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Artists for Africa

Actor; Author / Writer; Choreographer; Dancer; Director; Musician; Poet; Singer; Teacher / Instructor; Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration; Visual Artist: Painting

Bringing Art Classes to the Children of Africa. Artists for Africa has been established to help support Anno's Africa, a non-profit organization which brings arts classes to children in the slums of Kenya. Local artists based here in South Carolina, are coming together to give their talents to support this incredible cause. For now, the program exists only in Nairobi, but with some help, the goal is to spread the program throughout urban Kenya and someday to other countries in Africa.

Fuse Artist Alliance

Actor; Author / Writer; Choreographer; Composer; Dancer; Director; Film Maker; Musician; Playwright; Poet; Producer; Singer; Storyteller; Teacher / Instructor; Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Photography; Visual Artist: Print / Digital Art / Graphic Design

To connect independent artists within the first 5 years of their creative career with the tools, resources and exposure needed to inspire and cultivate their creative vision. FUSE aspires to provide the platform for these artists to be seen,heard, and loved. FUSE showcases indie talent in visual art, film, fashion design, music, performance art, hair and makeup artistry, and photography. FUSE desire to provide an alternative way for artists to showcase both to their local community and the world-at-large. We are not your average artist , no ! We are uniquely gifted, colorful in our words, creative in our vision and all about our artists.

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Composer; Musician; Poet; Storyteller

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TY DAVIS

Author / Writer; Musician; Poet; Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting

My work is a testimony of the desire to express feelings that can’t be described through words. Most artists see themselves as the ones expressing, I see myself as one who is a medium, allowing the mediums and colors express themselves in this world. I wish to give the viewer a glimpse into a world without form and definition. A world where anything goes and nothing is restrained. My art is a play on Duality. An up versus down, left versus right, black versus white, dance that never ends.

Mikey Diaz

Actor; Choreographer; Dancer; Director; Poet; Singer; Storyteller; Teacher / Instructor; Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration

To his close friends, Mikey is the man of the hour who people instantly feel comfortable around him and confide in. Mikey created FUSE from the ground up. It started as his vision of artistic harmony. Since he was little, his father played different genres of music around him which he found the many facets that music holds. This inspiration continues to live with him in the projection of his artistic pieces. He says he seeks to create timeless, pieces of work. Mikey is originally from The Bronx, New York.

Russ Eidson

Composer; Musician; Poet; Singer

Multi-instrumentalist and writer of songs and poetry to keep my sanity.

Terrance Henderson

Actor; Choreographer; Dancer; Director; Poet; Singer; Teacher / Instructor

An International award winning choreographer, Terrance has been the creative force behind Columbia’s own Vibrations Dance Company serving as Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer for over 10 years. Terrance is now also developing independent dance/theater projects under his personal brand T.O. Henderson Dance Incorporated (TO DANCE, Inc) with whom he is presenting his latest original work HOLE IN MY BUCKET: a perspective through dance image word and sound here at the 2013 Rogue Festival. Terrance was the 2009 Artist Fellow for the state in Dance Performance and later that same year received the BRONZE LEO AWARD for Outstanding Jazz Choreography at the Jazz Dance World Congress in Chicago- a first for a choreographer from South Carolina. A company member at Trustus Theater-South Carolina’s only professional theater, Terrance’s has served as choreographer and director for multiple productions and has been seen as a performer on the main-stage in such shows as Next to Normal, Passing Strange, Smokey Joes Cafe, Hair, and Rent. Terrance is also on the dance faculty at both Columbia Ballet School and Southeastern School of Ballet and has been the long-term artist in residence in the public schools at Logan Elementary where he has been teaching dance and drama now for 15 years.

Chris Johnson

Composer; Musician; Poet; Singer

Ed Madden

Author / Writer; Poet; Teacher / Instructor

Madden is the author of three books of poetry, Signals (USC Press 2008), Prodigal: Variations (Lethe 2011), Nest (Salmon, forthcoming 2014), as well as the chapbook My Father’s House (Seven Kitchens Press, forthcoming 2013). He is co-editor of Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio, and literary arts editor for Jasper magazine. He is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

Traci Neal

Author / Writer; Poet; Storyteller

Traci Neal is a Youth Author, Professional Christian Poet, and Certified Youth Speaker. She has been featured in The New York Times, Sheen Magazine, InspireMore, Storyberries, Reading With Your Kids Podcast, and CNBC Make It. She is the July 2021 York Story Slam Winner and 2nd place winner for the “Taking It Global” virtual poetry slam in Toronto, Canada.

Fatima Savage

Actor; Author / Writer; BIPOC Artist; Musician; Playwright; Poet; Singer; Storyteller; Teacher / Instructor; Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Photography

My name is Fatima and I am a veteran of the military. I became an artist upon my separation from the service to help combat my PTSD. Growing up in NYC, i was exposed to broadway, graffiti art, dance culture, creative journalism and many other forms of artistry. Some projects that i have published are an EP by the title of ‘SageTheDay’ which can be found on Apple Music and Spotify. I’ve also self published two books of micro poetry which can be found on Apple Books and Amazon books. My writing incorporates nature, giving it personified characteristics and my painting is impulsive, giving it spiritual properties that tend to tell a soul’s story.

Ruba Say

Actor; Author / Writer; Composer; Director; Musician; Poet; Producer; Singer; Storyteller; Teacher / Instructor

I’m Ruba (Pronounced RUBBA) Say…I’m primarily a singer/songwriter who performs on guitar either solo on acoustic or electric with my power trio Ruba Say And The Cosmic Rays…Our new CD :Ruba Say And The Cosmic Rays” is available locally in Columbia SC at Papa Jazz Records and Cosmic Rays bookstore…Online at RubaSayAndTheCosmicRays.com or CD Baby,Spotify,Pandora,Reverbnation,Soundcloud,BandCamp,etc,etc.

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