Join PES STUDIOS (@pes_studios) on Saturday, October 25, from 1–5 PM at 800 Broad St., Newark for our Annual Fall Open Studios, 🍂✨ featuring four floors of artist studios, community workshop spaces, and exhibitions—connect with our creative community while enjoying brunch and breakfast cocktails, and register now via the link in bio! 🥂🍳 Visit the studio of Damien Davis! @damiendavis | Studio 206 ✨ Damien Davis is a Newark-based artist and educator whose work explores cultural representation and identity through a distinctive visual language that recontextualizes symbols from diverse histories. Blending digital fabrication with handcraft, Davis constructs layered narratives that address race, sexuality, and the politics of visibility. He has exhibited at institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Arts and Design. His honors include the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Community Engagement Grant and residencies at Project for Empty Space, LMCC, and the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling. Davis is also a contributor to Hyperallergic and teaches at Purchase College (SUNY). Learn more about the artist at 📲damiendavisstudio.com or in person on Oct. 25th! 🌟 PES STUDIOS is part of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to creating safe and equitable spaces for social discourse. PES supports artists whose work engages with social issues, marginality, and cultural transformation. This event is held in conjunction with the Newark Arts Festival (@NewarkArts). 📸 Image credit: Rachel Fawn Alban (@fawn_photos) (fb)

Join PES STUDIOS (@pes_studios) on Saturday, October 25, from 1–5 PM at 800 Broad St., Newark for our Annual Fall Open Studios, 🍂✨ featuring four floors of artist studios, community workshop spaces, and exhibitions—connect with our creative community while enjoying brunch and breakfast cocktails, and register now via the link in bio! 🥂🍳 Visit the studio of Layqa Nuna Yawar! @layqanunayawar | Studio 207 ✨ Layqa Nuna Yawar is a public artist and multidisciplinary storyteller based in the ancestral lands of the Lenni-Lenape: current-day Newark, NJ. His work is best known for large-scale community-based murals, intricate portrait paintings, and multimedia projects that center the complex narratives of immigrant, black, indigenous, and subaltern populations. His artwork aims to disrupt established semiotic systems and reimagine them in service of shared liberation and a better future. Learn more about the artist at 📲layqa.info or in person on Oct. 25th! 🌟 PES STUDIOS is part of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to creating safe and equitable spaces for social discourse. PES supports artists whose work engages with social issues, marginality, and cultural transformation. This event is held in conjunction with the Newark Arts Festival (@NewarkArts).  📸 Rachel Fawn Alban (@fawn_photos) (fb)