Meet Our Teaching Artists
Giannina Gutierrez
Giannina Gutierrez Is A Multi Disciplinary Artist Based In East Harlem, NYC. A True Mixed Media Artist, She Works In A Variety Of Mediums And Disciplines. From Painting To Sewing To Makeup Artistry, She Is Always Looking To Push Her Experience And Build Her Skill Set. Giannina Looks To Create Work That Expands Past An Aesthetic, Generating An Experience And Engaging With Environment. Self Taught At An Early Age, She Embraced Many And Any Mediums, Materials Available To Her In Order To Create. Giannina Continues To Work In Such A Fashion, Recycling, Mixing And Manipulating Materials. A Native New Yorker, She Draws From Her Vast Palette Of Experience, Inspirations And Landscapes To Convey Her Ideas And Reflections, Blurring The Lines Of Internal And External Realities.
Giannina Studied At The Art Students League Of New York, Majored In Fine Arts At The Pratt Institute And Is Continuously Learning. From Fine Art To Street Art, Giannina’s Experience Includes Public Art, Murals, Exhibitions And Teaching. Her Work Has Been Featured In Several Galleries, Public Art Projects, Publications Throughout NYC, LA, Miami, Chicago, And Puerto Rico.
Waseemah Khan
Waseemah Khan is a Canadian artist and interior designer based in Toronto, Ontario. She holds a degree in Interior Design Technology. Waseemah is a gifted educator and creator who has researched, designed, and presented on Human-Centered Design, Color Theory, and Painting Technique. Her murals and artwork have been commissioned by Toronto-based businesses and private clients alike, and can be found throughout Canada. Her artistic exploration ranges from bohemian motifs to spirituality to sports to South Asian culture, among others. Making art gives her the freedom to explore and express her inner self.
La Femme Cheri
Monique Cheri Welsh a.k.a. "La Femme Cheri" (b. 1988) is an artist and muralist based in Staten Island, where she has been living for the past 20 years.
Cheri began her artistic career as an underground street artist in Staten Island in 2013, and eventually expanded her work to paint murals across New York City and in Miami, Florida. She is the creator of the paint characters named the "Welshdolls," which she paints on murals throughout NYC. Cheri has led specific mural projects in schools, parks, and local communities, including at the Hungerford School with the Save The Bees campaign, Stapleton Houses with Projectivity, and at Fresh Kills Park, all on Staten Island. She is also currently working on her own Manga edition.
Lola Lovenotes
LOVENOTES [b.1989] is a Muralist and Visual Artist from the Bronx, New York.
She has painted murals for The Bushwick Collective, as well as the Emmy nominated fashion related competition show, Project Runway, and The Meadows Music and Arts Festival.
Heavily inspired by nature, anime, metaphysics, occultism, and the youth, Lovenotes strives to create artworks that are charged with her emotional and spiritual vision of the world usually involving feminine figures.
Very passionate about using her platform as a muralist to uplift marginalized communities, Lovenotes also works as a teaching artist in schools in the Bronx and Manhattan.
Danielle Mastrion
Danielle Mastrion is a Brooklyn-born, New York City-based painter and muralist. Danielle’s work has a focus on social justice, specifically women’s rights and youth education. She works with many schools, women’s shelters, teaching organizations, and conservation organizations. Her latest walls can be found throughout her home neighborhood, Coney Island. Danielle has completed seven murals in the neighborhood, including the New York Aquarium, Luna Park NYC, the Cyclone Rollercoaster, Denos Wonder Wheel Park, and several other local walls in the area.
Anthony Posada
Anthony Posada is a Queens-based artist as well as Supervising Attorney for the Community Justice Unit of the Legal Aid Society. Anthony graduated from CUNY School of Law at Queens College where he received his JD in 2012 with a specialization in Community Economic Development, Immigration and Deportation Defense.
Anthony started Project Attica: Community Through the Arts, in 2010 as a response to the experiences he lived seeing his community and family members being overcriminalized. Anthony began using artivism, the synthesis of art and activism, as a catalyst that sparked conversations and reflections about social justice issues through t-shirts, murals, and spoken word. Anthony has brought artivism workshops through Project Attica to communities across New York City and internationally in Colombia, Mexico, and Canada. He has worked with youth in schools, community-based organizations, and in residential treatment services. The artivism workshops have helped community members strengthen the ties between them, reclaim their voices, and stand in solidarity through a multitude of issues. As an artivist, Anthony has presented at town halls and conferences about the role of art in empowerment and healing. He currently serves on Project Attica’s Board as Art Programs Director.