I am a Los Angeles based visual artist specializing in acrylic paintings with a historical context behind them. As a first generation immigrant, I have lived in various parts of the world including England, West Africa, and New York City, each of which have played a role in my work today. The blend of my childhood experiences in music, entertainment, and sports have influenced my desire to narrate stories through my paintings. I like to use common logos as a way to exemplify capitalism and the role it plays in our society.

Kat Jarvis (b. 1992 in Athens, GA) is an oil painter creating a symbolic nostalgia deeply tied to her experience as a Black woman, and is rooted in her family’s history. Her practice explores materials, from painting on wood and canvas to using found objects and fabric, which add tangible details and texture to the work. Kat utilizes warm earth tones that represent the rich Southern landscape of unpaved red dirt roads connecting her family’s community. She received her BA from Howard University, and earned her MFA from Otis College of Art & Design in 2023. She currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

Tiffanie Peters is a contemporary visual artist based in Los Angeles, CA. The artist’s continually expanding practice merges figuration and abstraction while processing systems surrounding Western ideas of beauty, power structures, visibility, art history, academia, and categorization. She confronts Eurocentric traditions in art history by combining oil paint, ink, pastels, and charcoals with unstretched canvases. Leaning into this resistance provides alternative ways to see, create, and live.

California native, Dani Iribe uses her practice as a tool to dissect and uncover layers of human emotion. The Afro-Latina portrait painter highlights the merging of cultures and identities that take place in her everyday life with amalgamations of both subtle and maximalist motifs of Guatemalan and Black American history, culture, and spiritualism.

Heavily inspired by the 19 th century symbolism movement, Dani’s artwork exposes its own truth and reality through collections of metaphoric imagery and motifs. Themes are embodied by intense chroma and collage of patterns, all of which act as tools to summon raw maximal feelings. By conjuring these emotions, Iribe believes it grants her forms of liberty and power. She describes this liberation as the ability to release or the expression of suppressed emotions-Expression through disruption is how she provides license for herself.

Crowded spaces, feverish palettes, and collections of iconographies are conceptions she calls upon to reveal the bliss that sometimes hides in consumingly profound emotion. The coalescence of congested ideas and visuals directly convey sentiments of unease and what Dani refers to as a ‘fraudulent relief’. This fraudulent relief being the ability she possesses to tether herself back to an idea or emotion once she thinks she has escaped it.

Fawlene Aziza-Copeland (b. 1994 Los Angeles) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work offers a somatic perspective into her personal life experiences and the immediate culture she is surrounded by. Her representational practice invites viewers into the threads linked within personal identity, ecology, black culture and its political footprints. Through her work Aziza-Copeland depicts archival landmarks and subjects who gracefully engage against a political gaze, subjugation, and erasure and into humanity, grace, and liberation. Her use of color (or lack thereof), texture, and brush strokes brings forth an essence of movement, beauty, and humanity to be inferred as synchronistic with an “unseen” or intangible naturalistic context. Aziza has earned her BA from the University of Miami (2018), and is a current MFA candidate at Otis College of Art and Design (2025).

Born and raised in a neighborhood just off the 110 fwy between Gardena and Compton, Rosalyn Myles has spent most of her life in the City of Los Angeles. She grew up traversing the entire city, playing games with her friends in Watts, swimming with her brothers in South LA, riding the bus to attend art classes at Barnsdall Park in Hollywood and eating Japanese food with her classmates from Narbonne High School in Torrance. She attended Mills College in Oakland on a scholarship, spent a few years at CSDHU then completed her Masters Degree in Fine Arts at the California College of Arts. For a few years she resided in Napa California, then in San Fransico where she worked at the Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts. Rosalyn has exhibited her work all over the US. She recently had the opportunity to create a Satellite Installation project for PR4 art event in New Orleans. Rosalyn currently resides in the West Adams district in the center of LA.

My name is Kelly Cruz and I am a Mexican-American student artist living in South LA. I am a student enrolled in the Los Angeles Community College District and am majoring in Studio Art at Los Angeles Southwest College. My art discipline focuses on visual art and I use various mediums such as acrylic and watercolor paint, ink pens, color pencils, charcoal and graphite.

Leticia Rey Photography is a celebration of the world’s beauty through the lens of an experienced travel artist. For over 20 years, Leticia Rey has journeyed across the globe, capturing the essence of diverse landscapes, cultures, and moments that tell the story of our shared humanity. Her work is characterized by a deep appreciation for the beauty found in both the extraordinary and the everyday, transforming scenes from around the world into captivating pieces of art.

Leticia’s photography goes beyond mere documentation; it’s about evoking the emotions and stories behind each location she visits. Whether it’s a bustling market in Marrakech, a serene sunset over the Italian coast, or the intricate details of a temple in Kyoto, Leticia’s images invite viewers to experience the world through her eyes.

With a keen eye for detail and a passion for exploration, Leticia Rey Photography offers a unique perspective on the world, providing a timeless collection of travel art that inspires wanderlust and a deeper connection to the beauty that surrounds us all.

Chelle Barbour is a California native, who began her foray into the arts as an actress in community college theatre. Barbour was a stage manager, president of the Thespian Club. Working with director, Dr. MaryEllen Kazmark, Barbour landed lead roles in Summer and Smoke, Show Boat, The Sound of Music and For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. Barbour moved to Los Angeles and continued her studies in theatre, fine art, and design, and ultimately completed her education at UCLA and USC. Today, Barbour has refined her interdisciplinary art practice to include assemblage, collage, digital video, painting, photography, independent curating and writing. Barbour’s extensive collage work re-imagines the body of the black female through the lens of Afro-Surrealism and Afro Futurism. Her characters cast a wide net in terms of how they perceived. Whether the image reflects chameleons, agent provocateurs, goddesses, muses, warriors or spies, Barbour’s college portraiture conveys notions of allegory, desire, fantasy, femininity, fragility, tension, and the inherent complexity within the black female imaginary.

Barbour has participated in many group exhibitions and collaborations like the Black Lives Matter public art project at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery (2016); Simone Leigh’s International Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter project at the Project Row Houses in Houston, TX (2017), You IS Pretty! Surrealism and The Black Imaginary, a solo show at Band of Vices Gallery in Los Angeles (2018), and one of three American artists selected to participate in the European exhibition, The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain (2019) on display at the Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, CA.

Hasef is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses a variety of mediums to explore themes of identity, memory, and the human experience. His works are a reflection of his own personal journey, as well as a commentary on contemporary society.

Through his use of vibrant colors, bold lines, and striking imagery, Hasef seeks to create a visual language that transcends words and connects with viewers on a deeper level. He believes that art has the power to inspire, provoke, and transform, and that his role as an artist is to create works that challenge and engage his audience.

Whether through his paintings, sculptures, or installations, Hasef’s work is a celebration of the human spirit and a testament to the power of creativity to uplift and inspire. By sharing his unique vision with the world, Hasef hopes to contribute to a more vibrant, black american memories, and cultural landscapes globally.