Neighborhood Salon Luminaries

crystal bi (she/they) is a multimedia artist working in the public realm.

Stephen Hamilton is a mixed-media artist, researcher, and arts educator living and working in Boston, MA.

Kenny Mascary (aka KNSZWRTH) is a Haitian-American Boston-based DJ, film photographer, cultural producer, and curator.

Beth Mochizuki is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Asian American Ballet Project.

Mel Taing (she/her) is a Cambodian-American photographer, community artist, and educator based in Boston.

Susan Thompson is a Boston-based artist who holds a long standing dedication to community empowerment through the arts.

Johnetta Tinker, a resident of Boston, MA, has shown her work in numerous art exhibits and traveling art exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad.

Rayna Lo is a Chicago-born, Boston-based calligrapher, illustrator and educator.

Skooby Laposky is a sound designer and artist based in Cambridge.

Arielle Gray is a Black queer writer, reporter, and artist currently based in Boston.

Johnette is a medicine maker, thinker, and creator, experimenting with literary and visual arts.

Luciano is an Italian born, Boston-based ballet educator.

Daniel Callahan is a multimedia artist, filmmaker and designer.

Jean Appolon is a successful choreographer and teacher based in Boston and Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Golden is a black gender-nonconforming trans-femme photographer, poet, and performance artist who archives the black past to (re)envision new landscapes for black queer futures.

A distinctive trait of New York/Boston-based jazz pianist Kevin Harris is his desire to constantly grow, evolve, improve, and advance.

Keith is an actor who uses his unique and innovative style of black storytelling about trauma, while creating spaces for male healing through the use of art.

Eli Pabon is a multi-talented dancer, singer, lyricist, instructor/educator, grant writer, and percussionist.

Veronica Robles is a Mexican singer-musician and the founder of Boston's First Female Mariachi.

IMAGINE, also known as Sneha Shrestha, is a Nepali artist who paints mindful mantras in her native language and meshes the aesthetics of Sanskrit scriptures with graffiti influences.

Rob Stull is an accomplished illustrator, curator, teacher, designer, and comic book industry veteran.

Matthew Zaremba is a published visual artist whose work has been exhibited across the United States and abroad.

Liza Zayas, also known as Luna del Flor, works with the power of poetry as a mirror and healer.

Feda Eid is a Lebanese-American photographer and visual artist from Boston.

Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and educator at Olin College of Engineering.

Chimel Idiokitas, also known as ReaL P, tells stories through music and social creativity.

Brian McGinnis is a dancer and associate professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Fabiola is the first student to graduate from Berklee College with the Puerto Rican cuatro as her principal instrument.

Porsha Olayiwola is a poet and hip-hop feminist, who writes infra-politically to tell the stories that are silenced, erased, or difficult to release from the tip of the tongue.

James is a passionate advocate for access to the arts for all of Boston's communities, linking young people to creative opportunities.

Victor "Marka27" Quiñonez is a street artist who works at the intersection of graffiti, vinyl toys, contemporary art, fashion, and design.

Paloma Valenzuela is a Dominican-American writer, director, and actress originally from the city of Boston.

This millennial man of mystery is a rapper, singer, actor, writer, teacher, brother, and Bostonian on a mission.

Will Dailey is an acclaimed independent recording and performing artist and artist advocate.

Sabrina is fascinated by people: the way they move, speak, and touch, and the way they interact and experience objects, environments, and each other.

Tai Jimenez (Black Light) is haunted by a voracious Jinni.

Nathalia JMag is a contemporary fashion designer who is on a mission to honor people, animals, and the earth through her work.

Interdisciplinary artist Silvia López Chavez believes in the power of the creative process as an agent for positive change.

Luana is a Birth, Death, and Ancestral Healing Arts Practitioner devoted to the reclamation of our ancestral practices to restore all of us to wholeness and to experience liberation in these bodies and this lifetime.

A Maryland native, Hana attended the University of Maryland for literature and linguistics before finding and pursuing her passion for pastry arts.

Olivia Ives-Flores is an artist, curator, and designer—living and creating in Boston.

Black the Creator is a renaissance, finding liberation in balancing different art forms including poetry, theater, and music.

Josh Knowles is a talented violinist, singer/songwriter, and music educator based in Boston

Obehi Janice is an award-winning actress, writer, and comedian.

Elisa Hamilton is a multimedia artist whose practice focuses shared experiences and the inherent joy of our everyday places, objects, and experiences.

Ryan Dias-Toppin is a producer, vocalist, performance artist, and multi-disciplinary visual artist.

Reynolds is the Director of Government Relations for the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department.

mar parrilla is an award-winning choreographer and the founding artistic director of Danza Orgánica.

Matt McArthur is the founder and executive director of The Record Co.