The Artists

Our leading artists are the most globally renowned in their fields, and our platform will shorten the gap between these elite artists and the world.

Dr. Kahil El'Zabar

Global visionary and award-winning avant garde jazz percussionist, educator, historian, mentor, and connector

Percussionist | Composer | Educator

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Nick Cave

One of the leading visual artists of our time, known for wearable, mixed media constructions known as Soundsuits, which act simultaneously as fashion, sculpture, and noise making performance art. His retrospective opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and is currently at the Guggenheim until April 2023. The NY Times called him ‘the most joyful and critical artist in America’

Sculptor | Performance Artist | Professor

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Bob Faust

Bob Faust, renowned visual artist and re-inventor, creating absorptive visual communication experiences through the cumulative powers of art and design. His collaborative and non-secular approach to his work results in functionally expressive visual experiences that inspire change and instigate tangible actions .

visual communication | art & design

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David Murray

 Tenor jazz saxophonist and composer, with over 150 albums to his name

saxophonist | composer

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Nep Sidhu

Interdisciplinary artist across mediums of textile, sculpture, painting, video, and sound 

interdisciplinary artist

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Osunlade

Respected and emulated, New York-based producer, DJ and label chief, champion of spreading Yoruban culture through the dance floor

dj | musician | producer

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Neneh Cherry

 Two-time Grammy Award-nominated and MTV Europe Music Award-winning Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, DJ and occasional broadcaster.

VOCALIST | PRODUCER

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Dwayne Johnson Cochran

 A prolific filmmaker, writer, producer, director, educator and recognized UNESCO lecturer/trainer, Johnson-Cochran is committed to giving back to community through sharing his creative genius as service.

Film Director | Screenwriter | Producer

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Sandro Miller

World renown photographic and video artist, spanning four decades in photographic art, both artistic and commercial, publishing, mentoring, teaching. His work with the actor John Malkovich pursued serial imagery with an art-historical respectful whimsey and was a top selling coffee table book

photographic and video artist | director

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Lucy Slivinski

Critically acclaimed sculptor, installation artist, and lighting designer who works with found materials to create conceptual work that inspires human connectivity.

sculptor | installation artist | light design

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Giles Peterson

Influential broadcaster, DJ, and founder of Brownswood Basement and Worldwide FM

DJ | producer | broadcaster | Event Producer

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Nona Hendryx

Award winning vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, and author

vocalist | producer | visual artist | educator

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Rashid Johnson

One of America’s foremost and rising artists, whose art is in the permanent collection at the MOMA, the MET, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

photography | sculpture | film | painting

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Erykah Badu

American singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, DJ, record producer and actress, whom The New Yorker called, The Godmother of Soul

vocalist| songwriter | producer | Actress

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Theaster Gates

American artist, academic, and thought leader whose work spans multimedia projects, installations, and performance art has questioned important issues of racial and economic inequality .

installation artist | Sculpture | land activist

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