People
Staff
Artist Social Worker
Saadiq , is a dedicated Moorish-American social worker with over 16 years of of experience.
Associate Director of Advancement
Tomik is a multi-disciplinary creative, entrepreneur, and activist.
Artist & Co-Director
Lindsay is a Brooklyn based artist, social justice advocate, & cultural worker.
Associate Director of Facilities & Production
Kyle is an art handler, fabricator & designer who translates artists’ ideas into tangible spaces.
Youth and Community Organizer
KT is a multidisciplinary community engagement artist, educator, resourcer, and youth arts director
Artist & Co-Director
Shaun’s multidisciplinary artwork and performance practice is anchored by his work in Assembly.
Artist & Community Fellow
Prerana is a cultural producer connecting art, civic engagement, and social justice.
Associate Director of Marketing & Communications
Alexa is a designer and ethnographer with a practice rooted in the Southern Black Oral tradition.
Board of Directors
Board Member
Wanett Clyde is the Collections Management Librarian at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology.
Board Member & past Critical Writer
Che Gossett is a Black non binary writer and critic.
Board Member
Anthonine Pierre is a Brooklyn-born Haitian facilitator, organizer and storyteller.
Board Member
LGL Tenacity (she/her/goddess): is a seasoned polymath Femme and social justice leader
Learn more about our year-long transformative journey to establish Recess's first consensus-based, compensated board here.
The Recess Advisory Circle—representing Session and Assembly alums, community partners, and thought leaders—supports the organization's leadership in a project-based non-decision making capacity over one year cycles.
Advisory Circle : Amir Akram, Princess Kelly, Rowan Renee, Shrine Saad, Isaac I. Scott, Christopher Udemezue
Assembly Fellows
Assembly Fellow
An illustrator & artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ana specializes in drawing, painting, & murals.
Assembly Fellow
An artist with the mission of bringing light to color, sound and touch in relation to each other.
Assembly Fellow
Novelist, hip hop artist, multi instrumentalist focused on the creation of dynamic worlds & stories
Assembly Fellow
Stylist, graphic designer, and technology based visual artist based in New York City
Assembly Fellow
multidisciplinary digital, tattoo, print shop artist & mentor
Assembly Fellow
artist, musician, & calligraphy designer
Assembly Fellow
artist & musician, whose creative journey is deeply intertwined with the city of New York
Community
Artist
Akeema-Zane is an artist and researcher working in literature, film performance and sound.
Artists
Assembly offers system-impacted young people aged 18-26 an inroad to art.
Artist
AYDO (A young Yu & Nicholas Oh) is a collaborative artist duo based in New York.
Artists
"created to foster an alternative to everything." The collective is five to eight rotating members.
Artists
A network of femme and non-conforming people living and working with chronic illness.
Assembly Fellow
Novelist, hip hop artist, multi instrumentalist focused on the creation of dynamic worlds & stories
Artist
Corin Hewitt is an American artist and professor of Sculpture + Extended Media.
Artists
Courtesy the Artists is a collaboration between Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade.
Supporters
Recess gratefully acknowledges our generous supporters who give from $10–$25,000.
Foundation, Corporate & Government Funders
AG Foundation
Arison Arts Foundation
Art for Justice Fund
Art Matters Foundation
Brooklyn.org
Durst Foundation
ELMA Philanthropies
Ford Foundation
The Gage Foundation
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Jewish Communal Fund
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Kickstarter
MacKenzie Scott
Mellon Foundation
The National Endowment for the Arts
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York Community Trust
The New York State Council on the Arts
The Prospect Hill Foundation
The Salomon Foundation
Tikkun Olam Foundation
Visionary Freedom Fund
Wescustogo Foundation
In-Kind Support
Materials for the Arts & NYC Department of Cultural Affairs