Artist Highlights
Since we were unable to have our 2025 Healing Justice Summit, "Radiant Roots," in person, we have shifted to highlighting the vending and performing artists virtually. Learn more about these incredible community artists below: how their work connects to healing and justice, what inspires their practice, how to support their work and more!
sadie is a multidisciplinary artist who started their artist journey in audio/digital creation. As a media producer with experience in public media, climate communications, and museum education they plan to become an ELA Teacher to help educate future artists, no matter the medium they choose.
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My name is saffy (any/all pronouns) and I am a creative storyteller, dreamer, visionary, community builder, organizer, lover, and fighter based in the DC metro area. I am dedicated to using my art and voice to create a world free from harm, and I am not afraid to use my light to expose what is done in the shadows. Drawing on the conjuring tradition of Black futurist writers like Octavia Butler and Akweke Emezi, I use my pen to cast spells, writing myself to liberation.
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My artwork is deeply rooted in my Pakistani-American heritage, exploring themes of identity, reimagined tradition, womanhood, and resilience. Through bold colors, floral motifs, and culturally inspired imagery, I aim to create visual narratives that feel both personal and universally relatable. I primarily work in acrylic and digital illustration, and I’m especially drawn to painting moody portraits that celebrate the diversity of people and stories around me.
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Novilee Magpali (she/they) is a Virginia based artist working with clay, paper, and textiles to explore their childhood memories, their Filipino-American heritage, and their familial, platonic, and romantic relationships. Novilee uses their artworks and art objects as a vehicle to honor their connections to the past and those who have molded their person. Their work reflects their life, which is boldly defined by their motto: "To be a mosaic of everyone l've loved.”
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I am a printmaker and muralist from Kolkata, eastern India, and I've worked and made art in Baltimore since 2019. My prints prioritize experiences of curiosity, intimacy, tenderness and joy in marginalized bodies. A lot of my work has to do with non-Western approaches to sexuality, liberation and collective care, and my prints reflect this.
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SAFRA is a multimedia holistic art form. They practice the art of indigenous storytelling, and will be performing with a live band of flutes, drums, and shakers. Matrimonial is an esoteric performance that facilitates a form of radical healing through ritualistic dance and sound art.
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Mariam makes soaps, body butters and other skincare products.
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Jenn is a multidisciplinary artist and community organizer. They use zines and print media to explore the bounds of identity, inherited memory, and the transformational power of grief. Their work features gouache painting, photography, collage, and block print and is shaped by lived experience and the conversations shared with their fellow Viet people, their disabled and ill community, and their family of queer folks.
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Veronique is a DC-based singer-songwriter with roots in South Florida. Deeply influenced by Nina Simone and Billie Holiday, she weaves classic jazz vocals with witty lyricism and memorable pop choruses. Veronique commands a three-octave range and a sentimental nature, drawing comparisons to early Amy Winehouse, Joy Crookes and Laufey. She daylights as a lawyer in the gender justice movement, hoping for a world where more people can live with the dignity and delight they’re entitled to.