OPEN CANVAS

Fatima & Amaal are friends from the Netherlands that saw a need for community & support amongst creatives in different places around the world. They started Studio Saucy together to help build that community through events, conversations, digital content, and supporting their creative friends.

for more visit: https://theopencanvas.com/

Studio Saucy: https://www.instagram.com/studiosaucy/?hl=en

Recorded & Edited by Taj Alexander

Music by La Soülchyld - More Life w/ JMS

Reconstruct consists of 5 female fashion designers from The Netherlands.

While they were in NYC for New York Fashion Week, they joined us to share about their beginnings. They are living & encouraging a lifestyle that goes beyond the current fashion system of robotic followers. They are aiming to show a lifestyle that creates union in uniqueness."

For more: https://theopencanvas.com/

Reconstruct: https://www.reconstruct.nl/

Music by Weiler - Sand Castles

dashMOON is a Music Producer, DJ, & Creator born in Philadelphia & raised in South Korea. His music has been a reflection of his life journey of connecting the dots of cultures/music from around the world. He's discovering the truth in all sound and sharing it with us.

more at: https://theopencanvas.com/

https://soundcloud.com/dashmoon

Recorded & Edited by Taj Alexander

Photo by Taj Alexander

Music by Kenny Keys - 2 Times

In celebration of the 100th episode, creator of the Open Canvas, Taj Alexander shares his story with good friend DyAnna Moreno

Recorded & Edited by Taj Mitchel Alexander

Music by Fat Beats - That One Time

Tee Marie: https://soundcloud.com/ohteemarie

For More: https://theopencanvas.com/

Recorded & Edited by Taj Alexander

Music by Kenny Keys - Everything Must Change

Kailyn Lynch is an applied researcher & social entrepreneur from LA, living in NYC, and is studying at NYU for her Master's Degree in Psychology. She is the founder of The Vault Library: An archival system, publication and physical space for intuitive memories within our world of art & culture.

For more: https://theopencanvas.com/

Recorded & Edited by Taj Alexander

Music by Afterimages - Tell You

"Senegalese Visual Expressionist, Lili Lopez studied applied arts, photography and business before working as a marketing director in media and entertainment in Paris. Gradually her multimedia art practice became her full time occupation and she now works across documentary-films, watercolour, pen on paper and chalkboard. Lopez's choice to embrace her natural creative ability is still very recent but she has built quite the reputation for her geometrical, minimal and African-inspired aesthetic." - from lililopez.co

for more: https://theopencanvas.com/

Recorded & Edited by Taj Alexander

Music by SwuM - "Don't know why"

New York City Fashion Designer Nia Thomas

excerpt from niathomasny.com : "Her collections bring into fruition wearable art that is made with recycled or reclaimed materials that have been extracted and reconditioned for a new use. As close to 70% of her clothes are made out of “deadstock” fabrics, since textiles make up almost 6% of the trash entering U.S. landfills every year. She buy’s verified old, leftover, and over-ordered fabric from other designers and fabric warehouses. This allows her to reuse and divert these materials from landfills and into your closet. With the use of biodegradable garment labels she tries her very best to minimize the flow of waste. Any fabric she feels the need to dye is dyed with 100% organic plant-based dyes and rain water.

She presented her latest collection, MAROC, in NYFW. While traveling in Morocco she sourced fabrics made by Berber artisans using age-old techniques that are rooted in regionally specific traditions. Created by hand and demonstrating the unique skill of the artisan, she supports one-of-a-kind pieces in a world of homogenized mass production."

for more visit:

https://theopencanvas.com/

https://niathomasny.com

Recorded & Edited by Taj Alexander

Music By Joe Crofield - Wildflower

Nahel Tzegai, London Actor, is currently performing in "THE JUNGLE" showing at St. Ann's Warehouse in DUMBO, Brooklyn

More: https://theopencanvas.com/

The Jungle Play: https://stannswarehouse.org/show/the-jungle/

Recorded & Edited by Taj Alexander

Music by Cap Kendrick - More Moments

Ilana Millner is a Brooklyn-based photographer & podcast producer

For more: https://theopencanvas.com/

Music by Joe Corfield - Grey Kimono