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Adam Davis is an educator, artist, and constant collaborator. He obsessively seeks to apply his creativity to assist in finding solutions to problems that hinder inclusive cultural progression at the intersection of the Arts and Education.

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Aiyana Sha’niel is an 18-year-old Black Poet born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Sha'niel has been writing for six years, starting at Hamilton High School, where she performed on the school’s poetry team, Hamlit. Sha’niel has had individual pieces published nationally through online magazines such as Rooted Minds, Black Minds Publishing, and Death Rattle. Sha’niel’s work was published in Behind the Vision’s “The Story Behind the Poems,” Sims Library's “Poems in Praise of Libraries,” and Street Poet's “The Burning River” anthologies. Sha’niel is working toward releasing her first collection of poems, titled “Little Black Poetry Book''.

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Alex J. Bledsoe is a multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on Black liberation and dismantling exploitative systems. Alex is directing her debut feature documentary, OAKLEAD, about Oakland’s racialized lead poisoning crisis. Residue, the narrative feature she produced about gentrification in Washington, D.C., premiered at the Venice Biennale and is streaming on Netflix. Alex is a YBCA 10 fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and an Aspen Institute emerging writer. She is the cofounder of Breaktide Productions, a film production company owned and operated by women of color.

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Ashly Sypherd is a multimedia artist working out of Pomona CA. She has been working with the collage medium since 2016. Her work deals with intersectional identities in the United States. Using historical tropes, she focuses on re-contextualizing the past and present in the same breath.

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Breanna Fradiue is a Black film photographer and writer.

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Bubu Ogisi is a textile artist and Creative Director of the contemporary women's wear brand, IAMISIGO and is the co-founder of the art collective hFACTOR. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, and now living between Lagos Accra Abidjan and Nairobi, her work aims to deconlonise and free the mind through manipulating gravity, light, color, mass, and transparency to demonstrate the infinite transformations and iterations of fiber and installation. The idea of rawness, anti-”finishing” (and therefore anti-Eurocentrism) and functionality exist as strong conceptual design threads throughout her work. By exaggerating texture, structure and space she is able to break and transform the rules and expectations of textiles.

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Cat Jones is an artist based in Los Angeles working with fabrics, photography, digital mediums, and audio/visual mediums to express his connection to life, the unknown, and his past. He centers his work around those who identify as Black, trans, & queer, in ways that are inviting and warm.

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G co-founded BEYONDEEP Productions in 2012. As a Black, queer and trans, interdisciplinary artist, they promote messages of empowerment and love through film, art, music and writing.

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Dustin was born in Willemstad, Curaçao in 1985, and at age 14 he moved on his own to the Netherlands. Opulence (2013-ongoing), followed the suicide of his brother, a young polysexual man who dreamed of escaping Curaçao’s homophobia to follow Dustin to Europe. In his grief, Dustin began documenting the LGBTQ Ballroom scene across Europe. Dustin imagined and experienced the community his brother would have found if he had made it there, while finding a community for himself in the process. The project is dedicated to his late brother, and its wide ranging success is both homage to his legacy as well as a fight to beautifully make visible a resilient and inspiring community that faces relentless repression and violence.

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Geraldo360 is a Ghana-based artist who creates vector-explosive portraits using acrylic paint in the form of commercial art. His work is done without the use of stencils and it is often blended with lines in neon pattern or mixed. Most of his portraits are of female characters and it is very important to note that they are layered with warmth, color, and emotion.

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ggggrimes is a 26 year old Black queer artist from the Bronx, NY now based in Philadelphia, PA. Their artwork shows queer people of color living happy, beautiful, joyous, and sexy lives.

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Harold Lloyd, pronouns he/him/his, is a Queer Black actor, scholar, Spoken word poet, and overall performance artist from the South Side of Chicago. He believes that the arts is Black folks’ language of subjectivity and freedom.

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Imani Tolliver (she/her) is an award-winning poet, artist, educator, public speaker, and event producer. An interdisciplinary artist, she is a collagist and watercolorist. She is a graduate of Howard University, a Cave Canem Fellow, and served as Poet Laureate for the Watts Towers Arts Center. Rooted in social justice, Imani has curated and produced a wide portfolio of arts and cultural programming that celebrate, reflect, and amplify the voices of diverse communities. Find out more about at ImaniTolliver.com

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Jacarrea Garraway, a filmmaker based in NYC, seeks to portray the interiority of Black consciousness on screen with love, fun experimentation and research, steaming from a place of intimate reflection. Her practice of visual storytelling and scholarship encompasses how motion, still images and performance can help to illustrate the complexities and wisdom within the Black imagination. Through juxtaposing and staging subjects in intimate settings and scenarios, her lens examines the way the performance of Blackness can walk a thin line between being authentic and being objectifying.

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Jaden is an LA-based poet, cultural worker, and cannabis enthusiast whose work centers the healing possibilities of marginalized communities. Jaden has facilitated healing-centered writing workshops for queer and trans writers. He has performed all over Los Angeles, including LA Pride, Long Beach Pride, Venice Pride, and DTLA Proudfest. Jaden self-published his first chapbook, Intentional Musings on Staying Alive When I Want To Die (2019), an honest depiction of navigating mental health and systemic oppression, and leaning into his own healing.

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My name is Jazmin Bryant and I was born and raised in the Midwest. After high school I moved from Ohio to Chicago to pursue my love of filmmaking. There I studied and graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelor’s degree in Cinema & Television Arts, concentrating in Producing. During my time at Columbia College Chicago, I had various internships which helped me advance both my development and production skills. Also, in college I served many roles with the student government association, including President. In 2020 I permanently moved to Los Angeles and joined A24 as a Production Intern. When I am not keeping busy with developing films, music videos or content for fashion brands you can find me jogging trails, trying new recipes or hanging out on Melrose with friends.

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This year’s SKEW is overflowing with imagery and ideas to sustain you for as long as you need sustenance. Each page contains colors or characters that require reflection but that also offer solace; a true labor of love, but also caring and defiance. More than a physical object, SKEW 03 is a portal to world where the plentiful richness of Blackness reigns. You deserve to experience it.

In my non-SKEW world, I’m a cultural critic and copywriter. I’m obsessed with asking why and why not. I’m currently working on a newsletter and vlog where I do just that.

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Joe Hughes III is a writer and poet studying undergraduate creative writing at Virginia Tech. His self-interrogative work explores notions of alternative Blackness, mental illness, and, occasionally, humor. His work appears in Dudefluencer.com and Virginia Tech's undergraduate research magazine, Philologia, as well as his website, www.joehughesiii.weebly.com.

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Kamari Carter (b. 1992; lives and works in NYC) is a producer, performer, sound designer, and installation artist primarily working with sound and found objects. Carter's practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception and the concept of conversation and social science, he seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness. Carter’s work has been exhibited at such venues as Automata Arts, MoMA, Mana Contemporary, Flux Factory, Fridman Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, WaveHill and Issue Project Room, to name a few. Carter holds a BFA in Music Technology from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University.

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I am beginning my journey of collaborating with other BIPOC artists within the Level Ground community where poetry meets printmaking. I am an African American woman artist working through identity through issues of race, class, and womanhood.

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Karena Bravo is a multidisciplinary artist from Colombia based in Melbourne Australia. Her work is feminine and self-explorative. She uses mixed media techniques to represent black women and women of color, the shape of their bodies, their hair, and their style, highlighting their connection with nature and spirituality and representing their beauty, strength, and vulnerability.

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Kennatree (Kennady Bob) is a Los Angeles based freelance artist born and raised in Houston, Texas. After graduating high school in 2012 she attended Seton Hall university in New Jersey before moving across the country to live in California with her aunt and uncle. Kennady enrolled in Norco community college and majored in studio arts, where she was exposed to more traditional and technical approaches to her intuitive creative process. Her expanded level of creativity and self expression ultimately drew her to Los Angeles where she was able to share her creations on a larger scale while simultaneously growing in community with likeminded artists and individuals.

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kiki nicole is a poet and artist who works to archive Very Black Feelings. They are the co-founder of the new media/film archival project and screening series, the first and the last, specializing in uplifting work by Black trans/queer new media artists often overlooked in traditional art spaces. They are currently a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine and the 2021 Citizen Literary Fellow with Graywolf Press. kiki is ⅕ of the NC-based Black queer art collective, SaltWater Sojourn. Find them at kikinicole.com.

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Kyle is a multidisciplinary artist and community organizer. They recently relocated from Durham, NC to Brooklyn, NY. Their work explores Black identity, queer community, and the natural world.

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With over 100 successful exhibitions and festivals to his name, Mohammed Awudu popularly known as Moh Awudu is a contemporary versatile fine artist born and raised in Nima, a suburb of Accra, Ghana. He focuses on the sensual nature of art, aiming to influence positive behaviors through the use of mural, graffiti and traditional paintings.

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Myai Anthony is a Black film fashion photographer that focuses on the beauty and detail of the subjects’ individuality. The process of developing the photograph into the physical realm sparked a love for them to capture moments and immortalize them.

SKEW 03 Designer, she/her
I am an artist, designer and grower. Before moving back to my native southeast U.S.A., I lived and worked in Los Angeles and Upstate New York as an artist, designer, educator and urban farmer. I am currently working for a non-profit that supports and resources the growing numbers of farmers of color in the Southeast. This year, much like last year, the caliber and variety of work represented in the magazine offers multifaceted and beautiful perspectives on Black life and existence. In a time when expression proves such a vital tool for sanity and survival, this edition of the magazine showcases works that are a reminder that just 'being' is a privilege to be protected and celebrated.

SKEW 03 Editor-in-Chief, she/her
My name is Nneka Jackson, my pronouns are she/her and I am currently based in Kingston, Jamaica. When I’m not SKEW-ing, I am a creative collaborator, writer, poet and an entertainment attorney that is usually wrapped up in a film or music project. I also co-lead Liberated Black Futures, a quarterly imagination discovery workshop in an intimate virtual space created for the Black community.

I spend most of my time writing, thinking or dreaming. Black Abundance, this year’s issue of SKEW, is particularly special because it features Black artists from all over the world exploring the celebration of being Black and alive. You’ll want to witness and cherish this coming together across these vibrant pages.

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Nyasha Mugavazi is a writer who grew up between Zimbabwe and England. They're really just figuring it out.

SKEW 03 Managing Editor, she/they
Reneice is a writer, recipe developer, food photographer, and Programming & Communications manager at Level Ground among many other things. Her artistic work centers joy as resistance, body liberation, and is strongly influenced by mental health given her MSW background.

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The images act as witness to the divinity that surrounds and carries the simplistic. The work is anchored in a commitment to make visible inherent wholeness while existing within chaos.

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Sheena Rose is a multi-disciplinary artist from Barbados. She is a Fulbright Scholar and holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Sheena has exhibited internationally.

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Missenberger’s most recent body of work is an exploration of liminality, life- sustaining truths: how these truths have appeared throughout history, as well as how history has interrupted them. Her earlier works present interpretations of divination, emanation, androgyny, and the inextricable presence of the invisible in our lives.

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Taj Richardson is a queer artist from the Bronx.

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Art is the mysterious journey back into oneself, where all knowledge is stored and kept for renewal and exploration. We come from an invisible labor of love in which the soul can soar to its ultimate dream.

SKEW 03 Sales and Marketing Lead, they/them
Outside of SKEW, I am owner of Aycayia (AYE-KAY-YAH) Botanica & artist of many mediums. I started with writing, then photography, visual art and finally film. As an artist, working with a collective of like-minded creatives is a dream come true.