Brandy Antonio is an artist and educator from New York who specializes in drawing, painting and collage incorporating influences from her time spent living in Tokyo and Berlin. Brandy earned her BFA in illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology and her master’s in art education from New York University. She is the co-founder of Legacy Foundation Japan, an organization established in 2020 to encourage and inform cross-cultural relationships between the Japanese and African American community.

Brandy has over 15 years of teaching experience including teaching at Reggio-inspired schools, at a high school, adult learners and abroad. She designed her own curriculum and founded The Paper Mosaic Portrait Project (2023), a community-based project exploring identity and portraiture through paper mosaics. Brandy has exhibited in the United States as well as internationally continuously expanding on ideas upon play and process-based art.