Launched in 2018, The Works of Art focuses on furthering artists’ business objectives through talent management, services, and events. An avid music lover, Juana has always possessed a strong desire to contribute to the space from a business/organizational perspective.

Juana has facilitated a four-part music series that focused on topics related to music licensing, marketing, music, and tech, as well as Artist and Repertoire (A&R). Through the series, she promoted a sense of community and information sharing among the music community and music lovers alike.

Juana continues to grow her agency on the services/management front by working closely with artists and their teams. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Suffolk Law School, Juana, a Software Contract Negotiator, believes strongly in using the skills she has obtained through both her education and the tech space to help artists.

Arielle Gray is a Boston-based writer and multi-media artist. She is the current Arts Engagement Producer for The ARTery, the arts and culture team of NPR affiliate station, WBUR. Her freelance writing has appeared in ZORA, VICE, Bustle, Huffington Post, Afropunk and The Black Youth Project.

Most of her work focuses on the intersection of being queer and Afro-Caribbean, while living with a mental illness. Her previous exhibit “Dreams and Tings” with VSA Massachusetts explores these intersections in nuanced depth. She has a forthcoming project funded by The Create Well Fund, documenting the stories of QTPOC elders. 

She is the co-founder of the literary organization, PRINT AINT DEAD and is on the board of What’s On Your Mind Inc., a mental health organization centering the experiences of POC. 

She is currently writing her first novel, It All Falls Down.

Tim Hall is an educator, artist, and entrepreneur, from Detroit, MI, who now resides in Boston, MA. He began playing alto saxophone at the age of 10. In college, Hall found poetry and used this form of creative expression to share his thoughts on paper. Tim Hall draws inspiration from his lived experiences – charting the nuances of blackness, masculinity, and the beauties of life. As a musician, Hall has shared stages with world-renowned recording artists such as The Nappy Roots, Carolyn Malachi, Bilal, Chris Turner, and Aloe Blacc. His poetry has been heard at Boston’s Hub Week, The Museum of Fine Arts, Berklee College of Music, Outside the Box Festival, Bridgin’ Gaps Festival, and many other venues and poetry slam communities around the Boston/Greater Boston area. 

Hall currently works as a at Berklee College of Music as the Assistant Professor in the Professional Music Department, is the co-owner of HipStory – a digital media production company dedicated to creating and showcasing the work of marginalized identities within media, and Events Coordinator for BAMSFest. Additionally, Tim can be found performing with local artists Cliff Notez, Oompa, VQnC, and STL GLD, and Will Dailey, as well as session and work-for-hire opportunities. He was nominated for “Session Musician of the Year” by the Boston Music Awards (2018 & 2019), and most recently honored by WBUR’s Artery 25 as 1 of 25 millennials of color impacting Arts and Culture in Boston. Tim Hall’s work can be found in his self-produced spoken word EP entitled Colors Of My Soul, and in his self-published book titled Trust The Process, both of which released in 2016.

Marquis Neal is an audio engineer, concert organizer, entrepreneur, and long-time TRC community member from Dorchester. He has been the president of an independent record label (ReBelle Music) since 2012, and in 2016 he and some partners created a company called New Era of New England, which provides a platform for artists to share their music and get compensated for doing so. Marquis is the owner of Lifted Smoking Goods, a cannabis lifestyle company that merges the entertainment industry with cannabis consumer accessories. One of the main goals of Lifted Smoking Goods is reinvesting back into communities most affected by drugs and the war on drugs through arts and culture. Marquis is also the former Technical Director of the retired NPR program “Only A Game”.

OOMPA is a nationally-acclaimed, Boston-born, poet, rapper, and educator, who is forever representing the queer, black, orphaned, hood kids n’ them. She was named one of NPR’s 2020 Slingshot Artists to Watch and her engaging, interactive performing style won her the Boston Music Award for Live Act of the Year in 2019, following her 2018 Unsigned Artist of the Year victory among an unprecedented 12 total nominations. In a 2019 feature, WBUR’s the Artery describes the lyric-focused rapper as having a “natural tenderness with language” and calls her verses “funny…incisive and memorable.” Oompa showed this poetic prowess as the winner of the 2017 Women of the World Poetry Slam and a finalist in the 2016 National Poetry Slam. With the release of her newest album, Cleo, Oompa has sold out the Sinclair and a number of other Boston venues. She has been featured by NPR, the Huffington Post, Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, WGBH, digboston, and NBC 10 and is the recipient of the 2019 Brother Thomas Fellowship, enriching Boston and the world beyond with her work.