Sarah Meyers Brent

Represented by the Chase Young Gallery in Boston, Brent has exhibited widely. She has had solo exhibitions recently at The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA, The Mayor’s Gallery in Boston, MA and The Moss Gallery in Falmouth, ME. Recent group shows include “New England Now” at the Shelburne Art Museum, Shelburne, VT and “Still No More” at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH. Reviews of her numerous exhibitions have been featured in Art New England Magazine, The Boston Globe, Sculpture Magazine, and other publications. Her work is in the permanent collections of Danforth Art Museum, Liquitex Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, and in numerous private collections.  

Born in Hadley, NY, Sarah Meyers Brent received her BS from Skidmore College, her Post-Baccalaurate in Studio Art from Brandeis University, and her MFA in painting from the University of New Hampshire. The artist maintains a studio at Waltham Mills in Waltham, MA.  

Jamal Thorne

Jamal Thorne is a Boston based artist who is known for his use of the drawing medium to investigate and visualize the nature of performed identity. With massive drawings, Jamal blends references from popular culture, religious iconography, and symbolism in an attempt to create a possible image of what our multilayered identities could look like as a result of over consumption.  
 
The nature of performed identity becomes increasingly important when the work is used to question the the line that divides the African American male experience and the universal experience. The most important questions that emerge are pertinent to which identity needs to be performed and for whom should it be performed.Constant movement between performed identities also prompts the inevitable question of “Which identity is authentic?” Because making the work generates questions and not answers, the discussion is open and ongoing.  
 
Jamal Thorne received his B.A. in Photographic Media from Morgan State University in 2008. Thorne relocated to Boston where he became the pioneering student in a newly formed cooperative M.F.A. Program between Northeastern University and The School of the Museum of Fine Art. He has exhibited his work at venues that include the James E. Lewis Museum of Art in Baltimore, and the Huret and Specter Gallery in Boston. Jamal Thorne received the Joan Mitchell MFA Grant in 2012. Jamal Thorne currently lives in Boston and serves as a faculty member at Northeastern University while continuing his work as a visual artist. 

Christina Chan

Christina Chan is a self-taught art activist dedicated to raising awareness about modern slavery. Through her art, she tells the stories of survivors, hoping to educate viewers on the prevalence of modern slavery and its connections to their everyday choices.

Her journey began at a Christian conference in college, where she first learned about this issue. Since then, the global number of people trapped in modern slavery has doubled to 50 million. This crisis is intricately tied to products we consume daily, from chocolate to smartphones, and
is driven by factors like climate change, war, gender inequality, and poverty.

As the saying goes, “once you see it, you can’t unsee it.” In 2022, she decided to do just that -make the survivors seen. Since then, she’s spent hundreds of hours poring over their faces, using charcoal to capture their strength and beauty.

Christina has done solo exhibits, including at Lost Origins Gallery in Washington, D.C., and has completed commissions for businesses and organizations, including the Global Fund for Ending Modern Slavery for presentation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and The Aruna Project, a business employing survivors of human trafficking. She’s also dedicated to mobilizing the younger generation with exhibits and talks at universities including Cornell University.

Outside of art, Christina is committed to ending the cycles of modern slavery in the corporate world through responsible business practices and economic empowerment for survivors.