“I like sculptures that are aerial, elegant, and powerful. I like to experiment with engineering and push far away the laws of gravity.”

Clare Celeste Boersch is an artist living in Berlin who has been doing some version of collage and assemblage since she was a young girl. Growing up in Brazil, she had the ocean, rivers, and jungles that always existed in stark contrast to the industrial cities. “My...

“I had started making sculpture by the time I retired, but it still took years after I began to exhibit before I could admit to being an artist. It is truly never too late.”

Eanaj Janae is a self-taught artist originally from Southern California that uses her captivating art to spotlight the Black community's struggles and triumphs, including mental health challenges and the strength required to endure. Often incorporating color and...

Combining elements of neo-expressionism, graffiti and African art, Brittany’s a multidisciplinary artist that creates abstract images and figures of the Black diaspora, to celebrate, uplift, and communicate complex emotions of Blackness and its intersectionality....

Through the use of mixed media and watercolor, Tori Kovarik creates abstract images and landscapes and explores experiences of trauma and the constant acts of recreating and rebuilding that follow trauma.” I do this to bear witness to the harsh realities of...

Mendy Sylvain has always loved to draw. “I found it difficult to express my feelings otherwise, so for years I learned to draw as an autodidact at the same time as I was doing several studies,” he explains. After several years of drawing, visiting exhibitions and...

Matthew Smith remembers drawing dinosaurs, his favorite cartoons, and video game characters when he was young, being labeled as an “artist” growing up. “I was always creating,” he recalls. “When other kids had a hard time drawing something, I would be one of the other...