Public Assistants

Public Assistants (PA) is a creative agency & design studio, a dedicated space for our team of interdisciplinary artists, builders, makers, and organizers. Founded on June 6, 2020, as an organizing base in response to the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic and global socio-political uprisings, PA has both led and partnered a number of community initiatives since its recent inception.

Ky'Naisha Severe is the programs manager at Public Assistants (PA) is a creative agency & design studio, a dedicated space for interdisciplinary artists, builders, makers, and organizers located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Danica Pantic is a multidisciplinary artist + filmmaker who is based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is focused on world building and the craft that goes into creating a detailed texture of the worlds she’s built with her collaborators. You can see her film work on Ziwe (2022), Search Party (2020/21), Someone Great (2019), among others. As a member of Public Assistants, a community design studio located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Danica designed DonChristian Jones’ “The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-Go”, now on view at MoMA PS1 in Queens. She received her BA from Wesleyan University, and is a member of United Scenic Artists (829). You can see her work at www.danicapantic.com

Sam Liebert is an artist, curator, publisher, and the founding director of Eureka!, a small press, artist residency, and curatorial practice. Eureka! centers QTBIPOC artists, healers, organizers, and culture-bearers in Kingston, NY and nationally who imagine and enact futures of justice, care, and joy. Since 2020, Eureka! has hosted over 160 artists in residence, overseen the production of more than 30 publications, partnered with local organizations to create programs and events, and collaborated with local and national organizations to showcase and support artists.

DonChristian Jones is the inaugural Adobe Creative Resident at MoMA. Jones is a New York–based artist, musician, and producer whose diverse artistic practice spans painting, music, film and video, time-based performance, and public murals, while blending genres of painting and performance installation. They have shown work at venues such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Shed. In the spring of 2020, Jones founded Public Assistants, a community design studio and mutual-aid hub located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.