Where We Begin Again: In Her Eyes x Vox Populi

Arianna Cabrera is a Philadelphia-based, Dominican-born multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice centers on portraiture, identity, and womanhood. Self-taught and currently an undergraduate at Drexel University, she works across physical and digital platforms, creating intimate portraits informed by personal history and faith. Her layered techniques merge traditional portraiture with digital elements to evoke emotional depth and vulnerability. Cabrera prioritizes accessibility, ensuring her work resonates across gallery and digital spaces alike. In Bearing Fruit, her series for Where We Begin Again, Cabrera explores how women bear fruit through creation, care, healing, and self-discovery. Her work captures the nuances of Black womanhood by blending cultural heritage with contemporary narratives. Through a faith-inspired lens, she infuses her creations with hope and valuation, inviting audiences to see themselves reflected and cherished in visual culture.

Skyla Rimple is a poet and artist based in Philadelphia whose practice intertwines language with visual expression to probe identity, emotion, and renewal. A senior at the University of Pennsylvania, Rimple's work uses poetry as both personal archive and communal offering, capturing moments of beauty, difficulty, and reflection with emotional clarity. Her writing traces the evolution of inner life—how identity, faith, and belonging shift over time. In Where We Begin Again, Rimple presents multimedia work that incorporates visual documentation alongside poetry to contextualize the environments and moments inspiring her practice. She transforms lived experience into language that grounds, reflects, and connects, weaving poetry with visual forms to give tangible expression to emotional complexity. Her work emphasizes vulnerability as strength, drawing from Philadelphia's cultural landscape to create pieces that pulse with urban poetry and candor.