Benita Perkins

Aaron Bollwinkel

Brett & Stacey Pulley

Sarai Reed

Karissa John

Samantha Willis

#12 on the 25 most iconic hip-hop cars

My name is Chaz Outing and I am illustrator/artist.

Chaz Outing

Esther Akintoye is a Nigerian-American student at the Rhode Island School of Design studying Interior Architecture. With a background in photography she’s interested in the tangible and intangible ways narratives are built.

Esther Akintoye

Asha Parks

Samantha Storch

Renea Toni Burke

Jasmine Monteiro

Dominique Thomas is a grassroots organizer, Afrofuturist, trainer and researcher based in Harlem, New York. She works in the climate movement and enjoys building community with Black people. In her free time, Dominique enjoys reading Black feminist writings + Octavia Butler, running along the Hudson River and cooking vegan meals.

Dominique Thomas

Sandra Hightower

Brooke Tillman Bullitt a believer in the importance of what cultivated intentional sacred space looks and feels like for Black people. Learning, living, and residing in New Orleans, LA.

Brook Tillman Bullitt

Zoë King

Nicole Bradley

Leurin Estévez

Matt McGriff

Vessna Scheff was born in Redwood City, CA and spent her developmental years throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The diverse landscape of the Bay culturally, politically and geologically, laid the foundation for Scheff’s sensitivity to equity. Encouraged by her passion to perform, Scheff began working in watercolor through the process of making show flyers, leading to a Visual & Performing Arts teaching position at Gateway Middle School in San Francisco where she explored portraiture alongside her students. Falling in love with the complex dynamic of watercolors, she began to conceptualize and reclaim an often described as “difficult/ sketch” medium for it’s uncontrollable qualities, and rather conceptualizes the freedom of watercolors as an expression of Black liberation- always being, responding, and adapting despite the confines of oppression. After moving to Philadelphia, Scheff decided to apply, and was accepted to the Rhode Island School of Design where she is merging performance with immersive installations contextualizing society's love for all that Black womxn create while disregarding ongoingsupport of Black living and more broadly, how diasporic identities hold, create and share embodied histories. Through poetic paintings, portraits, performances, sounds, and installations that use watercolors, movement, vocals, and projections as mediums of inquiry, Scheff’s works dance with time and fall to gravity. They blend, bleed, and bloom; they stretch, they resist, they flood, and they drip- potent in texture, heavy in meaning, and rich in nuance. She will graduate with an MFA in Painting from RISD in June 2022.

Vessna Scheff

Dear Apology

Digest Me Quickly

the warmth

we made ourselves small

Claire Green

Alkebuluan Merriweather is a Chicago-born and raised artist who received her BA in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2019. Her work explores blackness and collective memory through various mediums such as collage, ephemera, and photography. She is most known for her previous archival project titled theblackmatriarcharchive alongside its reiteration homageblkmadonnas.

Alkebuluan Merriweather

Jalina Suggs

Dominque Weaver

Adam C Easterling is an interdisciplinary Visual Artist and Designer based in Brooklyn, NY. His practice has been inspired by his transient upbringing, which has fostered a body of work that can look and feel like a collection of ideas or experiences. With a focus on motion graphics and illustration, his work often juxtaposes physical aesthetics within a digital space.

Adam Easterling

I'm Erin Williams, a Black artist and creative currently based in St. Louis. I specialize in drawing, abstract acrylics, and printmaking. My work has been featured in various newsletters and sites, I have led workshops and painting classes, and in Fall 2021 I began earning an MFA in Illustration and Visual Culture from Washington University in St. Louis. From 2019-2021, I hosted and produced the podcast “In Which I Talk To Artists,” where I interviewed artists about their work and inspiration. I am also a member of Solas Studios in New York City.

Erin Williams

Eva Woolridge

Deandra Gichie

Deandra Giche

Lisa Johnson

Sedrick Miles

Stephanie Buckler

My Joy

Beth Faulkner

Vanessa Davis

Jenni Oughton is a graphic designer, illustrator, and maker of beautiful and strange things. They are a Chicago* native currently based on the East Coast. When not kerning type, they can usually be found at the ice rink.

*Actually from a small town way, WAY, outside Chicago, but you’ve probably never heard of it…

Jenni Oughton

Marin Emet Griffith is a creator from Denver Colorado. Embracing many mediums throughout her life, she has been most interested in how her art practice can generate personal healing and produce a dialogue around the modune beauties of life, Her practice aims to leave room for ritual in conjunction with image making. Using art as means to find ways to visualize her capacity of life through challenging motifs of race and identity as she discovers herself more closely in relation to the world around her. And she continues to make work with the goal of evoking critical conversations about connectedness, grief, Blackness, and womanhood.

Marin Griffith

Brandon Malone

My name is Sapphina Roller and I am a painting major at RISD class of 2023. I grew up in Verona, Wisconsin and have since moved to Connecticut. My work reflects on my own memory, ways of healing and feeling joy in my body.

Sapphina Roller

Iyo Aghedo is a queer first generation American trying to find a balance between two homes that lay thousands of miles of apart. They draw inspiration from black feminity in contemporary and historical contexts to create a roadmap for self liberation.

Iyo Aghedo

dear black ♀ by Iyosayi Aghedo

abie. yay. you

ehiosu in wonderland

iyayi

Photographs

tell it to my mother

the wishmaker

Shawn Carter

Ndivhuho Rasengani 

NRasengani Loop

Stacey Pulley

Rene Payne

Kennedy Jones

Kyle Lisbeth

Annalee Reid

My name is Sydni (aka Sydviciouz) and I'm a NY based burlesque dancer.

Sydni Watkins

Jamil Fatti is an artist and registered landscape architect currently pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Jamil Fatti

Fisayo Quadri, is a mixed media artist focused on exploring celebration of the everyday through collage, textiles, installation, and painting. With a desire to remind people that they are worth celebrating even if they’re just a party of one, Fisayo aims to create a world where joy can live across a variety of mediums.

Olufisayo Quadri

Calli Haramaras

Uthman is a Master of Architecture candidate at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He graduated from Binghamton University in 2016 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. In the immediate years after graduating, Uthman served in AmeriCorps programs, City Year and Public Allies, sparking his commitment to revitalizing Black and Brown communities through design.

Uthman Olowa

Amina Tamkaba

Tori Cherry

Lauryn Levette

Addie was born in 1997 in Denver, Colorado and received a BFA in Studio Art, with an emphasis in drawing and painting, as well as a four years of training in Animation, Film, Photography, and Motion Design at Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction Colorado. Finding her voice and acceptance through representing her racial background of half African American, and half Caucasian. After graduating College she moved back to Denver residing in her father's childhood home in five points, where many of the photographs her paintings are based off, were taken. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.

Addie Kae Mingilton

Aboubacar Naby

Corinthia Ellis

Marissa Yates

Nik Muka

Ivana Thorton

Jahi Kijo Lendor (b. 1991, Brooklyn, NY) is a Black-Dominican American, New York City-based artist whose work focuses on reversing the erasure of Black culture by centering blackness in the materials, objects, history, and cultural moments that are rendered disposable and disregarded. Lendor is a 2023 MFA Candidate in Painting and Society of Presidential Fellows fellow at Rhode Island School of Design

Jahi Kijo Lendor

Natiana Alexandra Manuel Fonseca

Quilting as Mapping

Sabrina Sims is a Black Puerto Rican interdisciplinary artist from the Bronx. She experiments with a wide range of mediums including riso printing, zines, music and more.

Magic, transformation and subversive self care are common threads in her work. She also explores her Black Puerto Rican mixed-ness and what it means to bring soft power to those identities.
Sabrina teaches community workshops and gives artist talks as part of her practice. She is also the lead organizer for the collaborative zine Space for Black Hair and founder of Bronx Zine Scene. BxZS creates zine fairs and arts opportunities for local Black, Indigenous and Latine community.

Sabrina Sims

Shanika Powell

Tina Ramos Ekongo

Isaiah Aladejobi

Bert Alexander

Rraine Hanson

Koren Martin

Gabrielle Dancy

Melanie Blagburn

Alicia Pickney

Angela Hill

Alexis Rose

Nicole Hollant

Romello Goodman is a Computational Designer based in Washington, DC. He believes that computers can make us more creative and that tool building can be a labor of love.

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Alkebuluan Merriweather

Bio

What does black joy look like to you?

Archive

Alkebuluan Merriweather

Bio

What does black joy look like to you?