Anita Rundles
Anita is a Brooklyn, NY based illustrator and fine artist originally from New England. She graduated with a BFA in illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her work is influenced by the study of fashion illustration and her love of impressionist and other late 19th century figurative art. She likes to think her work lies where fashion meets fine art.
As an illustrator she has worked with many high profile clients on a variety of projects, most recently creating the fashion drawings for “Halston” on Netflix. She often works events in the NYC area as a live portrait illustrator, and teaches watercolor at The Fashion Institute of Technology.  Most of the work available is watercolor, and pencil or charcoal on paper, unless otherwise noted, and was done by the artist at her studio in Brooklyn.
Illustration Clients include: Netflix, The PBS Newshour, Abrams books, Bloomberg Media, The Fashion Institute of Technology, Barnard College Magazine, A24 Films, WNYC (New York Public Radio), Alight, Project351, Motherboard, KB Park, 33 Across, Qualia Media, Hue Magazine.
Instagram: @anitarundles_art

Edgar Jansen
Edgar Jansen is an artist from Amsterdam, NL,  He got a free, expressive and intuitive style which is characterized by flowing lines and subtle colours. As a true impressionist, he likes to work by direct observation on location. Edgar is drawing  musicians and dancers during concerts, performances, rehearsals and jam sessions.  By his loose way of drawing and painting, Edgar is able to suggest the freedom of movement  and to express the character of the dance.
His portraits are vivid but true-to-life as well, based on modeling sessions. The Dutch artist has collaborated with NYC dancer Sara Pizzi in Zoom sessions. Www.edgarportraits.com; Instagram : @Edgarportraits

Elena Barabashova
In her resent work, New York metro area based artist Elena Barabashova explores the human form, the expression of a body and the story of a face. She’s working in contemporary style from life models trying to find a balance between shape and line. Drawing in pastel, ink & watercolor allows her to keep the drawings spontaneous and to reveal the energy & personality of the model. After completing her MFA, Elena spent a few years teaching a drawing course & exhibiting in regional shows.
Instagram: @barabele

Eric Molinsky
Eric Molinsky is the host of the podcast Imaginary Worlds. Before working in podcasting and public radio, he was an animation storyboard artist in Los Angeles.
Instagram : @ericmolinsky

Marie Roberts
Marie Roberts is a painter and native New Yorker, living and working in Southern Brooklyn and Manhattan. She received a B.A in art from Brooklyn College and MFA in painting from Queens College, (CUNY), is a Professor of Art at Fairleigh Dickinson University and was Artist in Residence at the not for profit arts center Coney Island USA from 1997 to 2022.
Roberts’ work has been shown at venues that include the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum, PS 1, MOCADA, Deutchbank Galleries. Salina Gallery LIU, 32 Edgecomb Gallery, Yale School of Art, Gallery SoBab, Seoul, South Korea, Rivington Gallery, London and Coney Art Walls, 2015, 2016 , 2017, 2018 curated by Jeffrey Deitch.  Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Transit Authority NYC, The Village Voice, Merk, CNN , DiDomenico Partners, Laughing Lotus Yoga, Feld Entertainment and private collections.
Roberts has been subject of several short documentaries, including “Sideshow Picasso” by Marilyn Agrelo, and the 2015 “This Side of Dreamland” by Joshua Glick and Patrick Reagan. She is included in Coney Island Lost and Found by Charles Denson; City Lights: Tales of New York by Dan Barry and in media as diverse as The New York Times, TLC’s Cake Boss, AMC’s Ride With Norman Reedus, PBS Metrofocus Secrets of the Sideshow, and is an ethical vegetarian tending toward vegan.
Instagram: @mariearoberts

Melissa Joskow
Melissa Joskow is the graphic design and communications coordinator at PEN America. She holds an MA in art history, renaissance studies, and curatorship from the Warburg Institute in London, and a BA from Wesleyan University in studio art and government. In addition to design, Melissa sketches and paints in a variety of media. You can find more of her work at www.melissa-joskow.squarespace.com
Instagram: @mcjosk

Michelle Wun
Grass is an artivist specialized in interactive and participatory art. She studied visual arts during high school, and figure drawing in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna during an exchange semester. Her favorite media in drawing is soft pastel, charcoal and blendable materials. As a former dancer, she is interested in capturing movement. Her background in theater and set design makes her focus on performers and their surrounding environment. She is also a vocalist who plays acoustic guitar.
Instagram: @happeningsatm

Shireen Soliman
Shireen is a multi-hyphenate creator: a NYC-based, Muslim-American, Egyptian-American artist, educator, advocate and mother. Her style of art combines digital and traditional media and reflects her strong background in fashion design and illustration.  As an artist, she seeks to celebrate stories, experiences and voices often less considered, thus transcending dominant and reductive stereotypes.
Through the use of watercolor and pencil, she translated the radiant light and grace of the dancers, capturing these moments of beauty and power. She hopes to evoke the same sense of serenity of spirit that she felt as she created these arts.
Instagram: @shireendessine

Vanessa Lee
Vanessa draws from a myriad of experiences since her path as an artist has been nonlinear. She graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts with BFA in Fine Arts in 2010, and currently lives and works in New York City. She has continued to make work over the last decade while juggling all sorts of day jobs, including managing a Starbucks in Times Square, to part time jobs in libraries and museums. Currently, she works at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University and is pursuing a Masters in Nonprofit Management.
With the thoughts of becoming, belonging, commitment, and power floating around in her subconscious, she went into a recent online drawing session a little bit braver and ready to face the rigorous work of creativity. By the end of the session, she felt grounded and excited about what was happening on the page. Drawing from observation allows us to really see each other as equal, as human, as unique, as beautiful. It’s taught her that we all have power if we choose to wield it.
Instagram: @_resetreality

Veronika Doljenkova
An artist and a passionate world traveler, Veronika has painted in many locations around the world and has been an artist in residence at Upernavik Art Museum, Upernavik, Greenland and Glen Arbor Art Association / Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Glen Arbor, MI. Her artwork was exhibited in New York City, across the US and online, and her illustrations were published in Cell, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, and Conservation Matters magazine. She really enjoys on-location sketching, and, as a recreational dancer, especially likes drawing and painting different performance artists such as musicians and dancers.
Instagram: @nycsketchartist

Wendy Beth Jackelow
Wendy Beth Jackelow is an artist based in Staten Island, NY.
Trained as a medical illustrator at the Rochester Institute of Technology, she focuses on printmaking, painting, and drawing outside of her medical illustration work. The pandemic opened up a lot of free time to work on new creative pursuits which led her to figure drawing classes on line and eventually in person, including NYC Drawing the Dance.
Instagram: @wbjackelow_studios

Sangeeta is an independent producer of arts and entertainment events with a background in dance.  She loves producing hybrid events/ shows exploring relationships between dance and other art forms. She is the Founder/Director of Creative Performances.  Her projects include – StylePointe Fashion Show, NYC Drawing the Dance Workshop and Dixon Connect – Networking for everyone creative. She is a dance curator in Dixon Place, NYC, curating Fast Forward (8 shows a year) and 8 in Show (4 shows a year) Dance Series and also 30-30-30, a End of Year Dance Benefit. Sangeeta strives to create platform for emerging artists in NYC helping them to progress in their professional career.