Daniel Jenkins Daniel Jenkins creates pieces that combine figure work and abstraction. Purposely setting out to merge polar opposites together Daniel has a unique and distinct style that he has consistently produced. Shortly after finishing art school Daniel began having vision problems and after multiple tests and doctor visits he found out he had a …
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Amira Rogers
Amira Rogers Amira Rogers is an African American contemporary glass mosaic artist with a life-long passion for creating art in multiple mediums. She began exploring art at a very young age joining any art program she could. Amira formerly studied art for the first time at the acclaimed Arts High School in Newark, NJ, then …
Leila Fanner
Leila Rose Fanner Leila Rose Fanner is a painter and illustrator. Born to a South African artist and an African American musician, she was raised in South Africa and currently works from her studio in a small village in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. After graduating from The JHB National School of the Arts …
Leroy Campbell
Leroy Campbell Leroy Campbell from Charleston, SC is self-taught creating collage and mixed media works with bold black silhouettes honoring Black identity. His work is inspired by Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and James Denmark. His paintings connect the past with present through Sankofa to move forward in the future.
Laura Gadson
Laura Gadson Second Generation visual artist Laura R. Gadson explores and blends mediums, techniques, and materials based on her love of textiles, paper, glass and other materials. She is a graduate of the renowned Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and holds a BFA from the City College of New York. Her work has been …
Mercy Moyo
Mercy Moyo Inspired by her grandmother’s basket weaving, Mercy Moyo began to draw as a very young person and used her drawings to describe the world around her and tell the story of life in contemporary Africa. Her images are primarily collages, incorporating objects, which complement and reinforce the images depicted. She uses oil, acrylics, charcoal, …
Andrew Nichols
Andrew Nichols Born in Brooklyn New York, Andrew discovered that he had a gift of drawing at an early age. He began expressing himself through pencil on paper in elementary school, and soon began receiving formal art awards, his first being at age nine. Andrew continued his education and art expression at Kingsboro Community College. …
Donna McKenzie
Donna McKenzie Originally enjoying a career in fashion, New Jersey based artist and fashion designer Donna McKenzie has blended her passion for art and fashion to create distinctive, bold, colorful pieces that draw upon a broad spectrum of rich influences, cultures and her fashion career. As a young person, art and fashion played a major …
Veda Kagabo
Veda Kagabo Veda Kagabo is a Rwandan-born visual artist and founder of Veda Studio, based in New Jersey. Working primarily through abstraction, his paintings explore themes of memory, resilience, displacement, healing, and human connection. Deeply shaped by the experience of surviving the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Kagabo transforms personal and collective histories into layered visual …
Uchechukwu Ibemere
Uchechukwu Ibemere Uchechukwu Ibemere is a self taught conceptual photographer and visual artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. His appreciation for the power of visual storytelling is instinctive and self-developed, capturing monochrome portraits alongside everyday life. While his work is very self-expressive, Uche’s photographs are inspired by personal experiences with his environment and relationships, drawing awareness …
