ARTISTS
ARTISTS
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Giraffe at Science Park High School, Newark
Elegant Swan at Science Park High School, Newark
Rose Bull at Science Park High School, Newark
Rainbow Dragon at Science Park High School, Newark
Sun Rose Griffin at Science Park High School, Newark
Unicorn at Science Park High School, Newark
Eagle at Newark Vocational High School, Newark
Dove at Newark Vocational High School, Newark
Chef at Newark Vocational High School, Newark
Four History “Business/Industry” with community partners Science Park High School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Terry Brewin, a visual artist specializing in sculpture, holds a B.A. in fine arts from Montclair State University, and was selected to study in the School of Fine Arts at Cooper Union. She holds an Associate’s Degree/Certificate, Architectural woodworking, Daytona Beach Community College, the first woman to enter and complete the three-year cabinet-making and furniture design program. Ms. Brewin is the original architect of the Barat Foundation “Animodules” and continues to work with the Foundation designing the Animodule line. Ms. Brewin works in the Newark Public Schools as an art teacher at Science Park High School where she established an art gallery for ongoing exhibits of student work. Ms. Brewin was the recipient of the Governor’s Teacher Award 2008/9. Ms. Brewin has exhibited her artwork at the Montclair Art Museum, numerous New York and New Jersey gallery exhibitions, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and the African-American Museum of Detroit.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
• Giraffe at Science Park High School, Newark
• Elegant Swan at Science Park High School, Newark
• Rose Bull at Science Park High School, Newark
• Rainbow Dragon at Science Park High School, Newark
• Sun Rose Griffin at Science Park High School, Newark
• Unicorn at Science Park High School, Newark
• Eagle at Newark Vocational High School, Newark
• Dove at Newark Vocational High School, Newark
• Chef at Newark Vocational High School, Newark
• Four History “Business/Industry” with community partners Science Park High School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Terry Brewin, a visual artist specializing in sculpture, holds a B.A. in fine arts from Montclair State University, and was selected to study in the School of Fine Arts at Cooper Union. She holds an Associate’s Degree/Certificate, Architectural woodworking, Daytona Beach Community College, the first woman to enter and complete the three-year cabinet-making and furniture design program.
Ms. Brewin is the original architect of the Barat Foundation “Animodules” and continues to work with the Foundation designing the Animodule line. Ms. Brewin works in the Newark Public Schools as an art teacher at Science Park High School where she established an art gallery for ongoing exhibits of student work. Ms. Brewin was the recipient of the Governor’s Teacher Award 2008/9. Ms. Brewin has exhibited her artwork at the Montclair Art Museum, numerous New York and New Jersey gallery exhibitions, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and the African-American Museum of Detroit.
ANIMODLES CREATED:
Leaping Tiger with S at Schuyler School, Kearny
Wolf with UCCC / South 17 Elementary, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Heather Williams (b. 1969) was born in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She was always interested in becoming an artist, but her parents, who were first generation from Trinidad and Grenada, encouraged her to find a job. She followed their advice and studied finance as an undergrad but ultimately changed careers to become an Art Therapist. She worked with the domestic violence population for over ten years providing group and individual therapy. Later, she became a mother and a certified Montessori Primary teacher. After several years of teaching, she resigned and returned to grad school, this time to fulfill her dream of focusing on her art. She is currently based in New Jersey. Her sculptures and abstract paintings are in many private collections.
ANIMODLES CREATED:
• Leaping Tiger with S at Schuyler School, Kearny
• Wolf with UCCC / South 17 Elementary, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Heather Williams (b. 1969) was born in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She was always interested in becoming an artist, but her parents, who were first generation from Trinidad and Grenada, encouraged her to find a job. She followed their advice and studied finance as an undergrad but ultimately changed careers to become an Art Therapist. She worked with the domestic violence population for over ten years providing group and individual therapy. Later, she became a mother and a certified Montessori Primary teacher. After several years of teaching, she resigned and returned to grad school, this time to fulfill her dream of focusing on her art. She is currently based in New Jersey. Her sculptures and abstract paintings are in many private collections.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Bear at President Barack Obama Elementary School PS #34, Jersey City
Falcon at Martin Center for the Arts PS #41, Jersey City
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in West Africa’s most progressive capital city, Dakar, Senegal, glass-painting artist Ibrahima Ndoye has combined modernism and traditionalism to create a style unique to himself. Ibrahima, commonly known as “Ibou,” grew up as the oldest child of a family of four boys in the suburbs of Dakar. Ibou’s mother made her living as a dressmaker while his grandmother worked as a tie-dye artist. Regularly surrounded by colorful African textiles and fabrics, it is not surprising that Ibou says he “socialized with art and cohabited with colors” from a very young age.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
• Bear at President Barack Obama Elementary School PS #34, Jersey City
• Falcon at Martin Center for the Arts PS #41, Jersey City
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in West Africa’s most progressive capital city, Dakar, Senegal, glass-painting artist Ibrahima Ndoye has combined modernism and traditionalism to create a style unique to himself. Ibrahima, commonly known as “Ibou,” grew up as the oldest child of a family of four boys in the suburbs of Dakar. Ibou’s mother made her living as a dressmaker while his grandmother worked as a tie-dye artist. Regularly surrounded by colorful African textiles and fabrics, it is not surprising that Ibou says he “socialized with art and cohabited with colors” from a very young age.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Black Lives Matter Totem, Newark GEM Project
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Hi my name is Marlon Sullivan and I am a graphic artist and creator of iLLREPUTE Digital Magazine and FWP Clothing; both birthed from the visual perspective and concrete influence of my hometown, Jersey City NJ. I’ve worked in animation, character design, and illustration, and I also create comic books, sequential art, and knock out storyboards to loud music
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Black Lives Matter Totem, Newark GEM Project
ABOUT THE ARTIST: A graphic artist and creator of iLLREPUTE Digital Magazine and FWP Clothing; both birthed from the visual perspective and concrete influence of his hometown, Jersey City NJ. He’s worked in animation, character design, and illustration, and created comic books, sequential art, and knock out storyboards to loud music.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Parrot Animodule at Jersey City PS #15
ABOUT THE ARTIST: New Jersey native, Dorie Dahlberg, earned a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, in printmaking and worked on paper. She attended Graduate School of Design, Pratt Institute, and has an MA from St Peter’s University in Education Administration. Now retired, Dahlberg was an art educator for 25 years in Newark Public Schools. She is currently an adjunct professor at New Jersey City University and co-president of Pro Arts Jersey City. Dahlberg has shown her photographs in New York City/NYC metro area and photography galleries in Vermont and Oregon. She has exhibited internationally in Glasgow, Barcelona, Rome, and the Chania International Photography Festival, Crete, 2021 & 2022. Dahlberg regularly exhibits at PH21 Photography Gallery in Budapest, Hungary. She has won several awards in the US and abroad, including the annual Photo Review Competition Issues, 2018 – 2021, and has been included in the Analog Forever Magazine’s online exhibitions. In 2021, Dahlberg and writer, Charles M. Boyer, collaborated on a book of photographs and poems, Precarious Meetings of Land, Sea, & Sky.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Parrot Animodule at Jersey City PS #15
ABOUT THE ARTIST: New Jersey native, Dorie Dahlberg, earned a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, in printmaking and worked on paper. She attended Graduate School of Design, Pratt Institute, and has an MA from St Peter’s University in Education Administration.
Now retired, Dahlberg was an art educator for 25 years in Newark Public Schools. She is currently an adjunct professor at New Jersey City University and co-president of Pro Arts Jersey City. Dahlberg has shown her photographs in New York City/NYC metro area and photography galleries in Vermont and Oregon. She has exhibited internationally in Glasgow, Barcelona, Rome, and the Chania International Photography Festival, Crete, 2021 & 2022. Dahlberg regularly exhibits at PH21 Photography Gallery in Budapest, Hungary. She has won several awards in the US and abroad, including the annual Photo Review Competition Issues, 2018 – 2021, and has been included in the Analog Forever Magazine’s online exhibitions. In 2021, Dahlberg and writer, Charles M. Boyer, collaborated on a book of photographs and poems, Precarious Meetings of Land, Sea, & Sky.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Eagle at Theodore Roosevelt School, Weehawken
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Charles began studying Art while attending Lincoln University in Pennsylvania; culminated those studies at Pratt Institute in New York, where he received a BFA. He has spent over 25 years as an Artist and Visual Art Educator teaching in the Public schools of New Jersey. New York and Bermuda. As a Teaching Artist, he’s worked for the Department of Correction in Manhattan and Brooklyn. N.Y. and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Fl.; the New Jersey Department of Education, Monmouth County Parks Department, and Monmouth Museum both in Lincroft, N.J. He has worked on numerous community participation murals and sidewalk/pavement-drawn projects. In 2005 and In 2014 he went on cultural excursions to Egypt and Cuba respectively; this led him to create the DIA Project. D.I.A. is an acronym for Diasporic Images of Africa. This is a multimedia presentation using the Visual and Performing Arts to show Africa’s connection to cultures and countries worldwide. Charles took part (researcher) in the creation of a short documentary titled Down the Avenue; it can be seen on Youtube under Asbury Park African American Music Heritage Project. This production chronicles the history of home-grown jazz musicians, particularly from Asbury Park’s west side. It’s accompanied by transcripts and other documentation spanning the ‘30’s to present, which are housed at Monmouth University in New Jersey. His objective is to exhibit and present.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Eagle at Theodore Roosevelt School, Weehawken
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Charles began studying Art while attending Lincoln University in Pennsylvania; culminated those studies at Pratt Institute in New York, where he received a BFA. He has spent over 25 years as an Artist and Visual Art Educator teaching in the Public schools of New Jersey. New York and Bermuda. As a Teaching Artist, he’s worked for the Department of Correction in Manhattan and Brooklyn. N.Y. and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Fl.; the New Jersey Department of Education, Monmouth County Parks Department, and Monmouth Museum both in Lincroft, N.J. He has worked on numerous community participation murals and sidewalk/pavement-drawn projects.
In 2005 and In 2014 he went on cultural excursions to Egypt and Cuba respectively; this led him to create the DIA Project. D.I.A. is an acronym for Diasporic Images of Africa. This is a multimedia presentation using the Visual and Performing Arts to show Africa’s connection to cultures and countries worldwide. Charles took part (researcher) in the creation of a short documentary titled Down the Avenue; it can be seen on Youtube under Asbury Park African American Music Heritage Project. This production chronicles the history of home-grown jazz musicians, particularly from Asbury Park’s west side. It’s accompanied by transcripts and other documentation spanning the ‘30’s to present, which are housed at Monmouth University in New Jersey. His objective is to exhibit and present.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Sea Lion at Turtle Back Zoo, West Orange
Baby Elephant at Integrity House, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: He makes art that reflects a psychological vision and approach the canvas with visceral intensity. Paintings are worked in layers, images are sanded off, splattered, collaged, painted over and re-constructed using a mix of different media. His inspiration comes from antiquity, art brut, neo-expressionism, pop art and urban art. However I do feel my work is influenced by many other movements and I continue to study different artists and genres.
Trained at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, Dan has had eighteen one man shows in galleries from Chelsea NYC to LA California. The Montclair Art Museum (MAM), the Newark Museum and the Morris Museum have all featured his work. His many public artworks can be seen around New Jersey and beyond. Museums, libraries, schools, community centers, performing art centers and hospitals have commissioned Dan to create artwork for their spaces.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
• Sea Lion at Turtle Back Zoo, West Orange
• Baby Elephant at Integrity House, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: He makes art that reflects a psychological vision and approach the canvas with visceral intensity. Paintings are worked in layers, images are sanded off, splattered, collaged, painted over and re-constructed using a mix of different media. His inspiration comes from antiquity, art brut, neo-expressionism, pop art and urban art. However I do feel my work is influenced by many other movements and I continue to study different artists and genres.
Trained at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, Dan has had eighteen one man shows in galleries from Chelsea NYC to LA California. The Montclair Art Museum (MAM), the Newark Museum and the Morris Museum have all featured his work. His many public artworks can be seen around New Jersey and beyond. Museums, libraries, schools, community centers, performing art centers and hospitals have commissioned Dan to create artwork for their spaces.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Narsing (Lion Man)
Swan
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Nupur Nishith is a USA based artist, born in Madhubani district of Mithila region in India. Growing up in the environment famous for a unique ancient folk art of Mithila / Madhubani Paintings she took up the art at an early age from her mother. Even during education and profession in marketing and banking her passion for art continued through participation in exhibitions and conducting workshops in India. Since moving to US she has tried to explore new avenues such as paper, cloth, wood, ceramic, terracotta, glass, everyday products etc. along with the traditional mural paintings on walls and floors. She has evolved a unique style of art with an amalgamation of traditional motifs of ancient folk art with modern contemporary themes and tools with global appeal.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
• Narsing (Lion Man)
• Swan
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Nupur Nishith is a USA based artist, born in Madhubani district of Mithila region in India. Growing up in the environment famous for a unique ancient folk art of Mithila / Madhubani Paintings she took up the art at an early age from her mother. Even during education and profession in marketing and banking her passion for art continued through participation in exhibitions and conducting workshops in India. Since moving to US she has tried to explore new avenues such as paper, cloth, wood, ceramic, terracotta, glass, everyday products etc. along with the traditional mural paintings on walls and floors. She has evolved a unique style of art with an amalgamation of traditional motifs of ancient folk art with modern contemporary themes and tools with global appeal.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Beadwork Butterfly
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Raúl de Nieves is a multimedia artist, performer, and musician, whose wide-ranging practice investigates notions of beauty and transformation. De Nieves’ visual symbolism draws on both classical Catholic and Mexican vernacular motifs to create his own unique mythology. Through processes of accumulation and adornment, the artist transforms readily available materials into spectacular objects, which he then integrates into immersive narrative environments.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Beadwork Butterfly
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Raúl de Nieves is a multimedia artist, performer, and musician, whose wide-ranging practice investigates notions of beauty and transformation. De Nieves’ visual symbolism draws on both classical Catholic and Mexican vernacular motifs to create his own unique mythology. Through processes of accumulation and adornment, the artist transforms readily available materials into spectacular objects, which he then integrates into immersive narrative environments.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Phoenix with University High School, Newark
Blue and white Elephant, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Experienced Communicator with a demonstrated history of working in the design industry. Skilled in Photography, Printmaking, Logo Design, Adobe Creative Suite, and InDesign. Strong media and communication professional with a Bachelor of Fine Arts – BFA focused in Graphic Design from Rutgers University – Newark.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
• Phoenix with University High School, Newark
• Blue and white Elephant, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Experienced Communicator with a demonstrated history of working in the design industry. Skilled in Photography, Printmaking, Logo Design, Adobe Creative Suite, and InDesign. Strong media and communication professional with a Bachelor of Fine Arts – BFA focused in Graphic Design from Rutgers University – Newark.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
We Are All In This Together Totem, Newark Gem Project
Four History “Business/Industry” with community partners Science Park High School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Susan Daly is a veteran master muralist best known for her large mural projects adorning the Casinos of Atlantic City. She has over 25 years of experience in large scale muraling for clients including Showboat Casino, Atlantic City, NJ; Bally’s Wild Wild West Casino; Casino and the Quarter Retail Shopping Mall, NJ; the Claridge Casino; the Borgato Casino, the Sands Casino, Trumps World Fair Casino, US Health Care Corp. Headquarters, Goya Foods, Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, PA and others. Ms. Daly heads up the Barat Foundation Muraling program, fastidiously translating works of art into large-scale murals, collaborating with the chosen artist for the mural, and directing a team of artists in residence, schools and community volunteers to execute the final work. Ms. Daly served as the mural facilitator for the PEACE mural which welcomed the Dalai Lama and the International Peace Summit to Newark in 2011. Sue served as the artist for the Barat Foundation / Newark City Mural “Steps”, a realistic portrayal of the everyday heroes of NJCRI – an AID/HIV support facility, and has also works as an artist in residence bringing her vast expertise to Barat Foundation students including Animodule making programs, including one of the Newark Celebration 350 History Animodules honoring business and industry. Most recently Sue worked with the Barat Foundation designing and painting the 4 Corners Mural depicting Harriet Tubman and the Freedom Quilts that led runaway slaves to freedom.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
• We Are All In This Together Totem, Newark Gem Project
• Four History “Business/Industry” with community partners Science Park High School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Susan Daly is a veteran master muralist best known for her large mural projects adorning the Casinos of Atlantic City. She has over 25 years of experience in large scale muraling for clients including Showboat Casino, Atlantic City, NJ; Bally’s Wild Wild West Casino; Casino and the Quarter Retail Shopping Mall, NJ; the Claridge Casino; the Borgato Casino, the Sands Casino, Trumps World Fair Casino, US Health Care Corp. Headquarters, Goya Foods, Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, PA and others. Ms. Daly heads up the Barat Foundation Muraling program, fastidiously translating works of art into large-scale murals, collaborating with the chosen artist for the mural, and directing a team of artists in residence, schools and community volunteers to execute the final work.
Ms. Daly served as the mural facilitator for the PEACE mural which welcomed the Dalai Lama and the International Peace Summit to Newark in 2011. Sue served as the artist for the Barat Foundation / Newark City Mural “Steps”, a realistic portrayal of the everyday heroes of NJCRI – an AID/HIV support facility, and has also works as an artist in residence bringing her vast expertise to Barat Foundation students including Animodule making programs, including one of the Newark Celebration 350 History Animodules honoring business and industry. Most recently Sue worked with the Barat Foundation designing and painting the 4 Corners Mural depicting Harriet Tubman and the Freedom Quilts that led runaway slaves to freedom.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Perfect Elegance Swan
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in 1979, is a New Jersey native of Ecuadorian descent. Her artisitic talents come from a long line of creatives including her father to whom she credits with building her a foundation and love for the arts. As a youth, together with the guide of her father, Lupianez won many contests and awards on a state and national level.
Early on Lupianez started her family and was concentrated on rearing her children. Although out of the lime light of the art world she continued periodically to experiment with different mediums and studied under artist, Marge Colavito, who taught her how to paint with oils. In 2014, Lupianez decided to go to college and graduated in 2016 from Hudson County Community College with an AFA, summa cum laude. She furthered her studies and graduated in 2018 earning her BFA, summa cum laude, from New Jersey City University. She has also mentored under well reknown artist, Melanie Vote.
Lupianez is a contemporary realist and multimedia painter. Her distinctive personal style emanates everyday emotions and expresses the vibrant spirit of everyday life. She likes to explore the simplicities of life and highlight them. Her references are from her own personal life with her family and friends.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Perfect Elegance Swan
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in 1979, is a New Jersey native of Ecuadorian descent. Her artisitic talents come from a long line of creatives including her father to whom she credits with building her a foundation and love for the arts. As a youth, together with the guide of her father, Lupianez won many contests and awards on a state and national level.
Early on Lupianez started her family and was concentrated on rearing her children. Although out of the lime light of the art world she continued periodically to experiment with different mediums and studied under artist, Marge Colavito, who taught her how to paint with oils. In 2014, Lupianez decided to go to college and graduated in 2016 from Hudson County Community College with an AFA, summa cum laude. She furthered her studies and graduated in 2018 earning her BFA, summa cum laude, from New Jersey City University. She has also mentored under well reknown artist, Melanie Vote.
Lupianez is a contemporary realist and multimedia painter. Her distinctive personal style emanates everyday emotions and expresses the vibrant spirit of everyday life. She likes to explore the simplicities of life and highlight them. Her references are from her own personal life with her family and friends.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Four History “Entertainment/Art/Literature/Sports” in collaboration with Science Park High School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, and Nellie Grier Senior Citizenship Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Malik Whitaker began designing professionally in 2013, offering clients top notch design services and fine art paintings. Highly creative an organized, Malik is a visual artist and graphic designer with 5+ years experience in print design, fine art, marketing and social media design. He has an innovative approach to idea and concept development with a talent for creating unique custom artwork. Working with many business brands, he ensures each design meets the company’s identity for each project. Leveraging rebranding expertise in enhancing client’s corporate image to ensure profitability and business growth. Malik is also skilled in time management, creative development and communication.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
• Four History “Entertainment/Art/Literature/Sports” in collaboration with Science Park High School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, and Nellie Grier Senior Citizenship Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Malik Whitaker began designing professionally in 2013, offering clients top notch design services and fine art paintings. Highly creative an organized, Malik is a visual artist and graphic designer with 5+ years experience in print design, fine art, marketing and social media design. He has an innovative approach to idea and concept development with a talent for creating unique custom artwork. Working with many business brands, he ensures each design meets the company’s identity for each project. Leveraging rebranding expertise in enhancing client’s corporate image to ensure profitability and business growth. Malik is also skilled in time management, creative development and communication.
Chandri Barat
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Alligator at Youth Emergency Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Chandri Barat is co-founder of the Barat Foundation, dedicated to bringing arts education and a global perspective to underserved youth. The Foundation came to Newark in 2000, seeing a critical need to expand its summer study program in France to include inner-city youth. Chandri’s direction lead to the growth of year-round arts education initiatives including the Creation Nation Art and Peace Parade featuring the Foundation’s signature “Animodule”® sculpures, a city-wide public art mural project, and maker space STEAM programming engaging youth in 21 st Century hands-on programming that strengthens career and entrepreneurial opportunities made possible by new and emerging technologies. Prior to establishing the Barat Foundation, Chandri was a pioneer in the natural foods industry, co-founding Legume, Inc., the first natural foods company to go public, creating healthy tofu-based entrees. After doctoral studies in political philosophy and French, Chandri spent a year in India studying and practicing Siddha Yoga with Swami Muktananda, who bestowed her spiritual name, Chandri. Ms. Barat is a certified Iyengar Yoga instructor.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
• Lucky Cat with the Creators Club, Newark
• Celestial Lion at with the Creators Club, Newark
• Four History “Education” with Community Partners: Science Park High School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Creating spaces of community and care has been natural my whole life. My research and interest has been around understanding and healing the nervous system, using story telling and sound to help the body activate its innate healing. I am fascinated by the mysteries of resurrection and the mythos of rebirth. As a story teller at heart I feel called to tell stories that inspire the soul of humanity to rise into joy and service. As a sound healer I have studied with extraordinary healers, medical professionals, shamans, and mystics. Along with my partner, Charlie Day, we operate the Spaship and bring sound healing and immersive transformative healing experiences to the public. Playing at the marriage of therapy and theater I have been weaving sincerity and solace.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Dragonfly with Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: A few days after I was born, my mother recognized Athena in me and so named me in honor of the mythic archetype of justice and wisdom. Justice. Just us, for there is no other, only unity in all our fabulous forms. Athena is older than Greece, an ancient weaver of the Mesopotamian river goddess crew. How does the wisdom of the weavers activate our highest creative potential?
Creating spaces of community and care has been natural my whole life. My research and interest has been around understanding and healing the nervous system, using story telling and sound to help the body activate its innate healing. I am fascinated by the mysteries of resurrection and the mythos of rebirth. As a story teller at heart I feel called to tell stories that inspire the soul of humanity to rise into joy and service. As a sound healer I have studied with extraordinary healers, medical professionals, shamans, and mystics. Along with my partner, Charlie Day, we operate the Spaship and bring sound healing and immersive transformative healing experiences to the public. Playing at the marriage of therapy and theater I have been weaving sincerity and solace.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
The Sister of Queens of Indigenous Central America Totem
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Jackie Hernandez was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. She received her Bachelors of Arts in 2013 and is currently involved in teaching art classes and being an art educator. Her work has been exhibited throughout New Jersey, New York City and Philadelphia, Pa. She believes art is a never-ending learning process. Artists collect experience through their life in comprehending their relationship with their chosen medium. As an artist, She believes intricateness is the most essential fragment in a creation.
“As the details compute in my mind I trust my hands to physically make the establishments of those details. The thoughts of the details of my artwork don’t occur overnight, it occurs within being part of the experience of the self”. As a first-generation Salvadoran American, she has always questioned the diaspora of her Salvadoran culture and being a Latina. Her inspiration in her artwork leads from this, which she includes Latinx inspired symbolism into her sculptures and paintings. She believes what drove her into becoming an artist was learning about her family background. Her grandfather was a guitarist and a photographer and her grand uncle was an artist in El Salvador. She began drawing at the age of eight.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
The Sister of Queens of Indigenous Central America Totem
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Jackie Hernandez was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. She received her Bachelors of Arts in 2013 and is currently involved in teaching art classes and being an art educator. Her work has been exhibited throughout New Jersey, New York City and Philadelphia, Pa. She believes art is a never-ending learning process. Artists collect experience through their life in comprehending their relationship with their chosen medium. As an artist, She believes intricateness is the most essential fragment in a creation.
“As the details compute in my mind I trust my hands to physically make the establishments of those details. The thoughts of the details of my artwork don’t occur overnight, it occurs within being part of the experience of the self”. As a first-generation Salvadoran American, she has always questioned the diaspora of her Salvadoran culture and being a Latina. Her inspiration in her artwork leads from this, which she includes Latinx inspired symbolism into her sculptures and paintings. She believes what drove her into becoming an artist was learning about her family background. Her grandfather was a guitarist and a photographer and her grand uncle was an artist in El Salvador. She began drawing at the age of eight.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Just One Universal Heart Totem
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Nestor Lenin Uraga is painting the town red – and purple, orange, green, and shades of black and white. The first time uraga picked up a can of spray paint, he was a teenager doing graffiti in his home country of Mexico. “I started when I was only 14 years old,” he says. “I got into trouble a couple of times, because people don’t really like when you do graffiti on their property, so I started to ask for permission.” When he no longer had to look over his shoulder, his art began to improve. “I was getting better because I had more time to prepare, mix the colors, and create the designs,” he says.
Soon building owners in Mexico were seeking him out to paint murals. He created designs for store owners and did work for private residents. Uraga moved to the United States at age 19. He felt isolated until he started working in the restaurant business and met Spanish-speaking cowokers. But he realized that spending time exclusively with other Spanish speakers wouldn’t push him to learn English and get his art out there. Today he expresses himself perfectly, and is especially eloquent when he talks about art. (Source: here)
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Just One Universal Heart Totem
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Nestor Lenin Uraga is painting the town red – and purple, orange, green, and shades of black and white. The first time uraga picked up a can of spray paint, he was a teenager doing graffiti in his home country of Mexico. “I started when I was only 14 years old,” he says. “I got into trouble a couple of times, because people don’t really like when you do graffiti on their property, so I started to ask for permission.” When he no longer had to look over his shoulder, his art began to improve. “I was getting better because I had more time to prepare, mix the colors, and create the designs,” he says.
Soon building owners in Mexico were seeking him out to paint murals. He created designs for store owners and did work for private residents. Uraga moved to the United States at age 19. He felt isolated until he started working in the restaurant business and met Spanish-speaking cowokers. But he realized that spending time exclusively with other Spanish speakers wouldn’t push him to learn English and get his art out there. Today he expresses himself perfectly, and is especially eloquent when he talks about art. (Source: here)
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Four History “Immigration/Diversity” with Community Partners: Hawkins Street School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Duda Penteado is an “ARTIVIST” (visual artist, filmmaker, educator and cultural visionary) who lives between the United States and Brazil for more than 25 years. His multidisciplinary practice is based on performances, videos, installations, murals, sculptures, paintings and other visual artistic manifestations. Duda has dedicated much of his work to important social issues related to racial injustice, sustainability, cultural identity, globalization, and other geopolitical and social phenomena of the 21st century. He has had many exhibitions at galleries, cultural institutions and museums throughout the United States and Brazil, as well as Europe.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Four History “Immigration/Diversity” with Community Partners: Hawkins Street School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Duda Penteado is an “ARTIVIST” (visual artist, filmmaker, educator and cultural visionary) who lives between the United States and Brazil for more than 25 years. His multidisciplinary practice is based on performances, videos, installations, murals, sculptures, paintings and other visual artistic manifestations. Duda has dedicated much of his work to important social issues related to racial injustice, sustainability, cultural identity, globalization, and other geopolitical and social phenomena of the 21st century. He has had many exhibitions at galleries, cultural institutions and museums throughout the United States and Brazil, as well as Europe.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Four History “Immigration/Diversity” with Community Partners: Hawkins Street School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: “By integrating the ever-changing art movements to personal style, René Nascimento genuinely masters beauty. His paintings, murals and portraits are mesmerizing colorful and libres. Inclined to expressionism and universal feelings René is a classically trained contemporary artist who adds Brazilian curves to the New York City Art scene. Each canvas is visual poetry immersed in colorful vigorous yet wild brush strokes”
Renê Nascimento has been exhibiting in galleries and public spaces in Brazil, United States and Europe for almost 25 years. His work has been mentioned and honored in several art publications and collector’s books like the “The 60 Artists of Minas Gerais”, “Fine Art, Belo Horizonte 100 Years”. Mr. Nascimento was born and raised in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He holds a Fine Arts Degree from Federal University of Minas Gerais – School of Fine Arts and studied in renowned art centers like Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, FAAP, São Paulo and The Artists League of New York.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Four History “Immigration/Diversity” with Community Partners: Hawkins Street School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: “By integrating the ever-changing art movements to personal style, René Nascimento genuinely masters beauty. His paintings, murals and portraits are mesmerizing colorful and libres. Inclined to expressionism and universal feelings René is a classically trained contemporary artist who adds Brazilian curves to the New York City Art scene. Each canvas is visual poetry immersed in colorful vigorous yet wild brush strokes”
Renê Nascimento has been exhibiting in galleries and public spaces in Brazil, United States and Europe for almost 25 years. His work has been mentioned and honored in several art publications and collector’s books like the “The 60 Artists of Minas Gerais”, “Fine Art, Belo Horizonte 100 Years”. Mr. Nascimento was born and raised in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He holds a Fine Arts Degree from Federal University of Minas Gerais – School of Fine Arts and studied in renowned art centers like Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, FAAP, São Paulo and The Artists League of New York.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Four History “Education” with Community Partners, Hawkins Street School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Kaliptus (Born April 16, 1984 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a NY/NJ graduate artist from SVA with a BFA in animation and an MFA in computer art. He uses painting, film, motion graphics, animation, stop-motion, video-mixing, multimedia, interactive arts, installations and more to express ideas that are usually surreal, visionary and vital to the philosophies and understandings of the human consciousness. Kaliptus has been commissioned to work on projects for Alex Grey, Marvel, Stephen King, DC Comics, Black Tide, MTV, Prudential Center, Zoomdout, Shpongle, Sneaux, Orange County Choppers, American Choppers, and more. He is currently living in New Jersey and is a busy, self-employed freelance artist, working on a wide variety of projects from his home studio.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Four History “Education” with Community Partners, Hawkins Street School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Kaliptus (Born April 16, 1984 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a NY/NJ graduate artist from SVA with a BFA in animation and an MFA in computer art. He uses painting, film, motion graphics, animation, stop-motion, video-mixing, multimedia, interactive arts, installations and more to express ideas that are usually surreal, visionary and vital to the philosophies and understandings of the human consciousness. Kaliptus has been commissioned to work on projects for Alex Grey, Marvel, Stephen King, DC Comics, Black Tide, MTV, Prudential Center, Zoomdout, Shpongle, Sneaux, Orange County Choppers, American Choppers, and more. He is currently living in New Jersey and is a busy, self-employed freelance artist, working on a wide variety of projects from his home studio.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Four History “Immigration/Diversity” with Community Partners: Hawkins Street School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in Torreira, Portugal, in 1961, Silva was a pilot in the Portuguese Air Force between 1972 and 1978, organizers said. He attended the Association of Art and Culture of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, where he graduated in Urban Design, according to the Portugal Day Committee.
“António Pascoal and Professor José́ Maria at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto were excellent references for himself,” the committee said. “The two instilled in the student a taste for two great passions, ceramics and sculpture.” Silva’s work has been exhibited in the United States, Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Ukraine, Brazil, and Angola, among other countries, organizers said. Fernando Silva is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, the committee said.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Four History “Immigration/Diversity” with Community Partners: Hawkins Street School, Bethany Senior Citizen Center, Ironbound Senior Citizen Center, Nellie Grier Senior Citizen Center, Newark
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in Torreira, Portugal, in 1961, Silva was a pilot in the Portuguese Air Force between 1972 and 1978, organizers said. He attended the Association of Art and Culture of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, where he graduated in Urban Design, according to the Portugal Day Committee.
“António Pascoal and Professor José́ Maria at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto were excellent references for himself,” the committee said. “The two instilled in the student a taste for two great passions, ceramics and sculpture.” Silva’s work has been exhibited in the United States, Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Ukraine, Brazil, and Angola, among other countries, organizers said. Fernando Silva is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, the committee said.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Prospère (prosperous) Totem
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Christopher Mack is an iconic name within the creative design industry. Under his creative communications firm, Christopher has provided branding and creative design services to notable clients that have included Harlem Hospital, New York Life, JPMorgan Chase and Essence Magazine just to name a few.
Together, the Macks locally produce monthly art exhibitions at the Bridge Art Gallery that showcase regional and national visual artists; they produce the summer performance series “” at First Street Park every Thursday from May to August; and they produce the annual Bridge Arts Festival in September. The Bridge Arts Festival has grown into a destination event where attendees from around the region are able to enjoy the beauty of Bayonne. Nestled along the waterfront with the Bayonne Bridge as the backdrop, the Bridge Arts Festival demonstrates that the City of Bayonne is more than just a bridge.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Prospère (prosperous) Totem
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Christopher Mack is an iconic name within the creative design industry. Under his creative communications firm, Christopher has provided branding and creative design services to notable clients that have included Harlem Hospital, New York Life, JPMorgan Chase and Essence Magazine just to name a few.
Together, the Macks locally produce monthly art exhibitions at the Bridge Art Gallery that showcase regional and national visual artists; they produce the summer performance series “” at First Street Park every Thursday from May to August; and they produce the annual Bridge Arts Festival in September. The Bridge Arts Festival has grown into a destination event where attendees from around the region are able to enjoy the beauty of Bayonne. Nestled along the waterfront with the Bayonne Bridge as the backdrop, the Bridge Arts Festival demonstrates that the City of Bayonne is more than just a bridge.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Cougar at Hoboken Charter School – Upper, Hoboken
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Deborah L. Morris is a visual artist working across a variety of mediums. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in light metals but has expanded her practice to include textiles/fiber, photography, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and installation. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Asia, and her textile work is part of the collection of the Chojun Textile and Quilt Art Museum in Seoul, Korea. She has recently exhibited as an invited artist at the Korea Fiber Art Biennale in Suwon, Korea. Deborah has participated in residency programs, including Art, Artists, and You at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Mana Exchange at Mana Miami, Miami, Florida, and Space + Time Artist Residency at Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg, NJ.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Cougar at Hoboken Charter School – Upper, Hoboken
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Deborah L. Morris is a visual artist working across a variety of mediums. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in light metals but has expanded her practice to include textiles/fiber, photography, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and installation. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Asia, and her textile work is part of the collection of the Chojun Textile and Quilt Art Museum in Seoul, Korea. She has recently exhibited as an invited artist at the Korea Fiber Art Biennale in Suwon, Korea. Deborah has participated in residency programs, including Art, Artists, and You at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Mana Exchange at Mana Miami, Miami, Florida, and Space + Time Artist Residency at Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg, NJ.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Metamorphosis Swam
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Bryant Small is an Award Winning artist who lives in Jersey City, NJ and balances a social marketing and media career in New York City. Bryant has a love of culture, color and all things sparkling. In his art, he loves to toe the line of free abstraction with vibrant color blending and pushing beyond pretty. His Alcohol Ink pieces are free flowing, unpredictable and levitate from the page. Recognized as a Conception Arts, Global Art Collective 2017 Award For Excellence Winner, and selected as one of International Art Market Magazine’s Gold List of Top Emerging Contemporary Artists, Bryant has shown his work in several collective and individual shows throughout the United States and has pieces that are part of Private Collections around the Globe. He lives by the words:
“Broken Crayons Still Color… and a little glitter and sparkle NEVER hurt anybody!” Bryant is constantly creating and being inspired and sharing his work daily on Instagram- @BFLY777.
ANIMODULES CREATED:
Metamorphosis Swam
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Bryant Small is an Award Winning artist who lives in Jersey City, NJ and balances a social marketing and media career in New York City. Bryant has a love of culture, color and all things sparkling. In his art, he loves to toe the line of free abstraction with vibrant color blending and pushing beyond pretty. His Alcohol Ink pieces are free flowing, unpredictable and levitate from the page. Recognized as a Conception Arts, Global Art Collective 2017 Award For Excellence Winner, and selected as one of International Art Market Magazine’s Gold List of Top Emerging Contemporary Artists, Bryant has shown his work in several collective and individual shows throughout the United States and has pieces that are part of Private Collections around the Globe. He lives by the words:
“Broken Crayons Still Color… and a little glitter and sparkle NEVER hurt anybody!” Bryant is constantly creating and being inspired and sharing his work daily on Instagram- @BFLY777.
