Julieta Zavala

Julieta Zavala Newark Emerging Folk Art: Visual Arts By: Gail Obenreder “Creativity, imagination, and perspective are my most essential skills in my design process.” Designer Julieta Zavala creates garments that combine both her cultural roots and social trends, proud of her role in “projecting Mexican culture and costume design through visual art in fashion.” In her […]

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Trebs Thompson

Trebs Thompson Newark Established Visual Arts: Crafts By: Gail Obenreder “I love telling stories, and making art is one more way I can do that. I also love breathing new life into discarded materials.” Trebs Thompson began her career in glass painting and non-traditional glass sculpture with no formal art training. The self-taught artist saw glass […]

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L.J. Sysko

L.J. Sysko Wilmington Established Literature: Poetry “If Madonna and Magritte had a baby. Or, if Warhol’s Marilyn swallowed Munch’s screamer.” That’s L.J. Sysko ‘elevator pitching’ her work, which she describes as “imagistically punchy – cultural criticism dressed up in pop-culture fluorescence.” In fact, in the preface to Sysko’s debut full-length poetry collection The Daughter of […]

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