Visual Artist - Muralist - Teacher

Community Partners: Trust for Public Land, Groundswell

About: Installed in the exterior school yard and public playground, mural was developed and painted with students and staff from LAB High School, LAB Middle  School, and Museum School.  

Community Partners: Groundswell, Paramount, Center for Family Life, IS 136

About: Designed and painted with youth and young adults over ten weekly spring sessions and full-time for six weeks of summer, including one community paint day.  Located in Sunset Park, mural incorporates many themes including community, togetherness with nature and one’s environment, land acknowledgement, cultural diversity and connection,  self-expression and self-empowerment, access to education and employment  opportunity. The central element is the sun, which connects all of us, past/present/future. Part of Groundswell's 2023 Summer Leadership Institute program. Assistant Artist: Lina Montoya

Community Partners: Groundswell, Paramount, NYCHA Louis Armstrong Houses

About: Created with youth and young adults during weekly sessions in the spring and full-time for six weeks in the summer, including one community paint day. Part of Groundswell's 2022 Summer Institute Leadership program, mural is meant to creatively activate the amphitheater at Louis Armstrong Houses. Life in Bed Stuy is illustrated over the four seasons while people use their voice and creativity through various media forms: writing, music, painting, video, photography, and activism. A declaration of affection for Bed Stuy  and encouragement for every individual to be creative, be heard, and share your voice with the world. Watch Paramount's video about the project.

Community Partners: Moulin Rouge! The Musical, AIM Innovation Inc., Groundswell

About: Created for the South Jamaica community, mural is about love in its many forms. It centers  on the “first love” between mother and infant, then ripples outward into  love of family, friendship, romantic love, community, and love of the  arts. For more, watch this video produced by Moulin Rouge! The Musical and catch my 1-minute time-lapse video painting in the studio. 

Community Partners: NY Philharmonic, Groundswell, National Black Theater, El Puente (BK), Casita Maria (BX), Flushing Town Hall, A Better Jamaica

About: Commissioned for the  2021 NY Phil Bandwagon 2, a four-week traveling festival across four boroughs. Installed at Domino Park (Brooklyn), Marcus Garvey Park (Harlem), and Father Giagante Plaza (Bronx). This design celebrates the resilient healing power of spring, music, and our  community.

Community Partners: ArtBridge, Oficina Design, additional silent stakeholders

About: Created designed for residents of domestic violence shelters in New York City, including in-person art workshops with mothers and children in Summer 2021. Theme centers around rebirth, transformation, and family.  Watch 45-second time-lapse video of the painting process.

Community Partners: Ali Forney Center, Groundswell

About: Created for the new Bea Arthur Garden at one of Ali Forney Center residential spaces. Community expressed interest in depicting nature, non-figurative subject matter, astrology, zen, flowers, and  natural elements of all forms. Design is structured by the four elements (earth, fire, air, and water) and the flowers, wildlife, and  zodiac signs associated with each. Painted in two days, including one community paint day with residents, staff, and stakeholders. Assistant Artist: Nadya Voynovskaya

Community Partners: NYC Mural Art Project, NYC Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene, Baltic Street AEH, PS 24

About: Created over 9 months in collaboration with adult peers from mental health  community at Baltic Street AEH, students and staff from PS 24, and NYC Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene. Design developed and painted over 26 weekly workshops and five large-scale community events. Extension of mural installed at nearby Baltic  Street Wellness Center in September 2019. Design theme is that one's trauma or diagnosis does not define a person, just like any label do not define us. We all struggle with mental health and those in the mental health community are just like you: We experience all four seasons in NYC, we cycle through emotional highs and lows, and we all seek connection, understanding and compassion just like everyone else.