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We're fundraising for Simone?! Satchell to secure essential materials for his professional studio art practice.
#Studio4Simone
#SimoneSatchellArtNYC
#SupportBlackTransArtists
Simone?! Satchell is a Black Trans Queer Non-binary artist and activist, originally hailing from Staten Island, NY.
Check out his art at Simone Satchell art instagram
Initially, our team was focused on fundraising for a laptop for Simone?! but we are moving forward with asking for help with accessing more of the resources and materials that he will need for establishing his studio.
Help us reach this goal for a very talented and deserving emerging Black Trans artist.
$8,000 will help Simone?! purchase a new Microsoft Surface Book 3, Adobe Creative Suite software, and various additional software / hardware necessary for digital illustration, and documenting his portfolio. We're hoping to raise the funds by September 15th, as this support will aid Simone?! to continue to develop his studio art practice, to apply for residencies, grants, and other professional artist opportunities.
Folks can also send funds, marked with the palette emoji to:
Venmo - @Simone-Satchell
CashApp - $NomadicNuYawka
Day One (2018) watercolor/colored pencil
Simone?! currently lives in Queens which completes his desire to reside in all 5 boroughs. He obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Queens College, in 2008 and for the last 5 years has been active in community arts and organizing.
#Studio4Simone
#SimoneSatchellArtNYC
#SupportBlackTransArtists
Simone?! Satchell is a Black Trans Queer Non-binary artist and activist, originally hailing from Staten Island, NY.
Check out his art at Simone Satchell art instagram
Initially, our team was focused on fundraising for a laptop for Simone?! but we are moving forward with asking for help with accessing more of the resources and materials that he will need for establishing his studio.
Help us reach this goal for a very talented and deserving emerging Black Trans artist.
$8,000 will help Simone?! purchase a new Microsoft Surface Book 3, Adobe Creative Suite software, and various additional software / hardware necessary for digital illustration, and documenting his portfolio. We're hoping to raise the funds by September 15th, as this support will aid Simone?! to continue to develop his studio art practice, to apply for residencies, grants, and other professional artist opportunities.
Folks can also send funds, marked with the palette emoji to:
Venmo - @Simone-Satchell
CashApp - $NomadicNuYawka
Day One (2018) watercolor/colored pencilSimone?! currently lives in Queens which completes his desire to reside in all 5 boroughs. He obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Queens College, in 2008 and for the last 5 years has been active in community arts and organizing.
Painting a community mural at Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens, NY, June 2016.
In 2015 - 2017, Simone?! was a Public Allies Fellow at the Queens Museum, where he worked as Coordinator of OST Youth and Family Programs in different out of school time capacities. While supporting local communities via arts programming at the Queens Museum, Simone?! participated in a years long partnership with the grassroots organization, Centro Corona (formerly known as Immigrant Movement International Corona).
Simone?!'s art is a means of working through his mind's pathways and his best tool for communicating. He has developed a deep passion for using artistic expression to help foster healing within himself and to help others experience the same types of freedoms that have proven to be life-saving for him.
Oshun Cards (2016) edition of 55, 2.5 X 3.5 in, watercolor/mixed media
In 2016, Simone?! organized and facilitated the Set on Freedom retreat at the Queens Museum. Along with 4 other interdisciplinary artist, the retreat set out to explore the question: How do we work as a community to open up space and support for artists and communities whose main concern is daily survival in order to thrive? Through this partnership he created a 3 part drawing series for families that rely on the services of Centro Corona.
Sunday Family Workshop facilitation at Queens Museum 2015
Additionally, as a member of Centro Corona’s Defense Committee, Simone?! represented Centro Corona in Hate Free Zone Queens’ Arts & Culture Committee during 2018. Simone?! collaborated with artists / organizers Chivita
Espacial of Global Action Project and Centro Corona and Cecilia Lim of Ugnayan Youth for Justice and Social Change, to create portraits of the women and gender non-conforming folks associated with keeping Amazon out of Queens campaign.
In 2018, Simone?!, along with other Black Trans and Gender Non-Conforming folks with varying talents, founded BTGNC Resource , a platform to share resources for and by the Black Trans and Gender Non-Conforming community.
Recently, Simone?! was a fellow of the Create Change 2020 cohort of the Laundromat Project . Simone?! hopes to create programming and curriculum for inter-generational, folks of varying abilities to learn and use art processes as a means of collaboration, communication and healing.
In The Moment (2018) watercolor/colored pencil
Artist Statement:
My first language is visual. I dig the surface presentation aspect of NYC. Buildings, beings, structures, everything has its layers, history, colors, textures and patterns. In every piece I show the intersections of the existent representations of community and my experience and relationships. I am drawn to portraiture because they sparked my interest in visual storytelling and the endless ways something can be seen and shown. The visual representation and exploration of relating and sharing time with others and myself and all the forms we take over time. I am a New Yorker who has experienced that communities constantly moving and changing even within the same form. I utilize my portraits to explore how I see myself and to process my external transition and how my internal intersects.
Every identity that compiles my being has been met with community, resilience, love, misunderstanding, stigmas, misrepresentation, systematized oppression and underestimation.
My goal is to combine art, community building and healing. Black, Indigenous, POC, transgender and gender expansive folks, disabled and differently-abled individuals, queer people and New Yorkers as I encompass these intersections and the need for safe, uplifting space/s, as well as the space to live versus survive. Other themes that come up in my work are symbols, the senses as a sensational being, animals/pets, intersectionalities of storytelling, imagery and references derived from my lifetime, up to this point, as a NYC nomad.
Jordan (Revelation) (2017) watercolor/mixed media
#Studio4Simone
#SimoneSatchellArtNYC
#SupportBlackTransArtists
In 2015 - 2017, Simone?! was a Public Allies Fellow at the Queens Museum, where he worked as Coordinator of OST Youth and Family Programs in different out of school time capacities. While supporting local communities via arts programming at the Queens Museum, Simone?! participated in a years long partnership with the grassroots organization, Centro Corona (formerly known as Immigrant Movement International Corona).
Simone?!'s art is a means of working through his mind's pathways and his best tool for communicating. He has developed a deep passion for using artistic expression to help foster healing within himself and to help others experience the same types of freedoms that have proven to be life-saving for him.
Oshun Cards (2016) edition of 55, 2.5 X 3.5 in, watercolor/mixed media In 2016, Simone?! organized and facilitated the Set on Freedom retreat at the Queens Museum. Along with 4 other interdisciplinary artist, the retreat set out to explore the question: How do we work as a community to open up space and support for artists and communities whose main concern is daily survival in order to thrive? Through this partnership he created a 3 part drawing series for families that rely on the services of Centro Corona.
Sunday Family Workshop facilitation at Queens Museum 2015Additionally, as a member of Centro Corona’s Defense Committee, Simone?! represented Centro Corona in Hate Free Zone Queens’ Arts & Culture Committee during 2018. Simone?! collaborated with artists / organizers Chivita
Espacial of Global Action Project and Centro Corona and Cecilia Lim of Ugnayan Youth for Justice and Social Change, to create portraits of the women and gender non-conforming folks associated with keeping Amazon out of Queens campaign.
In 2018, Simone?!, along with other Black Trans and Gender Non-Conforming folks with varying talents, founded BTGNC Resource , a platform to share resources for and by the Black Trans and Gender Non-Conforming community.
Recently, Simone?! was a fellow of the Create Change 2020 cohort of the Laundromat Project . Simone?! hopes to create programming and curriculum for inter-generational, folks of varying abilities to learn and use art processes as a means of collaboration, communication and healing.
In The Moment (2018) watercolor/colored pencilArtist Statement:
My first language is visual. I dig the surface presentation aspect of NYC. Buildings, beings, structures, everything has its layers, history, colors, textures and patterns. In every piece I show the intersections of the existent representations of community and my experience and relationships. I am drawn to portraiture because they sparked my interest in visual storytelling and the endless ways something can be seen and shown. The visual representation and exploration of relating and sharing time with others and myself and all the forms we take over time. I am a New Yorker who has experienced that communities constantly moving and changing even within the same form. I utilize my portraits to explore how I see myself and to process my external transition and how my internal intersects.
Every identity that compiles my being has been met with community, resilience, love, misunderstanding, stigmas, misrepresentation, systematized oppression and underestimation.
My goal is to combine art, community building and healing. Black, Indigenous, POC, transgender and gender expansive folks, disabled and differently-abled individuals, queer people and New Yorkers as I encompass these intersections and the need for safe, uplifting space/s, as well as the space to live versus survive. Other themes that come up in my work are symbols, the senses as a sensational being, animals/pets, intersectionalities of storytelling, imagery and references derived from my lifetime, up to this point, as a NYC nomad.
Jordan (Revelation) (2017) watercolor/mixed media #Studio4Simone
#SimoneSatchellArtNYC
#SupportBlackTransArtists
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Simone Satchell
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