TICKETING
SPECIAL PROGRAMMING
10:30 AM - NOON
Tickets - $10
*Seating is limited - RSVP REQUIRED
SHOW, SALE, SIGNGING
11 AM - 5 PM
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*Sugested donation of $5 or more, payable at the door
Proceeds will help support The Church and the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreation Center
The 6th Annual Celebrating Creatives of Color returns and for the third time will be hosted at The Church! The event showcases creative artists and authors of color from Sag Harbor and beyond, providing an opportunity for them to display their work and interact with art and literature enthusiasts and collectors. All artwork and books will be for sale.
Proceeds from the donated entry fees will help support The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreation Center and The Church. Likewise, artists will donate 10% of their total sales to support the community organizations.
This year, we are excited to announce the CCC is part of a weekend long celebration of Black Culture with the Apollo, CAAPA, and the National Black theater. We are also excited to offer special programming as part of this annual celebration!
10:30 AM – 12 PM: RSVP today and join us for special programming featuring Harriette Cole, author & lifestylist, Muriel Monik Johnson, storyteller & artist, ReShonda Tate, author of The Queen of Sugar Hill & With Love From Harlem. All books will be available for purchase and to be signed after remarks. Following the authors, Nanette Carter will be presented with the Living Legend Award. Then join us as we welcome esteemed academic and author Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. The author of We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For and Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lesson for Our Own, sits down with ABC News Anchor and correspondent Linsey Davis, to share insight and inspiration. Space is limited – RSVP in advance today!
Purchase a grab-and-go treat from Deanna Smith, the party perfectionist, and linger to enjoy all the fair has to offer!
Visual Artists to include Patrick Earl-Barnes, Elyse Beavers, Jamel Carroll, Andrew Caynon, Karim Chambers, Earlene Cox, Jeremy Dennis, Shimoda Donna Emmanuel, Faith Evans, Laura Gadson, Beverly “Bebe” Granger, Garry Grant, Judith Henriques-Adams, Rod Ivey, Jennifer Ivey, Muriel Monik Johnson, Donna Ladson, Collette McGuire, Shawn Rhea, Andrew Worrell, and Sheniqua Young (Shea Design)! List in formation.
A warm wave of gratitude to the event organizers and Village of Sag Harbor residents from the Sag Harbor Hills and Ninevah Communities: Beverly Granger, Victoria Pinderhughes, Paula Taylor, and Olivia White. Their efforts have helped revive and refresh the Historically Black Beach Communities’ history of supporting local charities through the arts.
ABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUESTS, ARTISTS, and AUTHORS
DR. EDDIE S. GLAUDE JR
Author & Academic
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DR. EDDIE S. GLAUDE JR. is one of the nation’s most respected scholars of African American history, religion, and politics, and a leading public voice on race, democracy, and the American story. He serves as the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where he helped shape and later chaired the department for more than a decade.
A native of Moss Point, Mississippi, Dr. Glaude is a graduate of Morehouse College and holds advanced degrees from Temple University and Princeton University. He is the author of several influential books, including the New York Times bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own and Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul. His newest book, America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries, offers a powerful and unflinching look at how our national celebrations have so often obscured the realities of race and inequality, even as they invite us to imagine a more honest and just future.
Beyond the academy, Dr. Glaude is widely known as an MSNBC contributor and TIME magazine columnist, bringing sharp analysis and deep moral clarity to conversations on programs like Morning Joe, Deadline: White House, and Meet the Press. His work calls all of us to reckon with America as it is and to help build the America it could be, by insisting that every community and every creator have a place in the nation’s unfolding story.
LINSEY DAVIS
ABC NEWS Anchor and Correspondent
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LINSEY DAVIS is currently the anchor of ABC News Live “Prime with Linsey Davis,” ABC News’ Emmy® Award-winning streaming evening newscast, and “World News Tonight” Sunday. She is a correspondent filing reports for “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Good Morning America,” “20/20” and “Nightline.”
Davis has conducted powerful, exclusive news making interviews with world leaders, influential figures, health officials, and politicians. Notable interviews include the only interview with comedian Bill Cosby in the wake of dozens of sexual assault allegations; Jonathan Majors, after he was convicted of one misdemeanor assault charge and one harassment violation; Boris Johnson, shortly after he left his position as prime minister; the victims who suffered abuse at the hands of Larry Ray at Sarah Lawrence University; Shelley Lynn Thornton, also known as Baby Roe, daughter of Jane Roe; Kevin Strickland, a wrongfully convicted Missouri man who was released from prison after 42 years; Myon Burrell, a Minneapolis inmate who said he was wrongfully convicted for murder; and Nick Cannon, discussing his journey towards atonement, education, and self-improvement after making antisemitic comments and espousing conspiracy theories.
Davis’s additional interviewees include former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Mike Pence, former first lady Karen Pence, Gov. Ron Desantis, Nikki Haley, Speaker Mike Johnson, Beto O’Rouke, Gov. Wes Moore, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Herschel Walker, Sen. Raphael Warnock, Kanye West, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Anita Hill, Bill Gates, Halle Berry, Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez, Dionne Warwick, Huma Abedin, Dave Grohl, Billy Porter, nearly two dozen senators from both sides of the aisle and dozens of House representatives, and leading up to the 2024 Iowa caucuses, she interviewed the spouses of seven presidential candidates as part of a series called “Running Mates.”
Davis has received several honors for her reporting, including two Emmy Awards, a duPont-Columbia Award and a regional Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2023, “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis” won the Gracie Award for Best National News Program and a Front-Page Award for the feature “Water Warriors.” In 2022, she also won a 2022 On Air Talent – News Magazine Gracie Award.
Davis is the author of six books, including The New York Times bestsellers “Girls of the World” (March 2024) and “The Smallest Spot of a Dot” (January 2023), and the titles “How High Is Heaven” (February 2022), “Stay This Way Forever” (February 2021), “The World Is Awake” (February 2019) and “One Big Heart” (August 2019).
Davis earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Virginia and a Master of Arts degree in communications from New York University.
PATRICK-EARL BARNES
Artist
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PATRICK-EARL BARNES spent the first 25 years of his life preparing for the American dream, and the next 29 years redefining it. In 1989, his heart and spirit were touched with an inspiration to create art. It provided a channel, as well as an obligation, for him to vividly communicate to the world and open new ways for a better understanding.
Growing up in the southern United States and living in Washington, DC and New York City provided Barnes with a dichotomy of cultural, historical and social perspectives. He began to assimilate and digest an incredible amount of information, words and pictures, and synthesize them in his own way.
Barnes used his imagination, original ideas and new ways of expressing things by means of pictorial, form, color and design to give an outlet to my inner feelings. As a deep folk artist, Barnes has the purpose to share with others what he has experienced in hopes of fostering change –of thought, of opinion, of belief, of views. Barnes truly believes, “ART IS HOW YOU THINK”.
He works mostly with collage, decoupage and found objects. His work combines various “isms” and disciplines, weaving history, social cultural studies and literature into a blend of instinctive spontaneous creations of art.
Being a deep folk artist, Barnes pays homage to all of the spirits, all of the people who have passed through him and made him the person he is and will be. Barnes respects where he comes from, where he has been and is purposefully driven by where he is to go.
ELYSE BEAVERS
Artist
JAMEL CARROLL
Artist
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JAMEL CARROLL is a New York City-based visual artist whose oil and acrylic paintings explore memory, dignity, and power through contemporary portraiture and narrative figuration. A graduate of Pace University with a degree in Art, Carroll has exhibited in New York City, the Hamptons, London, Paris, Philadelphia, and Miami, with presentations at Oreofe Art Gallery, VanderPlas Gallery, Heath Gallery, and other spaces. Most recently, Carroll presented his solo exhibition, Legacy and Lineage, in Bridgehampton at the Bridgehampton Center. Known for rich color, emotional presence, skill, and storytelling, Carroll positions his work for private collections, refined interiors, and collectors drawn to art with cultural and spiritual depth.
NANETTE CARTER
Artist & This Year’s CCC Living Legends Award Recipient
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NANETTE CARTER is an abstract painter and collage artist whose work engages with the socio-political realities unfolding worldwide. In response to global change, she relies on the semiotics of form, color, line, and texture to convey her themes. Having lived through the 1960s, Carter has witnessed wars, as well as profound social and economic shifts, and sees her practice as a form of documentation—capturing the spirit and complexity of life in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
Over the past five years, the titles of her series reflect the immeasurable changes and pervasive anxiety shaping our world. Cantilevered, a series of 63 oil-on-Mylar works, speaks to the struggle of maintaining balance in an ever-shifting environment. Drawing from the architectural term that gives the series its title, Carter uses cantilevering as a metaphor for living amid information overload, uncertainty, and pressure. The teetering forms evoke the pressure of navigating social media, the pandemic, and the climate crisis, suggesting both the fragility of our stability and the necessity of letting go in order to regain balance. Another series, Shifting Perspectives, addresses a pressing question for the United States, Germany, and other democratic nations in 2026: “Can we hold on to democracy?" Through this work, Carter expresses a hope that we might move through the present chaos toward a more peaceful future.
Recent exhibitions include Afro Sentinels, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (2025); Nanette Carter: A Question of Balance and the Laurie Art Stairway Wall Installation, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ (2025); and Time Space Existence, Venice Architecture Biennial, presented by Almost Studio Firm (2025). Previous solo exhibitions include Nanette Carter: Simply Semiotics, Berry Campbell, New Y ork, NY (2024); Gallery Ami Kanoko, Osaka, Japan (2019); Gallery Hatoba, Kyoto, Japan (2019); Esperanza en Armonía, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba (2018); and Nanette Carter, Alessandro Berni Gallery, Perugia, Italy (2017).
Carter has received numerous awards and grants, including the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2021), a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1994), a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship (1990), and a National Endowment for the Arts grant (1981). She has also served in key leadership and advisory roles, including as a member of the Artistic Committee at Cinque Gallery, New York, NY (1988–1994), and as a member of the Board of Directors of The Harlem School of the Arts, New York, NY (2002–2006). Carter holds an MFA from Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY (1978), a BA from Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH (1976). Her teaching career includes serving as a tenured Adjunct Associate Professor (2001-2021) and Coordinator for Undergraduate Drawing (2012-2015) at Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY, and as the McMillan-Stewart Endowed Chair in Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (2023-2024).
ANDREW CAYNON
Artist
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ANDREW CAYNON is a Long Island based artist who specializes in drawing and painting. He strives to capture a variety of subjects, including people, plants, animals, scenery and many more using acrylic paint and micron pens. With a keen eye for details and vibrant colors, Andrew showcases a breadth of eye catching pieces.
KARIM CHAMBERS
Artist
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KARIM CHAMBERS is a Bronx bred African American Artist. He has a BFA in illustration and a Masters in Digital Arts from The Maryland Institute College of Art. He Specializes in realistic portraits, animals, and landscapes. Through personal research of history, he has grown passionate about the power in People of Color. All of the ups and downs and challenges that they have gone through intrigues his works. With all the odds stacked against them, they still manage to maintain, preserve, and overcome by any means. This is the essence of what he attempts to capture in his works. His mission is to create works that examine the Black experience throughout the African Diaspora and Raise the level of appreciation for Black Culture by educating and stimulating cultural awareness. Through his visuals, he depicts images of pain, perseverance, pride, power, self-esteem, and unity. Karim’s work has been exhibited widely up and down the East Coast in various galleries and traveling shows.
HARRIETTE COLE
Author
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HARRIETTE COLE, founder of Harriette Cole Media, Inc., works on two sides of storytelling teaching people how to tell their stories and telling stories of triumph about others. A celebrated coach and best-selling author of 7 books about how to live a great life, Cole has empowered entertainers, entrepreneurs, professionals and students for more than 30 years. She founded Dreamleapers in 2016 to help people achieve their dreams and hosts the radio show and podcast, Dreamleapers with Harriette Cole as well as Dreamleapers Inspiration. The first female editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine and former fashion Editor or Essence, Harriette is also the first nationally syndicated advice columnist with Sense & Sensitivity which is published daily. For four years she produced the online podcast Real Conversations with AARP, helping to support people during the pandemic. Cole is an adjunct professor at F.I.T. And she serves on the board of the international charity PRASAD. A proud Howard alumna, Cole is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a wife and a mother of a recent college graduate.
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriette-cole-54b7525/
Instagram - @HarrietteCole @Dreamleapers
TikTok - @HarrietteColeMedia
EARLENE HARDIE COX
Artist
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EARLENE HARDIE COX is a lawyer and a former executive with IBM having joined the company in 1978. From 1996 until she retired in 2001, she headed the firm’s international tax group and led a team of lawyers and accountants who managed the company’s tax-related issues/transactions in over 40 countries.
Earlene is a self-taught artist who began her journey into sculpting to combat Alzheimer’s. She has a family history with Alzheimer’s and since 2008, she has advocated using clay art as therapy to combat Alzheimer’s. Through her affiliation with the Westchester (NY) County Chapter of the Links, Inc., and the Clay Art Center in Portchester NY, she created a clay art program for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients at the Wartburg Nursing Home in Mount Vernon. NY.
She is a juried artist at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester (CAC), NY where she has served as a board director and as treasurer. She has served on the Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, and was a founding donor and member of the Smithsonian African American Museum.
Earlene primarily sculpts the human figure. She says the faces on her figures are “the faces of everyone I have ever known although I don’t always remember their name”. Over the past five years she has had the following exhibitions:
Featured Artist: Harlem Fine Arts Show, February 2023, 2025 & 2026 @ Glasshouse, NYC
“Come Together” exhibition, April 2025, Clay Art Center
Featured artist in Perspectives: An Invitational Exhibition Celebrating Black History Month by Clay Art Center, February 2025
For the Love of Art, in June 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Art Breaking Boundaries: A Multicultural Exhibition, January 7 - February 3, 2021, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
Earlene spends her time between her home in Southport, NC where she has her own studio and in NY, where her daughter, son in law, and two grandchildren reside.
JEREMY DENNIS
Artist
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JEREMY DENNIS is a contemporary fine art photographer, an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY, and the founder and lead artist of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc., a nonprofit art space and residency program on the Shinnecock Reservation dedicated to uplifting Indigenous and BIPOC artists.
His work centers Indigenous identity, culture, and the legacies of colonial assimilation, using photography to stage cinematic, otherworldly narratives rooted in Native oral stories, history, and contemporary experience.
Dennis is a Stony Brook University alumnus (BA ’13) and Forty Under 40 honoree (2017), and earned his MFA from Pennsylvania State University (2016). His photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo and group exhibitions at The Armory Show, Expo Chicago, ZONAMACO FOTO in Mexico City, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Notable exhibitions include Speaking With Light at the Denver Art Museum, and In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Among his numerous honors are a 2025 NYSCA Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Residency Fellowship, Andy Warhol Visual Arts Residency (2023), Getty Creative Bursary Award, and Running Strong for American Indian Youth Dreamstarter Grants (2016, 2020). Most recently, he was awarded the Artist to Artist Fellowship from the Art Matters Foundation.
Dennis’ creative work often draws on personal and communal histories, tackling themes of identity, resilience, and visibility within Native communities. His major projects include:
On This Site — Native Long Island (2016–ongoing): A photography series and interactive online map that documents culturally significant Native American sites across Long Island. The project also produced a companion book and exhibition, preserving and sharing important Indigenous histories connected to the land.
Rise (2018–ongoing) and Nothing Happened Here: These series use staged photography to confront ideas of belonging, erasure, and colonial violence from an Indigenous perspective. Through haunting, cinematic scenes, Dennis reclaims historical narratives and explores the ongoing impact of colonization.
Stories — Indigenous Oral Stories, Dreams, and Myths (2013–ongoing): Inspired by Native oral traditions, Dennis transforms ancient legends and dreams into contemporary photographs. These works imagine supernatural, otherworldly moments, merging storytelling with visual art to honor and reinterpret Indigenous cosmologies.
His curatorial projects include Shinnecock Speaks at Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc., and Eternal Testament at The Church of Sag Harbor.
Dennis has participated in prestigious residencies such as the Andy Warhol Visual Arts Program (2023), Santa Fe Art Institute (2021), Yaddo (2019), Watermill Center (2017), and the Vermont Studio Center/Harpo Foundation Residency (2016).
He currently serves on the advisory boards of The Boys & Girls Club of the Shinnecock Nation, The Bridgehampton Museum, The Church of Sag Harbor, WNET Group’s THIRTEEN/WLIW Community Advisory Board, and Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc.
Jeremy Dennis lives and works in Southampton, NY, on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation.
SHIMODA DONNA EMANUEL
Artist
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SHIMODA DONNA EMANUEL is a Harlem-based mixed-media artist whose beaded jewelry has graced the cover of Essence Magazine—worn by Naomi Campbell, Queen Latifah, and Halle Berry—and has also appeared on The Cosby Show. Her work is held in the private collection of Lisa Price, founder of Carol’s Daughter.
Her work has received national recognition from institutions including the American Museum of Natural History, American Craft Museum, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Her innovative techniques also led to a guest appearance on HGTV’s Crafting Coast to Coast.
Shimoda works across multiple mediums, including bookmaking, beading, textile art, and doll-making. Her caregiving journey with her mother, who battled Alzheimer’s, gave birth to the Sacred Stitches series—books, journals, and card decks honoring the art of caregiving and memory-keeping. The series includes her poignant guide, Sacred Stitches: The Art of Caregiving: Stitching Yourself Together When Caring for Someone with Alzheimer’s.
FAITH EVANS
Artist
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FAITH EVANS was born and raised in East Hampton. She had a passion for art since she was a little girl. Her dream of going to art school was not an option when she graduated from high school. So instead, after college in LA she jumped into a career in radio/tv advertising in Los Angeles. Decades later, she returned home to Long Island with her young family. Many years later in 2020, she had time to be with herself and listen to her heart’s calling to get back into art. She picked up a pencil and paper and then her new life in art began! The passion that was in her young heart returned with even more fire. She illustrated a children’s book. And, she continues to dive into her love for art doing commissioned work, illustrating, showing her art in galleries from Brooklyn to the East End. She currently has a piece at the Rayman Hall Museum, and a permanent piece in France at the Diderot Gallery. Earlier this year, she completed a competitive artist residency in France at the Chateau D’Orqueveux.
She sees it as a special gift to be able to do art side by side with her daughter who just graduated from CalArts.
LAURA R. GADSON
Artist
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LAURA R. GADSON is a second generation visual artist. She explores and blends mediums, techniques, and materials based on her love of textiles, paper, glass and other materials. She is a graduate of the renowned Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and holds a BFA from the City College of New York. Her work has been widely exhibited, reproduced as public art in her community, and is proudly part of various public and private collections, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. She is a native New Yorker living and creating in Harlem, NYC since 1993.
BEVERLY (BEBE) GRANGER
Artist
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BEVERLY (BEBE) GRANGER discovered her passion for working with clay at the Hinckley Pottery Studio in Washington D.C. in the late 1970’s. She currently has a home studio in Sag Harbor, N.Y. where she devotes her energy to exploring the world of clay. While her work has been primarily wheel thrown, she has recently ventured into the realm of hand-building, resulting in a broader body of work. She recently participated in a workshop at LaMeridiana Pottery School in Tuscany, Italy where she found inspiration from the beauty of the region. Her goal is to create pots that are both functionally and esthetically pleasing to the user.
GARRY GRANT
Artist
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GARRY GRANT is a New York City-based visual artist known for large-scale abstract works built on multi-canvas compositions and intricately layered wood panels. A Detroit native, Grant coined the term Ancestral Abstraction to describe a practice rooted in pre-colonial African civilization, sacred geometry, and historical memory. Working in gold leaf and mixed media across his three major series – Monolithic Series, Black Civilizations, and Black Atlantis – He constructs memory monuments that honor the civilizations that built human society.
Grant’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, and the international exhibition Echoes of Home in Ethiopia and Cairo, Egypt. In 2026 he is in residence at Brandywine Workshop & Archives in Philadelphia.
JUDITH HENRIQUES-ADAMS
Artist
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JUDITH HENRIQUES-ADAMS was born in New York City.
Her undergraduate work was done at both Howard University School of Fine Arts in Washington DC, and at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She received an additional graduate degree from the Bank Street School, Parsons School of Design in New York City, and Truro College.
Judith moved from New York City to Sag Harbor after spending twenty-six years as an art teacher in both the Netherlands and New Jersey teaching numerous disciplines to different grades while raising her son.
With time and space Henriques-Adams can now explore numerous different influences in her own paintings. Her work draws from her experience in teaching calligraphy, a love for the written word, and her interests in shape and graphic design. “My ideas almost always happen in twilight when I’m sleeping. It may be a certain design or shape – but then it has to resonate.” She also adheres to one of her teaching principles, namely perspective. “I need to put some distance between myself and my work, to turn away and then go back and look. I used to lug canvases around the house but now I can just take a picture on my phone and look at it at different times.
Modernism is at the core of Henriques-Adams’ artistic sensibility, exemplified by the works of artists such as Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. They boldly dissected the surfaces of their paintings into symbolic geometries, slicing and dicing human figures and landscapes alike. Henriques-Adams approaches her canvases with the practiced eye and the delicate touch of a gazelle. Her affection for pain creates a density of texture that evokes the feel of flesh intertwined with a. geometry reminiscent of buildings and landscape.
ROD & JENNIFER IVEY
Artists
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ROD & JENNIFER IVEY are a husband and wife couple who collaborate as artists and often paint on each other’s canvases! Married for 45 years, raising a family, and managing professional career, for a total of 50 years! Rod and Jennifer have exhibited together for a very Long Time.
Rod’s paintings are architectural and carefully structured. Often including buildings and figures in cityscapes. Jennifer’s paintings are organic incorporating mix media. Her figures flow.
Together their artistic visions work in perfect harmony.
MURIEL “MONIK” JOHNSON
Artist & Storyteller
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MURIEL “MONIK” JOHNSON is a multidisciplinary visual artist and storyteller originally from Oakland, California, now based in Massachusetts. Working in mixed media, she creates layered, emotionally driven works exploring memory, identity, history, and transformation. She is best known for her ancestor portraiture created with ethically sourced collaged butterfly wings, blending natural materials with contemporary visual storytelling. A professional storyteller for more than three decades, Johnson draws deeply from oral tradition and its power to connect people through shared human experience. Her work has been featured in the 2026 Harlem Fine Arts Exhibition in New York City and is currently on view at Art For The Soul Gallery. Johnson is a recipient of the 2025 Valley Creates Capacity Grant and the 2026 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Multidisciplinary Artists and has earned a residency at CitySpace Arts Center.
D’ARTIST DONNA LADSON
Artist
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D’ARTIST DONNA LADSON exploded on the International Art Scene as a former early childhood education specialist focused on creativity through design. Known in the art world simply as “D’Artist.” This Hollis Queens, New York native shows there is more to her hometown than Hip Hop Legends and New Breed Entrepreneurs.
Vivid colors and shapes express the innermost being of the D’Artist. Donna labels her style as “Imagination in Color.” Today D’Artist paints in series, consisting of five or more images. All related to a particular theme. The series can be based on cultures, events, and people. Donna’s art mirrors her personality. Always colorful, vibrant, and exciting.
Donna prefers to offer her patrons original pieces. The original art form gives the patron a sense of relationship with the artist. When copies and prints can be less personal. It’s a Bonafide investment.
Facebook: D’Artist Donna Ladson
Instagram: D’ArtistDonna
COLETTE MCGUIRE
Artist
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COLETTE MCGUIRE was born and raised in Cameroon, Central Africa, in the French-speaking region of the country. Growing up amid remarkable natural beauty and a rich diversity of ethnicities, languages, and cultures, she developed an early appreciation for artistic expression in its many forms.
She spent many years living abroad, including time in Madagascar and Rwanda, followed by 25 years in Rome, Italy. There, she pursued painting and created stone mosaics before ultimately turning her focus to ceramic art.
Today, Colette specializes in ceramics, working primarily with coiling and other hand-building techniques. Drawing inspiration from her experiences across Africa and Europe, as well as from her own cultural heritage, she creates distinctive pieces that reflect both tradition and personal expression.
Since 2019, Colette has lived on the East End of Long Island, where she works from her pottery studio on her property in Southampton.
SHAWN RHEA
Artist
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SHAWN RHEA is a Harlem-based visual artist and writer whose practice examines human identity and conditions through the lens of ritual, legacy, culture, environment and existence. She is particularly interested in the ways Black women use intellectual, bodily and spiritual powers and practices to counter oppression. A writer by training, her highly narrative, mixed media works combine traditional and digital collage, photography, painting and image transfers to create visual stories rooted in myth, fact, and speculated futures. Her work has been included in the MoCADA Museum's "M'Dear: the Black Maternal" exhibit (2023), The Billie Holiday Theatre “We Love You Black Woman” Exhibit (2025), and the spring 2024 issue of Killens Review of Arts & Letters. Her short fiction, “Black Power: From the Dark Science Metacast Experience,” (2024) appeared in Pretty Little Brick, an anthology published by New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree at the School of Visual Arts.
ReSHONDA TATE
Author
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ReSHONDA TATE is the national bestselling author of more than 50 books. Her novel, Let the Church Say Amen, was made into a film directed by actress Regina King, and produced by TD Jakes and Queen Latifah. Her book, The Secret She Kept, was also made into a TV One movie starring Kyla Pratt. ReShonda made appearances in both movies. She wrote a movie, Christmas with my Ex, which will run on TV One this winter.
A well-respected journalist and former TV News Anchor, ReShonda is currently Managing Editor for the Defender Newspaper and also works as a professional editor, ghostwriter, and literary consultant.
A highly sought-after motivational speaker and award-winning poet, ReShonda is the recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature.
ReShonda is also the co-founder of the boutique publishing company, Brown Girls Books, and the production company, Brown Girls Entertainment. She has currently partnered with actress Victoria Rowell to produce two movies.
The University of Texas at Austin graduate is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and the Missouri City – Sugar Land Chapter of Jack & Jill of America. She is married to Jeffrey Caradine. Together, they have five children, Mya, Jordun, Jabari, Morgan and Myles. Visit her at www.ReShondaTate.com.
ANDRE WORRELL
Artist
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ANDREW WORRELL is a multi-disciplinary artist who was raised in Port of Spain, Trinidad before relocating to New York City in his late teens. Galvanized by the divergent influences of the African, European, and Amerindian cultures that colored his upbringing, Worrell began drawing and carving at a young age.
He briefly attended Hutners College, where he was a recipient of the Gold Circle Award for cartoons he produced for the school newspaper. Worrell continued on to the Art Students League, ultimately earning a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Employing a range of media and techniques, Worrell explores the dichotomy between the beautiful and the grotesque. In one series, bold prints of stylized tables and chairs float amongst delicate birds, some of which appear as whispers of graphite. Busts of the founding fathers punctuate the composition alongside flags of African nations. Typical of Worrell’s work, it is at once whimsical and unsettling.
His irreverent approach has yielded a body of work that draws inspiration from a multitude of disparate sources including music, politics, fairytales, and decay. Worrell is especially captivated by the face, a form he frequently manipulates as a subversive tool. A recent series featuring profiles with distorted, yet watchful features, illustrates his fascination with the inherent malleability of expression. Vibrant colors and unexpected textures, both hallmarks of Worrell’s work, lend a lyrical quality to these pieces.
As he honed his visual style, Worrell became a fixture in New York’s underground music scene in the 1990’s. He has fronted a number of rock and roll bands. Worrell is the co-founder of lifestyle brand Morgan and Kidd. He lives and works in the Hamptons.
SHENIQUA YOUNG (SHEA DESIGNS)
Artist
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SHENIQUA YOUNG (SHEA DESIGNS) is a Jamaican-American visual artist from Rockville Centre, New York. Her artwork explores the themes of nature, femininity, and Caribbean culture. Utilizing oil, watercolor and digital art she creates vibrant, joyful paintings. Sheniqua graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Her work has been featured in several group exhibitions across NYC and Long Island including Gallery North, Molloy University, Jamaica Center of Arts & Learning, and the Raynham Hall Museum. She received awards from the Patchogue Arts Council, Etsy’s Uplift Makers Fund, and is a Long Island Grants for the Arts, 2026 Artist Fellow.