studioQL × Hennessy · 9 Oak Bluffs Ave, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557 · August 14–15, 2026
A two-day art exhibition and celebration exploring themes of identity, memory, and cultural legacy. Featuring nine artists whose practices span painting, photography, textile, and installation.
New York, NY
Kristen White is a New York-based photographer and filmmaker working across fashion, culture, and fine art. Her practice centers Black womanhood, joy, and self-determination — drawing on personal narrative and collective memory to create images that pulse with intimacy and psychological depth.
View Kristen White's profile →New York, NY
Megan Gabrielle Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist from Sacramento, California working across painting and photography. Playing between reality and imagination, M.G.H. creates sublime escapes that surround Black and brown female figures having pleasurable, peaceful, and contemplative moments.
View Megan Gabrielle Harris's profile →Austin, TX
Adrian Armstrong is a creative from Omaha, NE now living and working out of Austin, TX. Through portrait and figurative practices, Armstrong's work explores identity and what it means to be a Black person living in modern America.
View Adrien Armstrong's profile →Detroit, MI
Akea Brionne is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice examines the body as a living archive — a space where memory, ancestry, mythology, and lived experience converge. Working across textile, photography, film, and installation, she creates immersive works that explore embodied knowledge, ritual, and the ways that memory is carried through the body across generations.
View Akea Brionne's profile →Miami, FL
Daveed Baptiste is an interdisciplinary artist whose work incorporates fashion, textiles, and photography. He draws his inspiration from his migration from Port-au-Prince, Haiti to Miami, Florida. For Anchors & Currents, Baptiste designed all server uniforms worn during the weekend — a commission developed in partnership with Hennessy.
View Daveed Baptiste's profile →New York, NY
Ashley Chew (b. Chicago, IL) is a Visual Artist based in New York, NY. Her multidisciplinary practice bridges Fine Art, Fashion, Sports, and Culture through visually striking, narrative-driven work.
View Ashley Chew's profile →Los Angeles, CA & Chicago, IL
Hebru Brantley is an American contemporary artist whose work explores identity, agency, and resilience through a distinct visual language rooted in Chicago's South Side. He is best known for creating Flyboy, a recurring protagonist within his broader concept of 'dark fiction.'
View Hebru Brantley's profile →Plainfield, NJ
Plainfield, NJ-based figurative painter Alonzo Adams creates monumental works that honor Black history, heritage, and resilience. His richly detailed canvases draw from personal memory and collective struggle.
View Alonzo Adams's profile →Plainfield, NJ
Plainfield-based artist Kyle Olani Adams works in hyperrealistic graphite and pencil portraiture, rendering subjects with extraordinary psychological precision.
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