Tarik Talk

Deonté Griffin-Quick embodies the powerful intersection of faith, arts, and cultural leadership that defines DGQ Culture. As an actor, revivalist, and nationally recognized arts administrator, he brings a unique vision for how faith-rooted strategy can transform communities and organizations. Through DGQ Culture, Deonté unites his calling and artistic expertise to help faith-rooted creatives and o...

Jay Golding is an Indigenous artist based in Essex County, NJ. Jay’s work focuses primarily on realistic portraits/figures, and abstracted forms/shapes in various mediums such as watercolor, gouache, acrylic, oil, pen and pencil. Golding’s pieces tell vivid imaginings that are inspired from his thoughts, environment, world culture, African heritage and nature. The artist’s main objective through h...

About LEONARD GABRIEL: Leonard Gabriel's art is immersed in the essence of human emotion through body language. This exploration has been shaped by his training at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Kolbermoor and his residency at Mana Contemporary in New York City. His figurative approach transcends the merely representative and instead seeks to communicate emotions beyond realistic details. In...

About Louise Deininger: As an African conceptual artist, author and leadership coach, my art practice explores decolonial reclamation and ancestral memory. My art is gaining recognition for its bold materiality and critical voice. As it travels through exhibitions and conversations globally, it shapes space for African narratives, challenging colonial legacies while nurturing dialogue around ident...

In this episode, I sit down with Tanya Weddemire, founder of the Tanya Weddemire Gallery in Brooklyn. A premier destination for contemporary art that celebrates both emerging and established artists. We talk about how her gallery serves as a vital space for creative expression and cultural connection, using thoughtful curation to weave history, identity, and artistry together across diverse medium...

In this episode, I sit down with Brooklyn-based visual artist Jaiquan Fayson during his Silver Art Projects Residency at the World Trade Center in NYC. Jaiquan Fayson whose powerful oil paintings and sketches reflect empathy, resilience, and transformation. Jaiquan discovered art as a form of self-therapy and reflection while incarcerated, later breaking the cycle of recidivism to earn the Silas H...

In this episode, I sit down with Brooklyn-based visual artist Jaiquan Fayson during his Silver Art Projects Residency at the World Trade Center in NYC. Jaiquan Fayson whose powerful oil paintings and sketches reflect empathy, resilience, and transformation. Jaiquan discovered art as a form of self-therapy and reflection while incarcerated, later breaking the cycle of recidivism to earn the Silas H...

In this episode, I sit down with Brooklyn-based visual artist Jaiquan Fayson during his Silver Art Projects Residency at the World Trade Center in NYC. Jaiquan Fayson whose powerful oil paintings and sketches reflect empathy, resilience, and transformation. Jaiquan discovered art as a form of self-therapy and reflection while incarcerated, later breaking the cycle of recidivism to earn the Silas H...

In this episode, I sit down with Brooklyn-based visual artist Jaiquan Fayson during his Silver Art Projects Residency at the World Trade Center in NYC. Jaiquan Fayson whose powerful oil paintings and sketches reflect empathy, resilience, and transformation. Jaiquan discovered art as a form of self-therapy and reflection while incarcerated, later breaking the cycle of recidivism to earn the Silas H...

In this episode, I sit down with Atim Annette Oton, a Nigerian-born, American and British educated curator, designer, editor, and entrepreneur who founded The Creative Side, an innovative art consultancy and creative design business based in Jersey City. With an impressive career spanning architecture, curation, publishing, and community building, Atim has led initiatives such as the African Art C...

About Christl Stringer: Christl Stringer is a Black surrealist figurative painter, writer, and filmmaker whose work has been shown at Shockboxx Projects, Latela Curatorial, Hot Bed Gallery, Maake Projects Gallery, Piano Craft Gallery, and Philly Art Collective. She explores the interiority of Black womanhood and childhood experiences. Her films and scripts have been accepted into NFFTY, Thuh Film...

Laurie Berg (b. 1980, works and lives in New York City) is a dancer, performer, collagist, and jewelry maker. Her projects have appeared at The Kitchen, WeisAcres, BAX, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Dixon Place, Beach Sessions Dance Series, Astor Alive! Festival, The Invisible Dog Art Center as part of The Joyce Theater’s Unleashed Series, The Whitney Museum, The Mattatuck Museum of Art (...

Bianca Abdi-Boragi works across media using sculpture, video, installation, and painting to enact representations of self and others, often using found materials and landscapes as receptacles to address different states of being, with a specific focus on alienation and territory. Tending towards the absurd though with care and respect, her works respond to the contemporary political and social env...

About James Rose: I have made work to identify people in power responsible for social injustice. Their social, environmental and financial crimes are excused by our system of free market capitalism. Since the 1980s, free market has been purposely and wrongfully conflated with freedom. I made a body of work which includes politicians, fossil fuel executives and Wall Street bankers. I started to thi...

Megan Olson has been making art since childhood. She is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world, most notably in New York, Berlin, and Seoul.

Avani R Patel -Born in Mumbai 1976, India, Avani Patel was immigrated to Pennsylvania with her family at 11 years old. She holds a BA from the Penn State University and an MFA from Tyler School of Arts (Temple University). Her cultural background has had a profound impact on the forging of her identity as an artist. As a young girl living in India, she fell in love with the patterns of dresses, ex...

Ooh Baby By Anika started in 2018, with two racks of hand painted clothes and a weekend street market. After following my intuition and dropping out of college to pursue this dream of creating art, I taught myself how to sew through friends' help and youtube “university” haha. ;) My goal with Ooh Baby was to create pieces that start conversations, encourage others to express themselves, and bring...

Diane was an avid competitor in the sport of eventing, an olympic equestrian sport. She represented the United States in the North American Young Rider Championships in 2013 and 2015 bringing home team gold and individual gold. In early 2016, she had her sights set on qualifying for the Rio Olympics. Unfortunately, not far into the season a horse fell on top of her, completely severing her hip fle...

Zeljka Paic was born in 1987 in Prijedor, former Yugoslavia. She is a graduate of both the Academy of Fine Arts (2015) and Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering (2011). Zeljka Paic has garnered multiple accolades including the award from the Association of Innovators of the Republic of Srpska for her contribution to the innovative approach to art, in 2024. As an artist and architect, Zeljk...

Lauren Bencivengo is an Encinitas, CA - based painter and interior designer. After receiving a BFA in Interior Design from Miami University of Ohio, Lauren started her career as a Commercial Interior Designer in San Diego, CA. In 2018 Lauren established her art studio, Carmela Designs, to further express her passion and deepen her skills as an artist. She primarily works with Acrylic and Gouache,...

Yin Ming Artist Statement: I paint to explore the struggle for language fluency and conversation in the perpetual experience of code switching. My work focuses on nostalgia, displacement, and the shortcomings of words.

Chashama Open Art Studios Brooklyn, NYC In a partnership with the NYC Economic Development Corporation, Chashama provides 93 visual artist studios in two buildings, BAT-A & BAT-B, within the stunning, historic Brooklyn Army Terminal.

Chashama Open Art Studios Brooklyn, NYC In a partnership with the NYC Economic Development Corporation, Chashama provides 93 visual artist studios in two buildings, BAT-A & BAT-B, within the stunning, historic Brooklyn Army Terminal.

Chashama Open Art Studios Brooklyn, NYC In a partnership with the NYC Economic Development Corporation, Chashama provides 93 visual artist studios in two buildings, BAT-A & BAT-B, within the stunning, historic Brooklyn Army Terminal.

The Other Art Fair—the definitive place to meet, discover, and collect work from cutting-edge local and independent artists before anyone else. Held in some of the world’s most vibrant cultural hubs, each edition of the Fair presents more than 120 artists carefully chosen by a selection committee of art experts, and aims to create an accessible, inclusive, and interactive experience.