Jamaal Bonnette is a Piano Craft Gallery board member and artist out of Brockton, Mass. Jamaal has been painting and displaying his work since its early inception in 2014. Jamaal has displayed his work in galleries and museums across the country including Boston, New Jersey, LA, RI, & NY. His art has been housed in places as the Piano Craft Gallery for a month-long interactive exhibit (2018 & 2022). The Menino Arts Center, The Stacy Adams Cultural Building, The Liquid Art House (2017) and Savvor NightClub in Boston. Jamaal has teamed up with the Culture Collection of CT, to display his art in Hartford (2016). He was also spotlight artist for a week-long installation at Canvas of Memphis in Memphis, TN (2018). His work implements ideas of higher spiritual entities to highlight overlooked love, compassion & growth. His work is full of multiple meanings and offers different perspectives that are expressed by bringing to light the most hidden divisions of sanity and reality.

DaNice D Marshall (pronounced DUh-NYSE) is a born writer, from Boston.  In 2016, doctors sent her home to put her house in order, after a life threatening, rare and incurable disease put her in the hospital for 28 days.

Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis left DaNice with hearing loss, needing a cane to walk and unable to concentrate to write.   DaNice started to paint abstracts, as she puts it: “mostly to watch the paint dry”.  She overcame these challenges and began painting Narrative Art in 2020.

Her work has shown around the country, venues like Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, SoWa and several solo exhibitions, including the Piano Craft Gallery in Boston.  

DaNice’s artworks have been featured on network TV shows, like “Brilliant Minds” and “Found” on NBC (streaming on Peacock) as well as solo digital billboards around Boston. 

DaNice is a MassMOCA ‘24 Fellow.  This year she received Governor Healey’s Citation for Art in the Commonwealth of MA and her art exhibited at the Statehouse.  DaNice was named Boston’s 2023 Faye Chandler Emerging Artist, that same year she was awarded a Mass Cultural Council Grant recipient.

DaNice lives with her husband Ben, and their dog Tigger, outside of Boston.

Boston based Haitian American multidisciplinary artist, Sophia Dubuisson, known as Phia has been honing her skills in drawing, painting and various different mediums for the past 10 years.  

While completing  her high school studies, she discovered a passion for art. Since then she has paired her love for Art with her fascination with the human mind. In 2021 she graduated from the university of Massachusetts with a B.A. in Psychology. 

I blends my portraiture skills with my experience in my field of study to bring about the perfect marriage of her two passions on a canvas. 

My evolution as an artist is a depiction of the essence of life itself. Dabbling into different mediums in the search of “the” one. Trapping the most basic, yet very complex thing that is emotions. I challenge my viewers to find themselves, in the visual depictions of my memories on canvas. Representation matters. 

Cedric Douglas is a Boston-based artist and designer whose work blends street art, graphic design, and social engagement to inspire community dialogue. Through murals, installations, and creative interventions, Douglas explores themes of identity, social justice, and everyday urban life. His public art often reflects the vibrancy and voices of underrepresented communities, aiming to make art accessible and impactful. Douglas is also the founder of The Up Truck, a mobile art lab that brings participatory art experiences directly to neighborhoods.

Complexity is a feature in Laura's art making. Finding meaning in the messiness of life is explored through abstractions culled from her lived experiences. She invites viewers to experience both positive and negative emotions as the work speaks. The abstractions created are often exhaltations, or expressions of sadness while repressing a constant rage inside. Through use of color and texture she explores the potentiality and aspects of color, line, shape, contour, texture, body language, and patterning in the interplay of mixed media.

Lavaughan Jenkins is a Boston-based painter, printmaker, and sculptor known for his bold use of impasto, vibrant color, and abstracted figuration. His tactile approach to painting—using hands, brushes, knives, and even Q-tips—creates richly layered surfaces where forms emerge and often spill beyond the canvas. Influenced by artists like Goya and Guston, Jenkins explores emotion, memory, and identity through expressive mark-making. 

His work often centers Black women as icons of strength and beauty, framed by symbolic figures he calls “watchers,” which serve as guardians of memory. Inspired by writers like James Baldwin and Nikita Gill, his Love Portal series reflects on love and loss through color, form, and emotional resonance. 

Jenkins holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the ICA Boston, and he has exhibited widely, earning awards including the 2019 James and Audrey Foster Prize. 

Three-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word artist Amanda Shea is a Black, queer creative at the intersection of poetry, music, social justice, and culture. WBUR lauds her EP God, Again as “bridging the gap between poetry and music,” seamlessly blending spoken word with genres like hip-hop, rap, rock, opera, jazz, R&B, and contemporary sounds. With work featured in the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Boston Globe, TEDx, Netflix, Prime Video, BBC News, and GBH, Shea’s voice honors African and Puerto Rican oral traditions, while pushing the boundaries of what poetry can be—and who can access it. Her art reflects her personal life, explores social justice issues, and serves as a tool for healing through trauma.