I resonated with the theme of Resilience and chose to represent that with a large, visibly wounded owl. Using acrylic paint and gold leaf on black canvas, the owl is depicted with open wings spread across the canvas, flying through the dark night despite bleeding …

This art piece is based upon a poem I wrote called Rustic Atlas, concerning my feelings towards transitioning. I started the poem over a year ago- November of 2020, with the very last line being the first. “If I’ll never be a butterfly, I’ll be …

These are a series of three collages I created called “An Order of Water on the Rocks” in response to the theme of “Rest and Resilience.” These images are made from fragments that I cut out from various vintage sculpture and dance magazines, paired with …

Growing up I knew immediately what I was attracted to and felt my queerness from the start. But there were moments where I was questioning what I was feeling and always wondered if it was right. I always seemed to lose myself in my environment …

Hailing from the Holy Land, my ancestral ties to Israel/Palestine goes 1000s of years, while I’m the 1st generation in America, but a few decades in exile. Nearly every day in the news, a rift is occurring in the Mediterranean far east. However you identify, …

i am a nonbinary 24 year old artist in bushwick, brooklyn. i am submitting this piece called resting place. it was a collage i created during the summer of 2021 when i relapsed on benzos and ended up in the hospital- i was in a …

The photo “Tefillin” was taken ten hours before my top surgery, in my one-bedroom apartment in Crown Heights. It was my way to say goodbye to my biological chest and to the personal and social barriers that held me from taking a step toward my …

This artwork talks about how I use art as a tool to express some adversarial experiences due to discrimination, violence, prejudice and often violence and other forms of difference I face and tend to overcome daily. Instagram: @_mojoart Twitter: @mojo2good ojomoses28@gmail.com      YAS EXHIBITION …

“Descanso y Resiliencia. Dos palabras con las cuales me puedo identificar desde que salí del closet a la edad de 13 años. A partir de, e estado en una constante batalla de defender mi ser y mi cuerpo. Este estado mental y físico a sido …