Angelica Calderon is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Calderon is of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent. Their work centers on the Afro-Caribbean self and dissociative psyche through familial history, displacement within spaces and aspects of fiction. They are inspired by magical realism, storytelling and personal histories.
Mai'yah Kau is a Queer Liberian artist from Staten Island, NY. Their inspiration derives from West African storytelling, spirituality, and intangible cultural heritage through how they were raised by family members. Kau explores the search for stories that belong to her ancestry and beyond as a way to keep oral traditions while remaining true to new imaginations of the future. Kau's mediums include photography, video, dance, performance and poetry.
Nia Alexandra Wallace is a Black portrait painter born and raised in the Bronx. Wallace is of Hondoran Garifuna and Jamaican descent. Nia's work are inspired by Black contemporary artists like Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, and Barkley L. Hendricks.
"I use art as a form of therapy and it is an outlet for me to express myself and I am starting to use my artwork as a form of social commentary."
Emily Manwaring is a Brooklyn based painter and sculptor from Queens, New York. She is of Haitian and Trinidadian descent. Her paintings are depictions of New York Caribbean communities.
“Painting was a way of creating a completely new environment and I could immerse myself within it. It was my way of getting out of trouble and staying focused on something more positive.”
Ariana Stoll is an American painter of Caribbean descent. She is inspired by her Jamaican and Indigenous Guyanese heritage and her experience as a Black woman. Her work is an experimentation of abstraction, surrealism and representation.
Our Photography Team
All of the photography is taken by Daiyah Cromwell and supervised by Muhammad Floyd.
ARTIST WORK’S
Mai’yah Kau
Photo taken by Daiyah Cromwell. Edited and assisted by Muhammad Floyd.
Emily Manwaring
Photo taken by Daiyah Cromwell. Edited and assisted by Muhammad Floyd.
Nia-Alexsandra Wallace
Photo taken by Daiyah Cromwell. Edited and assisted by Muhammad Floyd.
ANGELICA CALDERON
Photo taken by Daiyah Cromwell. Edited and assisted by Muhammad Floyd.