Unleash the Artist In You

Come and celebrate the artist in you with nycoba|NOMA. We will be exploring a variety of mediums to express our adventures on paper, joined by special guest Alissa D. Polan, a queer Brooklyn-based artist who uses vinyl and found imagery to create collages and large-scale installations on the themes of transformation, consumption, and identity. Her recent solo exhibition, MATERIALISTIC AND FINE WITH IT, was installed in July 2022 at mhPROJECTnyc in New York.

**Bring a canned food item to support a local family oriented food pantry**

Special Guest:
Alissa D. Polan

About the Special Guest:
Alissa D. Polan is an artist, art advisor and curator. She has attended residencies internationally and her collages and installations have been widely exhibited, including at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (Sonoma, CA), Joya: arte + ecología / AiR (Andalucía, Spain), Paradice Palase (Brooklyn, NY), LMAKgallery (New York, NY), Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA), Heather Marx Art Advisory (San Francisco, CA), and Klowden Mann (Culver City, CA). She is the recipient of the Spring 2020 WorkingArtist.org Photography Award and was recently featured in Vast Art Magazine. Polan received her MFA in Sculpture from SFAI (San Francisco, CA). She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. Read our full Health and Safety Protocol here.