Druis A. Beasley is an artist, educator, and activist with an extensive background in diversity, arts-in-education, arts administration, humanistic community development, creative writing, and performance. She conducts interdisciplinary arts-in-education residencies; literary residencies in Poetry, Non/Fiction, Autobiography; and Storytelling. Along with…
Live/Work Residency Instagram Facebook Sam Gleason is a singer/songwriter and music producer who creates music spanning a wide variety of genres such as rock, pop, folk, and rap. He also does video production and editing. He moved to Albany in…
Live/Work Residency Artistic Focus: Visual Art, Painting and Collage Contact Facebook Instagram Fine Art America Website Growing up, I was exposed to many different artists and media, and my love for collages was primarily inspired by the work of Romare…
Facebook Instagram MUSIC Andre "Chaz Money" Latimer is a local rapper, audio engineer, novelist, composer, and songwriter. His most recent work has been with providing audio engineer support to a local youth dance group in the community.
Soundcloud: MadBeatz Website: Reverb Nation Coming out of Queens, NY into the music game is Randy “MadBeatz” Susswell. Hip hop runs from his DNA as he is also the younger brother of Mr. Cheeks from the multi-platinum group, the Lost…
Cat Jones Live/Work Residency Artistic Focus: Visual Art, Painting and Filmmaking WEBSITE Cat Jones is a visual artist from the Pacific NW, currently living in New York. She's best known as a painter, for her ferocious and uncompromising exploration of…
Live/Work Residency Medium(s): Vocal Performance, Journalist Facebook: Jumaadal Aakhira Smikle Instagram: @jumaa.aakhira Born and raised in Albany, NY, Jumaadal (who goes by JumAA) is a rapper who’s lyrics topically focus on internal struggles and his unique perspective on ethereal subjects,…
Live/Work Residency Medium(s): Videography Company: DLP, RapDillz Dillon Latimer has become one of Albany's most sought after videographers through his company, DLP. Dillon also founded RapDillz.com in 2016 where he uses his love for hip hop to push the culture…
Live/Work Residency Contact Website Charlie Sweeney is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened at festivals around the world. His latest work, The Vow, is a narrative short depicting the struggles of a cross-cultural domestic relationship. To date, The Vow…
Live/Work Residency: Medium(s): Acrylics, watercolors, sculpty, soft glass, performance props (poi, staff, double staff,hoop, isolation hoops, fans, palm torches,and eating torches) Company: Spectra Art Contact: tabithaheisch@gmail.com Facebook Website Twitch Paintings and music pull you in because it’s almost as…