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ABOUT

Alana Ladson is a self-taught illustrator, graphic designer, and painter. She has completed illustration, painting, and design work for Cornell Scott Hill Health Center, Yale Peabody Museum, The Arts Council of New Haven, DiasporaCon, Women Who Create, Artspace Gallery New Haven, and more.

Alana happily teaches art to children ages 5-17 through Arts for Learning CT and other organizations.

Alana has exhibited work at Loomis Chaffee's Mercy Gallery, The Dixwell Q House, and The New Haven Public Library. Additionally, Alana was chosen as a We Need Diverse Books Mentee for illustration.

In 2023, Alana founded The Rooted Collective, an exploratory artist collective that brings together BIPOC women and nonbinary folks to create art, explore themselves, and deepen their practices.

Alana Ladson Art is a small black women-owned business that creates positive and powerful fashion enamel pins, art prints, and stickers of –and for – BIPOC community members and others. Back in the day, Alana saw no faces like hers in the art and media she and her peers consumed. For this reason, she began to sell her works of art in hopes that others could see themselves positively through her art. Some of her inspiration includes beautiful BIPOC women, nature, and magical, ethereal beings— which are all filled with strength, culture, passion, and love.

PRESS

Alana Ladson featured in Arts Paper