Marwen Artist Database

Marwen provides free visual arts, college and career programming for Chicago’s young people from under-resourced communities and schools in middle through high school. www.marwen.org

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Gabriela Escovar, how to make a ghost

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Liz Born

-Bat baby

-Sheela-na-gig

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Nicole Marroquin, 

-Missy Elliot, upon Returning from Teotihuacan

ceramic sculpture, 2016

-Future Ancestors

ceramic sculpture, 2016

-Eat Shit

ceramic sculpture, 2016

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Ricardo Santos Hernandez, DESERT

-Aqui no hay agua, 2006

Oil and permanent marker on canvas

-Rooftops, 2006

Oil on canvas

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Carlos Barbarena

-Madre del Desaparecido, 2008

-Pieta, 2008

-Los Migrantes, 2009

-Hambre, 2009

““Años de Miedo” (Years of Fear) is a Print Portfolio in homage to the victims of war, based on my memories and the collective historical memory of my country (Nicaragua) in the decades of the 70′s and 80′s. But, at the same time, this does not mean that it is limited geographically, because it is the reality in many countries at present”

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Mel Cook

-Say Her Name (But You Can’t)

Acrylic, Oil on Canvas

2019

-We’ve Bled and We’ve Bred for You! Isn’t That Enough?!

Oil on Canvas 

2019

-You Are a Mirror My Dear, with a Hole in The Middle

Oil on Canvas

2019

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Jesse Harrod, Rangers (plexiglass, parador, metal)

“Across my practice, I manipulate and transform materials to animate their sexual and sensual qualities and explore the intersections among queer kinship, support, and sexuality. In my sculptural installations, I work with rope as a pliable, linear element that I regard much like a drawing tool, specifically utilizing knot making techniques such as macramé in ways that can be understood as simultaneously restraining and supporting.”

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Natacha Bustos, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur comic

https://remezcla.com/features/culture/natacha-bustos-moon-girl-and-devil-dinosaur/

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Tomi Um, BUONGIORNO!

What Monday morning sometimes looks like in Brooklyn, NY.

Tomi Um is a Brooklyn-based illustrator whose work can be seen in various places from newspapers to the tops of taxi cabs. She is currently working on a children's picture book.

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Nicole Paulina

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Mickalene Thomas

INTERIOR: BLUE COUCH AND GREEN OWL , 2016

INTERIOR: FIREPLACE WITH BLACK BIRD

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Daiana Ruiz,

“The artist defies the tall, lanky frames which have traditionally filled fashion illustrations and magazines, rendering her figures in a vast range of skin tones and body types. In step, she has become a go-to illustrator for brands and projects looking to celebrate women, body positivity, and diversity.”

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Después de que el clima se haya templado en otoño y las noches se hayan vuelto más frías, es hora de sembrar tus bulbos y soñar de nuevo con la primavera.

Nadat die weer in die herfs getemper is en die nagte kouer geword het, is dit tyd om jou bolle te saai en weer met die lente te droom.

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Daiana Ruiz

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Genesis Belanger, cheap cookie and a tall drink of water, 2017

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Shawna X, Birth

“An independent artist & creative based in New York, known for her vibrant and highly graphical image-making across mediums in digital, spatial and motion spaces. Beyond her collaborations creating unique experiences with clients in music, fashion, technology, including Adidas, Samsung, New Yorker, Dr Martens. She enjoys projects around cultural identity, sexuality, the modern creative process and analytical commentaries on social stereotypes.”

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Kenyatta Forbes

“Kenyatta Forbes is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses her own experiences in exploration of fiber as a lease for understanding the world.  Using a mixture of traditional hand techniques like weaving, knotting, sewing, and leather making, she combines elements to create narratives.  Focusing more on process that completion, pieces are not planned but born and developed over time.  Seeing her practice as a component to mindfulness, she uses the meditative nature of fiber play to form connections to the past, present, and future.”

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Panteha Abareshi

“My pieces are an encapsulation and depiction of my struggles and my feelings, literally inspired by my daily experiences with depression and anxiety,”