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Klay-James Enos is a visual artist raised in New York City. He received his B.A. from Alfred University, where he studied English literature and art history, and studied painting at the Art Students League. Enos has shown his artwork in New York in exhibits at The Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Tappeto Volante, Station Independent Projects, CENTRAL BOOKING NYC, and internationally at 1313 Gallery and Remote Gallery in Toronto and Bla-Bla Projektraum in Berlin. He curated “The pane, not the window” at Station Independent Projects and designed projections for "Mahagonny Songspiel" at Howl! Happening. Recently, his work has been published in Kernel Magazine and he was a guest artist at New Rochelle High School's PAVE arts program. His essays on other artists' work have been featured at NYU's Kimmel Stovall Gallery and Bowdoin College.
Amy Pryor Amy Pryor works with a variety of media, including collage, painting, installation, drawing, and textiles. Her work often explores a visual space between landscape and abstraction. Her work has been exhibited at at various institutions in New York City and abroad including Wave Hill, Bronx River Art Center, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, The Ohio Univerity Art Galleries, and The Yard: City Hall Park, NYC. Pryor is an alumna of the Bronx Museum of Arts AIM Program, and received BFA's in Sculpture and Art History from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. Pryor lives and works in The Bronx.
Gail Nathan is an interdisciplinary artist, arts educator and administrator. Throughout her career she advocated for cultural, environmental, and educational justice, supporting the position that the arts can be an equalizing factor in the revitalization of underserved communities. Nathan was born and raised in the Bronx and attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art. She received a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and an MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She was a fellow of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, the Yale/Norfolk Summer Program and the Getty Institute of Museum Management in Los Angeles, CA. Nathan was a visiting professor at art colleges throughout the US and Europe including: The School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University; Maryland Institute, College of Art; Kansas City Art Institute; the University for the Arts at Philadelphia College of Art and Design; the Visual Arts Program at Princeton University; California State University, Chico; University of Kentucky, Lexington; University of North Carolina, Greenville; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia. NYC schools include: New York University, Steinhardt School of the Arts; Parsons School of Design; Montclair State University; Ramapo College; and Douglass College of Rutgers University. She managed public art programs for the cities of Richmond, VA, and Atlanta, GA,. She was the Executive Director of the Bronx River Art Center from 1999 to 2024. Nathan was awarded a Virginia Museum Professional Fellowship, an Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation, Individual Support Grant, residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Art Awareness in Lexington, NY, and the Karolyi Foundation for Artists and Writers in Vence, France. Nathan’s paintings are included in the collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Frederick Weisman Collection in Los Angeles, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Nathan produced several public art commissions for the cities of Richmond, VA, New Orleans, LA, and the Bronx in New York City.
Fable Jones started curating shows in 2019 when he opened Fable Jones Studios in Bushwick. They held monthly group exhibitions and collaborated with local artists and galleries to organize shows and events in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and New Orleans. They held dance tournaments, open mics, live figure drawing, small business pop-ups, and artist workshops. Our exhibitions, "What's Your Black?" and "Fire and Soul" were featured on Pix11 and NBC News. He have also collaborated with Harlem Grown, Heath Gallery, and architect, Jerom Hafred, to design "Sankofa", a public art installation in Marcus Garvey Park that functions as a gallery and multipurpose community space. He's worked with Flex-N-Poettree, a dance organization, to provide free dance clinics, yoga, urban farming, park clean up, and BBQ cookouts in community gardens to bring awareness to our neighborhood's beautiful safe spaces.
Sheryl Saly Touré is a textile artist in the Bronx, NY. Her work examines the semiotics of textiles in the Black diaspora by documenting cycles of resilience, belonging, and empire. She works cloth and thread into pieces that narrate her experience as a Black woman remembering the world. Toure's work invites the audience to experience textiles as archives of memory and a language of collective identity.
James Horner (he/him) is a New York based visual artist. His abstract figurative artwork reflects the intimate lives of the LGBTQ+ community. Through visual storytelling, he attempts to promote queer lifestyles and divert discrimination from his people. Influenced by a father who was a psychiatrist, his tales reflect the environmental psychology of the queer community such as social settings and natural environments. Horner has been creating artworks in the queer space for over 20 years. He has an M.F.A. in painting from Lehman College, Bronx, NY; is a member artist and board member at the Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY; started a queer artist collective – Magenta Lounge; and he is a member artist of the Teleportal artist collective, the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and the Scorchzine zine publisher. In 2024 Horner exhibited at Amos Eno Gallery, Lichtundfire, Greenwich House Pottery, Art for Peace Gallery, b l i n k 2.0 (a Chicago public art project) and he’ll participate in the Atelier Residency at Chateau Bouthonvilleres, Dangeau, France. Recently he exhibited at Satchel Projects, Studio 9D and with Visual AIDS at Ortuzar Projects (2023) and with GMHC artists at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (2019, 2017, 2015, 2013). Recent residencies include: the Uncool Artist (2023), DNA Artist Residency (2023 and 2024) and the School of Visual Arts (SVA) (2022). In 2023, he completed a program at the Bronx Museum (2023) where he focused on queer icons in a zine and a series of prints (silkscreen and linocut) that were added to the museums’ archive.
TBA Information upcoming
Professional Artist Studios at BRAC
Professional artist studios in BRAC's recently renovated building will soon be available for up to two year residencies, on a year-to-year basis, for artists working in various visual art disciplines including: painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation, and new media. Selected artists will have the opportunity to produce new work and make use of BRAC’s extensive resources in support of their creative practices.
BRAC's non-living studios are accessible Monday to Friday from 10am - 10pm, Saturday from 10am - 6pm, and Sunday from 12pm - 6pm.
Each open plan studio has a window or windows, varying in size from 150 to 400 sq ft, and ranging in price from $425 to $650.
Artists will be selected based on their portfolio of work, statement of intent, and an expressed interest in working within the Bronx community. Applicants will be reviewed by a diverse independent selection panel composed of artists, curators, and arts professionals. The program is seeking artists with a developed studio practice, and who are not enrolled in a college or university degree-granting program. BRAC does not discriminate against anyone on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, or sexual orientation.

