Love Yours is an extension of the gallery, On Fridays We Fish Fry. A discussion on the intersections between art, culture, family, land, and love. Kincaid is joined by Joseph Adegboyega, Gabrielle Sanchéz DoVale, and Imani Ylsanita.

Moderator: Joseph Adegboyega
Panel Participants: Gabrielle Sanchéz DoVale and Imani Ylsanita

Kincaid McLaren (She/Her/Hers)
Kincaid McLaren is dedicated to propelling her creative message through the mediums of film, digital photography, and video. Kincaid started her creative journey in her hometown of Brockton, MA, where she sought to visually capture all her interests: friends, family gatherings, sports, portrait sessions, and events. Kincaid uses her camera as an extension of her voice; for things she may not express verbally or through poetry, she looks to express it through photography. Her ability to pause and see the richness of life around her is represented in her work. Over time, Kincaid found a common theme within her artwork which was heavily rooted in elevating the beauty, stories, and experiences of her black and brown community, particularly those of black women. With a talent for visual storytelling, she continues to blend poetry, photography, and film into her artistic practice, uplifting and creating spaces and experiences for all to enjoy that are dynamic, freeing, and unapologetically Afrocentric. Kincaid pulls inspiration from music, life experiences, family, community, and love. She hopes her art makes people feel warm, represented, and free.

Joseph Adegboyega (He/Him/His)
Joseph Adegboyega is a Nigerian-American fashion model based out of Rhode Island who began his journey participating in school fashion shows mainly as an extracurricular and social activity. Through the years, the hobby grew to a creative outlet and form of expression for him. He enjoys the visual storytelling and artistic collaboration aspects of fashion modeling. Adegboyega has worked with photographers from Providence and Boston to New York City has been signed with an agency since 2021 and made his debut at New York Fashion Week in February 2025. He is excited about continued growth in the industry and where modeling will take him in the future.

Gabrielle Sanchéz DoVale (She/Her/Hers)
Gabrielle Sanchéz DoVale (She/Her) is a Rhode Island born, Cape Verdean and Mexican visual creative whose work bridges storytelling, archival preservation, and the empowering importance of physical media. Deeply invested in representing diverse identities, her photography explores heritage, memory, and cultural symbolism through carefully crafted set designs and film-based photography. With a passion for tangible artistry in an era dominated by digital consumption, she prioritizes physical media as a means of fostering genuine engagement with her work. Her projects often highlight underrepresented narratives, bringing community voices to the forefront through immersive visual storytelling. Her work has been most recently published in Rhode Island Monthly, and she has showcased her photography in both solo and group exhibitions, including a solo gallery, Characteristics of Colors in October of 2022, an exploration of color psychology through portraiture, and an exhibition at Knight Memorial Library in January of 2023. As an artist, she seeks to create spaces where culture, history, and visual art intersect.

Imani Ylsanita (She/They)
Ylsanita, a multidisciplinary designer and photographer, was born and raised in Providence, within the embrace of a Dominican and Guyanese immigrant family. Ylsanita started their photography journey with the drive to capture the vibrant culture and enclaves that fills the South Side of Providence. Heritage and the drive for cultural preservation informs the subjects Ylsanita photographs. For the past 5 years, they have focused on documentar photography, aiming to capture Broad Street's prevalent bike-life culture, the vibrant Black and Brown creative community of Providence, and the authentic and vulnerable essence of individuals within the surrounding community.

Join us March 20th at AS220 for a multi-genre open mic and a competitive poetry slam to qualify for Semi-Finals B on April 3rd — this is the final opportunity to qualify!

Our sign-up sheet goes out at 7:00pm and fill up with minutes! If you want a spot, we recommend you get there as close to 7:00pm as you can.

Open mic guidelines:

• Open to all ages.

• Open to all genres — poetry, prose, music, rap, more!

• No covers — original work only.

• You have 4 to 5 minutes — please be considerate of time!

• You can only sign up for either the open mic or the poetry slam.

Poetry slam guidelines:

• A literary competition in which poets perform their own original work using no props, costumes, or musical accompaniment.

  • 5 random judges from the audience score each poem from 0.0 to 10.0. Then, we drop the lowest and highest scores to get your cumulative total score.

  • Our slam has two rounds. To compete, you must have two original poems.

  • In each round, poets must perform within 3 minutes and 10 seconds. Poets face a time penalty of -0.5 for every 10 seconds over.

• The top three scoring poets of the night advance to Semi-Finals B on April 3rd, 2025. (Poets who do not advance can try again at additional qualifying slams.)

  • At Spring Semi-Finals, the top four scoring poets advance to Grand Slam on April 17th, 2025.

  • At Grand Slam, the top five scoring poets will comprise the 2025 Providence Slam Team. They will meet, write, pracrtice, and train through the summer to represent our city at the NorthBeast Regional Poetry Slam and Festival in Boston, MA in July 2025.

In celebration of AS220's 40th anniversary, Power - N - Process is a monthly panel series that shares our history while illustrating how the echoes of our past work are reaching across time and shaping our future. We will dive into foundational tenants of our mission, original values and the way our programs strive to honor the intentions of this work. 

Power - N - Process also shares the complicated truth of what it means to be accountable to many communities, and how our Racial Justice Initiative and emerging Transformative Practice Department have grappled with the beauty and the challenge of ensuring that all people see themselves in the future of AS220.

With storytelling as a central practice for remembering and organizing, Power - N - Process features panelists/moderators from all eras and who have given their time, brilliance and love to AS220 to participate in this monthly series.