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Samantha Katehis is a Newark-based multidisciplinary artist, designer, and founder of Fern & Fossil. Her work includes jewelry making, teaching, and plant-focused design.
Vázquez is a Chicano artist with a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts and a MFA from Montclair State University. She has been involved in the Newark art scene for several years. She was born in her ancestral land of Texas, and grew up in California. The daughter of migrant field workers, she is rooted in her Mexican-American heritage. Traversing both worlds, she is well aware of the “othering” of migrants. She encompasses her experiences in the fields and migrations in her work of creature making and specimen gathering, depicting her relationship with American society as a symbiotic parasitic necessity. Her work is primarily a representation of both internal and external manifestations of monsters, tragedies and other scars of life.
Layqa Nuna Yawar is a public artist and multidisciplinary storyteller based in the ancestral lands of the Lenni-Lenape: current day Newark, NJ. His work is best known for large scale community-based murals, intricate portrait paintings and multimedia projects that center the complex narratives of immigrant, black, indigenous and subaltern populations. His work has been recently commissioned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Munich Airport NJ, in partnership with Public Art Fund and can be permanently found at the new Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport. His collaborative work is also now on view at MoMA PS1 in New York City.
Daniel Jenkins creates pieces that combine figure work and abstraction. Purposely setting out to merge polar opposites together Daniel has a unique and distinct style that he has consistently produced. Shortly after finishing art school Daniel began having vision problems and after multiple tests and doctor visits he found out he had a brain tumor putting pressure on his optics nerves and causing him to slowly go blind. After a successful brain surgery the tumor was removed and Daniel's eyesight was fully restored. Taking this as a sign to not neglect his talents Daniel set out on a task of doing one full piece of art everyday for an entire year straight. This endeavor led him to eventually merge his classically trained figurative work with his love for abstraction and abstract expressionism- allowing him to combine his schooling with his life experience.