Graphic Designer & Illustrator. Cheerful, hand drawn repeat patterns, artwork and illustrations for print, textiles and digital!
Katie O'Keefe was raised in a quiet village in the Hudson Valley, New York. From the age of 14 Katie has been dealing with Chronic Lyme and her experience with this illness has had a great impact on her creative work. Throughout her teenage years, she studied drawing and painting at The Art Effect (previously known as the Mill Street Loft) in Poughkeepsie NY. When Lyme temporarily limited her dexterity she shifted her practice to adapt; discovering the joys and sensuality of working with thread.
FAITH (Eleisha Faith McCorkle) is a fine artist and cultural producer whose work unifies the notions of resilience and reconstruction. FAITH uses storytelling and the process of collage to communicate the layered multidimensionality of the Black experience through creating large-scale scrolls, cooking and sharing soul food, and curating immersive experiences. FAITH’s work serves as purposeful interventions as Blackness is investigated and venerated through space, food, power, spirit, and magic.
Monica is an artist from rural Eastern Shore living in Ellicott City, Maryland. She is a mixed media artist who currently enjoys foil printmaking and collage.
Inspired and informed by Virginia A. Myers, Monica has developed her own method of printing with roll foils.
As a millennial creative female-type person and first-generation Nigerian-American, Chidinma is making a mark in the fine art and graphic design space. Born into a Nigerian artistic family in Washington D.C., the narratives in her works are influenced by her culture and environment. Inspired by African themes, she fuses colors, textures, shapes, and traditional techniques to create images that are iconic and diverse. She is a mixed media artist whose fine art pieces have been showcased in exhibitions in the U.S and Canada.
Educator. Artist. Black Women. Na'taja (Nah-tay-juh) uses art as a way to reimagine the world around her, centering the beauty of black folks in portraiture.