Handmade in New York City

Malik Gaines

from the Student Academy Award®–winning short Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads and the ever-relevant Do the Right Thing to the more recent Oscar®-winning BlacKkKlansman and Da 5 Bloods

and Philippe Vergne

Unity Makes Us Stronger is based on an original felt pen and crayon drawing by Ringgold from 2010

Christina Quarles From Chicago Handmade in New York CityIn Quarles paintings, limbs, torsos and faces collide and merge with familiar domestic objects made strange through color and gesture. Los Angelesbased artist Christina Quarles (born 1985) paints bodies that are subjected not only to the weight and gravity of the physical world but also to the pleasures and pressures of the social realm. Her work explores the universal experience of existing within a body, as well as the ways race, gender and