Cristina Marte
Cristina Marte is an Assistant Professor for the Dance Department and EdM DanceEducation Program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and directorof the Rutgers Summer Dance Conservatory. Her life and career has encompassedroles as a mom, educator, choreographer, administrator, curriculum writer, andAdvocate.
Jonathan Yubi
Jonathan Yubi (b. 1993, Bronx, New York) is a first-generation Ecuadorian-American painter from Bergenfield, New Jersey. His work explores labor, identity, and social unrest through parable-like narratives. His paintings center construction workers—both documented and undocumented—interweaving them into historical landscapes and contemporary events. He highlights the continuity of labor struggles as a defining element of Pan-American […]
Chat Travieso
Chat Travieso is an artist and designer. He is the co-founder of the multidisciplinary collaborative duo Yeju & Chat. His practice encompasses community-centered urban interventions, public art, and research. His past work has been commissioned by or organized in collaboration with the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation, NYC Parks Department, Cambridge Arts Council, Cleveland […]
John M. Meyer
John M. Meyer works as a playwright-performer in New Brunswick and New York. He is currently the co-artistic director of Thinkery & Verse. He served as the associate artistic director of BEDLAM, the celebrated off-Broadway theater company, for the productions of Medea: Re-Versed, Wake Up, Tina Packer’s Women of Will, and Music City. His work […]
Karen Alvarado
Karen Alvarado is a theater artist from Texas with Latina and indigenous ancestry. Alvarado is the Co-Artistic Director of Thinkery & Verse and works as an actress, director, producer, and university instructor. She received her MFA in acting from Rutgers University and is dedicated to creating art in New Brunswick.
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Nastassia Davis
Nastassia A. Davis is a graduate of Montclair State University with a BA in Fine Arts Studio and a minor in African-American Studies. She is a versatile professional photographer and conceptual fine artist born in Philadelphia currently working in Atlantic City, NJ. Since 2008, she’s had several exhibitions throughout Atlantic County, Philadelphia, New York, and […]
Chanelle René
Chanelle René is an award-winning painter and mural artist based in Southern New Jersey. Her figurative work explores female identity through Black culture, self-essence, and (re)claiming spaces. Notably, her Grant Street Beach series celebrates Cape May’s historic Black beach. A self-taught artist, René’s work has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Gabriel Boyd
Gabriel Boyd is a Black Queer artist based in New York and a current student at SUNY Purchase. Working primarily with found materials, photography, and performance, their practice explores Black cultural signifiers, such as Black hair and hair care products to interrogate how Black experiences interact with the virtual.
Aislinn Pentecost-Farren
Aislinn Pentecost-Farren is an artist and public historian whose practice draws on fifteen years working with historic sites, museums, and parks. She takes artifacts, collections, and landscapes as the starting point for sculpture, printed media, and public interventions. Aislinn lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.