Assets for Artists

Meet our current cohort artists! Jasleni Brito, from Ellington, is a member of our 2026 Greater Hartford Capacity-Building Program and Project Grant cohort.

Jasleni Brito is a Dominican-American visual artist and coach based in Connecticut. Her paintings are figurative, surrealist, and unapologetically colorful, rich with pattern, symbolism, and spiritual meaning, and rooted in her heritage and her belief that we all have the right to take up space and tell our own stories. She is the creator of the La Caribeña Oracle Deck and has exhibited throughout Connecticut. Alongside her art, she guides women through her coaching practice, The Art of Becoming, helping them reconnect to their confidence and creativity. With the support of Assets for Artists, she is beginning her most ambitious body of work yet, a painting series exploring what it means to be American from her own point of view. You can find her work and her story at jasleni.com. 🌟

Our Greater Hartford Capacity-Building Program and Project Grant is run with generous support from the Greater Hartford Gives Foundation (@greaterhartfordgivesfnd).