Featured
Ella Mahoney
Ella Mahoney is a member of Wampanoag Tribe of GayHead (Aquinnah); an artist, illustrator, and teacher. Primarily working in oil, acrylic, and most recently silk paint; her work is based in storytelling and draws inspiration from creation stories; as well as from narratives of her personal experience of indigeneity through lenses of love and nature. Her recent projects explore large scale silk painting and installation as a medium that invites people to play and participate in creating comfortable, loving spaces connecting them to each other and the surrounding environments.
Zoey Hart
Zoey Hart (she/her) is an interdisciplinary collage artist and cultural educator based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and the current director of the Art and Disability Residency Program at Art Beyond Sight. Guided by the [mis]adventures of chronic illness, invisible disability and the bureaucracies of modern medicine, Hart’s work represents [ill/well]nesses across frameworks of biological, environmental and conceptual bodies. Combining traditional drawing techniques with alternative printmaking, collage, soft science/soft sculpture collaboration and social practice design, Hart creates media, documents, performances, art objects and installations to reframe cultural perceptions of access, rest, imperfection and wellbeing.
andrea haenggi
andrea haenggi (she/they) leads the artist project as an EPA agent. Swiss-born, she is breathing and working in Lenapehoking / New York City. Calling on plants as her guides, teachers, mentors, and performers, her body-based artist work evolves through somatic public fieldwork, dance and studio practice and creates a form of theater called Ethnochoreobotanography using choreographies, gatherings, performances, art installations and soft activist actions in response to decolonization, migration, feminism, labor, care and (re)-building multispecies futures. As part of this work, she co-founded the collective the Environmental Performance Agency in 2017. Appropriating the acronym EPA - in response to the ongoing rollback of Federal environmental policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the collective’s primary goal is to shift thinking around the terms environment, performance, and agency.
weedychoreography.com and environmentalperformanceagency.com
Ray Jordan Achan
Ray Jordan Achan (he/him/his) is an Indo-Caribbean, Brooklyn based theater-maker. Ray is the Founding Artistic Director of EXILED TONGUES, a performance collective that provides financial, artistic and collaborative support to QTBIPOC artists (artists of the global majority) who center diasporic consciousness. Ray's performative work primarily deals with the intersection between racial and climate justice, particularly as they relate to the NYC coastline. He is the recipient of the 2022 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant for his site-specific documentary theater project, "Our Bang for Their Buck: No Pipeline for LNG", the 2022 Creative Equations Fund from the Brooklyn Arts Council and a commissioned artist with Works on Water for his site-specific documentary theater project, "(Re)Imagining Greenpoint's Green Waters" Ray is a Rising Producer Fellow at the Creative & Independent Producer Alliance, an Associated Artist at Culture Push, the Artistic & Development Liaison at the Orchard Project & a Producing Associate at Hypokrit Productions. Ray is a graduate of Wesleyan University with a BA in Government and Theater with Honors. rayjordanachan.com | exiledtongues.com
Angela Miskis
Angela Miskis (b. Ecuador, 1987) is visual artist and community organizer based in South East Queens. Her work is influenced by her family upbringing, dedication to social service, and building a healthier and more sustainable future in her immediate community. Angela Miskis graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2013 with a degree in Visual and Critical Studies. Her honors include the Silas H. Rhodes scholarship (2011), and the Visual and Critical Studies Scholarship (2013) which awarded her a five-month artist in residence at the Leipzig International Art Programme (2014) in Germany. Recently, Miskis was awarded a residency at ChaShaMa's ChaNorth International Artists Program (2019) in Pine Plains, NY, and the ArtWorks Inc. Seminar Fellowship at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (2019 - 2020). She is currently a 2021-Create Change Fellow with the Laundromat Project in New York.
moira williams
moira williams is a disability culture activist, artist and dreamer weaving together intersectional Disability Arts, Eco-Somatics and Queer Ecologies. moira's often co-creative work reframes embodied difference as a distinct resource resisting aesthetic ideals; with interdependent ways of leading to imagine, disrupt, experience or imagine experiencing disrupted spaces and futures that make room for all bodies, “access intimacy.” * and deepening our ecological meanings. Leading with disability for its transformative possibilities, moira approaches culture as something we actively shape together.
Dennis Redmoon Darkeem
As a mixed-blood African American and Native American artist living in the south Bronx, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem offers a voice for his communities. Working across mediums, his work evokes a historical memory and questions the status quo, often incorporating symbolism and a craftwork aesthetic to tie traditional knowledge to the contemporary. His work crosses boundaries of culture, identity, and perception of self and strives to be the voice for the unheard. His most recent body of work, “Standing on Shaky Ground" speaks to shared Native and Black struggles. His work has been shown at Bronx Arts Space, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Brooklyn Museum of the Arts, The Drawing Center, Wave Hill, BAAD, Longwood Gallery, Latchkey Gallery, the Lodge Gallery as well as several mixed-media performances at The Point’s CDC space.
Simone Johnson
Simone Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and cultural worker based in NYC. She mostly makes work about water. She is currently interested in wetlands, rivers and the ocean. She has been a resident with Works on Water and is a former Culture Push Climate Justice Fellow. Simone also has a background in urban agriculture, plant medicine, Teaching Artistry and performance art.
Elizabeth Velazquez
Elizabeth Velazquez is an interdisciplinary artist and a public school visual arts educator. She is one of the founding members of SEQAA- the Southeast Queens Artist Alliance, which is an artist collective focused on working in SEQ. In 2020 she participated in the Winter Workspace Residency Program at Wave Hill, located in the Bronx. Velázquez has exhibited and performed at venues throughout New York, including Cigar Factory, Knockdown Center, and NARS Foundation.
Sarah Cameron Sunde
Sarah Cameron Sunde is an interdisciplinary artist and director working at the intersection of performance, video, and public art, investigating scale and duration in relationship to the human body, the environment, and deep time. She was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete her ongoing series, 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013 - present). Other honors include two MAP Fund Grants, NYSCA, Watermill Center Residency, Baryshnikov Residency, Princess Grace Award, and ongoing support from Invoking the Pause. Solo exhibitions include The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; NYU Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY; Oude Kerk, Amsterdam; and Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Tamaki Makaurau-Auckland. She holds a B.A. in Theater from UCLA and an M.F.A. in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York, CUNY
Rejin Leys
Rejin Leys is a mixed media artist and paper maker based in New York whose work has been exhibited internationally and is included in several public collections. Her PulpMobile papermaking studio on a cart is an interactive public art project which has been active at community events and public art festivals. Leys is a recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from Brooklyn College.
