Talisa Almonte is an Afro-Dominican illustrator and artist raised in Miami and now based in Queens, NY. She’s the owner of Almonte Studio, named in honor of her artist father. After exciting partnerships with Disney+ and the Women’s Box Collective, Talisa shows us endless possibilities
Read MoreOriginally from Lisbon, Portugal and now based in London, Nádia Correia is a fashion and beauty, stills and motion photographer. She became inspired by her grandfather’s passion and knowledge of photography while observing his work in Mozambique, where half of her family is from.
Read MoreJasdeep Kang (she/they) is an NYC-based filmmaker, photographer, editor, DJ, and musician from California. Grounding their art in fantasy, joy, care, integrity, and community, Jasdeep’s work draws attention to how we can interact with one another in a more present and loving way.
Read MoreKasey-Lynn “Kasinator” Rodriguez is the multi-faceted creator of Puerto Rican, Irish, and German descent behind Kasinator Visuals. Through intimate portraits of everyday people in the South Bronx, she captures serendipitous moments of her native hometown through a lens of authenticity and reverence for its history and culture: “The Bronx is beautiful, simple as that.”
Read MoreAisha Amin is an NYC-based artist and filmmaker born in Nairobi, Kenya of Pakistani descent. Aisha’s work explores and highlights overlooked communities including those struggling with the presence of gentrification in their neighborhood.
Read MoreBorn 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.
Read MoreBy Kayla Caban
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
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