Ecological Installations

Ecological Installations

Clare Celeste Boersch is an artist living in Berlin who has been doing some version of collage and assemblage since she was a young girl. Growing up in Brazil, she had the ocean, rivers, and jungles that always existed in stark contrast to the industrial cities. “My...
Sculpting Emotion

Sculpting Emotion

“For me to come into my own creative space took a lot of psychological work during a 30-year career practicing law,” says Chris Corson, an artist based in Maryland, USA. “I had started making sculpture by the time I retired, but it still took years after I began to...
Emotional Expressions

Emotional Expressions

Eanaj Janae is a self-taught artist originally from Southern California that uses her captivating art to spotlight the Black community’s struggles and triumphs, including mental health challenges and the strength required to endure. Often incorporating color and...
Belonging, Home & Connection

Belonging, Home & Connection

Combining elements of neo-expressionism, graffiti and African art, Brittany’s a multidisciplinary artist that creates abstract images and figures of the Black diaspora, to celebrate, uplift, and communicate complex emotions of Blackness and its intersectionality....
Marrying Art, Culture & Religion

Marrying Art, Culture & Religion

Zehra Batool is a native Maryland multimedia artist, whose work is heavily centered around her identity as a Pakistani American Muslim. She hopes that one day, through her art she is able to express, share, and enlighten others about Islam and its vast cultures. Zehra...
Afrofuturistic Storytelling

Afrofuturistic Storytelling

James Flowers is a visual artist with a neoclassic style with a hint of Afrofuturism. Each piece of his art tells a story as he uses oil to paint portraits of African Americans on steel–a unique and futuristic medium.  The steel sheets are mounted against...
Art, Trauma and Rebuilding

Art, Trauma and Rebuilding

Through the use of mixed media and watercolor, Tori Kovarik creates abstract images and landscapes and explores experiences of trauma and the constant acts of recreating and rebuilding that follow trauma.” I do this to bear witness to the harsh realities of...
Vika Visual Arts Association to Host Group Exhibition

Vika Visual Arts Association to Host Group Exhibition

Washington, DC—Vika Visual Arts Association (VVAA) is pleased to announce a group exhibition, “Healing, Connection & Preservation,” the association’s inaugural art exhibition and the capstone event of its 2023 “Mind Your Art Business” artist development...