Youth

Wangechi Mutu: I was introduced to Priscilla by Juan Roselione-Valadez, the director of the Rubell Museum in Miami and a former classmate of mine at Cooper Union — friends and old teachers...

Gabriela Cámara: I met Monica when she became the sous-chef for Álvaro Vázquez, whom we hired to run Caracol de Mar in 2021. I’m always impressed when I taste her food: with...

Rita Dove: I landed on Safiya’s work in 2011 when she applied for the creative writing program at the University of Virginia — and to paraphrase Emily Dickinson, she took the top...

Graciela Iturbide: I became Maya’s mentor through a government grant in the 1990s and, not long after, she traveled with me to France and Hungary as an assistant. We have a similar...

Naomi Watts: Elle impressed me the first time we met . She was 16, but with such emotional intelligence. When I was trying to get my start in my late 20s, I...

Mentor-mentee relationships have nourished generations of artists, especially those who were not provided formal training or welcomed by established gatekeepers — and in male-dominated fields, the support between women has long served...

Howardena Pindell: Melissa uses the techniques of traditional Navajo weaving, but then she does something that I can’t even imagine being able to do: She weaves intuitively, so the pattern is born...

Gina Prince-Bythewood: When Thuso first auditioned for “The Woman King,” I thought, “This is Nawi” , but there were still other people she had to meet with, so I said, “Good luck...

Emily Watson: I see a quality in Aisling that I recognized in myself as a young actor: She draws you in. On the set of “God’s Creatures” , I found myself watching...

Imogen Binnie: I was desperate for anything I could use to figure out how to be trans, and there was so much on strap-on.org and then LiveJournal. I first found your art...