Imerj

06/26/2026

06/05/2026

I met an artist named Danielle Finnerman a couple of months ago at a performance we had at our space, who is also project manager at HMAAC , and she introduced Mr. John Guess to our team recently. Mr. Guess and Danielle are definitely a rare find, not only do they believe in a more equitable future for justice-impacted art, they also share the same values and goals as we do. They believe in those values and goals so greatly that there will be more to come from this meaningful relationship. John appreciated the space and artists at Imerj so much that he had to leave with a piece from one of our artists Tega O. 🎨⛓️‍💥

05/28/2026

Thank you for the wonderful article on our founder Daniel! We live for journalism that focuses on community and truly makes a difference.

We’re extremely blessed to be featured and be a part of this!

If you’d like to check it out ..click the link below 🌟

Today we’d like to introduce you to Daniel Celaya. Hi Daniel, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.After serving half my life in prison, nearly two decades, I created a nonprofit called Imerj Art & Advocacy Projects where we represe...

05/27/2026

Waste+Reuse+Recycle/Survival was so much fun! Even in the rain people showed up to support the mission. We had a vibey Dj amazing talent .shift and keeping the kids cool with vintage finds.

Also, big thanks to for the delicious food! as always, thank you forever

05/22/2026

Sneak Peak of our Waste+Reuse+Recycle event for tomorrow.

These pieces created by the talented Yudith Azareth are made from 100% recycled material. Sometimes all you need is the motivation so here’s something to motivate you:

Plastics generated 1.8 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 – that’s 3.4 per cent of the world’s total emissions, a number that is set to grow considerably as the production of plastics is expected to triple by 2060.

Once in the environment, research shows that plastic pollution is persistent and may take between 100 to 1,000 years or more to decompose, depending on environmental conditions.

So shoving that water bottle in ur pocket until you get home to recycle or picking up plastic fragments off the streets to dump into the blue bins really DOES HELP!
You can learn more about how to help keep the world healthy here:

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/10-ways-reduce-plastic-pollution

04/27/2026

Waste, Reuse, Survival brings together justice‑impacted artists whose practices emerge from conditions of scarcity, restraint, and environmental neglect in collaboration with artists Tega O. and Judith Azareth at the intersection of eco art and social practice, revealing how ingenuity thrives even under conditions meant to suppress it. Jamie Albert .artsinitiative will also be speaking about and paying homage to the late reclaimed material builder Dan Phillips and his cultural influence in Huntsville.
These artists remind us that some of the most radical forms of eco art are born not from abundance, but from constraint—and that resilience itself is a renewable resource.
As part of our upcoming waste reclaiming exhibit, we encourage the donation of recyclable or reusable material such as cardboard, colored glass, fabric and other materials for repurposing as artistic ingredients.

Come join us May 23 at The Be Free Gallery from 6-9pm and learn about art under constraint ⛓️‍💥🎨🌎

04/17/2026

This is Charles Hill, spent 12 years in the system and just recently was released. He’s a published author and has so many extremely interesting and informative videos up on his fast growing TikTok! Go give him a follow and order you a book! In this economy any low cost meal tricks help. He’s an inspiration and we are so happy to see him flourish out here when most of society expects them to fail.


This is the good the world needs 🥰

Amazon link to buy the Hot Pot Chef:

https://amzn.to/4bDlb63

TikTok link:

https://www.tiktok.com/?_r=1&_t=ZT-95bHJHlRA6w

04/15/2026

It was an honor and a privilege to be asked by Windham School District, a school district of TDCJ, to speak to High School Equivalency, Career and Technical Education & Apprenticeship students at a graduation ceremony. I’m very proud of these students of not only being a student of life, but of being a student of academia. It’s not easy to hold principles in an unprincipled and stressed environment. These human beings are making a conscious effort to improve themselves and I commend them for it! 🎓💯🔥

I want to thank the WSD faculty and staff for the invite and Warden Burks for having Dr. Godwin and I there to support these individuals who are defining their boundaries and not allowing their boundaries to define them ⛓️‍💥

04/11/2026

IMERJ x SHSU MFA…I was caught by surprise when MFA social practices students proposed to do an exhibition called “Hate Fest” at Be Free Gallery. At first even I didn’t know what to think, but then they laid the plan out to me and how it’s about approaching it from a creative angle. It’s easy to dismiss hate as irrational—but hate is learned, practiced, and rewarded. And if it’s learned, it can be confronted. Where does hate come from? Who benefits from it? And what does it cost us all? At Imerj, we believe art isn’t just expression—it’s evidence. Evidence that marginalized people think deeply, feel fiercely, and contribute meaningfully, even under extreme conditions. This helped even myself to understand hate from a way I never thought to, I spent half my life living with hate in a destructive manner, hate created from the wicked acids of institutionalism or prison system. I never thought about a creative side to it. Understanding hate creatively is one way we dismantle it. ⛓️‍💥🔥🎨🎸🤘🏽