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Jonelle Demby is a New York-based senior graphic designer, creative director, and visual storyteller with over 15 years of experience spanning museums, cultural institutions, and mission-driven brands. Most recently, she held the role of Senior Graphic Designer at the Intrepid Museum, where she played a lead role in the institution’s rebranding and designed high-impact print and digital assets for exhibitions, public programs, and major citywide campaigns.

Previously, Jonelle was the lead designer at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA), where she took on cross-departmental creative responsibilities—overseeing exhibition graphics, accessibility design, social media content, and innovative digital campaigns during the height of the pandemic. Her thoughtful work helped reinforce MOCA’s identity as a contemporary art hub in one of the fastest-growing cultural capitals in the country.

Before that, she led a team of four designers at an Anheuser-Busch distributor, where she developed scalable design systems, trained junior staff, and created branded assets seen across South Florida, from Miami to Key West.

Her creative approach blends modern aesthetics with cultural storytelling, shaped by her early work designing history kiosks for the NAACP National Convention and, later on, exhibition branding for AfriCOBRA: Nation Time—a powerful show that traveled to the Venice Biennale. For that project, she honored the legacy of the Black Arts Movement by reimagining the original AfriCOBRA logo into a fresh, contemporary visual language, ultimately earning recognition from the collective’s founding artists and the exhibition’s curator, Dr. Jeffreen M. Hayes.

Jonelle holds a BFA in Electronic Studio Art with a minor in Photography from Howard University and has also completed MFA coursework in design and visual communication at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Outside of work, she documents the vibrancy of her community through photography and content creation, especially as an advocate for keloid awareness and self-confidence in scar visibility. She lives in NYC with her husband and their son, Lev, who often co-creates Scratch games, bedtime stories, and LEGO worlds with her.