Owner and Director, Signs and Symbols, New York, NY

Salvador Jimenez-Flores is an interdisciplinary artist. Born and raised in Jalisco, México, he is also an Assistant Professor in Ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL.

Kalup Linzy is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and one of our esteemed CVA Mentors currently based in Tulsa, OK.

The Leon and Gloria Plevin Family Museum Director Lecture with Brooke Davis Anderson, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA.

Shervone Neckles, an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and community worker, lives and works in New York.

Julia Bottoms, Artist, lives and works in Buffalo, NY.

Chris Friday is an interdisciplinary artist who currently lives and works in Miami, Florida. Chris is an alumni of or 2019 program. Using the internet as a source for archival material, Chris Friday investigates themes of Identity, Race, Gender, Sexuality and the affects of popular culture and iconography on the perceptions of brown bodies. Identifying […]

Seph Rodney, Writer, Editor and Museum Scholar, lives and works in Bronx, NY.

Sheetal Prajapati, Artist, Educator, and Arts and Culture Advisor living and working in Brooklyn, NY.

Miguel Luciano is a multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, popular culture, social justice and migration, through sculpture, painting and socially engaged public art projects. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he lives and works in New York, NY.

Dr. Joe Stahlman is the Director of Seneca Nation’s Seneca-Iroquois National Museum-Onöhsagwë:de' Culture Center. Joe is a scholar and researcher of Tuscarora descent. He has over 20 years of research experience working with First Peoples. His research focuses on culture and history, as well as ongoing socio-economic and health & wellness related endeavors with Native […]

Derek Fordjour was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1974 to parents of Ghanaian heritage. Fordjour earned his BA at Morehouse College, MA in Art Education at Harvard University and an MFA in Painting at Hunter College. His work has been exhibited at notable institutions nationally and internationally. He received commissions for public projects including a […]

Alpesh Kantilal Patel is a contemporary art historian, critic, and curator based at Florida International University, Miami, where he directed the MFA program in Visual Arts from 2012-2017. His lecture will be loosely connected to the workshop, a description of which is below, that he leads during the summer. “Storytelling and Worldmaking.” Artworks can be part […]

Dr. Erika Wong is the founder of To Practise_Practice, a digital-discovery platform that gives early-career artists the toolkit they need to survive in the real world of the art industry. Additionally, she is a practicing artist, podcast cohost of Hyde or Practise and lecturer teaching the value of creative thinking to business students at the […]

Abby Chen is the Senior Associate Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Prior to taking on this position, she served for over a decade as the Curator and Artistic Director at the Chinese Culture Center and Foundation of San Francisco. Abby Chen was the Asian Cultural Council […]

Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, the Executive Director of the Queens Council on the Arts, believes in the power of the arts to mobilize and transform community. She was a member of the Transition Team for Mayor DiBlasio, serves on Tony Bennett’s Exploring the Arts Foundation and sits on many grant panels across the country. Hoong […]

An activist and environmentalist, John Sabraw’s paintings, drawings and collaborative installations are produced in an eco-conscious manner, and he continually works toward a fully sustainable practice. He collaborates with scientists on many projects, and one of his current collaborations involves creating paint and paintings from iron oxide extracted in the process of remediating polluted streams. […]

Asia Freeman co-founded the non-profit multidisciplinary art space, Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer, Alaska where she serves as Artistic Director today. Asia writes, curates, teaches and speaks about art. Asia’s paintings are represented in Alaskan museums and private collections worldwide. She serves on the Boards of National Performance Network and Alaska Arts and Culture […]

Squeak Carnwath draws upon the philosophical and mundane experiences of daily life in her paintings and prints, which can be identified by lush fields of color combined with text, patterns, and identifiable images. She has received numerous awards including the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award from San Francisco Museum of Modern […]