Cecilia Flores & Ivannoe Rodriguez Sierra

Coco Verde Vegan was born out of a love of bold authentic Latino flavors and a desire to enhance healthy lifestyles for everyone, dish by flavorful dish. Chefs Ivannoe and Cecilia were inspired to make a change after the birth of their daughter, Ivanna, knowing the high rates of diabetes and high blood pressure in Black and Latino communities and how plant-based diets can help lower these rates. We use influences from our Dominican background, to create healthy, plant-based options without sacrificing tradition and flavor! Coco Verde is our way to share our passion for food, health, and social justice by bringing delicious and healthy food to everyone. Join us on this culinary journey! 

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Vegan "seafood" paella made with mushrooms and a seaweed brine.

Nicholas & Deirdre McDermott

Nicholas and Deirdre McDermott founded Future Expansion (FE) in 2012. FE works on architecture and urban design projects and is based in Brooklyn, NY. Nicholas received his BA in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.Arch from the Yale School of Architecture where he was awarded the James Gamble Rogers Fellowship and the David Taylor Memorial Prize. He was also a Student Fellow at the Yale Urban Design Workshop, where he worked on public design projects with communities around Connecticut. He currently teaches graduate level design studios at Yale. Nicholas is a registered architect in New York State and is a LEED Accredited Professional. Deirdre received her B.Arch from the Cornell University School of Architecture and is a registered architect in New York State.

Nicholas McDermott / Future Expansion (FE), Flatiron Reflection, Public Art Installation, Manhattan, NY, Opened 2017

Susannah Sayler & Edward Morris

Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris) work with photography, video, writing and installation to examine ourchanging notions of nature, culture, and ecology. Their work is often place-based and focused on historical research. Their work has been exhibited broadly in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Belvedere Museum, the Museum of Capitalism and the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art. They have been awarded numerous fellowships including the New York Artist Fellowship, the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, the Center for Art and Environment Research Fellowship, and the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design. They currently teach in the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University, where they co-direct The Canary Lab. Their archives are collected by the Nevada Museum of Art / Reno, Center for Art and Environment. In 2006, Sayler/Morris co-founded The Canary Project - a studio that produces visual media and artworks that deepen public understanding of climate change and other ecological issues.

Sayler/Morris, La Selva archival pigment print, 2019, 40x50.

Samantha Shapiro

Samantha Shapiro writes long features and cover stories which have been internationally syndicated, reprinted in textbooks, translated into Chinese and Arabic, and nominated for the Livingston Award for journalists under 35. She has published stories in Mother Jones, the New York Times, Glamour, ESPN, Crain's, Slate, Lucky, Haaretz, The Seattle Weekly, The Jerusalem Report, and Wired among others.

Alani Santos, 11, praying at the Mount of Olives in São Gonçalo, Brazil.Credit...Sebastián Liste/Noor Images, for The New York Times

Kara Springer

Kara Springer is particularly concerned with armature—the underlying structure that holds the flesh of a body in place. She works with photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to explore systems of structural support through engagement with architecture, urban infrastructure, and systems of institutional and political power. Springer holds degrees from the University of Toronto, ENSCI les Ateliers in Paris, and Temple University in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Artists Space New York, TENT Rotterdam, the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts, the National Gallery of the Bahamas, and the National Gallery of Jamaica. She is an alum of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art and currently holds a fellowship with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Program.

The Earth & All Its Inhabitants (detail), commissioned by Small Axe, 2019

Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere

Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere are interdisciplinary artists whose practice spans over eighteen years of projects that actuate music and sound, radio, dissent, and the cultural complexities of the public sphere. The artists have produced works in video installation, lyric writing, and performance. Their research interests lie in the intersection between music, civic action, and historical moments that resonate through distinct musical instrumentation and sonorous traditions. Nevarez and Tevere have exhibited and screened their work at The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Creative Time, New Museum, and Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York; Manifesta 8/Spain; Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico; Casino Luxembourg, LU; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway; Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, and elsewhere. The first US survey of their work was exhibited at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia in 2016. Their fellowships and grants include a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital fellowship, an Art Matters grant, a National Endowment for the Arts project grant, and a Franklin Furnace Performance Art fellowship. Both Nevarez and Tevere were Studio Fellows at The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program, artists-in-residence at the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden, and recently at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, and Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California. Nevarez currently teaches at Parsons School of Design, New York. Tevere is Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

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Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere Layers of the City (installation view – interior), 2019 4K video, sound, scaffolding, window graphics commissioned by Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA.