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Photography-Visual Arts
Abigail Montes is a documentary photographer and educator from the South Bronx. Since 2013, Montes has worked with various initiatives empowering youth through… more
Film Animation-Media Arts
Alfonso M. Rodriguez is a NYC based filmmaker and photographer. In 2011, he graduated from the School of Visual Arts, earning a BFA in Film and Video. Since… more
Street Art-Visual Arts
Born and raised in the Bronx, André Trenier has spent the better part of the last two decades establishing himself as one of the premiere artists to emerge from… more
Fiction-Literary Arts
My fiction has appeared in The Amherst Review, Crimespree Magazine, Criminal Class Review (Vols. 3 & 6), Manslaughter Review (Vols. 1 & 2), Oyez Review, Phantasmagoria,… more
Fiction-Literary Arts
Anna Purves is a writer and artist. She teaches writing in the Macaulay Honors and Lehman Scholars programs at Lehman College/CUNY. Recent Poems Published "Then… more
Acting-Performing Arts
Arsenio De La Rosa is AKA "El Maestro" is the most diverse accordion player from Dominican Republic. He mastered many different styles of accordions and styles.… more
Drawing-Visual Arts
Bruce has been making lines with his pen since he was a wee boy. His life was always one of creative enterprise; whether it is art, music or writing. He studied fine… more
Music Composition Audio only!-Performing Arts
Carl Bettendorf is a New York-based composer/conductor. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he studied composition with Wolfgang Rihm before receiving his doctorate from… more
Mixed Media (2D)-Visual Arts
Carlos W. Encarnación-Váquez is a visual artist and art educator born and raised in Puerto Rico. He received a BA in Social Sciences/Forensic Psychology… more
Narrative Film / Video-Media Arts
Carlos Hiciano is a filmmaker, musician, and writer who has worked in the media industry for 10+ years. Having graduated from CUNY - Lehman College with a BA in… more
Experimental Film / Video-Media Arts
Chris Gude (New York, 1985) studied anthropology and geography at Middlebury College. In 2006, he went to Medellín, Colombia to work at a refugee shelter for internally… more
Painting-Visual Arts
Christian Breed (1981) received a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, an MFA from Hunter College (CUNY) in 2017, and an Advanced Curatorial Certificate… more
Printmaking-Visual Arts
Christian Hincapie was born in Colombia in 1989 and today lives and works in the Bronx. Hincapie's work relates to the specific circumstances and histories… more
Photography-Visual Arts
Mr. Dennis RedMoon Darkeem is Bronx born and raised. He is of Yamassee Creek-Seminole Native American and African American descent. Dennis has been an Artist and… more
Spoken Word-Performing Arts
Dilson is a performing artist from the Bronx. His talents include creative writing, playing various instruments, spoken-word poetry, singing, audio engineering,… more
Playwriting-Literary Arts
Dominic Colón is an award-winning actor, writer, and director from The Bronx. Dominic has appeared and guest starred in over 60 movies and Television shows. … more
Poetry-Literary Arts
Elisabeth von Uhl has earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and scholarships to the Prague Summer Writer’s Conference, Greenwich Village Writer’s Workshop,… more
Printmaking-Visual Arts
Emily Henretta received her MFA from Columbia University in 2011. Emily has exhibited her work at The International Print Center New York, The Westside Gallery… more
Printmaking-Visual Arts
Emily Lombardo's work weaves cultural and historical references to bring focus to marginalized narratives. Her practice often uses classical methods of printmaking… more
Screenwriting-Literary Arts
Hannah Leshaw is a Bronx-based writer and director. Her first three short films, partially funded by the Bronx Council on the Arts, screened internationally at film… more
Performance Poetry-Performing Arts
A Bronx native born and raised, Imani Wallace, poetically known as Lyrical Faith, is a Black American educator, activist and award-winning international spoken word… more
Photography-Visual Arts
Ira is a life-long Bronx resident who has been photographing the world around him as well as inner worlds that haunt him since 1976. This is a story about a man and… more
Poetry-Literary Arts
Jean Carlos Soto is a poet from the Bronx, NY. A graduate of Lehman College (’16) with a degree in English and Latin, he has worked the last five years as a… more
Crafts-Visual Arts
Jessica Lagunas is a Latinx New York-based artist. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Museo Amparo, Mexico; Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín,… more
Poetry-Literary Arts
Judith Baumel is a poet, critic and translator. She is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Adelphi University. She is… more
Vocal Music Performance Audio only!-Performing Arts
Justin Hicks is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and vocalist who uses music to investigate themes of identity, labor, American dream aesthetics, and instinctual… more
Fiction-Literary Arts
Kate Broad has a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center and a BA in English and Political Science from Wellesley College. She has published poetry and essays… more
Mixed Media (3D)-Visual Arts
Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, politicized in Washington, DC, liberated in Los Angeles, CA; I am a visual artist, educator, musician, surfer, and photographer.… more
Painting-Visual Arts
Linda Cunningham is a Bronx based artist, exhibiting extensively both in New York and Germany. completing most recently installations with ODETTA Gallery, Bushwick,… more
Instrumental Music Performance Audio only!-Performing Arts
ABOUT LUIS PERDOMO Originally from Venezuela, Grammy® nominated pianist, composer, arranger and educator Luis Perdomo moved to NYC in the early 90s and has since… more
Instrumental Music Performance Audio only!-Performing Arts
Majid Khaliq is a violinist and composer cut from a different cloth. He has been described by legendary musician Wynton Marsalis as having “a unique blend of improvisation,… more
Photography-Visual Arts
Manuel Acevedo is a West Bronx-based multidisciplinary artist. Over time, he broadened his media to develop a distinctive style that combines photography, graphic… more
Poetry-Literary Arts
Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz is an Associate Professor of English at New Jersey City University, where he teaches a variety of courses on British and… more
Documentary Film / Video-Media Arts
For more than two decades she’s been on the scene, bassist/vocalist/producer/label owner and now filmmaker Mimi Jones has reigned supreme. She was raised in the Bronx,… more
Painting-Visual Arts
Odalys or O (She/He/They) is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist with a focus in painting and photography. They are gender fluid, a Gemini and Storyteller from the… more
Fiction-Literary Arts
Born and raised in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents (from Corozal and Ponce), Richie Narvaez has embraced the Bronx as his home. He is the author of the award-winning… more
Screenwriting-Literary Arts
Ruth Hernandez received an MFA from Florida State University. Through her writing she explores the question “Where are you from?” and its repercussions on our… more
Experimental Film / Video-Media Arts
Shaunese is a visual artist and content creator with over 9 years of experience working in the film industry and as an educator. They are an expert in their… more
Photography-Visual Arts
Sofie Vasquez (b. 1998) is an Ecuadorian documentary photographer born and raised in The Bronx, New York. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and has… more
Music Composition-Performing Arts
Stephanie Griffin is an innovative composer and violist with an eclectic musical vision. Born in Canada and based in New York City, her musical adventures have… more
Installation Art-Visual Arts
Ghanaian-born artist Tijay Mohammed’s practice is moved by his personal and community stories informed by the complex view of the African and African American… more
Music Composition Audio only!-Performing Arts
Tyrone Birkett is a saxophonist, composer, and speaker partnering art and social action. As the musical director of the band Tyrone Birkett Emancipation, he has… more
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