Leaving NYC into the Unknown

Leaving NYC into the Unknown is an in person panel hosted at apexart of Outgoing International fellows about their different experiences of their fellowship location and the impact it had on them.

Bios: Damali Abrams, the Glitter Priestess is an artist, writer and educator, born and raised in NYC, who strongly believes in the possibility of world peace.

Clare Kambhu makes paintings of school furniture and interiors. Her work alludes to how our idiosyncratic humanness breaks through within the constraints of educational institutions.

Sonia Paulino Love is a Brooklyn-born, Dominican-American, documentary-style photographer. She likes to think about art and sometimes tries to make some while traversing various geographies.

Baris Gokturk is an artist and educator living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He is interested in transpositions and the relationship between the individual body and the larger bodies politic.

Stephanie Powell was born in Yokosuka, Japan, and raised in Portland, Oregon. She is an interdisciplinary artist and professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Image Caption: Sonia Paulino Love, Life's Choices: Roadside Cenote, Republica Dominicana, 2025, digital photography

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