Adama Delphine Fawundu is a Brooklyn-born visual artist, educator, and cultural organizer whose interdisciplinary practice spans photography, textiles, video, sound, and handmade paper. Rooted in ancestral memory and diasporic histories, her work explores how stories are carried through bodies, landscapes, and material culture. A first-generation artist with heritage from Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea, Fawundu is co-editor of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora and a recipient of honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
delphinefawundu.com | @adamadelphine

Damien Davis is a Newark-based artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice examines cultural representation, identity, and symbolic language across painting, sculpture, and installation. Drawing from African diasporic histories, popular culture, and design traditions, his work recontextualizes familiar forms to explore visibility and belonging. Davis has exhibited at institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and currently serves as Curatorial Adjunct Faculty at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
damiendavisstudio.com | @damiendavis

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, raised in Montclair, New Jersey, Shoshanna Weinberger is a Newark-based artist living in the city since 2006. Her practice explores Caribbean-American identity through abstraction. She holds a MFA from Yale School of Art and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited widely, including the Newark Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, and National Gallery of Jamaica. She is a recipient of awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Weinberger is currently an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University–Newark.
shoshanna.info | @shoshannaweinberger

In Newark, style is identity, ritual, and cultural expression. Hair salons, barbershops, boutiques, jewelry stores, and beauty supply shops are spaces of gathering, transformation, and community rooted in Black and Brown cultural traditions shaped by migration, heritage, and resilience.

This installation draws from the visual language of beauty cultureómirrors, combs, braiding patterns, textiles, and adornment. The featured artists explore how identity is formed and communicated through style, gesture, and presentation. These everyday spaces function as sites of labor, care, and connection, reflecting Newark’s evolving creativity while honoring the traditions that sustain it.

• Amina Hair Braiding Salon
  358 Washington St.
  aminahairbraidingusa.com

• At the Pillars:
  Pooka, Pure & Simple
  Healhaus
  33 Washington St.
  pookapureandsimple.com
  healhaus.com

• Bella Nails
  41 Maiden Ln.
  bellanaillounge.com

• Diamond Hair Braiding
  12 Branford Pl.
  diamondhairbraiding.com

• Dreamz Salon
  81 Halsey St.
  dreamzsalon.com/newark

• Techture Blō Bar
  12 Linden St.

• The Salon on Branford
  60 Branford Pl.

• True Cuts
  77 Halsey St.
  truecutsnj.com

• Tommy's Wig
  98 Market St.

• UrBestUnisex LLC
  45 Halsey St.