2024 Braille Institute of America's Artists Artworks

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The cardboard texture shows through the blue background. In white text, the question "What is under your mask" is repeated. The center features a face made of layered cardboard, with a medium brown tone, pink lips, pink eyelids, and crowned with black yarn hair.

Savannah Gayle

What's Under Your Mask?, 2024

Size 20" x 30", Acrylic, cardboard, yarn, and mirror tiles on cardboard

Artwork Image Desciption: The cardboard texture shows through the blue background. In white text, the question "What is under your mask" is repeated. The center features a face made of layered cardboard, with a medium brown tone, pink lips, pink eyelids, and crowned with black yarn hair.

The cobalt blue background peaks through at the top as leaves in yellow, green, and red and brown branches overwhelm the image.

Angelica Fuentes

Isle of Paez, 2024

Size 25" x 31", Water soluble ink on paper

Artwork Image Description The cobalt blue background peaks through at the top as leaves in yellow, green, and red and brown branches overwhelm the image.

The top two-thirds of the background is black, with the bottom third yellow. Blue stenciled words are "WOW" (top), "BOOM" (bottom left), and "dOW" (bottom right). Blue and red lace textures, two yellow triangles with holes, a red diagonal ribbon, and imprints of blue buttons, white leaves, and a flower stem are featured.

Roger Kopp

Pop Texture, 2023

Size 21" x 25", Water soluble ink on paper

Artwork Image Desciption: The top two-thirds of the background is black, with the bottom third yellow. Blue stenciled words are "WOW" (top), "BOOM" (bottom left), and "dOW" (bottom right). Blue and red lace textures, two yellow triangles with holes, a red diagonal ribbon, and imprints of blue buttons, white leaves, and a flower stem are featured.

Two creatures float above a sandy bottom against a dark purple-blue background. One is a four-legged yellow creature with a blue eye, red smile, and whiskers. The other is a pale, tentacled creature entangled in red.

Jane Suh

The Price of Conformity, 2024

Size 21" x 24", Water soluble ink on paper

Artwork Image Description: Two creatures float above a sandy bottom against a dark purple-blue background. One is a four-legged yellow creature with a blue eye, red smile, and whiskers. The other is a pale, tentacled creature entangled in red.

A photograph of a ceramic plaque in a horizontal oval depicts a pod of yellow dolphins breaching the blue sea below.

Linda Crawford

Untitled, 2023

Size 12" x 15", Ceramic

Artwork Image Description: A photograph of a ceramic plaque in a horizontal oval depicts a pod of yellow dolphins breaching the blue sea below.

Two rectangular cross-hatch imprints are side by side: one gray and one blue. The gray imprint features a billowy yellow formation, while the blue imprint has pink and black piano keys on top and yellow musical notations below. Paw prints in brown and white, with brown, black, and white details, are located in the bottom right. Small red and pink hearts are scattered throughout, and there are occasional imprints of black fringe.

Nazaret Rodriguez

Manchitas and Coco Play Me Piano, 2024

Size 20" x 25", Water soluble ink on paper,

Artwork Image Description: Two rectangular cross-hatch imprints are side by side: one gray and one blue. The gray imprint features a billowy yellow formation, while the blue imprint has pink and black piano keys on top and yellow musical notations below. Paw prints in brown and white, with brown, black, and white details, are located in the bottom right. Small red and pink hearts are scattered throughout, and there are occasional imprints of black fringe

A glass and ceramic mosaic tile of a central bright red bird in a black wire cage on a green background.

Abeba Mandefro

Messenger, 2023

Size 23.5" x 19.5", Glass and cermaic mosaic tile on board

Artwork Image Description: A glass and ceramic mosaic tile of a central bright red bird in a black wire cage on a green background.