Mr. KittyKai (he/him) is a transmasculine Hyattsville based visual and performing artist, educator, and alternative model. He has worked with organizations across the country including Party Liberation Foundation, Sunset and Chill, Metta Creative, Camp Contact, Tethered Together, the National LGBTQ Task Force, and Dark Odyssey. Spicy Meow Werks was established in 2018 as a way to combine all of his creative endeavors.
Baltimore-based multimedia artist and sound designer.
About
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
— Robert Frank
“I see Black people as art.”
I am a mixed media artist, educator, and photographer based out of Washington, D.C. I combine striking black and white photography with acrylic paint or fabric and upcycled frames as canvases. My artwork not only features my students, but celebrates and honors them as living pieces of art. My art is about them; the photography is them. The subject matter is always them. I like to connect them, placing them in Black history. There’s something beautiful about connecting the past and the present and teaching them visually in that way.
Shaawan Francis Keahna (b. 1997) is an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Minnesota Ojibwe and a Meskwaki descendant. His visual art has been to the Miikanan Gallery at the Watermark Art Center, All My Relations, Giizhigen Artists Incubator, the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The short film “a place on the edge of breath,” which he co-produced and was featured in, won best documentary at Bushwick Film Festival. His words are in Same Faces Collective, Tension Literary, Hoxie Gorge Review, Unstaged, and too many others to list here.
I am an artist and creative technologist based in Silver Spring, Maryland, with a passion for experimentation and community.
I love to work with interactive forms, from performing music shows, creating installations, binding books, to developping games.
I am also very excited about discarded objects and ephemera.