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...