Ayana McAllister is an interdisciplinary Afro-Guyanese artist whose work spans poetry, printmaking, sustainable fashion, and performance. Rooted in Caribbean cosmology and informed by her queer, Black immigrant experience, her practice honors femininity, rest, and evolution. Across mediums, she engages in an ongoing conversation with God, one that contends with survival, belonging, and spiritual inheritance.
Her poetry gives voice to the voiceless through ritual, narrative, and memory. Her printmaking embraces impermanence through wabi-sabi principles and the acceptance of what cannot be controlled. Her fashion design work centers and celebrates the feminine form, drawing from cultural practices to create adornment that feels ancestral, intentional, and alive.
Ayana is currently studying Advertising Marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology while operating a wellness brand rooted in living harmoniously with nature. Through Koduah & Co., she merges cultural storytelling with sustainable design and holistic care, building creative ecosystems that center community, craft, and nourishment.