Sahra Denner Learned It the Ugly Way
By: Sahra Denner Pronouns (They/Them) New York City, NY, USA “I would rather be my own audience.” Sahra Denner did not go to design school. They took film theory and Shakespeare, interned ten times, and looked up the rest online. They are now a working graphic designer and illustrator in New York. Three months into […]
Lurang Makes It All at Home
By: Michael Do Amor (Lurang) Pronouns (He/Him) San Francisco, CA, USA “Lurang takes pride in being a producer.” There is a particular kind of compliment that lands as an insult. For Lurang, the San Francisco producer behind his own records, it arrives the same way every time, someone hears a beat, assumes it came from […]
Chase Cooper Creates for Herself First
By: Chase Cooper Pronouns (She/Her) Delaware, USA “I create and live for myself FIRST, not for perfection or perception online.” Chase Cooper is twenty years old and creates as @ChasesBeauty out of Delaware. Beauty, fashion, wellness — the surface of her work looks familiar. What sits underneath it does not. She is less interested in […]
Heavy Is the Head
By: Jahneal Francis When I sat down to watch this week’s episode of House of the Dragon, I thought I knew what I was getting into. Last week’s episode ended with Rhaenyra taking King’s Landing. Otto Hightower had been executed. The crown was finally hers. I expected this week’s episode to feel triumphant. I expected […]
The Story Behind Nice to Meet me Vol.1
By Tamari Johnson “You’re allowed to evolve you’re allowed to start over you’re allowed to make mistakes you’re allowed to become someone you never see before.” My name is TAMARI, and my story began long before I understood with being an artist. At four years old I found joy and performing by seventh grade I […]
Artist | Painter
By Alexander (Pronouns: He/Him/They) Kansas City, MO, USA “To do it right is to rewrite yourself at each location.” As of the time of writing, it will be a full year since I left the US to follow my Art. In that time, I surrendered my creativity to everything other nations had for me. I visited […]
Nobody Talks About the In-Between
There’s a version of the creative journey that gets told a lot. You start small, you grind, you figure it out, and then one day — breakthrough. The portfolio fills up. The clients come in. The business takes off. What doesn’t get talked about is everything in between. The Tuesday afternoon when you’ve sent seventeen […]
Doing it scared
By: Anissa Findley Pronouns (She/her/hers) I dreamed of traveling to Asia for the longest time. I don’t know where the fascination first started. Maybe it was from my Asian friends in high school telling me about their home countries and their culture. Maybe it was when my friends introduced me to Kdrama and Kpop music. […]
Colorful Canvas 🎨 Makeup artist and content creator
One of the biggest misconceptions is that women wear makeup because they are insecure or not comfortable in their own skin, and that they are trying to hide something. For me, and for many artists, makeup is not a mask—it is an art form. Just like a painter uses a canvas resting on an easel, […]
Paulina Autumn Wants Queer Art to Feel Sacred Again
Some people create because they want attention. Others create because they have no choice. For Paulina Autumn, poetry, fashion, beauty, and lesbianism are not separate identities — they are all part of the same emotional language. Based in Syracuse, New York, Paulina’s work explores desire, identity, vulnerability, and the things people are often taught to […]