I create art because it is a unique way for me to express myself. When I create art, I don’t think about anything negative or stressful. I just let thoughts fly around in my mind. Art makes me feel relaxed. My work is inspired by my family and Word on the Street. What...

This piece is about community and the goal that it works towards and reaches. The important thing about this piece is that community can do anything - as long as everyone helps out a little.  This work to me means that having a community is very important and can take...

This painting represents drug influence by peers on someone who is already under the influence.

Self Portrait by Jay

This is a batik color watercolor painting of a girl’s body in the background you can read that it says “love yourself and your body”. Body positivity is very important to me and i created this art piece to represent it.

I took this picture of myself then painted it making the color of the shirt red instead of the color it actually was (background color) to make it pop out.

I do not have direct experience with police brutality, as I am a white female. However, it is an extremely important issue, and I see it affecting both my immediate community as well as the entire country. For this work, I collected news headlines and quotes from...

The purpose of my “Black Lives Matter” piece was to explain that I completely support this movement, considering that I am a young black woman. The picture is meant to show that we as black women (or African Americans as a whole) are deeper and have more to show...

These drawings are composed of a pairing of color, ink, and line work. This echoes common themes that I find and learn from in my life, how opposites can enhance each other's differences. This mixing of forms and media brings me joy, consequently making the work...