Ya'll, I WON!!

Introducing the winner of “BEST IN SHOW” of the 2025 Dollar Bank: Three River’s Arts Festival Juried Visual Art Exhibition!

Placemaking in the places I'm from.

Even when a person is ignorant to the word and its meaning, they still acquire the inescapable fear of how change impacts their surroundings. Perhaps they felt it during the demolition of the Penn Avenue high-rise, and the welcoming of Trader Joe’s into East Liberty. Or maybe they graduated from the courtyards of Garfield Heights to the night markets and “Unblurred” first Friday’s on Penn Avenue. As our city continues to progress and renew its identity, many residents of working class neighborhoods are wondering how this new identity will include them.

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Dreams and the loss of youth.

I participated in my first group exhibition last week. It was the dopest feeling. After almost 12 years of pursing being an artist, my success came in the smallest form. 

The tragic thing about being a late-twenties something, is that the whole world has convinced me that I should have my entire life together by now -- and that’s not it. 

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