Stephan Joseph Ravare Jr. transcends the title of mere artist. His work embodies the role of a storyteller, channelling ideas, confronting and breaking barriers, and honouring his Louisiana Creole heritage through his art. Viewing art as a catalyst for transformation and acceptance, Stephan uses culture and differences to not only cope with mental health but to inspire solace and creativity.
Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
Maximilian Girardi is a young Italian artist. He loves colorful drawings and solid colors because he thinks they give positive feelings and help him to be happy. He is also a lover of patterns, which he draws by hand to convey memories and give character to the works. The artist thinks that "ha.nds," in addition to aesthetics, can communicate messages, emotions, and memories.
RecluserDark is the pseudonym that hides Alba Gasset, photographer, visual and digital artist born in Barcelona. The visions that Alba projects in her pictures are a passion for industrial landscapes, ancestral and monumental architecture, sacred fields, forests, and abandoned and enigmatic places. All these "dark places" evoke with nostalgia and melancholy the life that one day had and now has due to the passage of time.
Sirui Yang is an emerging interdisciplinary creative thinker and practitioner from China, currently based in Australia. Sirui has a strong passion for exploring how aesthetic forms in nature have inspired the development of her jewellery project in creating its unique aura or atmosphere, as she wants to evoke her unique feelings of the vitality in nature. Her recent art practices encompass drawing and painting, digital illustration, photography also installation art.
Göksel Doğan is a professional sculptor and underground artist. As a professional underground artist, he produces cartoons, posters, graphics, fanzines, and webzines. He is decoding “meaning” throughout the found objects and collages, and he calls this self-process of decapitalization of things (an attempt to reproduce human meaning against capitalist means of production by using sculptural elements).
Amanda Dolly is a native of the East Coast and learned to paint and draw at the age of 14 from her high school art teacher, Ms. Fischer. She paints and draws to ground herself. It is said that these techniques, used over hundreds of years, have become embedded in our DNA. So through the process of painting on a canvas, she connects with her ancestors, using techniques that endure to this day.
Gerhard Petzl is a visual artist who works with bronze, stone, wood, mixed media, and chocolate and does not limit himself to any medium, technique, or shape. The exploration is the journey that brings him into unexplored areas and self-discoveries. He sails between 2D visuals, the classical way of drawings on paper or digital, and 3D sculptures and ends up often even in the field of Science.
Danquis Johnson is a music producer, experimental film artist, and actor from the greater Philadelphia area. Danquis’ work consists of a fusion of painting, film, nature, and sound. Danquis is most fascinated with the exploration of experimentation through both physical and digital media. Through the exploration of these unpredictable equations, he has to envision the metaphysics turning into the physical as he is separate from reality.
Billie Mae is a 23-year-old analog collage artist based in Connecticut with a passion for music and movies. In their work, Billie likes to portray a sense of surrealism and entertain abstract ideas, most of which come from their own writing. They mainly work in collage, using magazine cuttings and adhesive, but are also known to write and draw, as well as be an active member of their local music scene and community.
Nastassia Bas was born in 1987 in Minsk, Belarus, and currently lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Through her artistic practice, she tries to understand and feel the changes that happen to man and nature, how we interact, and how we influence each other. She is concerned about the search for a new interaction between man and nature, the search for harmony.
HetHeru RaatMut, aka Vanessa Marshall, is a Kemetic Priestess and Shaman. She is a digital, mixed media, display, and installation artist. HetHeru is also a cultural educator, feminist, human rights, and climate change activist. She owns and operates a clothing retail business called Kultural Adornments. NU World Kulture is her digital and mixed media art collection.
Samruddhi Ramesh Duratkar is a Maharashtra, India-based student-artist who works mainly in body painting media. Environmental concerns are Samruddhi's primary motivation. She warns people against mistreating nature for financial gain and alludes to the ultimate futility of environmental destruction. Her response to what she sees as an injustice is specifically the artwork's foundation.
Uzomah Ugwu is a poet/writer and multi-disciplined artist. Her poetry, writing, and art have been featured internationally in various publications, galleries, and art spaces. She is a political, social, and cultural activist. Her core focus is on human rights, mental health, animal rights, and the rights of LGBTQIA persons. She is also the managing editor and founder of Arte Realizzata.
Mai Aboassi is an Egyptian-based contemporary artist. Born in Oman in 1997, she grew up in Cairo, Egypt. Mai Aboassi illustrates her feelings against a white wall that allows her voice to speak out for her silence. Her art subjects are based on her memories, emotions, and nightmares. She gets inspired by the past and the present, the psychological state of her mind, and all surroundings as she is interested in human behaviour and mental estate.
Ferró (Fernando Rial Dominguez) is a Spanish artist. A multifaceted artist, he performs in the street, and he paints on all kinds of materials, whether mannequins, irons, canvases, or Vespas. Color is their most important means of expression. His creations reflect rebellion through the opposing forms, the mixture of all colors, and the drastic changes from straight lines to curves, without a perfect visual or logical language.
Radna Segal was born in Kalmykia, a region in Southern Russia. Her textural, three-dimensional paintings feature dynamic composition and various experimental materials like plaster, foil, paint, glitter, and beads which create organic movement inspired by nature. Within her pieces, she uses an ancient, rare, and ornate Mongolian writing called “clear script,” that very few in the world know how to create.
Art Magazine Haewon Jang is a Korean artist currently based in New York. She pursues contemporary and indie art, and her artworks stem from her prior experiences, feelings, and philosophical thoughts around life and death. Her illustrations demonstrate the differential effects of emotions throughout an individual’s stages of life, including suffering and celebrations.
Honey is an Iranian artist currently residing in Calgary, Canada. She focuses on art, painting, graphic design, photography, installation, digital painting, poem, and theatre, as well as artistic production and cultural promotion. She explores memories, good and bad, through creative multimedia artworks. She wants to show stories about people, humanity, suffering, true love, and real life all over the world.
Yishi Deng is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Yishi Deng's artwork symbolizes the journey that is taken and finally seeing hope through warm colors. She often references everyday city life through her works and explores the relationship between loneliness and inner peace. Inspired by surrealism and minimalism, the subject matter of each piece is often pulled from reality and a hit of Yishi's imagination.
Katerina Brovkova is an artist, illustrator, and clothing designer from Ukraine. She believes that art can communicate global values and influence the design and fashion industry. And, of course, art is the best way to convey meaning, special feelings, and vibrations through art. All her work is created when she is happy and full of energy, so all this energy of love and growth is transmuted into her art.
Sangeeta Singh is an experienced artist with a demonstrated history of working in the fine art industry for over three decades. Over the years, she has worked on developing her skills in both traditional and contemporary techniques. Her journey as a professional artist started with exploration and experimentation with different media and then with educating herself through formal and informal means.
