In Which I Talk To Artists

Frances Berry is a photographer, painter, and collage artist from Memphis, Tennessee. By re-working vintage photographs via digital collage and other photoshop techniques, she gives life to interesting surrealistic works. Her work has appeared at the 2014 Biennial Roadshow in Marfa, Texas, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, as well as spaces around Memphis, including Crosstown Arts, Mind Body Haus in Cooper-Young and Society Memphis Skatepark & Coffee. Born and raised in Columbus, Mississippi, Frances is an alum of The University of Alabama and Memphis College of Art, where she earned her MFA. She has also completed residencies in France, Talkeetna, AK, and upstate New York.

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Katelyn Brown explores the black woman experience and its marriage to the black community and the world in broader terms primarily through digital portrait photography and mixed media. Self-taught, Katelyn began photographing as a means of investigating self image. In her early work she yielded chiefly self portraits, highlighting freedom and black beauty as major themes. Her influences include Quazi King, Mickalene Thomas, James Baldwin and Kerry James Marshall; as such, Katelyn has begun to weave the vast definitions of black womanness together with notions that are present but not limited to self love as a revolution, vulnerability, naturalness and introspection, being the needle and threads. Katelyn is currently experimenting with adding mixed media elements to her photographs using gold, silver, and copper leafing, paint and collaging. Katelyn currently lives in Baltimore, and is an alumna of the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned a MFA in Photographic & Electronic Media.

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Katelyn Brown explores the black woman experience and its marriage to the black community and the world in broader terms primarily through digital portrait photography and mixed media. Self-taught, Katelyn began photographing as a means of investigating self image. In her early work she yielded chiefly self portraits, highlighting freedom and black beauty as major themes. Her influences include Quazi King, Mickalene Thomas, James Baldwin and Kerry James Marshall; as such, Katelyn has begun to weave the vast definitions of black womanness together with notions that are present but not limited to self love as a revolution, vulnerability, naturalness and introspection, being the needle and threads. Katelyn is currently experimenting with adding mixed media elements to her photographs using gold, silver, and copper leafing, paint and collaging. Katelyn currently lives in Baltimore, and is an alumna of the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned a MFA in Photographic & Electronic Media.

https://www.katelynbrown.work/

https://www.blurb.com/b/8637462-four-brooklyn

Katelyn Brown explores the black woman experience and its marriage to the black community and the world in broader terms primarily through digital portrait photography and mixed media. Self-taught, Katelyn began photographing as a means of investigating self image. In her early work she yielded chiefly self portraits, highlighting freedom and black beauty as major themes. Her influences include Quazi King, Mickalene Thomas, James Baldwin and Kerry James Marshall; as such, Katelyn has begun to weave the vast definitions of black womanness together with notions that are present but not limited to self love as a revolution, vulnerability, naturalness and introspection, being the needle and threads. Katelyn is currently experimenting with adding mixed media elements to her photographs using gold, silver, and copper leafing, paint and collaging. Katelyn currently lives in Baltimore, and is an alumna of the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned a MFA in Photographic & Electronic Media.

https://www.katelynbrown.work/

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Khadija Nia Adell is a multimedia artist, arts administrator, and independent curator born and raised in Miami, FL, based in Baltimore, MD. Adell graduated magna cum laude from Maryland Institute College of Art (15’) with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Art History.

Adell creates work that investigates her connection as a queer black body to the African diaspora through a multifaceted practice--engaging collage, digital manipulation, fiber, printmaking, performance, sculpture, photography, and writing. Their work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Miami, FL; New Orleans, LA; Baltimore, MD; New York, NY; Washington, D.C.; London (UK); Florence (IT); and in publications in Baltimore and New York.

A founding member of the Baltimore based arts collective Balti Gurls [City Paper, Baltimore Magazine, Dazed Digital (UK), i-D Magazine (UK)], Adell has collaboratively curated events with the intention of providing safer creative space and social platform for black womxn and queer identifying artists of color in Baltimore.

Adell is currently the Program Manager for the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, a philanthropic foundation with a focus on supporting the arts & culture, technology, science, education, and social justice.

www.khadijaniaadell.com

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Khadija Nia Adell is a multimedia artist, arts administrator, and independent curator born and raised in Miami, FL, based in Baltimore, MD. Adell graduated magna cum laude from Maryland Institute College of Art (15’) with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Art History.

Adell creates work that investigates her connection as a queer black body to the African diaspora through a multifaceted practice--engaging collage, digital manipulation, fiber, printmaking, performance, sculpture, photography, and writing. Their work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Miami, FL; New Orleans, LA; Baltimore, MD; New York, NY; Washington, D.C.; London (UK); Florence (IT); and in publications in Baltimore and New York.

A founding member of the Baltimore based arts collective Balti Gurls [City Paper, Baltimore Magazine, Dazed Digital (UK), i-D Magazine (UK)], Adell has collaboratively curated events with the intention of providing safer creative space and social platform for black womxn and queer identifying artists of color in Baltimore.

Adell is currently the Program Manager for the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, a philanthropic foundation with a focus on supporting the arts & culture, technology, science, education, and social justice.

www.khadijaniaadell.com

instagram.com/kniaspora

Khadija Nia Adell is a multimedia artist, arts administrator, and independent curator born and raised in Miami, FL, based in Baltimore, MD. Adell graduated magna cum laude from Maryland Institute College of Art (15’) with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Art History.

Adell creates work that investigates her connection as a queer black body to the African diaspora through a multifaceted practice--engaging collage, digital manipulation, fiber, printmaking, performance, sculpture, photography, and writing. Their work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Miami, FL; New Orleans, LA; Baltimore, MD; New York, NY; Washington, D.C.; London (UK); Florence (IT); and in publications in Baltimore and New York.

A founding member of the Baltimore based arts collective Balti Gurls [City Paper, Baltimore Magazine, Dazed Digital (UK), i-D Magazine (UK)], Adell has collaboratively curated events with the intention of providing safer creative space and social platform for black womxn and queer identifying artists of color in Baltimore.

Adell is currently the Program Manager for the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, a philanthropic foundation with a focus on supporting the arts & culture, technology, science, education, and social justice.

www.khadijaniaadell.com

instagram.com/kniaspora

Born in 1985 in California, Anna Valdez’s interest in cultural formation and collective consciousness began in her hometown. Exposed from a young age to a uniquely Californian cultural milieu, her proclivity for collecting and crafting a poignant and meaningful visual vocabulary took root during time spent sharing in the traditions and environments of people within her community. Her fascination with the ways in which cultural identities intersect lead her to pursue a career in sociocultural anthropology.

It was on an archeological dig in Ireland that Valdez first discovered her skill for art making. Valdez was encouraged to keep a sketchbook of the site, creating scale drawings and maps. Visually reinterpreting these “abandoned sites” allowed Valdez to explore the connection between anthropological and artistic methods of cataloguing and record-keeping.

Today, working across painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, and digital media, Valdez examines the relationship between material and cultural identity. Valdez incorporates articles found in domestic spaces such as plants, textiles, vessels and keepsakes into her work as a method of storytelling. Her colorful work invites the viewer to consider objects as emblematic of personal and collective experience, shifting between still life and portraiture.

Anna Valdez received her MFA in painting from Boston University in 2013. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States. Valdez’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, New American Paintings, Booooooom.com, and Daily Serving. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Masur Museum of Art, the Danforth Museum, Boston University Art Galleries, Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, and Parts Gallery in Toronto Canada.

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Born in 1985 in California, Anna Valdez’s interest in cultural formation and collective consciousness began in her hometown. Exposed from a young age to a uniquely Californian cultural milieu, her proclivity for collecting and crafting a poignant and meaningful visual vocabulary took root during time spent sharing in the traditions and environments of people within her community. Her fascination with the ways in which cultural identities intersect lead her to pursue a career in sociocultural anthropology.

It was on an archeological dig in Ireland that Valdez first discovered her skill for art making. Valdez was encouraged to keep a sketchbook of the site, creating scale drawings and maps. Visually reinterpreting these “abandoned sites” allowed Valdez to explore the connection between anthropological and artistic methods of cataloguing and record-keeping.

Today, working across painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, and digital media, Valdez examines the relationship between material and cultural identity. Valdez incorporates articles found in domestic spaces such as plants, textiles, vessels and keepsakes into her work as a method of storytelling. Her colorful work invites the viewer to consider objects as emblematic of personal and collective experience, shifting between still life and portraiture.

Anna Valdez received her MFA in painting from Boston University in 2013. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States. Valdez’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, New American Paintings, Booooooom.com, and Daily Serving. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Masur Museum of Art, the Danforth Museum, Boston University Art Galleries, Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, and Parts Gallery in Toronto Canada.

instagram.com/missannavaldez

https://annavaldez.com

Born in 1985 in California, Anna Valdez’s interest in cultural formation and collective consciousness began in her hometown. Exposed from a young age to a uniquely Californian cultural milieu, her proclivity for collecting and crafting a poignant and meaningful visual vocabulary took root during time spent sharing in the traditions and environments of people within her community. Her fascination with the ways in which cultural identities intersect lead her to pursue a career in sociocultural anthropology.

It was on an archeological dig in Ireland that Valdez first discovered her skill for art making. Valdez was encouraged to keep a sketchbook of the site, creating scale drawings and maps. Visually reinterpreting these “abandoned sites” allowed Valdez to explore the connection between anthropological and artistic methods of cataloguing and record-keeping.

Today, working across painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, and digital media, Valdez examines the relationship between material and cultural identity. Valdez incorporates articles found in domestic spaces such as plants, textiles, vessels and keepsakes into her work as a method of storytelling. Her colorful work invites the viewer to consider objects as emblematic of personal and collective experience, shifting between still life and portraiture.

Anna Valdez received her MFA in painting from Boston University in 2013. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States. Valdez’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, New American Paintings, Booooooom.com, and Daily Serving. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Masur Museum of Art, the Danforth Museum, Boston University Art Galleries, Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, and Parts Gallery in Toronto Canada.

instagram.com/missannavaldez

https://annavaldez.com