she/her/hers Nadege Tessono is a multidisciplinary visual artist with over 16 years of professional, creative experience. As the founder of She Moves Forward, Nadege Tessono focuses on traditional and non-traditional original work and services such as design, visual art, wearable art, and visual arts education. Her diverse professional background in tandem with her excellence in the visual arts makes her an asset to the ACA community and others. She works with various types of 2-dimensional arts, graphic arts, and design, as well as illustrations, textiles, patterns, and printmaking. Tessono's work incorporates different elements of traditional art processes merged with modern modes of technologies, integrating context into her identity. Nadege Tessono's techniques and mediums are, but not limited to, oil pastel, acrylic, pen and ink, watercolor, etc. as well as digital applications such as Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. Her vivid palette and bold designs make her work unmistakably hers. Her subject matter pertains to textiles and textures, black identity, female-focused, and African diaspora, and cultural influences. Today, Nadege Tessono continues to explore these concepts as they intersect with community, as she is in the final semesters of her M.Ed. in Art, Community, and Education at Lesley University.