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Ayana V. Jackson

Ayana V. Jackson (she/her/hers) grew up in East Orange, New Jersey. Having studied sociology at Spelman College, she is interested in the 19th and early 20th century representations of the Black woman’s body. Her work examines myths of the Black Diaspora and re-stages colonial archival images to liberate the Black body. Using her lens to…

Photo from Historic Futures.Work created by Camille Hoffman. Camille Hoffman (she/her/hers) was born in 1987 in Chicago, IL. Reflecting on the construction of landscape, both natural and manufactured, "Michigan Landscape '' critically draws upon the language of historic romantic American Landscape painting and contemporary kitsch to speak to the urgent environmental reality facing low-income communities of color…

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do so little." as worlds turn reflective craving more, a monstrous tide, a hurricane storms smashing seas angry whipping against the shore unsuspecting, hunting our license brief, unlikely to be renewed drought and famine cracking the surface of the earth fires…

Waiting for 2Work created by Yuling Chuang. Yuling Chuang (she/her/hers) was born and raised in Taiwan. She worked for several years in Taipei as a reporter, editor, and writer. She has a degree in Journalism and is primarily self-taught as an artist after finding her calling. “I will continue to explore the unusual beauty of the…

Stephen Arboite (he/him/his) [b.1987] is a multidisciplinary artist of Haitian descent born and raised in New York City and now resides in Miami. “My work presents an intimately ontological approach to understanding and sharing my journey of self-discovery through paintings of seemingly distant yet familiar faces and forms.” Arboite’s work considers beauty outside of classical…