Daniel Simmons
Danny Simmons is a visual artist and poet. He is Co Founder of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and Co Founder of the award winning series Def Poetry. He currently heads Rush Arts Philadelphia and has a forth coming poetry CD on Blue Note records with Jazz Icon Ron Carter. He lives in Philadelphia.
Jazz Brown
Jazz Brown is an autodidact who uses acrylic paint to create vivid, expressive compositions. His artistic approach presents intense vibration through contrasting hues, shapes, and textures. He is inspired by both the Minimalism art movement and the Bebop jazz offspring from the 1960s. Brown describes his technique as “consciousnesses on canvas.” Follow him on Instagram. […]
LaNia Sproles
LaNia grew up in the segregated city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated with a BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She devotes most of her time conducting research on the philosophies of self perception, queer and feminist theories, and inherent racial dogmas; while also examining the contemporary works’ of Laylah Ali, Kara Walker and […]
Michele Araujo
I have been painting for more than forty years. My partner is also a painter. I have an adult son. I have a studio in Ridgewood Queens and spend summers working in upstate NY, north of the Catskills. For most of my life I supported myself working part time, first as a waiter and then […]
Ellen Pearlman
Ellen Pearlman, a native New Yorker is a new media artist, critic, curator and writer who received her PhD from The School of Creative Media, Hong Kong City University where her PhD thesis on “Noor A Brain Opera” was awarded highest global honors by Leonardo LABS Abstracts. Noor was the world’s first immersive, interactive brainwave […]
George David Clark
George David Clark was born in Savannah and raised in Chattanooga and Little Rock. He now lives in Washington, PA with his wife, Elisabeth, and their four young children. The author of Reveille (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize from the University of Arkansas Press), David’s recent poems can be found or are forthcoming […]
Lee Running
Lee Emma Running’s work embraces the beauty and complexity of the natural world. Guided by simple material investigations, her sculptures, installations and drawings are deeply connected to place. Running was awarded the 2017 Iowa Arts Council fellowship. In 2018 she completed a major permanent installation in the Edgar Fine Art Building at Upper Iowa University, […]
Elise Tak
‘At satirizing pop-celebrity culture Ms. Tak is on the mark’. – Grace Glueck, The New York Times Elise Tak is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In her work she uses the imagery of film and popular culture to create a rich fictional and visionary world, while at the same time discussing contemporary, […]
Mohamed Ben Soltane
Mohamed Ben Soltane is a visual artist and Curator exhibiting his work in Tunisia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Algeria, among other countries. He graduated in 2004 from the High Institute of Fine Art of Tunis (I.S.B.A.T). He obtained his PhD in 2015. He worked from 2011 to 2015 as artistic director of one of the leading […]
Ann Messner
Ann Messner is a NY based multi-disciplinary artist. Her work has examined fault lines between the individual and the larger social body as encountered within public realm discourse, investigating the incongruities between notions of private life/space and public/civic engagement and experience. Her 1970’s performative work, interventionist in strategy, took place ‘unofficially’ within the context of […]