LAURIE MARKIEWICZ resides in New York City with...

FRESH, BOLD, & SO DEF

Fresh, Bold, & So Def (FBSD) is a women and gender research and archive project created to empower and cultivate women in Hip-Hop through a social enterprise solution’s model that is both educational and entrepreneurial. Incubated at the Hip-Hop Education Center at New York University's Metropolitan Center, the objective of FBSD is to promote positive images and motivational stories of powerful women in diverse roles and leadership positions within Hip-Hop culture through an educational platform that can be used in classrooms, libraries, museums, community centers, public forums, employment centers, and correctional facilities.

LAURIE MARKIEWICZ resides in New York City with her son Jack. She is a freelance photographer, educator and event planner. Laurie has been involved in the underground hardcore/hip-hop/skate circuits for more than half of her life. Laurie packs an impressive list of credentials with extensive and nuanced work in youth development, ranging from her experience with newborns, to youth in the juvenile detention centers in New York. Laurie’s main vision and driving passion is towards bringing women to the forefront of media through the performing and visual arts, as well as fundraising for different community initiatives. She has produced creditable events such as Across The Board & Ladies Love The Breaks, fundraising events for children with Autism, Ladies Love Dilla, and recently photographed the legendary Pete Rock. Laurie is notable for her range of images; whether her subject be landscapes, portraits or random everyday city life occurrences. It is obvious she has mastered her identifiable photographic signature of black and white. http://596artistunion.com