Visual Art

Band-Aid

Grace Augello recently graduated UMass Dartmouth with a BFA in Illustration and a minor in Art History. She has since focused on creating illustrations for her poetry and freelancing her art to other writers. She is passionate about art and writing that is emotional and honest, that explores universal feelings through personal experience. Grace can be reached for inquiries at graceaugello96@gmail.com or through her Instagram: @augello_studios.

Feminine Reweave

Thendara Marie Kida-Gee was born in Buffalo, New York, and immigrated to the UK in the late 90s where she completed a B.A Honors in 2002 at Central Saints Martins School of Art. Currently, Thendara is utilizing photography, collage, and resin to create Dr. Seussian type dystopian landscapes. Interpreting the battle between nature and technology Thendaraʼs work, like her perceptions, are woven, multilayered fragments of a moment. Her work builds upon itself in an ever-evolving modular design, refining our yet undefined future. Her love and obsession can be seen today in ‘This Life in Ruinsʼ project, an ongoing documentation of the abandoned and forgotten aspects of our civilization, finding beauty in disrepair and neglect. Her photography both documentary as well as a story in cinematic stills of the aspects of life commonly ignored. Thendara’s work has been shown internationally and is a part of public and private collections in the U.S.A and abroad. She can be reached at www.thendaramariekidagee.com and @thendaramariekidagee (Instagram).

Deadvlei, Namibia

Jeremiah Gilbert is an award-winning photographer and avid traveler based out of Southern California. He likes to travel light and shoot handheld. His travels have taken him to over eighty countries spread across five continents. His photography has been published internationally, in both digital and print publications, and has been exhibited worldwide. His hope is to inspire those who see his work to look more carefully at the world around them in order to discover beauty in unusual and unexpected places. He can be found on Instagram @jg_travels.

Flux

Blakelee Harmon is an established artist based in New York City who has dedicated her life to creating work that bonds human souls. She developed her sense of composition first through dance, exploring movement and stillness, music and silence, light and darkness, giving and taking, boundaries and abandon. Blakelee attended Marymount Manhattan for a bachelor’s degree in dance media where she also trained in oil painting and photography. She began using each of these mediums in tandem to explore concepts and inform the finished piece of work, and continues to use this method. Whatever strikes her in her daily routine is recorded and reflected in the chapter of each painting she is working on. Blakelee believes that if you are truly present, the universe will expose specific messages that will guide each of us to a greater state of awareness. She believes it is each person’s responsibility to develop through constantly evaluating personal circumstances. By sharing her own evaluation process for each painting, Blakelee hopes to connect with the viewer’s understanding of their personal life experiences and expose the complications of consciousness. Blakelee has choreographed twice for Marymount Manhattan’s “Dancers at Work” showcase, trained with Ellen Robbins at New York Live Arts, and placed in the top ten at New York Dance Festival 2013 for choreography. She has had work in the online art room exhibit and was a featured artist in the NY State of Mind exhibit at One Art Space Gallery as well as Artist Profile Magazine. In 2019 she was contracted with NYA gallery in an artist booth where she was able to produce new work including large scale oil paintings, performance art, and installations. For the months of June and July 2019, she was consigned with 1st Dibs Gallery and Gallery 104, while also being a featured artist for the RAW Artist Event “Arise” in August. Blakelee’s most recent accomplishments include finishing up her first “Winter Loft Sessions” in Brooklyn, joining the Calling All Creative community, and becoming an artist for the company “Artist to Artist” custom leotards for professional dance companies made from fine art. You can see her painting “Murmur” on Ballet Hispanico Company Member Shelby Colona.

Procession of the Horned Goddess

Amalia Galdona Broche is a multi-disciplinary artist working in fibers, sculpture, and time-based media. Originally from Santa Clara, Cuba, Galdona Broche earned a BFA and a BA in Sculpture and Art History from Jacksonville University, has participated in residencies at the New York Academy of Fine Arts, the Studios at MASS MoCA and is currently living in Lexington, Kentucky, where she is pursuing an MFA in Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky.

Solumn

Chloe Posthuma-Coelho is an 18-year-old Brazilian-American who is fascinated by the intersection of cultures in Brazil, as an International Relations student, especially about Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous culture, as well as how Brazilian society has a capacity for reflection, endurance, and the will to overcome, through the many tragedies and woes (such as slavery) which befell the country. She aims to display the intersection between communities around the world and their social improvement through artistic expression, by writing about and painting about communities, from the Kalunga Quilombo to the Pine Ridge Indigenous Reservation. This interest mainly started when she visited the Kalunga Community, a Quilombo community. Quilombos are descendants of the African diaspora and slaves, who aim to portray to others their story – from their suffering and culture through artistic expression, for example. Her art and poetry centers around Brazilian society and its capacity for reflection, endurance, and the will to overcome.