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Booker T. Williams, Jr.

23 Mar

Born on March 3, 1949 in Seattle, Washington, Booker T. Williams, Jr. displayed his artistic talent at a very early age,…. sketching and drawing virtually anything and everything. However at around age 13, Booker became smitten with the saxophone bug and his artwork became a secondary consideration.…

Julio Pantoja

27 Jan

Julio has been a member of local 32BJ for the last 28 years, a native of Colombia who works as a porter. His works are inspired by nature and social events. According to him, his paintings evoke the constant changes of nature and his appreciation for the beauty of life and freedom.…

Josué Ramírez

27 Jan

Josué is an anthropologist, urban ethnographer, writer and a native of New York. He grew up in a large working class Puerto Rican family in East Harlem and was awarded a scholarship at Brown University to study anthropology. He completed his doctorate at Brown in 2002.…

Piotr Powietrzynski

27 Jan

Piotr Powietrzynski is an award-winning stock and commercial photographer. His passion for photography was born in the darkroom during his college years. The magic of developing photographs out of nothing never ceased to amaze him and has changed his life forever.…

José Enrique Tarazona

27 Jan

José was born in Lima, Peru and he is a doorman who has been a member of local 32BJ for the last 7 years. Since he was in high school, he loved music and art. He loved art classes where they showed colors, shapes and textures and he was mostly attracted to abstract ideas.…

Adam Litwin

20 Jan

Adam was an artist before becoming a dentist.   He never forgot his passion for painting and now describes himself as both an artist and a dentist.

For him art is something innate, that you almost have no choice but to do it.…