Artist Extra ordinaire
Ms. Sadikisha Saundra Collier is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn N.Y.
Sadikisha is a multi-media artist, but is primarily known and recognized as a Master printmaker. Her work ranges from prints, paintings, collage, computer graphics, and stained glass. She also expresses herself through video editing and fashion design.
She is a writer and poet whose work reflects her respect for African American culture, womanhood and her story as a visual artist.
Sadikisha has a Masters in Education from Cambridge College in Boston, Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Museum and Gallery management Certificate from California College of Arts and Crafts.
Collier’s work is in the collection of Ed Bradley of 60 minutes, The Honorable David Dinkins, The Honorable former Councilman Al Vann, Whitney Houston, Carver Bank, Thelonious Monk Jr., Valerie Bell-Bey, and a host of others.
Sadikisha has exhibited with such notable artists as Jacob Lawrence, Tom Feelings, Otto Neals,
Bob Blackburn, Ernest Crichlow, Ann Tanksley, Ted Gunn, Vincent Smith, Varnette Honeywood and many others.
President of the oldest African American art fair in NY, Fulton Art Fair 2011-2014. Her work has been sold at Sothebys’s auction house. Collier is a Producer at Bric Cable network and her artwork has been featured on the hit show “New York Undercover.” She is included in “Who’s Who in America”, a
member of 100 Black Women, The National Conference of Artists, The Jamaica Arts Coop, The Fulton Art Fair and Where We At Black Women Artists.
Sadikisha has also been a 2003 Nubian Women’s Circle of Art Award Honoree and a finalist in two projects with MTA Arts for transit. (Utica Avenue A train and Franklin Ave. Shuttle). She was commissioned to design two images for A&B carpets which were distributed in stores throughout the U.S. She also designed 24 book marks for A&B books.
Sadikisha’s artwork reflects her love of family, music, recording her experience on our planet earth as an African American Woman! Presently Sadikisha is working on a healing series