“A Bankside Dinner” “Picnic and Lover” “Heart Tears” Hearts filled up her eyes and love fell down her cheeks as she let her mind go still and her presence take over For Part One of the “Heart Series” Andrea Miranda is an international student graduate from the illustration class of 2020 at Falmouth University. She…
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by Anna Grace Burch I walked around one afternoon taking pictures of a neighborhood in my city that is experiencing gentrification. The local community was very diverse, home to people of all races and incomes, but I could see the older, poorer areas being renovated and repurposed into newer, unaffordable houses and shops. It made…
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“The Weight Shifts To The Other Side” is a short dance film visualizing the painful process of becoming light, discovering your shadows and embracing them as you would your inner self. I tend to gravitate towards ideas I find hard to talk about so when at the end of last year my mental state was…
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This series is shot in the streets of Washington Heights in NYC. It is all about the beauty and art form of cornrows, as well a celebration of uptown street culture. Photographer: Kasandra Enid Torres @kasaeto Stylist: Ray Peña Braider: Guin Gui @guin_gui Makeup Artist: Juan Jaar @juanjaar Talent: Dani @xaniielle Dog: Tiggs @tiggystardust
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Learning to unlearn has been a central theme in my art practice. My focus has been on conceptualizing ideas that help the decolonization of all spaces. Physical, but especially mental spaces. After 150 years of British rule, today my people feel disconnected from our own culture. The push for assimilation towards western ideas has created an identity crisis in a…
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This series shows a trans man wearing a rainbow necklace as a way to celebrate LGTBIQ+ pride, give visibility, and fight for equality. Kirian Rodríguez is a straight-oriented trans man who is also a hairdresser and model. He is wearing an exclusive necklace created by the amazing hand-made jeweler Paola Back Liñares. The prism makeup…
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These two pieces feature a young man and woman of Indigenous Mexican descent, with spiders for heads. But more than that, these pieces to me have come to represent the reclamation of my identity in a modern and pragmatic way. The Native American body and soul is still present, despite centuries of hardship. These two…
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I originally created the women walking as a way to symbolize the leaders who have come before us and have paved the way for us to fight against the continued systemic inequalities and racial injustices. I wanted to acknowledge the progress that we have made so far and that even in our small defeats, we…
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Chibs is a multimedia artist based in the DFW/DMV area. He finds inspiration through personal experiences, nature and the surrounding environment. Chibs’ art embodies these qualities along with messages from past generations. @amajorarts
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Jibril grew up in Newark, NJ and lived there for majority of his child and young adult life. His family was poor, and lived in a very dangerous area. Taking to art very young, he would even draw on tissue paper if he had ran out of printing paper and continued drawing and other arts…
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