Aisha Tandiwe Bell, a multidisciplinary artist inspired by the fragmentation of our multiple identities. Belle was a mentorship resident at Indigo Arts Alliance. Inspired by the fragmentation of our multiple identities, Aisha painted figures trapped within the canvas, eventually incorporating clay, sculpture, and performance into these pieces as a way to invade the viewer's space. Her work explores the individual burdens, insecurities, and self-prescribed traps carried out of habit, comfort, fear, and shame. While emphasizing our ability to transform, resist, and escape these traps. She has had multiple residencies, including her commissioned community-based arts project, SUSU with The Laundromat Project. Please enjoy.

Stephen Hamilton, a mixed-media artist, an arts educator and Ph.D. Candidate in Harvard’s African And African American Studies program. During his residency at the Indigo Arts Alliance in June 2025, he primarily worked with natural dyes and textiles, incorporating traditional West African techniques and materials. He blends these techniques with figurative painting and woodcarving. In this interview, he discusses how traditional West African textiles, and materials shift and change within the modern world, but still hold intimate connections to past generations of African and African American artisans.

Thania Petersen a multidisciplinary artist who had a residency at Indigo Arts Alliance. They do any and everything that the budget will allow them. Because of that, they force themself to be creative. Their work is about storytelling, investigating and uncovering histories from their community.