Nadine LaFond was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in New Jersey by a proud Haitian family. She comes from a long line of artists and grew up immersed in a rich mix of multicultural music. Her home life was a school of the Arts on its own: Haitian paintings on the walls, traditional storytelling and a steady flow of tunes filled the house. By age 13, already embedded in rock, funk and hip hop, LaFond discovered Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday and fell madly in love with Jazz

Narciso Polanco was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic: a complex and cultural city considered to be the second capital of the Dominican Republic. He studied at the Escuela de Artes at UASD in the Dominican Republic from 1985 to 1989 and in 1989, studied metals at Taller de Grabado at GAM and the Art Students League of New York in 1997. He has served as president of Artistas Plasticos Unidos in Santiago, DR and was appointed Speaker of the Alliance of Dominican American Vis

Karen J. Revis is a painter, papermaker and printmaker living in New York City.  She has attended residencies at Pyramid Atlantic, The Women’s Studio Workshop and Henry Street Settlement.  Karen exhibits and is represented by Sears Peyton Gallery in New York Kaller Fine Art in Washington D.C. and Weber Fine Art in Greenwich, CT.  She studied fine art at The Corcoran School of Art and received a BFA from Pratt Institute. Her work is featured in The Art of Encaustic Painting: C

Baseera Khan is a New York based artist. Her visual and written work performs patterns and repetitions of emigration and exile shaped by economic, social, and political changes throughout the world with special interests in decolonization processes. Khan is preparing for her first solo exhibition at Participant Inc., New York City (Spring 2017). She recently exhibited in BRIC Biennial, Brooklyn, NY (2016) at The Weeksville Heritage Center. Her past exhibitions include Subject

Carolina Mayorga is a visual artist living in Washington, DC. Mayorga’s artwork addresses issues of social and political content. Comments on migration, war, identity, translate into video, performance, site-specific installations, and Two-dimensional media in the form of photography and drawing. A Colombian-born and naturalized American citizen has had one-person exhibitions in Colombia, Mexico, at the University of Kansas and in the Washington D.C. area. Has also participat

Endress is founder of the Floating Lab Collective, a mobile museum dedicated to bringing art to the public and stimulating an engagement in contemporary art and social issues. Much of his work focuses on immigrant and marginalized populations. He reveals his unique and personal style by using editing and cinematography to marry aspects of his identity to the environment around him. His interest in the relationship between both natural and built landscapes, as well as an atten

Laura is an experienced illustrator, graphic designer, visual artist and community activist, who has exhibited in collective and solo shows throughout the United States and Europe. Laura currently works for NYC Parks & Recreation, where she is a teaching artist, develops community outreach programs, and organizes cultural events. ​ Laura is the Co-Founder and Vice-President of the non-profit BxArts Factory, an organization committed to increase the number of artists using Art

Manuel Acevedo's work combines projected image, wall drawing, animation and photography to explore how light and movement shape experience. Through various media, he employs visual language in ways that transform flat, static images into active spaces of experimentation. ​ In the Artist Studios, Acevedo is working on a series titled Alpha-bits, an extension of his Made and Unmade series, which deploys covert/overt military language through encoded forms in hybrid typography e

Aliosky García Sosa is an artist, printmaker, and curator born in Cienfuegos, Cuba. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts "Oscar Fernández Morera" in Trinidad in 2000. Garcia Sosa is a professor and Director of the Printmaking Department at Instituto Superior de Arte (The University of Arts of Cuba), located in Playa, Havana, Cuba, where he also attended in 2009. He has made numerous personal and collective exhibitions both in Cuba and abroad. His works are in different

Golbanou Moghaddas is an Iranian Printmaker and Illustrator based in San Francisco. She was raised by the Caspian Sea in Northern Iran. In 2008, She moved from Tehran to London where she completed an MA in Communication Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. In London she invested all her time in pursuing printmaking. Her passion for this art made her to continue her journey to America. In 2012 she was awarded an MFA fellowship from San Francisco Art Insti

Autumn Kioti is a mammal. She has two X chromosomes. She makes art. These three facts are intimately linked. Autumn lives in Harlem with her best friend Magda, the leopard dog. Prints by Autumn Kioti #coronadoprintstudio #autumnkioti #printmakingart #screenprinting #linocutprint #fineartprint #eastharlemart

Kenny Rivero strives to produce work that provides the viewer with an intimate space in which to reflect on hope, loss and memory. While these ideas and their relationship to one another are familiar to many, Rivero addresses the links between them through coded gestures based in both fiction and actuality. Rivero’s work is driven by the process of inventing narratives in order to justify, come to terms with, or suffer in the denial of personal, collective and historical trau

Maria Amalia Pimentel was born in Dominican Republic and raised in Puerto Rico, where she took weekend and summer curses in La Escuela de Artes Plásticas in the Old San Juan. She attended to Altos de Chavón School of Design, Dominican Republic, to formally begin her art career, which she continued at Rhode Island School of Design graduating with a Bachelor in Fine Arts, Painting. Maria Amalia lived in NY for three years prior to moving to Dominican Republic where she is based

Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo was born of Puerto Rican parentage in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in 1978 and raised in the High Bridge Section of The Bronx. Born, raised and based in the foundational neighborhoods of aerosol writing and culture in New York City, he continues to integrate writing into his studio practice. He’s a writer, artist and curator. His work has exhibited at the International Center of Photography (New York), The California Museum of Photography

Diógenes Ballester is a visual artist, educator, and writer. He holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BFA from the Catholic University of Puerto Rico. As a youth, he attended Ponce Museum of Art in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was a professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Arts, the State University of New York at New Paltz, the College of New Rochelle, School of Arts & Science, and The State University of New York in Albany. He lives and

Rejin Leys is a Haitian-­American mixed media artist based in New York. She has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, and her drawings and prints have been featured in such print publications as Small Axe, Boutures, The North Star Fund’s Annual Report, Bread & Roses Cultural Project Social Justice Calendar, and the online publication, Repeating Islands. She studied at Parsons School of Design and CUNY/Brooklyn College, and in 1995 she was awarded a fellowship fr

Jeankarlos Cruz was born in the Dominican Republic in 1993. He moved to the United States in 2006. In 2008 He began his studies under Jesús Rivera’s tutoring and in 2010 he enrolled at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, which he finished in 2015. ​ Jeankarlos Cruz conducts a studio practice that constructs an abstract vocabulary to investigate and communicate the essence in the realm of environment structures both physical and intangible. Abstraction as

Marquita Flowers is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, arts educator and budding writer from the Bronx, NY. Marquita's practice, irrespective of medium, is rooted in a deep interest in memory, oral histories, migration, visibility and mining personal archives to create work that illuminates the lived experiences of people around her. Marquita's practice is fueled by a daily pursuit of empathy and she often develops new projects, with the intention of thinking about whom