Visual Art

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Jaina Cipriano is an experiential designer, photographer and filmmaker exploring the emotional toll of religious and romantic entrapment. Her worlds communicate with our neglected inner child and are informed by explosive colors, elements of elevated play and the push/pull of light and dark.

Jaina is a self taught artist with a deep love for creative problem solving. She writes and directs award winning short films that wrestle with the complicated path of healing. In 2020 she released You Don’t Have to Take Orders from the Moon, a surrealist horror film wrestling with the gravity of deep codependency. Her second short Trauma Bond is a dreamy, coming of age thriller that explores what happens when we attempt to heal deep wounds with quick fixes.

Jaina founded Finding Bright Studios, a design company specializing in set design for music videos and immersive spaces. She has collaborated with GRRL HAUS, Boston Art Review, and was a Boston Fellow for the Mass Art Creative Business Incubator and a finalist in EforAll. Her photographic work has been shown internationally.

Hercules Finds the Nemean Lion

Michael Alejandro De La Rosa is a Venezuelan-American artist based in Kent, Ohio. After receiving his BFA at Hunter College, he pursued his MFA at Kent State University where he currently teaches painting and drawing. Find him on Instagram @mike.a.delarosa.

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Sara Tack is a multi-media artist and educator whose work creates social commentary about contemporary American culture. Working in any number of mediums she’ll move fluidly between video, 
 2-D animation, digital prints, photography, painting, artist books, visual poetry, and installation. Most of her artistic practice has addressed topics related to women navigating through a patriarchal culture; motherhood, female lineage, career, women aging, women’s health, body and self-worth.
Grounded in narrative, the work has extensively used typographic form to explore socio-economic and political topics. Experimenting with the materiality of language and communication she is consciously molding a simultaneously verbal-visual expression. Sara quotes Johanna Drucker who stated “the most potent aspect of Typography’s form is its refusal to resolve into either a visual or verbal mode”. It is in this space that much of Sara's work resides; a middle space between the written and spoken word.

Sara has exhibited nationally and worldwide, having her work shown at ISEA (Alberta, Canada), the Museum of Art at the Dick Institute (Scotland), Nickle Arts Museum (Calgary), Vancouver Video Poem Festival, Centro De La Imagen (Mexico City), The Kitchen (NYC), Site:Brooklyn, Schweinfurth Art Center, Virginia Film Festival, Art Center of the Capital Region, Albany Center Gallery, The Schick Gallery at Skidmore College, Robert C. Moore Gallery at the University of North Georgia, Bard College, Bennington College, and is in the permanent collection of The Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University. Tack is on the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Communication and Media, where she teaches design and visual communication.

Et tu in Blue

CB Adams is an award-winning, published short fiction writer and fine art photographer. In addition to works accepted to more than 40 nationwide exhibitions, recent photographs have been published in Midwest Review, Genre Urban Arts 7, Heirlock Literary Magazine, and Tiny Seed. Recent gallery showings include: “8th Annual Biannual” at Angad Arts Hotel in St. Louis, Noir at New Orleans Photo Alliance, Montgomery Photo Festival in Montgomery, AL, “summertime” at A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, “Krappy Kamera” at Soho Photo Gallery in New York City, “Art Through the Lens 2019” at Yeiser Art Center in Paducah, KY, “Architectonic” at The Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO, RAW: St. Louis Presents Grandeur,”Visions” at Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, CA, “Somerville Toy Camera Show (2016, 2018 & 2019) in Boston, MA, and “Comestibles” at Columbia (MO) Art League. His fiction has been published in River Styx (twice), Zoetrope All-Story Extra, Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies, Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, Tidings of Magpies (forthcoming), Thoughtful Dog, The Distillery, and elsewhere. Adams is the recipient of the Missouri Arts Council’s highest writing awards, the Writers’ Biennial and Missouri Writing!. The independent weekly Riverfront Times named Adams, “St. Louis’ Most Under-Appreciated Writer.” Follow him at his website www.qwerkyphotography.com or on Instagram @qwerkystudio, Flickr @cbadams2, or Facebook @qwerkyphotography.

Nocturne

Eddie Hall is an abstract artist in Berlin, Connecticut creating works using recycled windows which exhibit vibrant colors and geometric patterns. These works largely draw inspiration from architectural and design themes. Hall is self taught as an artist, an active member of the Kehler Liddell Gallery, an exhibiting member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, New Haven Paint & Clay Club and Rowayton Arts Center and his works have been featured and won awards in shows far and wide, including at the Greenwich Arts Society, Mattatuck Museum, Scope Miami, Stamford Art Association, Ursa Gallery, Viridian Artists and West Hartford Art League. His work is in numerous private collections. You can find his work on www.eddiehallart.com and follow him at @eddiehallart on Instagram.

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Sean Gallagher lives in Charleston, South Carolina. His artwork has appeared or is forthcoming in Allegory Ridge, Liminal Spaces, Vineyard Literary, Beaver Magazine, Fauxmoir Literary Magazine, Quarter Press, and High Shelf Press. His work has earned several awards and he has recently been highlighted as one of the lowcountry’s top emerging artists by Charleston Magazine. You can follow him on Instagram @the_ridden_word or explore his portfolio at skgcreative.com.