Meet the Visual Artists
Abby Neale
Abby Neale is an artist and educator based in Jamaica Plain. She teaches BPS students through the Eliot School of Applied Arts. She is interested in how nature is a metaphor for social justice movements as she creates zines, printed matter, and interactive installations. She also loves raccoons.
Contact Abby: madebyabbyneale@gmail.com
instagram.com/lavender_menace_press
Adebukola Ajao
Adebukola Ajao is a freelance writer-turned-digital media entrepreneur who is passionate about storytelling and driving awareness through powerful marketing campaigns. With over 5 years of brand marketing experience, she's enthused to equip small businesses with tools to compete in the market. When she isn’t media consulting, you’ll find her educating and mentoring young people, preparing them for their digital first futures.
Contact Adebukola: gold@adebukola.com
instagram.com/adebukoladotcom
Purchase: adebukola.com
Only work available for purchase is “Makeidas Hands”
Anne Offen
Anne Offen is a self-taught painter and aspiring writer, currently studying creative writing at Emerson College. She uses primarily acrylic, watercolors, and glue to create her contemporary abstract paintings. As a queer and differently abled artist, her work is a challenge to the “able” world that people who are differently abled are not a burden, but an asset, to society. Offen began to pursue painting in earnest in 2017 after being injured in an accident . While she has since made a full recovery, she was forced to put her plans on hold while she recovered, allowing her to begin experimenting with different artistic techniques. In the future, Offen hopes to continue to use her artistic skills to show that different doesn't mean less than.
Contact Anne: aoffen271@gmail.com
instagram.com/anneoffenarts
Purchase: via email or Instagram
Jamaul Smith
Marketing artist Jamaul Smith found his passion for Art in 3rd Grade. Jamaul followed this passion to Syracuse University, where he earned a degree in Illustration. Growing up between New Mexico and the Maryland-DC area, Jamaul's artistic style developed into a mashup of West & East Coast influences. Urban landscapes, like those found around his new hometown of Boston, collide with signature stylistic elements (like 90s-styled cars, trucks, and classic bicycles). Sprinkled with culturally relevant hangouts influenced by each city he called home. They mingle with traditional and digital methods to capture the proud African, Caribbean, and Latinx heritage within the African Diaspora. Black women take center stage in each skillfully crafted vignette. He has worked with many notable brands, including Adidas, Boost Mobile, Puma, the National Black Caucus, etc. Various book illustrations, apparel designs, numerous art shows, commission pieces, and passion projects round out his Artist's resume. Jamaul is the artistic muscle that brings several brands' creative visions to life.
Contact Jamaul: xrtdesignlabs@gmail.com
instagram.com/xrt_designlabs
Purchase: via email or Instagram
Jeremy Goldberg
While I have been into making art for a long time, I decided to fully pursue a career in the arts two years ago. I have been painting full time since. I am currently a graduate student at Tufts in the Art Education Program, and hope to teach high school painting starting next fall.
Contact Jeremy: jeremyjsg@gmail.com
instagram.com/@jsg_finearts
Purchase: via email or Instagram
Katie Gorson
Katie Gorson is a digital media artist who combines sculpture, installation and electronics to create immersive experiences which engage all of the senses and pushes the audience to question their reality, their relationships and their roles in society.
Contact Katie: katiegorson@gmail.com
instagram.com/skidmorecollegeartmajor
Not available for sale, but can be viewed at https://katiegorson.myportfolio.com/work
Liz Kaminga and Tori Parker
We are two single moms, in love with color and creation. We’ve converted a backyard shed into a private tie-dye studio, so we can spread joy with one of a kind items, filled with vibrancy.
Contact Liz and Tori: bostontiedye@gmail.com
instagram.com/Bostontiedye/
Purchase: via Instagram, email, or Etsy: Bostontiedye.etsy.com
Maria Servellon
Maria Servellón is an award-winning filmmaker, multimedia artist, educator, and arts advocate from Boston, MA. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Japanese from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and her Master of Fine Arts in Film and Media Art from Emerson College. Her focus is film and digital media, including projection, installation, photography, drawing, and design. Maria's work often explores synesthetic relationships between art, music, and dance. Her work has exhibited and screened in Boston, New York, California, Oregon, UK, and Mexico thus far.
Contact Maria: riaservellon@gmail.com
instagram.com/riaservellon
instagram.com/hyphenfilm
http://mariaservellon.com/
Mikaela Fishman
Mikaela Fishman is a graphic artist from Cabin John, Maryland. She graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in Visual Arts, specializing in digital art. She works in a wide variety of media, ranging from printmaking to animation to long-exposure photography. Mikaela currently resides in Boston with her roommates, the extremely large houseplant that she isn’t quite ready for, and an inexplicably large amount of tinned fish. She enjoys cooking, unnecessarily re-decorating her living room, and drawing pictures of very small insects.
Contact Mikaela: mikaelafishman@gmail.com
instagram.com/mikaelafishman.art
mikaelafishman.com
Purchase: via website or instagram
S. T. Gately
I am a 2D Visual Artist and k-8 Art Teacher. I received my BA at Hampshire College in Comparative Religion and Visual Art. I earned my M. ED at Lesley University in Teaching Visual Art. I have lived in Boston for fifteen years and I have never lived anywhere besides Massachusetts. I am an artist who uses line and color to express my emotions about a variety of issues, both personally and globally. I am heavily influenced by the symbolism inherent in graffiti, as well as religious iconography of every culture. Using these references for my art, I strive to create my own systems of symbols to visually communicate with the world.
Contact S. T.: saratgately@yahoo.com
instagram.com/stgately
www.facebook.com/StGately
Purchase: via email or Instagram
