Amit Ben-Baruch

Amit Ben-Baruch

Amit Ben-Baruch is a painter and printmaker based in Brooklyn, NY, who works as a tattoo artist in the city. Amit spent their time at Azule “scaling up” their work, allowing the vastness of the environment as a counterpoint to the bustling urban backdrop where they...
Lydia Nichole, Mosaic Artist

Lydia Nichole, Mosaic Artist

Lydia Nichole discusses some of the mosaic projects at Azule, as well as their collaborative processes. Lydia was gracious enough to walk us through Camille’s apartment and the residency house to show us a few of the collaborations that she, Camille, and Bennie...
Hava Liebowitz

Hava Liebowitz

Hava Liebowitz is a multidisciplinary fiber-based artist. Her time in residence at Azule was her first artist residency, and she generously shares about her current projects. In our interview, Hava discusses an emerging social practice project, what she’s...
M. Kobe

M. Kobe

M. Kobe is a multidisciplinary artist working with repurposed materials or found natural materials. Everything they use is given to them by friends or collected from the places they’ve lived in Louisiana, North Carolina, and Tennessee. M. also uses many items...
Jeffery Renard Allen

Jeffery Renard Allen

Image by Mark Hilringhouse. Jeffery Renard Allen is a Chicago-based writer who has published six books of fiction and poetry. Among many other accomplishments, he is a recipient of the Chicago Triibune’s Heartland Prize for Fiction, the Ernest J Gaines Award for...