The Team
Elisha Feit Mann is a high school student from Atlanta, Georgia. From a young age, art and writing were hobbies of his but, these interests became essential when, at eleven years old, he suddenly began experiencing physical and emotional symptoms of an auto-immune disease. Painting portraits, sewing stuffed animals, and writing stories were things he knew he could do when so much of his life felt scary and uncertain. Elisha started the Keep Creating Initiative to encourage young artists and writers to create and work their imaginative muscles despite the health conditions they may be facing.
Founder: Elisha Feit Mann
RJ Supa is a curator, artist and writer who has exhibited and performed internationally. His work has been seen at Marinaro Gallery, Salon 94, M&B Los Angeles, Cuevas Tilleard, NADA House, New Release, the Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden, Germany and the Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz, Austria. He recently completed his first novel, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, and is working on his second.
RJ Supa
Lauryn Welch is a Brooklyn-based artist and a longtime resident of the New Hampshire Monadnock Region. She is an MFA candidate in Studio Art at Hunter College. Through painting and film, she explores the language of care and the experiences of illness and wellness through the construction of home. Her work is influenced by locally accessible nature and ornithology. Lauryn has screened at HotDocs and BAMcinemafest and has shown previously with Half Gallery in Stiltsville, Miami, FL.
Lauryn Welch
Se Oh
Se Oh is an Artist based in Los Angeles, Ca. "As an Asian American, I'm always looking for ways to connect with my Korean heritage. My porcelain work is heavily influenced by traditional Korean ceramic techniques and glazes (Shinos and Celadons) combined with altered forms that emulate textures found in nature. "
Nick Rymer is a dynamic artist, educator, and curator based in Brooklyn, NY who explores the intersection of internet culture and video through his innovative work. His thought-provoking pieces have been featured in numerous group shows. Nick is also an accomplished filmmaker, having produced and edited documentaries and a feature film. As a freelance artist, he has collaborated with renowned artists and galleries on various installations, art assistance, and website-building projects. Nick's passion for education has led him to teach in the CUNY system since 2012, primarily at Baruch College.
Nick Rymer
Alex Nelson
Sannah is a published poet, Rhodes Scholar, and proud South African. Now in the change management consultancy space, she has a deep passion for the arts and culture. Two of her poems, one of them entitled, “The Power of Now,” were published in an anthology of poems by the Poetry Institute of Africa in 2006. Sannah writes best when inspired, by life and its myriad changes.
Sannah Mokone
Alex Nelson was born in New York and raised in a small town in Maine. She received her BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology and her MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art. Nelson uses photography, writing and video as a means to create elliptical associative narratives, often stemming from personal histories to more distant incomplete archives or biographies. The lack that exists within these histories is the generative point of her work as a place to fill in. Her book of writing and images Liner Notes was published by Quickbooks in 2021. She was a 2022 resident at the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation in Rockland, Maine.