People
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
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
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