Jessy DeSantis

This Christmas I grieve the children of Gaza. 80 days of slaughtering children by Israel and the United States. They are censoring folks who are speaking out now. Do not stop talking about Palestine! . Hundreds more graphics are available for download, see below. #merrychristmas #merrychristmas2023 #merrychristmasgenocidejoe#genocidejoe . . . . 🍉 Announcing : Palestine Solidarity graphic care-package #4 !! 🍉 . We keep standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people! Support the global strike, keep speaking up! We are not free until all of us are free! . END THE OCCUPATION! FREE PALESTINE! ¡ALTO A LA OCUPACIÓN! ¡VIVA PALESTINA LIBRE! All these images, and hundreds more, are available as free high resolution downloads on the graphics page of our site, link in profile. Thanks to our graphics team for putting this together! @graficanarno @erikruin @missprints Reposted from @justseeds

My artwork, "Cintli, Corn, Maíz" in the Reflect & Remix exhibition now open at @thewaltersartmuseum 🌀🐍🪶🌽 Fun fact, I grew this corn in Reservoir Hill, Baltimore and still have it. It's on my altar. 🖤 Also turns out @laidbacklili has photography skills! 🙏🏼 📸 #bmoreart #baltimoreart #cintli #corn #maiz #centralamericanart #nicaraguanart #miamiartist #baltimoreartist #chicomecoatl

For the ancestors and for the next generation 🙏🏼 Our stories and truths will be heard. @mollyemillerphotography @kap2ure @zapotecurn Posted @withregram • @bmoreart Just as all art is site specific, so are artists. This is the first BmoreArt issue that considers migration as a primary influence–not just upon materials and style, but also conceptually, spiritually, ethically, and socially. In Issue 15, we feature artists from every continent (except Antarctica), with emphasis on their original home, transition, and experience as Baltimoreans. In each case, their ability to uniquely manifest art and culture that originated in another environment here in Baltimore offers opportunities for all of us to experience, expand, and connect. - Cara Ober Congrats to artist Jessy DeSantis for gracing our cover in a photo by Mollye Miller with design by Tony Venne!!!!! 🦜❤️🔥 @jdesantisart @mollyemillerphotography @vennea Subscription link in bio / Purchase at local booksellers next week!!! More: Issue 15 features a variety of international artists who call Baltimore home, including Cindy Cheng from Hong Kong, David Page and Jo Smail from South Africa, Anysa Saleh from Yemen, Jessy DeSantis from Nicaragua, and Taha Heydari from Iran. We explore the humanitarian culinary work of Mera Kitchen Collective, Australian musical group Smoke Bellow, and fashion by Yelé Oladeinde from Nigeria—now based at Motor House. This issue examines the performative and sculptural work of Hoesy Corona, Kim Rice’s exploration of antebellum family history in Oklahoma, the collection of Montreal-born Kris Kudrnac, and so many others. #baltimore #bmoreart #baltimoreartist #baltimoreartscene #baltimoreartmagazine #artmagazine #contemporaryart #buymoreart #nicaraguan #centam #centralamericanart #baltimoreart #jdesantisart #jessydesantis

#nopal #mexica #landscape #painting #art

Call for help below! Anything helps 🙏. I've been helping a family since January 2025. Many of you have contributed and are familiar with their story. To recap, I met a family of three, a husband and wife with their young daughter in Highlandtown. They just arrived in town after fleeing ICE raids that were picking up in NYC at the time, hoping to find some relief in Baltimore. Unfortunately, as you all know, the raids didn't stop there. The father was detained while searching for work and deported, leaving mother and child behind. Acquiring a lawyer and doing everything possible to keep her and her daughter together still wasn't enough to grant her asylum. She made the incredibly difficult choice to leave the country. She is an amazing mother who wanted a better life and future for her daughter, who now remains in the care of her aunt here in the states. Her aunt has reached out as she is struggling this month to keep up with expenses for her own children, niece and young brother who is ill. I have helped her brother connect with healthcare providers in the past, I'm really saddened to hear he is not doing well. Call in Spanish below: "Buenas noches señorita espero se encuentre bien. disculpe la molestia🙏Si me puede. Ayudar con. Lo que nasca de su corazón se lo agradeceria mucho ya que este mes no se como aserle se me junto la renta los gastos de los niños y mi hermano se puso mal con su enfermedad del vhi le ase mal tomar muchas pastillas no puede trabajar y tampoco le quieren dar trabajo 🥹🙏 si pudiera juntar algo de la comunidad se lo agradeceríamos mucho 🙏" Continued in the comments.

Nakba Day is observed today, May 15, commemorating the 1948 displacement and dispossession of the native Palestinians surrounding the creation of Israel. Nakba means catastrophe, when approximately 750,000 Palestinians were massacred and displaced from their home. The nakba continues today. In solidarity with Indigenous people all over the world fighting colonization. This is my painting for Palestine. An incantation for life, liberation and renewal. The song is by @nemahsis a Palestinian artist who was dropped from their label when speaking up for what they believe in. Keep speaking up 🖤🪶 #poppies #art #painting #liberation #nakba

Finally! And as promised, I painted a Baltimore Night Heron 🙂‍↕️ thank you @thamesstreetnightherons 🪶 #nightheron #bird #painting #art #timelapse

It's been one year since my painting "Cintli, Corn, Maíz" has been on permanent display at the Latin American Art Exhibit at @thewaltersartmuseum in Baltimore 🙂‍↕️🌽. If you haven't visited, please do! The museum is free to the public and has the best staff with regular activities and programming. Tag me in your photos! Learn more about the inspiration behind the painting on my website 🙏🖤 For the ancestors and our future generations. Curated by Dr. Ellen Hoobler (William B. Ziff, Jr., Curator of Art of the Americas) and Patricia Lagarde (Wieler-Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Art of the Americas) #thewaltersartmuseum #blatimoreartist #bmoreart #Baltimoreart #cintlicornmaiz

Probably the best gold paint I've ever used, across the board, is a watercolor paint. You'd think something diluted wouldn't be as lustrous. #toucan #painting #artprocess #watercolorpainting #artcommission

Swipe to see the original 🌋 when I was 16 I went to Nicaragua and visited volcan Masaya which is an active volcano nearby our family we were visiting. I picked up a volcanic rock and it was red and smelled like iron. Nicaragua is part of the Pacific ring of fire and has 19 active volcanoes today. According to my mother, volcan Masaya is now closed off. But I remember parrots living in the volcano and the smoke rising. Decades later and I still have the lava rock on one of my altars. I sometimes call it my heart because it's shaped like one and is from my ancestral lands. A little piece of home. #cacao #cacaoart #pochteca #mexica #nicaragua Via Brooklyn Museum: Aztec. Man Carrying a Cacao Pod, 1440–1521. Volcanic stone, traces of red pigment, 14 1/4 x 7 x 7 1/2in. (36.2 x 17.8 x 19.1cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 40.16. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Happy Mother's Day life givers ❤️‍🔥💐🖤 📸 @laidbacklili #tonantzin #mothersday #lifegivers #sacredmotherhood

Fit check. About to go speak about my art at another Baltimore City school. 🖤🎨 #makeart #artfortherevolution #baltimore #baltimoreartist #baltimoreart