artists

Arielbriana (they/them/theirs) is a digital creator, artist, and creative writer from Birmingham, Alabama with a passion for authentic storytelling, and ethically self-archiving Black cultural data. Their primary work is an expanding archive via Instagram titled Timekeepers Data where they compile Black cultural relics pertaining to entertainment media. They have contributed to numerous events that seek to uplift artists in the South. Their most recent personal project, Secrets That Tell Themselves, is a documentary-style short film that depicts Black human observations of interpersonal love. The film is accompanied by a collection of written expressions that encompasses poetry, prose, and supernatural fantasy.

Dionna Bright

I explore black identity and existence through my lens, using a DSLR Nikon camera. A Southern Black Woman. I capture the range of our emotions and preserve my perception of the fullness of the black experience. I design scenes with intention and document black temporality throughout time and space. Photography is the medium by which I express the complexities of emotions, history, existence and potential. My work, both; in my self-portraiture and with muses, stands to empower and represent black culture individually, collectively, and generationally. Personal themes of Identity, Trauma, Reality, Spirituality and Oppression are sources that I pull from to highlight and emphasize how I feel. My work values connection with my muse and camera; through composition, manipulation of light, and the use of vibrant tones and colors, I seek to captivate the viewer to understand how unique, surreal, full and light-filled the black experience is.

Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Kalin Renée is a multidisciplinary artist who focuses on the ideas of societal influence and social culture and is known for her use of realism to reflect popular music and movies from her culture and the era in which she was raised: the early 90s to the late 2000s. She studied at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she received a BFA with a concentration in painting in 2015. In her work, she uses a technique of layering and short brush strokes to add a sense of movement and life to her work. Though Kalin mainly focuses on portraiture, she also creates abstract pieces that combine the themes of fluidity and flux of space. Kalin curated her first solo exhibition in 2019: (Perpetual). This body of work has featured movie stars and music artists that reflected memories from her childhood, creating feelings of nostalgia. Her most notable exhibitions include Local Street, (2021 and 2022) and The Brooklyn Collective, ‘The Renaissance of Brooklyn’ (2023).

Elle Ivy Green is an abstract and landscape artist based in the High Country of North Carolina. Studying at Appalachian State University, she created an art practice focused on rest as resistance and Watauga County lands. Green creates work that not only encourages herself, but others to rest, daydream, pause, feel and digest. In the midst of urgency culture, she invites you to be self-indulgent. Green currently works in arts administration as the Director of Visitor Services at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. With help from her team of gallery ambassadors, she enjoys creating memories and engagement for the gallery’s visitors.

Nancey B. Price is a self-taught analog collage artist, writer and performance storyteller who appreciates all things Black, Southern, and imaginative. Hailing from Girard, GA and currently based in Statesboro, GA, she received her BA in Women’s & Gender Studies in 2015 and her MPA in Nonprofit Administration in 2019. In developing her work, Nancey explores how it feels to experience life in a Black body and what it looks like to exalt and celebrate that Blackness from the fields of rural America to the stars in the night sky, and everywhere in between. Her collage, CONVERGENCE, is a meditation on the past and present colliding to envision a future of vibrant life with Black women at the helm.

Afiya Sunflower is a writer, artist, astrologer, change agent and spiritual care consultant. Through her writing, empowerment artwork, one-on-one readings and self-care workshops, Afiya combines astrology, spirituality, and indigenous knowledge and practices to facilitate healing and energy transformation for BIPOC and queer/trans individuals and communities.

Saronda V. is a visual artist from Lawndale, NC who explores different styles within her art practice with culture and feminine power as constant themes.

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