Alexis A. Marino @alexismarinoart
Alexis Marino is an artist and illustrator working in her native city, New York. Having always been fascinated by the sights and sounds of her home, she finds inspiration in often overlooked vignettes, working en plein air and natural shapes. She uses a lot of her own reference in her large scale artworks on paper.

Anita Rundles @anitarundles_art
Anita Rundles is an illustrator and educator based in Brooklyn. One of her primary joys in art is drawing from life, often turning live drawings from models into finished art pieces. She loves taking part in Drawing the Dance workshops.

Christine Liu @dittofunkysketch123
Christine ‘ditto funky’ Liu was born in Chinatown, New York City. She received her BFA in illustration from Parsons School of Design and worked as an in-house designer for various industries for over 15 years. Her illustrations have been published in Uppercase Magazine, and some have been displayed at the Freelancers Hub Art Showcase. Christine works in New York City, where she sketches at live events or at home with her imagined stories.

Elena Barabashova @barabele
In her resent works, Jersey City based artist Elena Barabashova explores the human form, the expression of a body and the story of a face. Using mixed media allows her to keep the drawings spontaneous. Her aim is to reveal the energy, express the movement and personality of the model.

Janet Morgan @janetmorganarts
Janet Morgan has had a long and varied art career, involving painting, public art, dance, environmental work, curation and children’s books. Lately she developed and curated Fearless Watercolor show and co-curated the Salon de Refuses, a 200 artist show of art rejected from the Brooklyn Museum at BWAC in Brooklyn.

Marie Roberts @mariearoberts
Marie Roberts is a painter living and working in NYC. She holds an MFA from Queens College, CUNY and is a Professor of Art at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She was show painter to the Coney Island Circus Sideshow for 25 years and currently with The Squidling Brothers Shows.

Melissa Joskow @mcjosk
Melissa Joskow (she/her/hers) is the Senior Manager of Graphic Design and Communications at PEN America. Melissa also sketches and paints in a variety of media. You can find more of her work at melissa-joskow.squarespace.com

Selen Imamoglu @selen.imm
Selen Imamoglu is an interior and experiential designer based in New York. As a storyteller, she constantly explores new ways to forge connections between people and feelings through art and design. Drawing inspiration from her surroundings and small details in everyday life, she loves observing, reflecting and capturing the moment across diverse mediums.

Shireen Soliman @shireendessinesoliman
As a Muslim and Egyptian-American artist, educator, and mother in NYC, Shireen celebrates underrepresented stories through her art, transcending stereotypes. Her illustrations, influenced by her background in fashion design, use watercolor, marker, and pencil to capture the beauty, radiance, and grace of dancers.

Veronika Doljenkova @nycsketchartist
Veronika has been an artist in residence at Upernavik Art Museum, Greenland and Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Her illustrations were published in Cell, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, and Conservation Matters magazine. In November 2024 her artworks were displayed throughout New York City on #LinkNYC kiosks as a part of #Artonlink initiative.

Wendy Beth Jackelow @wbjackelow_studios
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.

Sangeeta is an independent producer of arts and entertainment events with a background in dance.  She loves producing hybrid events exploring relationships between dance and other art forms. She is the Founder/Director of Creative Performances.  Her projects include –  NYC Drawing the Dance Workshop, StylePointe Fashion Show and Dixon Connect – Networking for everyone creative. She is a dance curator in Dixon Place, NYC, curating ‘Fast Forward’, ‘8 in Show’ and ‘Dance Bloc NYC’ Festival and also ’30-30-30′, a End of Year Dance Benefit. Sangeeta strives to create platform for early career artists in NYC helping them advance in their artistic journey.