Justin Allen uses performance, music, writing, language construction, and video to create unique and moving experiences. Working across disciplines, he tries out forms and techniques learned from time in the tap world, the Black art world, at punk shows, at techno clubs, among poets, and perusing conlanging websites and message boards. While his work focuses on specific social environments, it surfaces broader themes of connection, risk-taking, and the constraints of cultural norms. He has received support from Franklin Furnace, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Jerome Foundation, and shared his work at a variety of venues both stateside and abroad. He received his BA in literary studies from The New School and is currently pursuing his MFA at Yale School of Art.

Justin Allen uses performance, music, writing, language construction, and video to create unique and moving experiences. Working across disciplines, he tries out forms and techniques learned from time in the tap world, the Black art world, at punk shows, at techno clubs, among poets, and perusing conlanging websites and message boards. While his work focuses on specific social environments, it surfaces broader themes of connection, risk-taking, and the constraints of cultural norms. He has received support from Franklin Furnace, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Jerome Foundation, and shared his work at a variety of venues both stateside and abroad. He received his BA in literary studies from The New School and is currently pursuing his MFA at Yale School of Art.

Davion Alston (b.1992) is a visual artist living and working in Atlanta, GA. He was born 1992 in Landstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and grew up with Gullah roots along the coast of Georgia. He received his BFA from the Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University, and is currently pursuing his Masters of Fine Art at the Yale School of Art.

Davion Alston (b.1992) is a visual artist living and working in Atlanta, GA. He was born 1992 in Landstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and grew up with Gullah roots along the coast of Georgia. He received his BFA from the Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University, and is currently pursuing his Masters of Fine Art at the Yale School of Art.

Emmanuel Amoakohene was born and raised in Kumasi, Ghana. He currently lives in New Haven, CT, and is a Painting and Printmaking MFA candidate at the Yale School of Art. His work inspects and reflects on the intricacies of personal, social, and cultural memory as a link between the past, present and anticipated future. His reflections culminate into drawings, collages, and installations that aspire to implicate the viewer in making the image or to find meaning within what is presented.

Emmanuel Amoakohene was born and raised in Kumasi, Ghana. He currently lives in New Haven, CT, and is a Painting and Printmaking MFA candidate at the Yale School of Art. His work inspects and reflects on the intricacies of personal, social, and cultural memory as a link between the past, present and anticipated future. His reflections culminate into drawings, collages, and installations that aspire to implicate the viewer in making the image or to find meaning within what is presented.

is an Artist and Designer from Ghana. The peice in this show is heavily influenced by the qoute of the Dr. Kwame Nkrumah—tlhe first president of Ghana—from his "The African Genius" speech "the time has come for the gown to come to town". Paraphrased into a New Haven context the peiece is to surge as a subtle gesture to nundge students to step outside Yale and be a part of the greater New Haven community.

is an Artist and Designer from Ghana. The peice in this show is heavily influenced by the qoute of the Dr. Kwame Nkrumah—tlhe first president of Ghana—from his "The African Genius" speech "the time has come for the gown to come to town". Paraphrased into a New Haven context the peiece is to surge as a subtle gesture to nundge students to step outside Yale and be a part of the greater New Haven community.

Quinci Baker is a multi disciplinary artist from Prince George’s County, Maryland. Her multi-media practice is an exploration of mnemonics, ambiguous loss, and collective identity.

Quinci Baker is a multi disciplinary artist from Prince George’s County, Maryland. Her multi-media practice is an exploration of mnemonics, ambiguous loss, and collective identity.

Alexandria is an artist from Akron, OH who's work focuses on the intersection of invisibility and hypervisibility as it manifests in Blackness. As a primarily figural artist, there is a focus on the reclamation of the gaze from the viewer in an attempt to find solace and peace in moments of tenderness and exasperation. The figures can be described as captured in moments of suspension—between familiarity and routine, assimilation and evolution. Between moments of collective happiness and learning to wield together forces of antagonism with the vast, strange magic that constructs the black identity; How we inhabit a world not built for us.

Alexandria is an artist from Akron, OH who's work focuses on the intersection of invisibility and hypervisibility as it manifests in Blackness. As a primarily figural artist, there is a focus on the reclamation of the gaze from the viewer in an attempt to find solace and peace in moments of tenderness and exasperation. The figures can be described as captured in moments of suspension—between familiarity and routine, assimilation and evolution. Between moments of collective happiness and learning to wield together forces of antagonism with the vast, strange magic that constructs the black identity; How we inhabit a world not built for us.

Dominique Duroseau is a Newark-based artist born in Chicago, raised in Haiti. Duroseau's interdisciplinary practice explores themes of racism, socio-cultural issues, and existential dehumanization. Her exhibitions, performances, and screenings include: PULSE Play, The Kitchen, Sculpture Center, El Museo del Barrio, A.I.R. Gallery, BronxArtSpace, Rush Arts Gallery, Smack Mellon in New York City and The Newark Museum. She was a fellow at A.I.R. Gallery, and received artist residencies from Gallery Aferro, Index Art Center, Wassaic Project, Shine Portrait Studio, MASS MoCA, NARS Foundation and Artists Alliance Inc. Duroseau holds a Bachelor of Architecture, MA in Studio Arts and currently attending Yale pursuing her MFA.

Dominique Duroseau is a Newark-based artist born in Chicago, raised in Haiti. Duroseau's interdisciplinary practice explores themes of racism, socio-cultural issues, and existential dehumanization. Her exhibitions, performances, and screenings include: PULSE Play, The Kitchen, Sculpture Center, El Museo del Barrio, A.I.R. Gallery, BronxArtSpace, Rush Arts Gallery, Smack Mellon in New York City and The Newark Museum. She was a fellow at A.I.R. Gallery, and received artist residencies from Gallery Aferro, Index Art Center, Wassaic Project, Shine Portrait Studio, MASS MoCA, NARS Foundation and Artists Alliance Inc. Duroseau holds a Bachelor of Architecture, MA in Studio Arts and currently attending Yale pursuing her MFA.

Sarah is a multidisciplinary designer with a current interest in internet art, digital collage and experimental graphics/print media. Muslim, Arab and Black, Sarah is a city girl at heart who grew up in London and later moved to the Middle East, where she did her undergrad BFA degree in Graphic Design. Based everywhere and nowhere, Sarah's work often centers around her complicated relationship with her own identity, and explores culture and language in their visual forms.

Sarah is a multidisciplinary designer with a current interest in internet art, digital collage and experimental graphics/print media. Muslim, Arab and Black, Sarah is a city girl at heart who grew up in London and later moved to the Middle East, where she did her undergrad BFA degree in Graphic Design. Based everywhere and nowhere, Sarah's work often centers around her complicated relationship with her own identity, and explores culture and language in their visual forms.

In my work I have explored themes such as diaspora, post-apocalypse, post-colonialism, identity, Africanisms, and Afro-futurism. I am interested in the question of place and home in culture and nationality. Dead pixel, as in in the screen of the monitor - a malfunction from a single-pixel creates a black dot. Once you’ve seen this black dot it’s impossible to unsee.

In my work I have explored themes such as diaspora, post-apocalypse, post-colonialism, identity, Africanisms, and Afro-futurism. I am interested in the question of place and home in culture and nationality. Dead pixel, as in in the screen of the monitor - a malfunction from a single-pixel creates a black dot. Once you’ve seen this black dot it’s impossible to unsee.

Arielle Gray (b.1996) is an Alabama native and portrait photographer, with a BA in studio art from the University of Alabama. Her work is inspired by the nostalgic warmth of Alabama summers. Gray is currently based in New Haven and is an MFA candidate for the Yale School of Art (2023).

Arielle Gray (b.1996) is an Alabama native and portrait photographer, with a BA in studio art from the University of Alabama. Her work is inspired by the nostalgic warmth of Alabama summers. Gray is currently based in New Haven and is an MFA candidate for the Yale School of Art (2023).

Kayla M. Hawkins is a California born mixed media artist pursing her MFA at Yale University. Her art practice takes on consciousness, perception, and social philosophy.

Kayla M. Hawkins is a California born mixed media artist pursing her MFA at Yale University. Her art practice takes on consciousness, perception, and social philosophy.

Kathryn-kay Johnson works in digital media, installation, and collage, making works that evoke experiences of collective effervescence and ancestral memory. Her practice is influenced by histories and mythologies passed along orally, spiritually, rhythmically, and through coded cultural production. She is interested in the world-building capabilities of everyday materials, and her visual language is rooted in the intergenerational ingenuity of the self-built. It is an ongoing “present continuous” practice of learning, making, building, and expanding.

Kathryn-kay Johnson works in digital media, installation, and collage, making works that evoke experiences of collective effervescence and ancestral memory. Her practice is influenced by histories and mythologies passed along orally, spiritually, rhythmically, and through coded cultural production. She is interested in the world-building capabilities of everyday materials, and her visual language is rooted in the intergenerational ingenuity of the self-built. It is an ongoing “present continuous” practice of learning, making, building, and expanding.

Christopher Paul Jordan (1990) is a painter and public artist using found objects and ritual to store local memory. Jordan’s exhibition In The Interim: Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive is on view at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle.

Christopher Paul Jordan (1990) is a painter and public artist using found objects and ritual to store local memory. Jordan’s exhibition In The Interim: Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive is on view at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle.

Natia Lemay (b. 1985 in Toronto, Ontario) is an Afro-indigenous artist and curator of Black, Mi'kmaw, and French descent. Raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in government housing by her mother Louise Lemay, she spent time between her mother and her Father, Albert Carty. He was a black Mi'kmaw Soap Stone sculpture from New Brunswick, Canada. Natia Lemay received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design (2021) in drawing/painting with a minor in social sciences and is currently pursuing her MFA from Yale School of Art in painting/printmaking. Natia's work is necessarily interdisciplinary to address the expansiveness of conditions under which IBPOC people live. Drawing on childhood experiences of poverty, addiction, injustice, racism, neglect, and trauma, she explores how these conditions were subsequently products of the conditions and constructions of colonialism, systemic erasure, socialized and systemic racism, social inequity, and capitalism. She explores themes of identity, orientation, hypervisibility, invisibility, and consciousness through multiple mediums and installations to problematize the conditions that have attempted to erase the humanity of racialized, indigenous and gendered people.

Natia Lemay (b. 1985 in Toronto, Ontario) is an Afro-indigenous artist and curator of Black, Mi'kmaw, and French descent. Raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in government housing by her mother Louise Lemay, she spent time between her mother and her Father, Albert Carty. He was a black Mi'kmaw Soap Stone sculpture from New Brunswick, Canada. Natia Lemay received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design (2021) in drawing/painting with a minor in social sciences and is currently pursuing her MFA from Yale School of Art in painting/printmaking. Natia's work is necessarily interdisciplinary to address the expansiveness of conditions under which IBPOC people live. Drawing on childhood experiences of poverty, addiction, injustice, racism, neglect, and trauma, she explores how these conditions were subsequently products of the conditions and constructions of colonialism, systemic erasure, socialized and systemic racism, social inequity, and capitalism. She explores themes of identity, orientation, hypervisibility, invisibility, and consciousness through multiple mediums and installations to problematize the conditions that have attempted to erase the humanity of racialized, indigenous and gendered people.

Chinaedu relies heavily on her intuition in life and her art practice, because she knows it is the one guide that has her best interest at heart. Her work dances with, sometimes for, the culture she was built by, and is evidence that she still believes every story her grandmother told her as a child. The tradition of photography is central in her performance and sculptural work, keeping her tethered to this space and time, for now.

Chinaedu relies heavily on her intuition in life and her art practice, because she knows it is the one guide that has her best interest at heart. Her work dances with, sometimes for, the culture she was built by, and is evidence that she still believes every story her grandmother told her as a child. The tradition of photography is central in her performance and sculptural work, keeping her tethered to this space and time, for now.

Kyle Richardson is from New York City and is currently based in New Haven, CT. She is exploring digital and analog technologies, memory, language, and labor in her work. She is an MFA Candidate at the Yale School of Art.

Kyle Richardson is from New York City and is currently based in New Haven, CT. She is exploring digital and analog technologies, memory, language, and labor in her work. She is an MFA Candidate at the Yale School of Art.

Ashley Teamer’s collages explore the relationships between the body, nature, space, and time. She uses painting, sculpture, photography, and sound to creatively intervene with indoor and outdoor architecture revealing the malleability of our built environment. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center (2018) and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). Teamer received a BFA from Boston University in 2013 and an MFA from Yale University in 2022.Her work has been most recently exhibited as a series of billboards called Lady Bleu Devils in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Ashley Teamer’s collages explore the relationships between the body, nature, space, and time. She uses painting, sculpture, photography, and sound to creatively intervene with indoor and outdoor architecture revealing the malleability of our built environment. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center (2018) and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). Teamer received a BFA from Boston University in 2013 and an MFA from Yale University in 2022.Her work has been most recently exhibited as a series of billboards called Lady Bleu Devils in New Orleans, Louisiana.

David Jon Walker is graphic designer from Nashville, Tennessee. His focus at Yale School of Art is focused and centered on typography and lettering. The lettering is meant to evoke heritage, timelessness and passion. Each piece is meant to provoke internal dialogue and create external discourse.

David Jon Walker is graphic designer from Nashville, Tennessee. His focus at Yale School of Art is focused and centered on typography and lettering. The lettering is meant to evoke heritage, timelessness and passion. Each piece is meant to provoke internal dialogue and create external discourse.

Avery lives and works in New Haven.

Avery lives and works in New Haven.