CG Ryan

Poet Christopher B Appel and multi and new media artist CG Ryan have known each other as artists in different lanes within the Midwest arts community for over ten years. They were drawn together to create their first project together as co-directors because of their mutual arts admiration and responses to contemporary social complexities from their different cultural lens as a Black man and a White woman raised on the borders of the middle class. Christopher's prior live poetry performances with Andrew Davis and Mas Bagua led to this three-way collaboration.