Love & Matter
A neighborhood art and design facility providing space for community building, artistic collaboration, and mutual education.
A neighborhood art and design facility providing space for community building, artistic collaboration, and mutual education.
Co-founder and lifelong supporter of the arts. Raised in NYC, and currently living in Bedstuy. From theatre to archery to welding Nick brings a unique blend of experiences and personality.
I am the guy with two names! Some may know me as Antonio, which I adopted in my thesis year to represent my professional architectural background. Others call me Giovanni which is the formal version of my family name I grew up with, and that I feel represents my artistic background.
I’ve been on a journey through architecture and design since graduating Virginia Tech in 2015, and have been fortunate (and persistent) enough to create my own design studio [Shine Design] as well as a micro community-art-space [Metro Craft]. Both are located here in Crown Heights Brooklyn, where I have lived since 2016.
I grew up in a big family in a small town near the Delaware river - Delanco. I’ve always enjoyed cultivated deep friendships with people and getting to know them beyond the surface level ways we sometimes represent ourselves. I later realized how many people have certain hidden qualities and artistic natures that are not always presented publicly, but which fascinated me tremendously! Love & Matter is my attempt to help cultivate and uncover those secret creative tendencies hidden in the amazing people around me.