Yeimy Gamez Castillo

Yeimy Gamez Castillo is a multidisciplinary artist and cultural worker based in Newark, NJ. Her work is rooted in queerness, migration, and ancestral memory, and amplifies marginalized voices through music, storytelling, and community organizing. She’s been featured in The New York Times, NJPAC, and more. Learn more at Delapaz.info.
David Seamon

David Seamon is an award-winning composer, educator, and singer/songwriter from New Jersey. David wrote/composed two original musicals, The Eleventh Hour (2018) and A Healthy Marriage: The Halls-Mills Murders (2023). He is the Coordinator of the Theater Arts Department of Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School.
Laura de la Garza Noble

Born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. Laura de la Garza Noble has studied dance since the age of 2 years old. Laura is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and fitness instructor. At present time, Laura de la Garza Noble is a Dance Educator for First Avenue Elementary School in Newark, NJ as well as a […]
Ricky Shoebio

Ricky Shoebio is a Creative Director, Photographer and Founder of KYD. Ricky Shoebio has made himself a fixture in the Lifestyle, Footwear, Editorial, Commercial spaces for his and teams visual storytelling. Through the conceptualizing of said pieces, content segments, campaigns, commercials they have laid their stamp on the industry as an agency. Working alongside Nike, […]
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 […]
Anisa Rahim

Anisa Rahim is an artist and public interest lawyer. Her hybrid memoir, American Meo: A Tale of Remembering and Forgetting (Sputyen Duyvil Press) was longlisted for the 2019 [PANK] Big Book Contest and published in 2023.
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.