YoungArts

Visual Arts

Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ most recent projects include a video installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico, the solo exhibition at LMAK projects in New York, an installation exhibited at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh and a text-based project and urban intervention in New York. She holds a permanent public art work at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art US and Art News, among others.

Edouard Duval Carrie was born in Haiti. His art deals with symbols of violence in colonial society and the ways of war, exile and displacement, universal themes for the strife of peoples worldwide. A figurative artist respected internationally, his art and his imagination are engaged with other artists in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Africa and, of course, the Caribbean.

Naomi Fisher, 1994 YoungArts Winner in Visual Arts, has had her paintings, photographs and videos exhibited internationally. In 2004, Fisher co-founded the artist-run alternative art space, the Bas Fisher Invitational (BFI) and has since been co-directing it. BFI has debuted current, internationally recognized artists for their first solo shows. In 2008, BFI was awarded a Knight Arts Challenge Grant by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Chair / Don Harvey’s art experiments to produce work that offers contradictory but coherent formats and themes. He has produced public art for urban spaces and politically charged art that demands attention. As an environmentalist and photographer he has been active in educating the public on Cleveland’s environment. He is a co-founder of Cleveland Public Art, a founding board member of SPACES, the former editor of Dialogue, a former board member of MOCA and has had an immense impact of Cleveland’s artistic community. A
                               former professor at Akron University, he is currently teaching at Oberlin
                               College.