My name is Andrea Celeste Del Cid. I was born in 1980 in Guatemala City in the country of Guatemala, located in Central America. I came to live in New York when I was 10 years old. I have always enjoyed art, from painting to sculpting, writing and anything, really, as...
Mohamed A. Amin is a queer Indo-Caribbean, Guyanese Muslim artist commonly known as International Dancer Zaman (he/him/they) and the drag-centric activist Sundari The Indian Goddess (she/her/they). He uses performing arts to promote Caribbean Arts & Guyanese...
Juan Uribe is a Colombian musician and recording engineer living in New York, he has played with La Cumbiamba Eneye, Rebolu, Edmar Castañeda, and the United Nations Orchestra. After earning his degree in Jazz Performance (Saxophone) from City College of New York, he...
Dr. Liu was born in China and has lived in the Albany area for over 30 years. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and formerly served as a principal economist for the State of New York. Alongside his professional career, he has maintained a lifelong interest in art,...
Denise “Weetahmoe” Silva-Dennis (Shinnecock/Hassanamisco-Nipmuc) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator living on the Shinnecock Nation in Southampton, New York. Denise retired from the Southampton School District in 2016 after a 21-year teaching career, K-12, as...
I make acoustic guitars in a shop about the size of a two-car garage, and I use woods that grow right here in the area where I live. What is most important to me in guitar making is to create a pleasing sound, an attractive appearance, good craftsmanship, and an...
I grew up in a family that had parties for everything, from christenings to first communions, quinceañeras to weddings. A party was food, music and dance to celebrate milestones in life, except funerals. But when mom sent me to dance classes...
Shayee is a multifaceted Nigerian artist, born into a family of visual and performing artists. She started at the tender age of three, dancing, singing, and doing textile and painting alongside her mother, Nike Okundaye. She has always found a way to infuse her...
I spent my early years in New York speaking Ukrainian as my first language. When I started kindergarten, I realized everything about me was different from the other kids at school. I wanted to fit in, and had a hard time accepting myself for who I was. By high school...
Dobre Den! Good Day! My name is Cheryl Dutko and I am an American of Carpatho-Rusyn descent. I imagine that you never heard of a country called Carpatho-Rus and you would be correct. There never was a country of that name. But people who live in the...