“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.” —Franz Kafka Helayne was born in the Bronx...

"Nada es mas Valioso que la risa. Reirte con todas tus fuerzas y dejarte llevar por esta, te libera y te hace sentir en paz." - Frida...

Melissa has worked at the intersection of arts and social change work through different roles as a cultural worker/administrator,...

Tiffany Ramos, born and raised in Queens, New York, attended Boston University for Fine Art with a focus in Painting, primarily utilizing...

Yael Ben-Zion is a New York-based visual artist whose work considers the relationship of the personal to the political and social. She...

Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD specialist, mixed media visual artist, author, writer for Huffington Post, TEDx and RAINN speaker,...

Xiaolin Li is a visual artist. She joined Community-Word Project in the fall of 2017 as a trainee in the Teaching Artist Project (TAP)....

Philip Berezney is a teaching artist with with a focus on mixed media visual arts. His work in arts education has brought him from...

Liting Zeng is a visual artist and writer. She keeps a dream journal and hopes to turn them into picture books someday. She is currently...

Li Stefan Reina is a first-generation Colombian-American comic artist and illustrator based in Queens, New York. He is a teaching artist...