Participating Artists
James Fils-Aime
Morgan Everhart
Morgan Everhart works in painting, installation, performance, and writing. Everhart’s practice challenges naturalism and ontology through reflection on personal experiences, identity, and art history. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas in 2013, and her Master of Fine Arts from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. Recent exhibitions include: Flesh and Bloom at The David Owsley Museum of Art, Indiana (2021), Flowers for my Failures at the Longwood Museum, Virginia (2019); BLOOM at Millersville University, Pennsylvania (2019); and, Four Degrees of Abstraction at Markel Fine Arts, New York (2018). The artist’s largest outdoor mural is at the intersection of Grand and Suffolk Streets (New York, NY) and featured in Neumeraki’s International exhibition Art Off-Screen. Everhart currently lives and works in New York, where she is also a contributing writer to A Women’s Thing publication.
James Douglas Fils-Aime is an artist who creates powerful paintings that express both what is seen and felt. Drawing from history he uses narratives from the past to create a vision of the future. In his self-portraits and portraits of historical figures, he tries to capture the inner person of the sitter. His cultural background, including Haitian and Belizean origins, is also an important part of his work. In addition to painting, he also works with wood and writes poetry. He puts thought and intention into every brushstroke and hand built frame resulting in artwork that is intimate, immediate, and timeless.
Christine Stoddard
Christine Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American multi-hyphenated artist creating books, films, plays, murals, and more. In early 2021, she completed a 17 mural commission for group homes run by HeartShare Human Services of New York. She was the first-ever artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, an inaugural AnkhLave artist at the Queens Botanical Garden, and a former summer artist-in-residence at Annmarie Sculpture Garden. Her work has been presented in programs at the Kaos Festival of Contemporary Collage, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, New York Transit Museum, Howard County Center for the Arts, the Queens Museum, FiveMyles Gallery, the Elisabet Ney Museum, the Poe Museum, and beyond. Press includes artist features in Ms. Magazine, New York Latin Culture Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The Portland Review, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. A graduate of VCUarts and The City College of New York, she is the founder of Quail Bell Press & Productions, best known for Quail Bell Magazine.
Kate Nielsen
Kate Nielsen is a Brooklyn based painter, originally from Reno, NV. Some of her current inspirations include patterns and textures found in everyday life, optical illusions, and rewilding. Her work mixes narratives with abstract patterns. She holds a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and studied Painting and Art History in France and Italy.
Kate has painted murals and signs for a range of private residences and public spaces in New York and has been an active part of the Greenpoint, Brooklyn community of artists for over 10 years. Her studio practice includes a combination of painting, drawing, and printmaking. Her paintings and work with collectives have been featured at the Strohl Art Center, Calico Gallery, Borderline Art Collective, and The Museum of Art and Design among others. She is always looking for new ways to engage with her local community and to help fellow community members bring their creative ideas to life.
Alanna Flowers
Alanna Flowers is a freelance lettering artist and designer based in Brooklyn, NY where she runs AGF Design Studio. As a lettering artist, she creates work using bold lettering in a range of styles for brands like Adobe, The Los Angeles Times, and American Greetings. In addition to working with clients, she enjoys sharing what she knows about lettering, digital art, and freelance with other creatives.
Avani Patel
Born in Mumbai, India, I immigrated to Pennsylvania with my family at 11 years old. I hold a BA from University of Pennsylvania and MFA from Tyler School of Arts (Temple University). My cultural background has had a profound impact on the forging of my identity as an artist. As a young girl living in India, I fell in love with the patterns of dresses, exotic colors, the sound of music, as well as the spectacle of both theatre and cinema. They were all fluidly interconnected, effectively symbolizing the rhythm of daily life. Indian culture is the starting point of my work. The range of Indian culture expressed through film, theatre, music, and performance are all sources of artistic inspiration for me. Even though I am far away from home, I continue to explore the boundaries between eastern and western cultural influences.
A rhythmic response to music causes the body to move, express itself, and become animated. My concept of painting is a rhythmic musical performance that generates a completely new language of abstract harmony as a way to represent music visually. A language of expression, harmonizing elements, and abstract shapes that take the form of patterns on my canvases are inspired by Indian performances, variety of musical selections and from nature. The goal is to visually interpret the music's message and convey it by fostering an atmosphere of excitement and passion and evoking feelings of dancing and celebration.
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Moon Frankenstein
Moon is a self-taught multimedia artist mom from the South Bronx.
Bevin Macutay
Bevin creates two-dimensional expressions of her experiences through use of collage and drawing. She was born in the heart of the Philippines and moved to New York with her family when she was around 2 years old.
Bevin earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase. During her undergraduate career, she has featured in several exhibitions, including Twenty.one 2019 and I don’t know 2019. Since graduating, the young artist has also been featured in multiple publications, such as Mixed Mag and The Artists Forum.
Seth Laxman
Seth Antonio Laxman (he/him) is an environmental and transgender rights activist from Nyack, New York with a BA in Geography conc. Environmental and Spanish Language and Culture, minor in Disaster Studies from New Paltz State University of New York.
An expert in sustainability and environmental justice, he is passionate about making the world a better and more beautiful place through action and art.
Celine Mai
Celine is a mixed Vietnamese French illustrator living in New York City, who loves black outline and vibrant colors. She specializes in comics, fashion, surfing and children’s illustration.
After a career in surf journalism and the fashion industry, Celine studied at SVA and the Art Students League in New York.
Amanda Aponte
Amanda Aponte is a 24 year interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Their work explores their mixed-race identity and queer relationships through colorful, narrative, and sometimes surrealist painting and drawing.
