Bronx Recognizes its Own (BRIO)

Visual Arts | Painting

Agnes Murray’s watercolor and oil paintings, printmaking, and other work have been exhibited nationally and internationally in curated and juried exhibits. Born… more

Performing Arts | Choreography

Alexander Diaz is an independent artist born and raised in The Bronx. Alexander works with dance, theater, and performance art in order to explore memory, re-imagine… more

Performing Arts | Vocal Music Performance

Born and raised in The Bronx, Ayanna Williams (also known as Ayanna The Singer) is both experimental and versatile, crafting a sound that has attracted many due… more

Literary Arts | Non-Fiction

Danielle Stelluto is a womanist, writer and multidimensional artist. Single mother of two blessed children. Lesbian. Boricua and Italian. Earned her AAS Degree… more

Visual Arts | Mixed Media (3D)

Dario Mohr is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist who creates interactive sanctuary experiences. Born in 1988, Mohr received a BFA from Buffalo State College… more

Performing Arts | Spoken Word

Darriel McBride is an entrepreneur, writer, spoken word poet, and activist from the South Bronx. She graduated from Marist College in 2017 with a Bachelors in… more

Performing Arts | Choreography

Davalois Fearon, a 2017 Bessie awardee and a 2021-22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow finalist, is a critically acclaimed choreographer, dancer, and educator. Born in… more

Visual Arts | Drawing

David Yonghwan Lee is an American artist born to his Korean parents whose body of work currently focuses on figurative paints recreating the emotional experience… more

Literary Arts | Fiction

David Wayne is a Bronx native currently living in the North Bronx. A student and labor activist and union member, he has worked as a taxi driver, truck… more

Literary Arts | Poetry

Ellen Kombiyil is the author of Histories of the Future Perfect (2015), and a micro-chapbook Avalanche Tunnel (2016). Recent work can be found in North American… more

Literary Arts | Non-Fiction

Emily Raboteau is the author of two books: The Professor's Daughter and Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, winner of an American Book… more

Literary Arts | Illustrated Text

Erinn Anova is a California native currently residing in the Bronx. She received a BFA in Theatre from Howard University and a Masters in Educational Studies from… more

Media Arts | Documentary Film / Video

I am a Dominican producer, filmmaker, and educator from the Bronx, NY. And currently an Education Producer at Bronxnet TV. I create original media art, films,… more

Visual Arts | Photography

Fernando Zelaya is a Bronx, NY-based photographer, and bookmaker born in Tegucialpa, Honduras. Fernando moved to New York at the age of three where he has lived… more

Performing Arts | Music Composition

NYC-based Guitarist and composer George Nazos from Athens Greece is described in the “Jazz and Jazz” magazine as a “sophisticated and imaginative player and… more

Literary Arts | Screenwriting

Juan Ramirez, Jr. is an internationally produced, award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker and producer. His crime drama TV pilot Sins Of Our Fathers won Best Screenplay… more

Media Arts | Documentary Film / Video

Judi Polanco was born in New York City and raised in the countryside of the Dominican Republic for most of her young life. The only girl in a herd of brothers, she… more

Literary Arts | Playwriting

Kevin Kane is a writer, musician, and playwright. His Negro League version of Casey at the Bat, called “Breaking the Line with the Mudville Nine” was written for… more

Visual Arts | Sculpture

Kristi Cavataro is an artist whose recent sculptures in stained glass explore the abstract and emotive qualities of geometry and syntax. She received her BFA from… more

Performing Arts | Music Composition

Laura Kaminsky frequently addresses critical social and political issues in her work, including sustainability, war, and human rights. Possessing “an ear for… more

Visual Arts | Photography

LISA KAHANE is a politically engaged documentary photographer, author, and educator currently living and working in the Bronx. Her work looks at the interaction of… more

Visual Arts | Street Art

LOVENOTES is a muralist and visual artist of Puerto Rican descent, whose alias formed at a young age through her submergence in Bronx graffiti culture. She graduated… more

Media Arts | Documentary Film / Video

Writer and director, Macdara Vallely (professional name - born Mac Uibh Aille), was born in Craigavon, County Armagh in Northern Ireland.  His narrative… more

Visual Arts | Photography

Manal Abu-Shaheen (b. 1982, Beirut) is a Lebanese-American photographer currently living and working in the Bronx, NY. Her recent solo exhibitions include Mapping… more

Performing Arts | Music Composition

Jazz composer and violinist, Meg Okura, is the recipient of the 2018 Chamber Music America's New Jazz Works Program, and the 2020 Copland House Residency Awards. Native… more

Visual Arts | Sculpture

The larger-than-life figurative sculptures of Michael Ferris (b. 1969) embody a rich fusion of cultural and artistic traditions. Trained as a painter, Ferris… more

Visual Arts | Painting

Mike Childs, a painter inspired by his architectural urban surroundings, received his BFA from the University of Guelph, Canada, and an MFA from Florida State University.… more

Media Arts | Narrative Film / Video

Natasha Rivera is a NYC native Director/ Producer. She got her start in the industry as an Assistant director; most notably working on shows such as the Emmy Award-Winning:… more

Media Arts | Documentary Film / Video

Pam Sporn is a Bronx documentary filmmaker, educator, and activist. A pioneer in bringing social issue documentary-making into NYC high schools in the 1980s and… more

Performing Arts | Storytelling

PHYLLIS MARIE BOWDWIN is a Bronx-born artist, activist, jeweler, writer, troublemaker, story slam winner and storyteller for The Moth’s Main-Stage. A former… more

Literary Arts | Poetry

Rabih Ahmed is a Ghanaian-American Muslim poet and educator from The Bronx. Her poetry is grounded within the rhythms and histories of the African diaspora.  She… more

Visual Arts | Painting

Rebecca Allan is a New York-based visual artist whose work is inspired by her deep commitment to botany, ecology, and land conservation. She is also the founder… more

Performing Arts | Choreography

Rebecca Lloyd-Jones is a performer, choreographer, and videographer based in the Bronx. Her work explores the fluidity of the self, and complexity and contradiction… more

Performing Arts | Vocal Music Performance

Luss is a singer-songwriter raised in the Bronx, NY, gaining inspiration from where he is from and his dad, a musician. Luss has been able to tour the… more

Literary Arts | Poetry

Rich Villar is a poet, educator, curator, and cultural worker. He is the author of Comprending Forever (Willow Books, 2014) and his poems are anthologized most… more

Performing Arts | Instrumental Music Performance

ROBERT DICK   A flutist whose technical resources and imagination seem limitless.  – New York Times   Robert Dick has dispensed with preconceptions about what… more

Performing Arts | Instrumental Music Performance

Mr. Newsome works primarily in the medium of solo saxophone, an approach through which he gained worldwide critical acclaim with the release of his 2009 recording… more

Literary Arts | Poetry

Sasha Reiter was born in New York City in 1996. They grew up in the Bronx, whereas the child of a Peruvian mother and Argentinian father, they experienced firsthand… more

Literary Arts | Fiction

Shawn Hudson is born and raised in the Bronx. He is a self-published author of 7 books since the age of 19. He is also a graduate of Monroe College with a bachelor’s… more

Visual Arts | Painting

Shelley Haven, a LES-born, Bronx-based visual artist, creates nature-inspired artworks investigating the beauty and power, the fragility and vulnerability of our… more

Visual Arts | Drawing

Shellyne Rodriguez is an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer based in the Bronx. Her practice utilizes text, drawing, painting, collage and sculpture… more

Visual Arts | Photography

Stephanie Ayala photography, she explores light, nature, and spirituality through her photography. Her current body of work uses both 6x4.5, 35mm, and 6x7 images… more

Visual Arts | Mixed Media (2D)

Susan MacMurdy is an artist and former educator.  Born in White Plains, NY, she has lived between the Bronx and the Hudson Valley, returning to the Bronx in 2013.… more

Visual Arts | Printmaking

I love paper, books, and printmaking in all forms. I imagine the worst part of not being alive will be, not touching and seeing material in all its tactile beauty.… more

Performing Arts | Vocal Music Performance

Yurby is a Dominican American singer-songwriter born and raised in the South Bronx. She is known for her mezzo-Soprano range and sultry voice. Her music fuses Blues,… more