and Indo-Grenadian artist currently based in Brooklyn. Inspired by 90s cartoons, anime and the strong women of color in her life, Amara’s work is a vibrant juxtaposition of social commentary demanding our attention but with a playful approach.
Read MoreJoyce Keokham is a writer and filmmaker based in NYC. As an intersectional storyteller, Joyce’s work primarily focuses on empowering underrepresented groups and shedding light on the complexities in identity often ignored by mainstream media. Their latest project, WYA WYD offers a fresh new perspective on the NYC hustle through a vibrant array of characters.
Read MoreSimrah Farrukh is an American-Pakistani photographer based in the Bay Area. Her Muslim upbringing centered around acceptance and empathy is evident in the range of subjects across gender, sexuality, and physical appearance that appear in her mesmerizing photographs. Simrah’s body of work is an ode to the humanity and beauty of the South Asian community.
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