Bronx Recognizes its Own (BRIO)

Visual Arts: Photography

Adeline Lulo is a visual storyteller and photographer who draws inspiration from her upbringing and the rich cultures of The Bronx, Washington Heights, and the Dominican… more

Literary Arts: Fiction

Alicia Anabel Santos is a writer, producer, playwright, speaker, activist, teaching artist, Afro-Latina Lesbian storyteller, and Priestess. She is a Cave Canem… more

Literary Arts: Poetry

Ayling Zulema Dominguez is a poet, mixed media artist, and youth arts educator from The Bronx, reconnecting to indigenous roots in México and Republica… more

Visual Arts: Mixed Media (2D)

Blanka is an interdisciplinary artist and formally trained as a painter. In 2016, she began an artist-run project in her living room called AAA3A. She is currently… more

Performing Arts: Vocal

Mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert has established herself as one of the preeminent interpreters of some of the brightest stars of new classical music. A true singing… more

Visual Arts: Mixed Media (2D)

Carlos Wilfredo Encarnación is a visual artist and educator born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is the recipient of The Bronx Museum’s 2019 AIM Fellowship,… more

Literary Arts: Illustrated Text

D.M. Charles is an African American comic book writer living in The Bronx. His interest in writing began when he rediscovered his love of reading through fantasy novels… 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

Media Arts: Narrative Film / Video

DC Saxton is an experienced filmmaker with a proven track record of success in the film industry. He is a lead producer who has produced two seasons of Quest for Craft,… more

Literary Arts: Playwriting

Dominic is an award-winning writer, actor, and director from The Bronx. Dominic’s plays include THE WAR I KNOW (Atlantic Theater Company, LAByrinth Theater Company,… more

Visual Arts: Painting

Esteban's artistic practice confronts and challenges prevailing racial and gender stereotypes pervasive in popular culture. Drawing inspiration from Afro-Cuban… more

Performing Arts: Choreography

Glenn Potter-Takata is a Japanese-American artist working in performance. His practice is somatic-based, utilizing score-based movement, improvisation, video,… more

Visual Arts: Photography

Ira has been a native Bronx resident for 73 years. He retired from teaching photography after 33 years, with the last 24 being at the High School of Art & Design in… more

Visual Arts: Photography

Ivanka Santiago is a visual artist with a unique perspective shaped by her diverse cultural experiences. Born in the colorful borough of The Bronx and partially… more

Performing Arts: Vocal

Most recently making appearances on Broadway as Carlotta Giudicelli in the iconic musical theater masterpiece, Phantom of the Opera, Ms. Burnett has performed with… more

Visual Arts: Painting

Jaron is a Bronx-based artist located in Longwood. Although he has a degree in animation, his true love has always been painting and drawing. Jaron officially started… more

Visual Arts: Mixed Media (2D)

Jeannie Friedman is a mixed media painter living and working in The Bronx. Friedman was awarded the Gonzalez-Edwards Travel Grant by The Art Students League of… more

Performing Arts: Choreography

Kathy Westwater has choreographically pursued experimental dance forms since 1996. Her work responds to the social landscape in which it manifests, often by taking… more

Performing Arts: Instrumental

As a founding member of Sybarite5, Louis Levitt was the first double bassist to win the Concert Artist Guild Competition. He has fostered an innovative approach to… more

Performing Arts: Performance Art

Marcos de Jesús “de la Guagua” sings rhythmic healing narratives. His compositional voice emerged from a semester immersion in Afro-Boricua… more

Performing Arts: Performance Art

Maya Ciarrocchi is an interdisciplinary artist working across media in drawing, printmaking, video, and movement-based performance. She has exhibited her work nationally… more

Performing Arts: Music Composition

A Tokyo native, Meg Okura is a Grammy-nominated violinist and acclaimed jazz composer residing in The Bronx. She moved to the U.S. and made her solo debut at the Kennedy… more

Visual Arts: Drawing

Michael Ferris was born in Chicago and currently lives and works in The Bronx. His work has been the subject of several one-person gallery shows and exhibited widely… more

Literary Arts: Fiction

Michael Masefield teaches farm-to-table urban agriculture in the South Bronx. He runs a farm where students raise tilapia and chickens and grow heirloom crops… more

Visual Arts: Installation Art

Michele Brody is a fourth-generation NY Builder. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Fiber and Material Studies Department in… more

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Michelle Frick was born in 1968 in Queens, NY. She earned her MFA ('23) and BFA ('91) at Pratt Institute. Her work has been exhibited internationally in New York,… more

Performing Arts: Choreography

Mildred Milteri Tucker Concepcion is a Puerto Rican native and Bronx-based dancer and choreographer. She is the founder of Bombazo Dance Company and CEO of Bombazo… more

Visual Arts: Painting

Odalys Burgoa is a Mexican multidisciplinary cultural worker with a focus in gardening, painting, and photography. They are a gender fluid Gemini storyteller from… more

Performing Arts: Vocal

Rashawna, born and raised in the vibrant Bronx to Jamaican immigrant parents, is deeply rooted in a family legacy of musicians. Surrounded by melodies since childhood,… more

Media Arts: Experimental Film / Video

Raven Irabor is a Trinidadian-Nigerian American Pan-African image maker and curator. With 10 years working in the media, fashion, and advertising industries as a producer,… more

Media Arts: Narrative Film / Video

Richard Troche is a New York-based filmmaker. In the 1990s, Richard had a successful Pop/Dance Record called Moving On that received rave reviews from Billboard… more

Literary Arts: Fiction

Rob Jacklosky is a professor of English and Director of the Core Curriculum at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in The Bronx. He co-wrote, with Matthew Kaiser,… more

Performing Arts: Instrumental

Robert Silverman was born in New Haven, Connecticut and began his love of Jazz on trumpet. He moved to Hartford to attend Trinity College and was further encouraged… more

Literary Arts: Poetry

Bronx, New York native, Roya Marsh is a poet, performer, educator, and activist. She is the author of dayliGht, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry,… more

Visual Arts: Crafts

Australian-born and raised artist Ruth Marshall is a naturalized citizen of the USA. She has been a Bronx resident since 2000 and worked as an exhibit sculptor at… more

Visual Arts: Painting

Ruth creates intimate spaces filled with figurative paintings that contain her mother’s fabrics, prints, immigration papers, biographic documents, and furniture… more

Performing Arts: Instrumental

Salieu Suso was born into a family of Griots or Jali, traditional musicians and historians from Gambia, West Africa. He was trained to play the kora by his father Alhaji… more

Literary Arts: Poetry

Married with two sons, Sam has won the Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO poetry award several times. He has taught poetry at the Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music and… more

Literary Arts: Poetry

Sarah Stern is the author of three poetry books—We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune, But Today Is Different, and Another Word For Love. She is a five-time… more

Visual Arts: Painting

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

Visual Arts: Mixed Media (2D)

Susan MacMurdy is a collage artist, relief printmaker, and former educator who lives in The Bronx. Her collages and early woodblock and linoleum prints have been… more

Literary Arts: Screenwriting

Terron is a storyteller from Hartford, Connecticut. A multi-hyphenate, Terron's first film, which he wrote, directed, and produced, was selected as part of the HBO… more