All posts by Emerald Arguelles

In Conversation with: Bob Landström

Bob Landström is an artist who primarily works with crushed, pigmented volcanic rock. His abstract paintings, with their highly granulated texture and color combinations, only achieved through such a medium,…

In Conversation with: Frank Frances and Toby Kaufmann – Lift Every Black Voice

During the month of February, Facebook’s Lift Black Voices hub will feature an expansive view of the Black diaspora — honoring and celebrating the past, present, and future of Black communities. Content…

Ashley Garrels

Ashley Garrels is a visual artist and photographer based in Seattle, WA. Her work often explores the relationship between body and space, ideas of intimacy, and human interaction. She exists…

Black Women Photographers Presents: A Q&A Conversation with AB+DM.

Friday, February 5, 2021 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Black Women Photographers Presents: A Q&A conversation with Ahmad Barber and Donté Maurice of AB+DM. View their work at abdmstudio.com. This…

In Conversation With: Barbara Cole

Barbara Cole’s artwork is extensively collected by both public and private institutions and has been exhibited worldwide in such venues as the Canadian embassies in Washington, D.C. and Tokyo, Japan.…

Gloria Berenice Moreno

Gloria Berenice Moreno is a visual anthropologist and photographer based in Copenhagen. Her background in anthropology and her versatility for the arts, in general, led her to conflate research with…

Black Women Photographers Presents: A Conversation with Pete Souza.

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Black Women Photographers Presents: A Conversation with Pete Souza. Based on the New York Times #1 bestsellers, An Intimate Portrait and…

Black Women Photographers Presents: A Q&A Conversation with Mahaneela.

Monday: February 1, 2021 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Black Women Photographers Presents: A Q&A conversation with Mahaneela. View her work at mahaneela.com. This creative talk is powered by Adobe…

Kathy Ferguson

Kathy Ferguson, a mixed media artist living in New York City, paints colorful abstract settings that are whimsical, richly layered, and complex. Using combinations of geometric and organic shapes, she…

Wenxuan Wang

Wenxuan Wang, born in Shandong, China. Now works and lives in London. She graduated from Communication University of China in 2014 with a B.A. in Photography. And now she is…

Grayson Burke

Grayson is a senior at Rhodes College, currently living and working in Memphis, Tennessee. He goes back and forth often between here and his hometown in Old Hickory, which is…

Luisa Madrid

Luisa Madrid is a first-generation Latina photographer who specializes in portrait and documentary photography. Originally from Miami, she now resides in New York City, capturing the many faces, cultures, and…

Matt Williams

Matt Williams was born in Winnipeg, Treaty One Territory on a spring day in the late ’80s. He grew up on the edge of town beside the Assiniboine River, a…

In Conversation With: Daniel Sackheim

Daniel Sackheim is an American Film & Television director and producer best known for his work on such highly acclaimed series as HBO’s True Detective Season 3, Game of Thrones,…

Andrew Shea

Andrew Shea is an Architect based in Boston Massachusetts. He graduated with his Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his Masters of Architecture from the University…

What We’ve Found: Color + Concept

First, I want to say thank you to all of the artists that took the time for submitting your work! 2020 is finally behind us and 2021 is here. This…

Alan Nakkash

Alan Nakkash is a first-generation Iraqi-American artist based out of San Diego, CA. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from the University of California, Riverside in 2014.…

Blair LeBlanc

Blair LeBlanc (b. Atlanta, GA 1994) is an American artist living between New York City and Atlanta, Georgia. Her first solo painting exhibition (September – October 2020. Athens, GA) marked…

Roberto Ricci D’Andonno

Born in Cuneo, Italy in 1971, Roberto has a Master in Photography from the International Center of Photography in New York, a school directed by Cornell Capa, where he was…

In Conversation With: Ilyes Griyeb

Ilyes Griyeb (b.1989) is a self-taught photographer living between Paris and Meknès. Using photography as both an art form and documentary device, his work straddles the worlds of documentary, fashion…

Beihua Guo

Beihua Guo (b. 1998) was born in Shanghai, China. He is an artist based in Los Angeles and a student at Pitzer College. His work has been featured in group…

Niall Hodson

My name is Niall Hodson and I am a London/Manchester based photographer who has been brought up in Greater Manchester and from a working-class background. I am 19 years old…

Vera Saldivar de Lira

Vera Saldivar de Lira (AGS, Mexico, b. 1993) is a lens-based visual artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BA in Architecture from ITESM Campus…

What We’ve Found: Color + Concept

One of my favorite movies is “Moonlight” written and directed by Barry Jenkins, not only for the beautiful writing and the portrayal of Black love and queerness which allowed so…