Shirin is a renowned visual artist who works across photography, video installation, and film. In this conversation, she generously shares how each stage of her life has led her to today: from her upbringing in Iran to her youth in California and her life now in New York. Her dedication to ritual and to her artistic practice has remained consistent through the tumult and triumph of all her days.
Read MoreThis week we are featuring Tara Thomas, the chef behind Che at Sincerely Tommy Eat & Stay. Driving a community-based business model she is constantly traveling for inspiration and exploring to pursue depth. Tara seeks to combat social, environmental, and health issues with her culinary art in order to catalyze a change in the perspective of individuals.
Read MoreCamille is the Director of Acquisitions and Development at a leading independent film distributor whose impeccable taste and tireless networking helped her break into the notoriously difficult film industry. Originally from France, she has made a home for 10 years in the New York City she dreamt of growing up. Extremely pregnant and incredibly stylish, Camille’s deeply held opinions on her forthcoming motherhood, work, and the drive to find personal satisfaction in one’s work are incisive and informative.
Read MoreMeet Kinlaw, an artist who resides in Brooklyn, New York. She moved into the city as an opera singer, and eventually worked her way into becoming an artist who has now performed at various museums and venues.
Read MoreMeet NYC passerby, Momo Ishiguro. By day she works at Printed Matter, Inc., the non-profit organization for artists' books and related publications, where she is in charge of fundraising, by night she works on music.
Read MoreMastering Engineer Heba Kadry was born in Egypt and grew up listening to early 90s indie shoegaze records whenever she could get her hands on them. She works at Timeless Mastering in Bushwick in the studio she physically helped build.
Read MoreMeet NYC passerby, Abby Bencie, a fashion merchandising student at FIT and based in Bushwick who would like to work in the fashion industry as a stylist.
Read MoreBorn and raised in Buenos Aires, Anita moved to New York three years ago to finish school, graduating from Hunter College with a degree in Music. She is currently recording an EP for her first solo project, under the name "La Berta", produced by Noise Club.
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Meet NYC passerby, Sam Giordano, a a fashion designer and owner of the womenswear label Dolores Haze.
Read MoreMeet NYC passerby, Pamela Garavano-Coolbaugh, Head Project Manager at Captured tracks, where she oversees albums from beginning to end on all fronts.
Read MoreMeet NYC passerby, Leslie Hamilton, a freelance design assistant working for independent designers while also working for American Two Shot.
Read MoreMira was born and raised in Fairfield, Iowa. After receiving her BFA in Visual Communication Design from SAIC in 2013, she moved to New York and now currently lives in Brooklyn. Mira is the graphic designer at CMA and also runs Sanguis Ornatus, her leather body wear line. This fall she will be launching Cixous72 with her business partner Elizabeth Scott, an online boutique and collective that showcases artists and designers.
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Meet NYC passerby, Aretha Sack. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Aretha studied painting at California College of the Arts, where she met her business partner Janine, after selling her a custom nail polish she had made. They founded Floss Gloss Ltd in San Francisco in 2011 over a mutual admiration of each other as well as of fashion, music, color and nails.
Read MoreMeet NYC Passerby, Rachel Howe, an Artist and Spiritual Advisor. Since attending Parsons, she started her own business making functional ceramics under the name Small Spells, and after two and a half years with ceramics as her full-time job, she is now moving on to working on many other projects, mainly design projects and healing services.
Read MoreGrace is an artist and curator living in Brooklyn. She runs Art Baby Gallery, an online exhibition space that as well as her clothing line, Art Baby Girl. Currently, Grace is working on publishing a book of her illustrations through Belly Kids Press.
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