She's Making HerStory: Erika Morrison

"Rendezvous"

Erika Morrison was born in Houston Texas, and has lived in Venezuela, Spain and Holland.

She is entirely self taught and has been painting for many years in a style which she considers unique.

An abstractionist artist.

Her paintings represent a desire for beauty in an increasingly harsh and unnaturally modern world,

where the emphasis is all too often loud and aggressive.

Having no desire to emulate this,

she uses elements of nature and architecture as a foundation 

along with expressions of color to create her own universe.

She is currently living and painting 

in the Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina.

A form of creative hibernation in splendid isolation.

She's Making HerStory: Bonnie MacAllister

"DIY USA"

Bonnie MacAllister renders moments in multimedia: documentary

photography, abstract paintings, film, and performance. 

Her films have been featured on ClassWarKaraoke.com (UK), and her writing has been published by Paper Tiger Media (Brisbane), nth Position (UK), Grasp(Czech Republic), and Dead Drunk Dublin (Ireland). Recent

stagings of her plays were at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the

Shubin Theatre, and the Adrienne Theatre. She has performed at NYFA

and the Cat Cat Club in Paris. She has recently shown her visual

artwork at the Delaware Art Museum, Galeria 6 (Mexico), the Center for

Green Urbanism (DC), University of Pennsylvania, Montclair State

University (NJ), and Florissant Valley Art Gallery in St. Louis, MO.

She recently exhibited as part of Look! on Lancaster Avenue as part of

“Women of Lancaster Avenue.” She studied under Jacques Derrida, Helene

Cixous, and Agnes Varda. She is a Fulbright‐Hays recipient to Ethiopia

and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Artist statement

Often pieces are multi-genre, fusing painting, photography, slide

installations, spoken word, video, and performance. In photographic

stills, she mimics the lighting of times past, slips shutter speeds,

and she often animates using stop action techniques culled from 35 mm

and Holga images. She is drawn to pageantry, burlesque, and motion

portraiture. She will take multiple images of an act and piece it back

together in a deconstructed film, a slide series, or gif painting. Her

documentary photographic work depicts the Coptic imagery and the women

and children whom she visited in eight cities of Ethiopia in 2009.

She's Making HerStory: Akua Walker

"The Pianist"

Born and raised in Washington, DC, Akua Walker has continuously been exposed to the world of arts which early on developed and shaped her painting skills all. The native Washingtonian’s inspiration comes from life’s everyday experiences and challenges. The people that she encounters daily are her motivation to create art. She uses whatever emotion that is generated from balancing work, life, family, and relationships and in turn, pours that energy onto the canvas. 


Many times you can find this Artist simply sitting down listening to music while meditating and with the stroke of a brush, she will start creating. She believes those images come from God or some higher power. Although Walker has never had formal training, her creations have evolved and she continues to hone her craft. For this Artist, to live is to create.

Akua’s work has been showcased at “Taste of Kings” Art and Poetry Showcase, the “Jazz Brunch” and Art Exhibition at Howard University, the 2009 Artomatic showcase, and three of her own successful art showcases with the most recent being December 3^rd, 2011 at Jin Lounge DC. She was a featured artist on the Graylivin.com blog for the month of December 2011 as well as a featured guest on the “Jazz Collector’s” show on WPFW 89.3 FM on November 29, 2011.  Whether it is counseling, dancing, music or art, she puts her heart into all that she touches.