NIC VILLAROSA

Nic Villarosa is a recent college graduate and multi-disciplinaryartist living and working in Brooklyn NY. Their practice includes filmmaking (16 mm), metal work, dance, cooking, and drawing inspired by radical Black artists including the wisdoms of Toni Morrison, Marlon Riggs, Cheryl Dunye, and Octavia Butler. Nic uses all the named mediums along with queer and race theory, fantasy, abolition, and transhumanism to cultivate an experimental art making process. In addition, they are a community organizer with a hyperlocal abolitionist focused on finding alternatives to policing through direct action, mutual aid, and webs of community care called The Crown Heights Care Collective.