Our Team
Director
Jane Gabriels, Ph.D.
Collage photo: Leslie Plumb
Logo Design: Emma Reid
Co-Director Consultant
Rokafella
651 ARTS presents the inaugural Micro-Works Project inviting Rokafella, as one of its esteemed alumni artists, to create a one-minute video performance under the season theme of My Black Art Matters, I Matter.
Co-Director Consultant
Caridad De La Luz
I created W.A.P. because I am a lover of acronym poetry - as can be seen on Def Poetry Jam where I performed W.T.C. about 9/11. Cardi B is from The Bronx, as am I, but I come from an activist background. I work with youth and want to offer them a feminist perspective of WAP where I embrace my sexuality while speaking against patriarchy, racism and colonization. Witches Align Powers - we witchy women, who are connected to our divinity and have survived the perils of patriarchy, have been working our magic to heal ourselves and humanity. Witnessing A Pandemic has created a paradigm shift towards matriarchy and a step closer to a Woman As President in the United States of America. I produced, wrote, filmed and edited this video myself as my statement of self-sovereignty and independent creativity.
Caridad De La Luz "La Bruja" with the support of Pepatian, Pregones Theater and The Bronx River Alliance shares the work being done to keep The Bronx River, Drew Gardens and Bronx Native American History alive. Special focus on the Siwanoy Village of Snakapins, now called Soundview.
Board of Directors
Shanika Blount
Assistant Director, Bronxworks Heights NSC, MSW candidate, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
Thomas F. DeFrantz
Professor, Northwestern Univ (Chicago)
Founding Director, Collegium for African Diaspora Dance
Director, SLIPPAGE: Performance/Cultural Technology
Alicia Diaz, MFA
Assistant Professor of Dance
Department of Theater and Dance
University of Richmond, VA
Marisol Díaz-Gordon
(Photojournalist/Fine Art Photographer, Adjunct Lecturer at City College/CUNY)
Jane Gabriels
(co-Director Pepatián
Performer, Writer, Singer, Curator/Producer)
Neyda Martinez, MPA
Associate Professor, The New School
Producer, Decade of Fire and Founder/Producer, HABANA/HARLEM®
Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz
Associate Professor, George Mason University
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
