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Staff

Artist Social Worker

Saadiq is a dedicated Moorish-American social worker with over 16 years of experience.

Co-Director

Lindsay is a Brooklyn based artist, social justice advocate, curator & educator.

Associate Director of Facilities & Production

Kyle is an art handler, fabricator & designer who translates artists’ ideas into tangible spaces.

Co-Director

Ladi'Sasha Jones is an arts writer, designer and curator with more than 13 years of experience.

Associate Director of Youth Organizing

KT is a multidisciplinary community engagement artist, educator, resourcer, and youth arts director

Associate Director of Artist Programs

Prerana is a cultural producer connecting art, civic engagement, and social justice.

Associate Director of Marketing & Communications

Alexa is a designer and ethnographer with a practice rooted in the Southern Black Oral tradition.

Board of Directors

Board Member

Wanett Clyde is the Collections Management Librarian at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology.

Board Member & past Critical Writer

Che Gossett is a Black non binary writer and critic.

Board Member

Anthonine Pierre is a Brooklyn-born Haitian facilitator, organizer and storyteller.

Board Member

LGL Tenacity (she/her/goddess): is a seasoned polymath Femme and social justice leader

Learn more about our year-long transformative journey to establish Recess's first consensus-based, compensated board here.

The Recess Advisory Circle—representing Session and Assembly alums, community partners, and thought leaders—supports the organization's leadership in a project-based non-decision making capacity over one year cycles.

Advisory Circle : Amir Akram, Princess Kelly, Rowan Renee, Shrine Saad, Isaac I. Scott, Christopher Udemezue

Assembly Fellows

Fellow

artist exploring rap, clothing design, and somatic practices

Fellow

designer, makeup artist, and community organizer

Fellow

muralist and illustrator whose practice extends into clothing design

Fellow

tattoo artist, illustrator, and clothing designer

Fellow

video producer and digital archivist specializing in music videos

Fellow

rapper, doula, and music video producer

Community

All A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Artist

Akeema-Zane is an artist and researcher working in literature, film performance and sound.

Fellow

artist exploring rap, clothing design, and somatic practices

Artists

Assembly offers system-impacted young people aged 18-26 an inroad to art.

Artist

AYDO (A young Yu & Nicholas Oh) is a collaborative artist duo based in New York.

Artists

"created to foster an alternative to everything." The collective is five to eight rotating members.

Artists

A network of femme and non-conforming people living and working with chronic illness.

Fellow

designer, makeup artist, and community organizer

Assembly Fellow

Novelist, hip hop artist, multi instrumentalist focused on the creation of dynamic worlds & stories

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Supporters

Recess gratefully acknowledges our generous supporters who give from $10–$25,000.

Foundation, Corporate & Government Funders

AG Foundation

Arison Arts Foundation

Art for Justice Fund

Art Matters Foundation

Brooklyn.org

Durst Foundation

ELMA Philanthropies

Ford Foundation

The Gage Foundation

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

Jewish Communal Fund

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Kickstarter

MacKenzie Scott

Mellon Foundation

The National Endowment for the Arts

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

New York Community Trust

The New York State Council on the Arts

The Prospect Hill Foundation

The Salomon Foundation

Tikkun Olam Foundation

Visionary Freedom Fund

Wescustogo Foundation

In-Kind Support

Materials for the Arts & NYC Department of Cultural Affairs