Nic[o] Brierre Aziz is a Haitian-New Orleanian interdisciplinary artist and curator born and raised in New Orleans, LA. His current practice is deeply community-focused and rooted around the utilization of under-discussed personal and collective histories to reimagine the future. His work is also centered around the Caribbean Diaspora and he is very interested in Blackness as an experience, construct and capitalist tool. He has worked extensively leading community-engaged projects throughout New Orleans with entities such as the Office of Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Antenna, The Joan Mitchell Center, the Arts Council of New Orleans, Prospect, and most recently the New Orleans Museum of Art. He is also the manager of the Haitian Cultural Legacy Collection, a collection of over 400 artworks started by his maternal grandfather in 1944.

Nic[o] has contributed to publications such as HuffPost, Terremoto, and Hyperallergic and his work has been featured by The Oxford American, The Associated Press, and The Alternative UK. He is the recipient of several artist residencies and fellowships and most recently was selected as a 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellow and a 2021 Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence.

He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College, a Master of Science degree from The University of Manchester (UK) and will be pursuing a Master of Fine Arts Degree with a concentration in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art starting in Fall 2023.

Steven Baboun is an artist, photographer, and creative director from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, based in New York City. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Film and Media Arts and a minor in Education Studies from American University, as well as a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Parsons School of Design. Baboun works in photography, video, performance, textile + multimedia installation, and design.

Currently, he is the founder and creative director of Studio Baboun, a creative house based in Brooklyn, New York.

Daveed Baptiste is an interdisciplinary artist whose work incorporates fashion, textiles, and photography. He draws his inspiration from his migration from Port au-Prince, Haiti to Miami, Florida. Through collaborative projects like, Haiti To Hood and Between Lands, Baptiste investigates the notion of race, gender, and class within the Haitian community and the larger Caribbean diaspora.

He was awarded a year-long apprenticeship with Converse, where he co-designed the Black Joy Collection and a new colorway/material design for the Energy basketball team.

Baptiste earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in New York. His photographs have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and American Vogue. He has participated in exhibitions at New York University and the Aperture Foundation. Baptiste is currently an artist-in-residence at the Silver Arts Project in lower Manhattan.

Tasha Dougé is a Bronx-based, Haitian-infused artist, artivist, and cultural vigilante. Her body of work activates conversations around women empowerment, health advocacy, sexual education, societal "norms," identity, and Black community pride. Through conceptual art, teaching, and performance, Dougé devotedly strives to empower and to forge a broad understanding of the contributions of Black people, declaring that her "voice is the first tool within my art arsenal."

She has been featured in The New York Times, Essence Magazine and Sugarcane Magazine. She has shown nationally at RISD Museum, The Apollo Theater and Rush Arts Gallery (Philadelphia). Internationally, Dougé has shown at the Hygiene Museum in Germany. She is an alum of the Laundromat Project's Create Change Fellowship, Urban Bush Women's Summer Leadership Institute, The Studio Museum of Harlem's Museum Education Program, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute's Innovative Cultural Advocacy (ICA) Fellowship and their inaugural Digital Evolution Artist Retention (DEAR) program.

Laurena Finéus (she/her) is a Haitian-Canadian visual artist and educator. In her practice, Finéus has been concerned with representations of Black geographies, maroon thought, and migratory histories through an array of painterly imagined landscapes. The teachings of Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot in ‘silencing the past’ inform her understanding of visual narration in her practice. Finéus’ strategies include the collapsing of history in order to question its production and mechanisms.

Finéus is currently an MFA candidate at Columbia University. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Ottawa Art Gallery (2021), Karsh-Masson Gallery (2021), the Ottawa School of Art(2021) and Art Mûr (2019) among others, and is part of a range of private collections internationally. Finéus is the recipient of the Helen Frankentheler fund (2023), the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant (2022), the Ottawa Arts Council IBPOC Emerging Artist Award (2022), the Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Art scholarship (2020), and the Ineke Harmina Standish Memorial (2019). She has previously facilitated a range of bilingual workshops for the Ottawa Art Gallery, Arts Network Ottawa, La Majeur Haute Spécialisation en Arts and L’association Canadienne-Francaise De L’ontario.

Finéus has worked with Wallspace Gallery in Ottawa, Ontario and L’institut National Art Contemporain in Montréal, Québec. Finéus is based in New York, NY.

Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary conceptual artist, curator, and writer Tania L. Balan-Gaubert’s work explores race, transnational identity, and history through photography, mixed media, installation, and video. Born on the Council of the Three Fires and Miami lands (Illinois) to Haitian parents, Balan-Gaubert was raised between Chicago’s southside and the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn on Lenapehoking land (New York). Guided by Haitian, African, and Indigenous-based cultural traditions, Balan-Gaubert creates works that are caught between several realms. She combines personal archive(s), history, lore, images, found and ready-made objects, and spirituality with craft materials to construct hybrid works.

Balan-Gaubert earned her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2018 and her MA in African American Studies from Columbia University in 2012. She has exhibited at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), Minnesota Street Project, SOMArts Cultural Center, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA), CaribBEING House in residence at the Brooklyn Museum, Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The Davis Gallery at Houghton House.

Madjeen Isaac is a Brooklyn-based Haitian-American artist whose practice is rooted in home, communality, and land stewardship. Isaac reimagines and hybridizes landscapes by incorporating elements of her hometown Brooklyn and ancestral homeland Haiti. She centers Diasporic experiences and practices such as agriculture and tending to the spaces they occupy in exchange of joy, leisure, and liberation challenging the constraints of reality.

Isaac is currently an artist in residence at Smack Mellon. She received a BFA in Fine Art from The Fashion Institute of Technology (2018) and an MA in Art+Edu & Community Practice at New York University (2021). Residencies completed include, BRIClab: Contemporary Artist Residency Program (2022/23), the Laundromat Project Fellowship (2021) and LakouNOU Artist Residency Program at Haiti Cultural Exchange (2018). Her work has been exhibited at Swivel Gallery (2023) Jenkins Johnson Projects Gallery (2023), The Frost Art Museum (2023), The Art and Design Gallery at FIT (2020) among others and has works in private collections. Isaac is a recipient of the Women of Distinction Award for Arts and Entertainment Award (2022) and New York City Artist Corps Grant (2021).

Fabiola Jean-Louis was born in Port Au Prince, Haiti on September 10th, 1978 and moved to Brooklyn, NY at a young age. While attending the High School of Fashion Industries, her passion for the arts flourished. Fabiola discovered her talent for photography many years later in November 2013 while on a journey of artistic rediscovery. She began taking self-portraits as a matter of convenience, shyness, and because she knew how to convey the stories she wanted to tell using her body. Later, her work grew to include other subjects, and costumes, as well as sculptures made entirely out of paper. Today, her practice is focused on experimentation through the use of different techniques, disciplines, and even art styles.

While her images have been described as "magical, moody, and mysterious", Fabiola's body of work is also that of visual activism as she challenges the hegemony of society. Simultaneously, her goal is always to capture something that is not necessarily tangible in our world… Something that is beyond our humanity, and perhaps even pure.

Her love of Afro-futurism, science/ science fiction, pre and post-industrial eras, elves, fairies, and history and folklore, are also central themes in her work. Her series, Rewriting History, a body of work consisting of period paper gowns, painterly photographs, and Polaroids, opened as a solo exhibition at Smithsonian affiliates, DuSable Museum of African American History, Alan Avery Art Company, and Andrew Freedman Home to critical acclaim. It also earned her acceptance into the highly sought-after residency at the Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York City, and in September 2019, LUX Museum, San Diego. Fabiola was invited to join and participated in a BRIC Media group exhibition, Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas. In 2021, The Metropolitan Museum of Art commissioned a paper sculpture for a two-year exhibition, “Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room''. It debuted on November 5th, 2021 - making her the first Haitian, female artist to show in the prestigious institution. That same year, the Yale Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, acquired Jean-Louis’s entire Rewriting History print collection - along with three paper sculptures.

Fabiola now sets her sights on entirely new projects beyond Rewriting History that include short films, pottery, large-scale installations, and a new photographic series titled, “Atonement”. Her works have been featured in the New York Times, Architectural Digest, Vogue, Elle Decor, Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Modern Luxury, Artnet News, Art Critical, Hyperallergic, Atlanta Art Constitution, Chicago Sun Times, The Fashion Journal, The Haitian Times, and more. Her paper dress sculpture, “Justice of Ezili”, is on view at the Metropolitan Museum until 2023.

Riva Nyri Precil is a Haïtian multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. After receiving a degree in Music Therapy from Loyola University in New Orleans Riva began a dynamic career that includes work as an author, a visual artist and jewelry maker, a musician, and dancer. Her work creates connections that not only honor Haitian traditions but present them as relevant today. Her Altar Art and Wearable Altar projects position these customs as necessary practices for contemporary living.

A solo artist and a member of the band Bohio Music- she is widely known throughout Haïti and its Diaspora for her unique fusion of Haïtian music with African roots, American R&B, Soul, and Jazz. As the director of Tout Se Pa she offers dance education around the world. Riva’s practice is about elevating and preserving Caribbean culture, promoting wellness, facilitating healing, and offering ways to engage spirituality through her music and dance therapy.

Natacha Thys is a Haitian-American, lawyer-turned-artist. After practicing human rights law for many years, she began painting in 2011 after a dream of seeing her grandmother and flashes of color. She believes her grandmother and other ancestors provide a living presence in her deeply spiritual paintings. Her style suggests a reinterpretation and merging of color field abstraction, cubism and impressionism. She has studied painting, pottery, interior design and art history with a variety of art institutions and programs in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, including the Corcoran School of Art and Design and the Virginia Art League.

Natacha has been exhibiting her work since 2012 and her work was reviewed positively and featured in the Washington Post in 2015 and 2016. She continues to exhibit regularly in Washington, DC and New York City, where her work is included in several private collections.

Natacha has been a member of Foundry Gallery, one of DC’s most established member-operated galleries. Selected works are also represented by the Hermitage Gallery.

Founded by DJ/Producer/Event Curator Sabine Blaizin, Oyasound Productions is a music lifestyle brand dedicated to amplifying the vibrant intersections of cultures within the African Diaspora cultures through the syncretism of traditional rhythms and electronic music. In collaboration with & Percussionist/Producer/Vocalist Okai Musik, “Tonight We Fly” is a sonic voyage that invites the audience into a captivating symphony of sight and sound. Each song on the album will be paired with a unique, hand-painted conch shell, housing an embedded MP3 player. This immersive experience lets listeners explore the music on a deeply personal level, unlocking hidden layers within each composition.