Janice Quiles-Reyes (she/her/ella), LMT, CIMI, MA Art Ed, is a second-generation Nuyorican artist based in Queens, NYC. As an educator and parent, Janice thrives most in collaborative and community-based activism that works on developing more anti-ableist spaces. Her work centers on language justice, barrier-free access, non-violent communication, and decolonizing parenting and teaching practices.
Drawing from her therapeutic and art education backgrounds, she works from a trauma-informed perspective. She strives to provide safe, empathy-driven, and caring spaces when developing and leading art classes and guided meditations. Her most recent work has been with elementary and secondary-aged students, fellow creatives, and educators.
Her artwork explores Boricua identity and the habits of American socialization of women and their bodies.
She received a B.F.A. in Fine Arts with a minor in Art Therapy from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, an AA in Health Sciences as a Licensed Massage Therapist, and an AA from LaGuardia Community College’s ASL-English Interpreter Training Program. She is currently completing her MA at New York University in Art Education.