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Johnette Marie is a producer, teacher, thinker and creative whose work spans poetry, prose, film, photography and collage. Process, grief, and Black liberation are core to Johnette’s provocations yet the study of nature and spiritual herbalism are Johnette’s most prominent and current muses. Believing in self as the basic revolutionary unit, Johnette’s path reflects a commitment to community organizing and self study. With an MFA in Creative Writing and a Masters in Urban Affairs, Johnette’s methodologies draw liberally from her academic training while also recognizing art and the integration of our many selves as the truest site of knowledge and wisdom.

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Rob Stull is an accomplished illustrator, storyteller, curator and teacher from Boston, Massachusetts. With a professional career spanning three decades, he is a comic book industry veteran who has worked for every major publisher in the industry. Stull’s comic book projects include: Spider Man Adventures, Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man, Marvel vs Capcom 3, Iron Man, Uncanny X-Men, X-Force, Wolverine, New Mutants, 52, Nightwing, JLA, Firestorm, and more. He has been published by Marvel, DC, Image, Top Cow Productions, Chaos Comics, Crusade, Dark Horse Comics, Aspen, Lion Forge and others. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. He is featured in the books The History of American Graffiti (2011) and Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture (2010). Outside of comics Stull has produced art and illustration work for the music and entertainment industries. In 2019, Stull was the first African-American artist-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and his work was featured in the ground-breaking exhibition “Writing The Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation.” The exhibit celebrated the pioneers and legends of the post 80's graffiti/hip-hop movement of New York City. His long list of clients and collaborators include, Camp Lo, Clear Channel, Cornerstone Promotions, Dinco D from Leaders Of The New School, Guru from Gang Starr, Nubiatik Publishing, Red Pill Productions, The Fader Magazine, The Matrix Films, Time Warner, Tommy Boy Records, Tribeca, Virgin Records America Inc. and Warner Brothers.

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Born in the Bronx in New York City, Saladine T. Wallace is known to the world as musician/artist Geechi Suede of the iconic group Camp Lo. Signed to Profile/Arista/Sony Records in the early 90s, he emerged onto the music scene in 1995 with his first hit single titled “Cooley High,” and featured in the film The Great White Hype starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Foxx, and Damon Wayans. Following up in 1997 with the timeless classic "Luchini aka This Is It," from the successful debut album Uptown Saturday Night. With co-writing credits on Jay Z’s platinum single "Feeling it," he solidified and cemented his place in music and Hip-Hop culture forever. Geechi Suede continues to tour the world and is currently releasing new music while perfecting his craft in his other two passions of film and fashion. Be on the lookout for more lavish colorful art from this eclectic spirit.

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Arielle Gray is a Black queer storyteller and artist currently based in Boston. She is an arts engagement producer at WBUR, Boston's NPR station, where she also reports on Black and brown communities through the lens of art and culture. Her art examines the liminal spaces between her various identities- queer, Black and neurodivergent- to find places of possibility and creation. Recently, her writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Glamour, the Boston Art Review and ZORA Magazine and her artwork has been featured in the Boston Globe and Boston Art Review. In 2021, she, Cierra Peters, and Jen Mergel co-curated Combahee's Radical Call, a multi-modal exhibit exploring Black feminism in Boston at the Boston Center for the Arts. She is a 2020 Create Well Fund awardee and a 2021 A4A artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

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