Angela Miskis (b. Ecuador, 1987) is visual artist and community organizer based in South East Queens. Her work is influenced by her family upbringing, dedication to social service, and building a healthier and more sustainable future in her immediate community. Angela Miskis graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2013 with a degree in Visual and Critical Studies. Her honors include the Silas H. Rhodes scholarship (2011), and the Visual and Critical Studies Scholarship (2013) which awarded her a five-month artist in residence at the Leipzig International Art Programme (2014) in Germany. Recently, Miskis was awarded a residency at ChaShaMa's ChaNorth International Artists Program (2019) in Pine Plains, NY, and the ArtWorks Inc. Seminar Fellowship at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (2019 - 2020). She is currently a 2021-Create Change Fellow with the Laundromat Project in New York.
moira williams
moira williams is a disability culture activist, artist and dreamer weaving together intersectional Disability Arts, Eco-Somatics and Queer Ecologies. moira's often co-creative work reframes embodied difference as a distinct resource resisting aesthetic ideals; with interdependent ways of leading to imagine, disrupt, experience or imagine experiencing disrupted spaces and futures that make room for all bodies, “access intimacy.” * and deepening our ecological meanings. Leading with disability for its transformative possibilities, moira approaches culture as something we actively shape together.
Dennis Redmoon Darkeem
As a mixed-blood African American and Native American artist living in the south Bronx, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem offers a voice for his communities. Working across mediums, his work evokes a historical memory and questions the status quo, often incorporating symbolism and a craftwork aesthetic to tie traditional knowledge to the contemporary. His work crosses boundaries of culture, identity, and perception of self and strives to be the voice for the unheard. His most recent body of work, “Standing on Shaky Ground" speaks to shared Native and Black struggles. His work has been shown at Bronx Arts Space, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Brooklyn Museum of the Arts, The Drawing Center, Wave Hill, BAAD, Longwood Gallery, Latchkey Gallery, the Lodge Gallery as well as several mixed-media performances at The Point’s CDC space.
Tyler Rai
Tyler Rai is a movement artist, writer and researcher currently based in Nipmuc/Pocumtuc Territories (Western Massachusetts) who explores the implications of geologic movement and collaborative assembly through embodied practice. Her works are often site-responsive mediations that question how we embody kinship and relational empathy with the more-than-human-world. Her works have been performed at Judson Memorial Church, ARC Pasadena, SPACE Gallery, SWALE (a barge and floating food-forest), and The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought. Her writings have been published in Culturebot, Contact Quarterly, MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE’s ON CARE anthology, and John Hopkins Medical Magazine for the Humanities, Tendon Magazine. She has performed in the works of K.J.Holmes, Emily Johnson/Catalyst, Bouchra Ouizguen, Athena Kokoronis/Domestic Performance Agency, and Mina Nishimura. She is a founding member of the collaborative curatorial platform, ERRATICS, with artists/researchers Nina Elder and Hannah Perrine Mode, an Artist Fellow with the In Kinship Collective, and is the instigator of the temporal collective, Hungry Mothers (www.hungrymothers.org).
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Scott Szegeski is a New Jersey-based surfer and artist who is known for his gyotaku art and surf-inspired interpretations of Japanese printing.
Szegeski presents a unique blend of traditional Japanese printmaking, surf culture and history, mixed with travel nostalgia through as seen through the eyes of an avid surfer and cultural entrepreneur.
After years printing a variety of his own surfboards while working in his family’s restaurant group, requests for Szegeski’s gyotaku prints from local surfers and galleries gained momentum. Those looking to carve out a memory in time of their favorite surfboard sought-out Szegeski’s work inspired by a century’s old Japanese fish printing process.
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Simone Johnson
Simone Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and cultural worker based in NYC. She mostly makes work about water. She is currently interested in wetlands, rivers and the ocean. She has been a resident with Works on Water and is a former Culture Push Climate Justice Fellow. Simone also has a background in urban agriculture, plant medicine, Teaching Artistry and performance art.
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Willa Carroll
Willa Carroll is a writer and performer. Her first book, Nerve Chorus, was one of Entropy Magazine’s Best Poetry Books of 2018. A finalist for The Georgia Poetry Prize, she won Tupelo Quarterly’s TQ7 Poetry Prize and Narrative Magazine’s Third Annual Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The Rumpus, Tin House, and many other publications. She received her MFA from Bennington College. Her videos have been featured in Narrative Outloud, Tuesday; An Art Project, Writers Resist, and elsewhere. Carroll has collaborated and performed with numerous artists, including text-based projects with her filmmaker husband. She lives in NYC.
Valerie Sullivan Fuchs
Valerie Sullivan Fuchs is a visual artist primarily working in video, video installation, creating new media video installations by using sustainable practices. Her interest in science, technology and spirituality creates a tension in her landscape based works solar powered generating pieces, solar light boxes, and more recently hydroelectricity. Her deep affection for the rural landscape, began on the sustainable farm she grew up on in Northern Kentucky, is reflected in artwork of primarily landscapes and the relation we produces a new way to think of the landscape of the land, emphasizes the unseen, invisible relationships of medium to nature and each other and how these attitudes and values affect the land. Fuchs’ artworks of landscapes In 01:02;08, Fuchs filmed a nearby field of waving grass, then printed each frame and projected it back onto the stack of printed stills, disrupting the images of Fuchs is a Kentucky rural based/raised artist with artwork in major collections including 21c Museum, Louisville, & Revive Corporation, Laura Lee Brown & Steve Wilson and others. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including, Sweden, Estonia, Austria and California, and New York, NY.
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Sherese Francis
Sherese Francis is a southeast Queens-based poet, literary artist, workshop facilitator, and literary curator of the mobile library project, J. Expressions. She has published work in journals and anthologies including Cosmonauts Avenue, No Dear, Apex Magazine, La Pluma Y La Tinta's New Voices Anthology, The Pierian Literary Review, Bone Bouquet, African Voices, Newtown Literary, Blackberry Magazine, Kalyani Magazine, and Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Arts Inspired by Octavia Butler. Additionally, she has published two chapbooks, Lucy’s Bone Scrolls and Variations on Sett/ling Seed/ling. Currently, she is the co-editor and board member of the small press, Harlequin Creature, and a core member of the Southeast Queens Artist Alliance.
Vered Englehard
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Susannah Ray
The intersection of city and water is at the heart of Susannah Ray’s photography and extends her early interest in landscape photography, which she uses as a form of visual geography, rendering the complex interrelationships of place, people, history, and ideology. During her June residency in the Project Space, Susannah Ray showed large scale photographs from her series “Down For the Day,” a long-term look at urban beach use in Rockaway Beach, Queens. Her previous project, “A Further Shore,” was exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2017-2018 and was published in 2017 by Hoxton Mini Press, East London, UK as New York Waterways. Susannah Ray has also had solo exhibitions at Bonni Benrubi Gallery and Albright College and been in numerous group exhibitions, notably at The Museum of the City of New York and The Queens Museum. Her photographs have been widely featured and reviewed in publications including: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The British Journal of Photography, The Surfer’s Journal, The Independent UK, and The Wall Street Journal
Supriya Wheat
Supriya Wheat is a writer and educator who has been involved in the field of education for ten + years. She was a 2007 Teach for America Corps Member, a New York Hall of Science Design Fellow & Master Teacher, a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow in Creative Writing, and currently teaches a life science course at the School at Columbia University. In 2017, Fund for Teachers awarded her a grant to document youth-led initiatives to curb climate change in the island nations of the Maldives and Zanzibar. Her more recent work centers around exploring human interactions with the environment. Lately, she finds herself preoccupied with how bodies of water in and around New York City might serve both as a medium for change and constancy.