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(born 1999 in Mombasa, Kenya) is a multidisciplinary artist and creative strategist based in the United Kingdom. Her practice spans research, visual culture, and public engagement. Through her work, she explores ideas about humanity’s place within broader social, ecological, and metaphysical systems, aiming to connect theoretical inquiry with artistic practice.
Ana Gregorio, gestora cultural de formación, desarrolla una práctica artística vinculada a la gráfica y al trabajo en talleres de producción e impresión. A través del dibujo, ilustración y gráfica aborda temas como ausencia, violencia, migración, identidad y comunidades invisibilizadas, a partir de experiencias personales y memorias colectivas. Actualmente es becaria del programa Jóvenes Creadores, en la disciplina de Gráfica.
David Zafra es artista plástico y visual. Nació en Oaxaca de Juárez en 1992 y estudió Artes Plásticas y Visuales en “La Esmeralda”, complementando su formación en la École Supérieure d’Art de Bourges, Francia.
Es cofundador de Yope Project Space, un espacio independiente que ha sido fundamental para su práctica y para el impulso de proyectos y exposiciones durante más de ocho años. Su trabajo se ha presentado en espacios como kurimanzutto, Museo del Chopo, MACCO, Beverly’s Gallery, Visa Projects, gáfelo Campeche, Galería Tiro al Blanco, Johndoe Gallery y Taller Sangfer, entre otros.
Ha sido beneficiario de distintos apoyos, como Jóvenes Creadores 2024–2025, así como de programas de movilidad, producción y creación, y apoyos del Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo. Ha realizado residencias en la Casa-Taller José Clemente Orozco y Déficit de Pintura, y fue docente de pintura e historia del arte en la UABJO de 2019 a 2025. Su práctica escultórica parte del trabajo con tierra y materiales industriales para reflexionar sobre la erosión, la ruina y las transformaciones culturales impulsadas por la tecnología.
Dulce María. Originaria de Tlacolula de Matamoros, Oaxaca (Bak) educadora, artesana y tallerista, su práctica creativa explora el libro textil y el fanzine como una forma de autopublicación y archivo, sus publicaciones dialogan con la memoria, la biodiversidad, la lengua y la cultura de la nación Zapoteca.
Equis Enamorado (they / them / elle) is a transdisciplinary artist, curator, and memory worker originally from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. His creative practice encompasses sound experimentation, archival work, and queer studies, influenced and shaped by Central American life. Equis constructs soundscapes that evoke memories beyond the visual archive, incorporating found audio clips and oral histories into his sound production. They founded and manages two community archival projects, "Cinco Estrellas" and "Rebane Récords," dedicated to preserving Honduran cultural memory and the sound lineages of Honduras, the Bay Islands, and their diasporas, respectively.
Gregorio Desgarennes Garzón (Oaxaca, 1984) es un artista y curador, su trabajo explora, a través del dibujo, la fotografía y el textil, los patrones físicos, intelectuales y afectivos que atraviesan las relaciones y los vínculos materiales y humanos con los cuales Gregorio ha tropezado una y otra vez.
Para esta residencia, Goyo presenta un textil en el que ha trabajado por más de dos años, anudando la tela en una suerte de shibori. El movimiento que implica transformar la tela provoca una complejidad que se encuentra a partir de la repetición: aparecen, simultáneamente, el dolor físico y la potencia creativa..
Isabela Brown is an environmental scientist and climate policy advisor for the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice who artwork centers our personal relationships to our changing environment. Isabela entrenches her work in the communities she serves - reducing reliance on fossil fuels and improving air quality from school buses, street vendors, and ports by meeting people where they are at. Isabela's artwork explores the intimate and personal relationships with have with our environment - often layered with feelings of grief, fear, love, guilt, comfort, hope and loss that impact how we experience changing climates.
Jazmin Garcia is a filmmaker, photographer, and music curator based in Los Angeles. Her work aspires to live within the visual realm of transformative justice, as a space that holds and uplifts memory, exploring themes around identity and freedom, focusing on immigration and the American pressures of cultural assimilation. She continues to develop documentary and narrative projects that expand on generational family histories and her own experience as a first-generation Mexican-Guatemalan-American. Her films weave intimate stories of hardship, magic, amor, and the perseverance of hope.
Kassandra Hernández Muñoz es artista escénica. Se graduó en 2023 como licenciada en danza contemporánea por la Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey.
Trabajó con la compañía Los Unos y Los Otros entre 2023 y 2025, y en 2025 formó parte del programa internacional B12 Mavericks en Berlín. Ha colaborado en proyectos de artistas como Akira Yoshida, Lali Ayguadé, Sandra Hernández, Dolores Bernal, César Brodermann y Jaime Sierra. Además, ha desarrollado trabajo como coreógrafa y directora de escena tanto en festivales y ferias como de manera independiente.
Kerenn Josabed es una artista autodidacta y multidisciplinaria originaria de Oaxaca. Su práctica se desarrolla desde una perspectiva de antropología cyborg, enfocada en explorar la co evolución entre tecnologías post-internet y el ser humano, las dinámicas afectivas, sociales y las construcciones de identidad dentro del entorno digital.
Explora la web y las relaciones de poder que atraviesan el internet como territorio. A través de medios digitales, código, pintura, sonido, escultura e instalación, traduce su experiencia de habitar el internet. Ha participado en exposiciones colectivas en Inglaterra, México y Estados Unidos.
Lauren Vanzandt-Escobar is an artist, educator and researcher. Born in the United States in a Colombian-American family, she currently resides in France. After spending over a decade working in basic literacy education programs at the margins of formal schooling, in particular in jails and prisons, her work currently centers on providing opportunities for people who teach and work in prisons around the world to dialogue about their educational practices and the political and ethical dimensions of their work. Alongside her work in education, she has a robust drawing and printmaking practice, in which she frequently collaborates with musicians and poets. Her work in education and art also come together and she has taught art and developed collaborative art practices with children in France and the United States. She has an academic background in philosophy, visual art, and education research.
Mónica Figueroa (CDMX, 1991) Estudió Artes Visuales en la UNAM. Su obra ha sido expuesta en México, EUA, Europa y Japón y ha sido becaria de Jóvenes Creadores en varias ocasiones. Desde Oaxaca, donde vive y trabaja, desarrolla una pintura figurativa que pone en escena cuerpos femeninos y seres híbridos conviviendo con fenómenos naturales. Su trabajo propone un horizonte afectivo y antipatriarcal, donde lo orgánico y lo mítico se entrelazan.
My-Van Dam is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal). Her artistic practice focuses on the transmission of intergenerational trauma and its multiple physical and psychological impacts. She also explores body memory and the healing processes that foster personal and collective emancipation from oppressive systems. Her current research is rooted in the exploration of somatic theories and practices to propose a vision of care that is interdependent and collaborative.
Rafaela Tellaeche (Ciudad de México, 1997) es una artista formada en la Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” con una maestría en Práctica de Arte Contemporáneo de Royal College of Art (Londres). Rafaela vive y trabaja en la Ciudad de México, enfocándose en medios hechos a mano como el bordado, el dibujo, el grabado y el tejido para enfatizar la importancia de la mano y del cuerpo en el proceso creativo -y discursivo-. El bordado le permite explorar fibras existenciales que nos vinculan al mundo a través de un proceso empírico. Rafaela decanta sus inquietudes existenciales abordándolas desde plataformas obsesivas, repetitivas y a veces lingüísticas, usando la paciencia como forma de resistencia y de cobijo.
Xochi Solis (she/her) is an Austin, TX-based multidisciplinary artist and community organizer. Her creative practice explores relationships to land, culture of place, and personal history through layered collage works using paint, hand-dyed paper, plastics, and found images. Working on scales from handheld works on paper to site-specific wall works, Solis employs collage to communicate nuanced narratives about time, place, and sensation. She thrives on collaborative creativity and community-building through art, bridging her studio practice with the creation of collective learning spaces. Solis serves on the board of Future Front Texas and performs as a vinyl DJ, focusing on Tejanx culture.

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Abby is a researcher, consultant, and therapist specializing in sexual violence. Her work is dedicated to supporting survivors while also addressing the wellbeing of the professionals who work alongside them, with a focus on preventing burnout, reducing vicarious trauma, and advocating for systemic policy change.
Grounded in the belief that meaningful support depends on strong communities, Abby's practice emphasizes collaboration, care, and the creation of sustainable support networks. Through research, consultation, and therapeutic practice, she works to strengthen both individual resilience and institutional responses to sexual violence, fostering environments where healing, accountability, and collective care can thrive.
Alex Wolfe is a writer, artist, and educator whose practice explores walking as a method of observation, research, and artistic inquiry. Working across writing, photography, and participatory projects, Wolfe investigates the relationships between movement, memory, history, and the built environment, with a particular interest in places that exist at the margins or are often overlooked.
Education is central to Wolfe's practice. Through workshops, collective walks, and interdisciplinary learning experiences, he approaches pedagogy as a collaborative creative process that encourages close attention, critical reflection, and new ways of engaging with place and language. Writing serves as a fundamental tool within this practice, functioning both as a method of research and as a means of artistic production.
Alongside these collaborative projects, Wolfe undertakes site-specific and research-based investigations that examine landscapes, urban environments, and the cultural narratives embedded within them. His practice brings together artistic experimentation, fieldwork, and community engagement to generate new perspectives on territory, memory, and everyday experience.
Wolfe's work has been presented through exhibitions, publications, workshops, and public programs. He continues to develop interdisciplinary projects that foster dialogue between art, education, and the social and environmental dimensions of place.
Allison Arteaga Argumedo is a transdisciplinary artist born in an auto-constructed home in San Juan de Miraflores, Peru. Through poetry, projection, and sculpture, she recreates homes as a topology of national amnesia, forced migration and matriarchal lines. Pulling from research into indigenous architecture, vernacular objects, guerilla history, and informal economies, she writes as she speaks. Allison holds an MFA from Brown University, where she was a Creating Writing Teaching Fellow and a BFA from Cornell University, where she won the Charles Baskerville Award. Her work was been supported by Backslash and the Dark Laboratory. She's currently a Poetry Resident at the Vermont Studio Center.
Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto (b. 1999) is an Indonesian film writer/director based between Jakarta and Toronto. Her works utilize genre films as a medium to dissect sociopolitical, cultural and environmental issues through a female gaze. Often drawing from personal experiences and her interests in displacement and geographical boundaries, she is in pursuit of exploring her own brand of Indonesian futurism as a mix of mythology, occult elements and technological advancements in a (post-)colonial setting.
Caritza Berlioz is a writer and editor based in New York with roots in Honduras. She is a graduate of The City College of New York (CUNY) MFA program and has been awarded residencies at VONA and Pocoapoco. Her writing has also been supported by the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, The Kenyon Review, and Abode Press. She is currently writing a novel and, at times, short stories. Much of her writing invokes ancestral memories, diasporic experiences, and the daily resistance against oppressive forces.
Natalie is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. Her creative practice explores the art and science of color: its visual, verbal, and tactile translations across media. She also studies histories of paint and craft technologies; her most recent publication, "Joan Eardley and the untidy, tidal nature of painting", is available through British Art Studies journal (online).
Jennifer Teresa Villanueva is a Mexican American artist born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and based in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Working across photography, cyanotype, and printmaking, Villanueva's practice examines memory, migration, and the emotional residue of immigrant life in the United States. Drawing from family archives and personal histories, she creates materially layered images that investigate how memories and identities persist, erode, and transform through the pursuit of the American Dream.
Her work is particularly concerned with the ways domestic space, architecture, and landscape become repositories of memory, exploring how places continue to carry personal and collective histories even as bodies migrate across borders. Through an archive-based and materially driven practice, Villanueva reflects on belonging, displacement, and the intergenerational experiences that shape immigrant narratives.
Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas (they/them) is an artist, educator, and activist living and working in on the traditional lands of the Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Carrizo/Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo (Austin, TX). Barhaugh-Bordas’s art practice—which expands from print media into installation, as well as social and collaborative practices—works at the intersection of migration, queerness, and ecology. While thinking-through-making, Barhaugh-Bordas asks how art can contribute to ecological knowledge and build interspecies understanding, an inquiry they began investigating by comparing the stories of naturalization—becoming local—between Americans and non-native plants. Barhaugh-Bordas has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Printshop LA Gallery, Handwerker Gallery, Buffalo Artists Studios, and Sediment Arts. Artist residencies include Casa Lu Mexico City, ACRE, Women’s Studio Workshop, the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, MI-Lab in Japan, and Kala Art Institute.
Pascal Emmer (he/they) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer living in O’Ga P’Ogeh Owingeh (Santa Fe, New Mexico). Through clay, collaborative design, participatory action research, and social science fiction, they weave together earth elements and speculative writing to create stories for more liberatory futures. They have worked in abolitionist movements for community safety and decriminalization for over twenty years. They co-founded Hearts on a Wire, an organization that supports incarcerated trans people through art, poetry, and letters.
The gripping oil paintings of Reginald O’Neal (b.1992, Miami, FL) depict narrative scenes influenced by his experience growing up in Overtown, a historically Black neighborhood in Miami. Reflecting on the complexities of the Black experience in his own community, O’Neal bases his works on original photographs and stories, both personal and collective. His work—characterized by a subdued color palette and a somber atmosphere—often addresses themes such as violence, marginalization, and loss.
Emily Tat is a conceptual artist, writer, and cardiologist based in New York City. Her practice is an exploration of duality: of how the unusual and mundane collide, of how art and science intersect. She is interested in the philosophies of form, the interjecting role of the human interfacing with it, and the dynamic functionality that arises from it. Her approach is multi-disciplinary with cross-titrations in mediums that span from large installations, sculptures, poetry to public art pieces.

Carolyn “CC” Concepcion is a multi-disciplinary creative entrepreneur whose work resists easy categorization, because it grapples directly with the complex systems that make business and culture work. She leads courtesy of c:, a full-service creative and design studio whose clients and collaborators include Solange, Spike Lee, Issa Rae, the NFL, and Nike. From developing explorations in storytelling, brand strategy, cultural innovation, and experience design for artists, entertainers, entrepreneurs, brands, and institutions, CC excels at uncovering insights, creating unique opportunities that shape the future, foster community, and expand the realm of what’s possible. She is a New Museum IDEAS CITY Detroit Fellow, holds a Master's degree from NYU in design strategy, cultural innovation & storytelling and is one of the co-founders of ARTNOIR, a global arts collective and non-profit organization that catalyzes cultural equity across the arts and culture industries. CC also sits on the board of Ghetto Gastro, a Bronx-born culinary collective defining its own lane, merging food, fashion, music, art, design, and community empowerment. Most recently, CC was appointed to New York City Mayor Mamdani’s Arts & Culture Transition Committee to help advance his affordability agenda.
Clau Rocha is an interdisciplinary artist, divinatory practitioner, and library professional based in Chicago, IL. Their hybrid research-studio practice centers on exploring archival materials, Latiné mythologies, and queer histories, often layering institutional and folk aesthetics to uncover interconnected narratives. Clau has exhibited regionally in galleries such as CoProsperity, Agitator Gallery, and Pilsen Arts & Community House, and has been independently published across the USA, including in Push/Pull’s Stanza: Nonbinary Anthology and ATX Gallery’s Mujer Manifesto.
"Artista escénica e Ingeniera civil, nacida en la ciudad de Oaxaca el 26 de diciembre de 1994. Inició su formación a los 17 años en la casa de la cultura de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; continuando con diversos talleres, cursos y diplomados con artistas de la escena nacionales e internacionales. Como interprete formó parte de la compañía estatal de su Estado y en 2019 realizó una residencia con Rolando Beattie EnsambleDanza Contemporánea. Ha colaborado con artistas y espacios como:Marco Petriz, Laura Vera, Cruz Vargas Studio, Coty Camacho, IvánHernández Gonzales, como creadora ha realizado puestas en escena propias y en colaboración como: SLOW, Letargo, Lesli (historia de un feminicidio), casa 74 (Apoyo CURARTE Oaxaca 2019), Cer0 (seleccionada para el premio Guillermo Arriaga 2023).
Actualmente es instructora de pilates, artista independiente trabajando en colaboraciones y proyectista de ingeniería civil."
Graciela DeAnda is an interdisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, working across photography, installation, video, and performance. Her practice is shaped by migration, memory, identity, faith, and community. Through collaborative and research-driven processes, she works closely with participants to explore how personal belongings, domestic spaces, oral histories, and everyday rituals carry emotional and cultural meaning. Her work often takes the form of immersive installations that combine photography, sound, sculptural elements, and sensory materials to create environments that invite reflection on resilience, belonging, and lived experience. Rooted in care and collaboration, her practice centers migrant voices while examining how memory is preserved through objects, gestures, and spaces. Drawing inspiration from family histories and community relationships, DeAnda creates work that connects personal narratives to broader conversations around migration, cultural identity, and collective memory.
Hamaila is a silversmith with a focus on community and architecture. Raised in an immigrant Muslim family, Hamaila learned the importance of community and untold stories from an early age. After her brief stint in the sciences, Hamaila delved into metalworking and cofounded both Ladysmiths' of ATX and Brown Girl's Food Club in Austin, TX. Two years in Arcosanti, Arizona birthed the Arcosanti collection as well as the Unsung Architects collection. Over the last few years, Hamaila has moved to Chicago, become a apprentice body piercer, and is looking to combine her love of body modification, community, and metalworking through a worker-owned co-op.
Krista Clark was born in Burlington, VT and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She holds an MFA from Georgia State University. Her work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, The Studio Museum in Harlem New York and the New Museum in New York. She was the recipient of the Artadia Award and the Working Artist Project Award with MOCA GA in 2018 and a Hudgens Prize Finalist in 2024. Clark is an Assistant Professor at Emory University.
Martha Hipley is a fiction writer, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of transformation, creative labor, power, and identity. Her writing spans horror, satire, and speculative realism, with stories published in Maudlin House, VOLUME 0, and ARTWIFE, among others. She is currently revising a literary thriller set in the international art world and developing several urban horror projects. Her creative practice is informed by her background in visual art and her ongoing work in film and interactive narrative.
Omar Gómez González is an engineer in Communications and Electronics and a transdisciplinary designer specialized in architectural lighting. He focuses on the artistic potential of light for social transformation and enhancing human consciousness. Combining technical precision with artistic sensitivity, he creates immersive experiences that foster community engagement and dialogue. His projects aim to strengthen shared identity and improve public spaces, reflecting his commitment to using art as a means of collective transformation and social connection.
Regina Agu is a visual artist, writer, and researcher based in Chicago, IL. Her interdisciplinary practice includes conceptual and material inquiries into memory, history, representation, and Black geographies. Her research-based practice spans photography, drawing, installation, sound, text, and collaboration in the public sphere. Her most recent solo museum exhibition, Shore|Lines, was presented at MoCP in 2025, and was supported by a 2023 Joyce Award. Agu holds a BS in Policy Analysis from Cornell University, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is in private and public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
Selene Patlán (México, 1989) estudió en la Escuela Superior de Ingeniería y Arquitectura del Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Comenzó su práctica profesional en A.Flo Arquitectos donde desarrolló proyectos arquitectónicos y ejecutivos. Durante nueve años colaboró en Arquine en la coordinación y dirección editorial de diversas publicaciones de diseño, arte y arquitectura. Actualmente desempeña una labor independiente en edición, crítica y difusión de la arquitectura en México a través de la plataforma Ahorita Leo.
Sunnie Liu is an interdisciplinary artist, organizer, and legal advocate practicing liberation evangelism. Born in rural China but raised in Texas by Chinatown workers and the Southern Baptist Church, Sunnie examines religion as a metaphor for colonial infrastructures of immigration, exploitation, and displacement. Sunnie mobilizes installation, sculpture, performance, lens-based work, and social practice to create diasporic biomythography exploring ritual, parable, and faith. Sunnie graduated from Yale University with degrees in Studio Art and History. Rooting practice in community, Sunnie is a Public Interest Scholar at UC Berkeley Law, co-founder of the national nonprofit Xīn Shēng | 心声 Project, and organizer for racial and economic justice movements.

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Alexis Convento (she/they) is a queer, 2nd-generation Filipino-American artist living in Berlin, Germany. As Ulam, she creates experiences that bring together personal storytelling, edible installation and performative score; she connects ancestral narratives with those of labor and care. With each happening, Alexis hopes to create the possibility for thoughtful exchange and collective reflection. They have hosted Kamayan feasts based on the Manila-Acapulco Trade Route, created a cocktail meant to be experienced as tears, and held one-on-one spoon feeding interactions between server/giver and guest/receiver. Alexis is also Head of Production and Planning at LAS Art Foundation. @alexisconvento @uuuuulam
Boma Iluma is a Nigerian-American filmmaker who grew up between Abuja and Atlanta. His debut work Negus (2019) premiered in Los Angeles art circles, followed by Heirs for Nike’s Air Jordan at New York Fashion Week (2020). His short film Comfort, part of Hillman Grad’s Rising Voices, premiered at Tribeca 2021 and was later acquired by Amazon Prime Video. He has directed branded content for Oakley, The New Yorker, and Jeep, as well as music videos for Camila Cabello, Chloe Bailey, and Oxlade. In television, he has directed episodes of The Chi on Showtime, becoming one of the network’s youngest directors. Recognized by Smithsonian’s +234 Connect, Creative Collective NYC, Dazed100 (2024), and Forbes 30 Under 30 (2025), Iluma continues shaping global youth culture through film and art.
Catherine Anabella Lie is an Indonesian interdisciplinary artist, designer, researcher and educator based in Mexico City. Interested in the notion of commoning, Catherine works with scores, videos, texts and their translations to explore alternative histories against the dominant narrative structure. She collaborates with more-than-human ghosts in everyday life: stuffed animals that play with kinship and identity formation, a broken phone that broadcasts the invisible story of global copper mining operations, and sourdough starter as a pedagogical lens for design and ecology.
Coco Villa is a Jamaican-Colombian-American dancer, artist, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. They lead an interdisciplinary practice investigating relations between body, object, and landscape rooted in African diasporic traditions and rigorous play. While Villa primarily works in analog photography and dance, their practice also includes costume design, performance art, and film.
is a Puerto Rican~Irish, gender-fluid scholar-organizer of radical cultural and educational movements in the Americas and the Caribbean, and the author of New York Liberation School: Study and Movement for the People’s University (Common Notions, 2023). At the CUNY Graduate Center, they are a 2023–25 Visiting Scholar at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and are on the Board of Directors for CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies. Coco is co-developing the quadrilingual anthology Black Feminist Studies in the Americas and the Caribbean (Malpaís Ediciones), and is a contributing editor with LÁPIZ Journal and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative.
He has an academic background in communication, art, and object design. He directs the artisanal production workshop Mano Sucia Ediciones, which specializes in sustainable processes and the production of handmade paper and natural pigments. Currently, he creates art objects, paper, and paintings using natural pigments.
Fernanda Armada is a multidisciplinary photographer and visual artist exploring identity, memory, and the transformation of the image. She was a beneficiary of the Stimulus Program for Artistic Creation and Development (PECDA Guanajuato Medios Alternativos) 2023–2024 and held her first solo exhibition Miradas Hambrientas: el cuerpo como objeto de consumo in Querétaro, Mexico in 2024. She has participated in over 50 group exhibitions across Mexico and internationally in Bolivia, Chile, Spain, and France. Her work has been published in Violence and Gender in Times of Pandemic (MX), Xin Zai Magazine (Hong Kong), and Same Faces Collective (USA). Fernanda has taken part in multiple performance programs and residencies, including La Ceiba Gráfica (Coatepec), Invocar Presencias (Monterrey), and the Pequeño Festival de Arte Acción. She is currently in the 4th generation of LaBIAR by Lolita Pank and a student of Visual Arts at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, and has been part of Same Faces Collective since 2020.
Ferchi Mora is originally from Oaxaca and has Mixtec roots. He is a pizza maker and performing artist working in Contemporary Dance and Theater. He studied at the National School of Classical and Contemporary Dance of the INBAL where he graduated with a degree in Contemporary Dance Performance. He has worked alongside choreographers such as Beto Pérez, José Agudo and Laura Vera. He has also created projects of his own authorship and in collaboration with artists such as Emiliano Guerrero, Pau Zabaleta and Frida María. Currently, through his artistic work he addresses issues related to his identity as an indigenous descendant.
Actor and creator trained at La Casa del Teatro, with an international career spanning Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the USA, and Korea. His work draws from masters such as Peter Schumann, Finzi Pasca, Maro Akaji, and Anton Adasinsky, exploring dance, clown, and butoh as languages of resistance.

He has presented works such as La Bestia, Inhumano, and the Heart Sutra, and collaborated with renowned artists including Romeo Castellucci and Daisuke Yoshimoto. He taught at Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo and served as cultural advisor for Conafe, bringing theater to rural communities in Mexico.

Author of Bitácora de Oriente and Dejarse ir, he also created the film Journey to the Land of the Tarahumaras, in dialogue with Artaud’s vision of the “theater of cruelty.” His practice blends creation and pedagogy into a nomadic, poor, and oracular theater.
A lifelong visual artist, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, draws on the cultural contrasts of the rural American South and urban North to shape their identity and work. Trained in figurative drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, they worked extensively in studio art as an assistant and fabricator for renowned artists. Their creative journey shifted during the pandemic, transitioning to tattooing, which bridges art and craft through collaboration, care, and originality. This experience profoundly influenced their return to fine arts, where they now explore family history, vernacular craft traditions, and spiritual metaphors across diverse media, including mosaic, ceramics, video, and tattooing, with a focus on the Christian Mediterranean and contemporary American South.
is a Guinean-American artist who works with photography and text to explore memory and intimacy. She remembers too much and her work reflects that—introspective, haunting, and deeply personal. Her debut photobook “i am (not) your mother” received the Juror's Special Mention of the 2024 Aperture Photobook Awards. Barry’s work has been exhibited internationally, including by the National Portrait Gallery in the UK and the Sharjah Art Foundation in the UAE.
Ica Sadagat attends to the body as text, text as material, and material as collective labor and practice. A trained organizer, perpetual editor, and former crisis counselor, Ica started Sadagat School of Motion & Text in 2022 to offer more sites for embodied learning, close listening, and guerrilla poetics. She has taught and performed in plenty spaces; some of her work can be found. Beyond all of this, Ica spars and surfs. For more: icasadagat.co
Plastic artist/ceramicist. In her work she questions her daily life in relation to the processes and consequences of the social structure. She works independently in her workshop LUMBRE.
is a British-Ghanaian writer from Barking, East London, whose fiction explores themes of coming of age, family dynamics, desire, and the quiet ways romance appears in everyday life. Drawing from her own lived experiences, family histories, poetry, and the Bible, Leonie’s work is infused with a love for magical realism and a commitment to preserving Ghanaian folklore through modern retellings. Beyond her writing, Leonie is an independent cultural researcher, the co-founder of the Words We Write Festival a free literary workshop series and a reader for Faber & Faber. Her work has been featured in Vogue Business, Business Insider, Harper’s Bazaar, Empire Magazine, Soho House, and others. Leonie is also an alumna of both the London Library Emerging Writers Programme (2021-22) and HarperCollins Author Academy (2021).
Lori is a researcher, writer, educator, and mechanic with an interdisciplinary and project based approach. They're the education coordinator at SisterSong, a woman of color led reproductive justice collective, where they lead and design trainings about reproductive justice; they also produce a podcast. She's a bicycle mechanic and has worked on mutual aid bicycle projects and public sculptural works. She is part of a sailing collective that seeks to build autonomous skills and networks to weather climate chaos. She also writes and has published and performed some of her short work and poetry.
María Conchita Díaz, a Zapotec filmmaker from Oaxaca, studied Film Directing at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). In 2024, her thesis film La Soledad won the BAFTA Student Award and the Yugo Student Choice Award, making her the first Mexican and Latin American to achieve this. She co-founded IXMATI Films, producing award-nominated features such as Gueixhuba and 8 Venado Garra de Jaguar. She is currently developing her film Ascio o Día sin Sombra.
Born in San Jacinto Chilateca, Oaxaca, he studied Sociology at UAM Xochimilco and holds a Master’s in Social Anthropology from CIESAS. His photography has been featured in La Jornada del Campo, Ojarasca, and Oaxaca Media. Winner of the Best Portfolio Award at FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2024, his work is part of the Contemporary Image Catalog of the Centro de la Imagen. He is founder of the Club de Experimentación Fotográfica and has exhibited in Mexico and Chile.
Matt Thomas is an architect, artist, and urban designer exploring the systems and patterns that structure our daily lives. Thomas utilizes design, art, curation, and community engagement strategies to help educate, illuminate, and explore the complex built environment around us. His work with food and water systems has inspired a practice and pedagogy that emerges from the fragility of these essential infrastructures and the intersectionality of research, design, and exhibition. He is currently the Executive Director of The Paseo Project. Thomas is the founder of Studio Taos, an interdisciplinary research and design practice, based in Taos, New Mexico. Thomas studied architecture at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas (B.Arch, 2001) and continued his studies at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University in New York City (MSAUD, 2008). From 2009 – 2011 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon in the Faculty of Engineering & Architecture. Thomas was an Adjunct Associate Faculty at Columbia University in the City of New York’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Part-time Faculty at Parsons New School for Design, New York City, and Visiting Professor of Architecture, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.
Mayra Cernas is a transdisciplinary creator whose practice combines textile craft, research, and situated pedagogy. Her work explores visual culture, regional dress, gender, collective memory, and contemporary art and craft from the margins. Trained in sewing from an early age in the Itsmo de Tehuantepec, she developed a deep perspective on textile labor, later integrated into her studies in Fashion Design and Art History. Her ongoing project Cómo hacer un huipil combines historical research, material experimentation, and archive activation in dialogue with inherited practices.
Co-founder of Territorio Expandido, she coordinates Ciclos Transversales, a training program on contemporary artistic practices. She also works with the Taller de Maquila Comunitaria in Santo Domingo Ingenio, Oaxaca, supporting local women in technical and political processes. She was a grantee of Jóvenes Creadores 2021–2022 and selected as Joven Creadora at the 2024 Encuentro Nacional de Arte Indígena y Artesanía Contemporánea.
Nahima Quetzali Dávalos-Vázquez is a digital anthropologist and learning designer based in Oaxaca City. For the past six years, she has worked at the intersection of technology, the body, inequality, and creativity through both academic and applied projects.
Her practice focuses on guiding processes that explore technology through concrete, affective, and sensory experiences. She has collaborated with collectives, institutions, and individuals working at the edges of the digital, approaching disconnection not as exclusion but as an opportunity for reinterpretation and meaning-making.
A British-Iranian multidisciplinary spatial practitioner with a BEng in Architecture and Environmental Engineering. Passionate about finding ways in which the world can be developed sustainably. She’s currently researching the intersection of environmental conservation and spatialisation of memory, with a focus on archives. Her design methodology uses radical poetry and sound, which is then manifested into a spatial proposition. In October 2023, she created a sound piece for the Venice Biennale’s ‘Carnival: Woman, Life, Freedom!’, intended to highlight the voices of women struggling for basic liberties in Iran.
is originally from Oaxaca. He began his artistic training at the age of 19 as a printing assistant at Fernando Sandoval’s Printmaking Workshop. He is also a photographer, the director of LA CAVERNA creative space, writer and rapper. He continues his visual arts production under the alias CAVERNICOLA and his audiovisual and musical work as Coin La Nueva Moneda Oaxaqueña.
Noemí Domínguez Gaspar is a Mixe-Zapotec woman and feminist anthropologist, she holds degrees from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH) and a Master’s in Women’s Studies from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Xochimilco (UAM-X), and is a doctoral candidate in the Gender Studies Program at UNAM.
She has participated in research, workshops, and teaching on human rights, gender-based violence, racism, cinema, representation, and feminist practices at institutions including UABJO, ENAH, CEIICH-UNAM, INPI, CONAVIM, and DDHPO. Her recent publications include De divas, sandungas e indias in Mujeres en Oaxaca (2022) and La participación de las mujeres a través de la cocina para la producción de agave y mezcal en Albarradas (2020) in Cuadernos del Sur.
Since 2021, she has collaborated in Oaxaca on film exhibition projects such as Verano Cine, Cine Mixteca, SaCiMu, and Cine en la Playa. In 2022, she co-founded the Muestra de Cine de la Mixteca, which, over its last three editions, has toured 16 municipalities in the region. In 2024, she was chosen for the Public Seminar of the Future (FICUNAM) and the International Documentary Film Seminar for Programmers at Docs Kingdom in Odemira, Portugal. In 2025, she was selected for Bando Curatorial, a program designed to rethink film programming in community spaces.
Oscar Javier Martínez, known as “Oxama,” is a musician, music journalist, and producer based in Oaxaca. Since 1994 he has worked in radio and, since 2001, in music as a percussionist, arranger, and producer. He co-founded Cinema Domingo Orchestra with Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), creating original scores for silent films, and has collaborated with artists such as Ana Díaz, Lila Downs, and Susana Harp. He currently leads Mori Trío and hosts El Sexto Continente, a jazz program with over 2,300 broadcasts.
is a visual artist and cultural manager. His work includes photography, printmaking, editorial design, and printing, exploring themes such as life on the periphery, urban art, and Mexican popular culture. He co-directs Estudio Ojo Tres, specializing in screen printing, risograph printing, and editorial projects. He has exhibited in museums and galleries such as the National Museum of Printmaking and the San Agustín Arts Center. He is also part of the CIMBRA Curatorial collective, organizing ephemeral exhibitions in abandoned spaces, and has taught workshops at various institutions.
Raisa’s work is at the intersection of curating, research, visual and performing arts and community engagement. Her curatorial approach is deeply linked to an interest in space and place with an emphasis on emotions, memory and bodily sensations. In recent years, she has played the role of mediator, artist and organizer, collaborating with various projects in the artistic and cultural field, such as the One Year Lease Summer Program, an international performance residency focusing on the study of and engagement with the ancient theater tradition and intangible cultural heritage of Epirus, Greece. As the founder and member of ASTRO, a creative archive and research collective focused on exploring the concept of "home”, she is currently involved in artistic and curatorial initiatives that encourage personal ethnography and public participation through immersive and collaborative experiences. She has curated several exhibitions in Athens, London, and Berlin; many of those have been featured at festivals like 48H Neukölln, VORSPIEL Festival, and Transmediale’s event series. Born in Athens in 1992, she lives and works between London and Berlin.
Ryn Stafford is a playwright, puppeteer, performer and essayist from Saint Paul, Minnesota. She has studied in New York, Montana and California.
Sonte’nish Myers is a filmmaker with roots in the U.S. and Jamaica, draws inspiration from her origins and the folktales she grew up with. Her work spans drama, sci-fi, and fantasy, centering familiar worlds and characters while exploring cultural memory and preservation through both film and photography.

Her award-winning short Cross My Heart—a Vimeo Staff Pick now streaming on SHOWTIME ANYTIME—garnered her fellowships with Sundance, Tribeca, and Film Independent. Her period sci-fi feature Stampede (The Black List, Sundance Labs) is currently in packaging, alongside new projects including a near-future thriller and a fantasy epic.

A graduate of NYU’s Graduate Film program, where she now teaches, Sonte’nish has also directed music videos for Grammy Award-winning artists such as Tank and the Bangas and Samara Joy.
Tania began her dance career 17 years ago with ballet in Oaxaca before training in Graham technique and later in Guadalajara with DOCA, combining contemporary dance, acrobatics, and aerial movement. She has performed on major stages including Teatro Alcalá, Teatro Degollado, and Foro Larva. Since 2022 she has also taught contemporary dance, acroyoga, and movement labs, currently leading classes at Necia.
Is an interdisciplinary visual Artist living and working in Aruba. Her work focuses on how we relate to one another and ourselves by exploring human mechanisms such as empathy, memory and constructions of narratives. Ramos uses a wide range of techniques, from print-making to video works and touches on themes like social and economic imbalance, human mobility (migration), representation, and nostalgia. Ramos graduated in 2011 with a BA Honours in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, UK. Ramos has participated in several exhibitions as well as site-specific and community projects. In 2022-23 artist represented Aruba at 19th Asian Biennale Bangladesh.

Residency

2025

Adriana Serrano

Allison Rufrano-Ruffner

Ani Simon-Kennedy

Bianca Goyette

Cressida Collins

Eliana Sanchez Aldana

Helga Fassonaki

Jacqueline Saulés

Jeanette Torres Molina

Kate Rogers

Katherine Langlands

Lisette Flores

Ferchi Morales Ramírez

MaggZ Zhu

María García

Phillip Shung

Rana San

Rey Carlson

Rochelle Morris

Valentina Espana

Veronica McLean

Yasmeen Khayr

Zahira Chaudhry

Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas O'neal

Zarzokimi Moss

Ángeles Fernández

Aura Arreola

Diana Gómez Córdoba

Eduardo Orozco

Frida Maria Cruz

Getse Zato

Guyphytsy Aldalai

Hugo Morales Zendejas

José Luis González Vallejo

Juan Pablo Miranda

Julia Barrios de la Mora

Mirna Gómez Silva

Nathali Vasquez

Rafael Arturo Chitiva Zamudio

Raymundo Rafael Pavón Lozano

Xiomara Verenice Valdez Castañón

Sur o No Sur

2025

Casa Abierta

2025

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Is a queer artist, thinker, and cultural organizer from Antakya, Turkey. They work between social analysis, movement building, and poetic explorations, directed towards experimenting with and claiming a life beyond the domineering homogeneity of the capitalist present. Over the years, she has grown her chosen families in California, joined regional organizing efforts of trans sisters in the United States, and returned to Istanbul where she got to build with a range of queer artists, performers, and organizers. She has a law degree, yet rather than practicing the law, has been curious to explore how grounded communities create their own laws, which becomes wisdom as maps towards liberation.
From Puerto Rico, she is an architect whose interests are in collaborative intersections between the multiple disciplines of art, design and urbanism, their effect in society and vice-versa. She embraces the temporary as an attribute to explore social and physical transformations of space. Collaborator of PISO Proyecto. A mother of two and an activist. For the past years, she has been involved with community organization in Río Piedras, a barrio of San Juan, to resist displacement and gentrification, advocating for the preservation of the community's rights, identity and heritage.
Afro-descendant documentary filmmaker, originally from the coasts of Oaxaca and active member of the El Cimarrón Cultural Center located in El Ciruelo, Oaxaca, the place where the fight for the recognition of black peoples began. He collaborates with other Afro-descendant artists through the project Vida en la Costa Chica where he makes a video-photographic record of memory on the coasts of Oaxaca and Guerrero. He participated as a producer at the Berlin Film Festival, Berlinale 2023, in the Diversity & Inclusion program of the European Film Market and directed the fiction short film Amare (2024) filmed in 35mm where he explores the footprint of migration, art, and Afro-descendant childhoods in his region.
As part of a tetralogy in progress about childhoods, he directed and photographed the short documentary films, Romina and Iván (2021) and Mutsk Wuäjxtë’ (Little Foxes) (2024).
is a trauma therapist, teacher, creative, writer, and thinker based in Philly. They work with individuals, couples, and groups in a range of mediums including somatic practices, movement, bilateral stimulation, storytelling, and sacred ritual to restore people to their connectedness to spirit, self, and deep relationship with others. They are queer, non-binary and chicanx. They came to their therapy work first through community organizing and movement building-- both of which they still engage in deeply in addition to their therapy work. Their organizing work has historically centered queer Black and brown liberation through anti-gentrification campaigns, transformative justice for survivors of sexual violence, and harm-reduction outreach with folks struggling with opiate addiction. They have also done arts organizing with children through zine-making, mixed media collage, and Xerox art. These are also the communities with whom they practice therapy and some of which they am a part of-- queer survivors of color, children and adolescents, and people living and surviving in street based economies.
Visual artist and choreographer. She is interested in researching choreography and exploring its wide range of possibilities in other disciplines. She works with the concepts of archive and appropriation, from which she starts to generate research that oscillates between the meanings of the body and technology. She is currently the beneficiary of the support of Jóvenes Creadores del FONCA 2024. Her work has been shown in institutions such as the Hemispheric Institute, Museo Jumex, MACO, Salón de danza UNAM, Centro de Cultura Digital, among others. Her video production has participated in exhibitions in Brazil, Colombia, Vienna, Italy, Madrid, Iceland and Mexico. She has completed residencies in Outer (Japan), at the Casa Abierta Oaxaca Biennial (Broadcast 2020 and 2021) and at the CaSa de Toledo as part of the RESONANCIAS video dance and expanded scene laboratory.
Cassandra Mayela Allen is a self-taught artist with a background in graphic and textile design. Her practice delves into identity, migration, and belonging, drawing from personal experiences, research and conversations. Her work gravitates towards the use and creative blends of textiles and found materials. She has lived in New York since 2014, when she was forced to migrate from Venezuela. Mayela’s work has been exhibited at Olympia, JO-HS, NADA House, V1 Gallery, EFA Project Space, Acompi/ NARS Foundation and Apexart. She’s been an artist in residence with Modern Ancient Brown and Campo Garzón (upcoming).
Artist, photographer and cultural manager originally from Oaxaca. For 8 years she was a photojournalist for the newspaper Tiempo de Oaxaca while taking workshops in 19th century photography techniques. Co-founder of the publishing house Cleptómano ediciones, dedicated to the reproduction of books and fanzines in risograph. All her work addresses issues that affect her in her daily life and that are usually topics of common interest. She is currently working on a series of photos called Las memorias del subdesarrollo (The memories of underdevelopment) that compile the way in which the natural environment is disrupted by urbanization and the social environment by gentrification and tourism.
Visual artist from Oaxaca whose work revolves around the concept of cultural globalization and consumerism. Her work is characterized by reflecting on social relationships and the image we build of ourselves, alerting others to the contemporary wounds of the place we inhabit. She has participated in various individual and collective exhibitions and has given workshops in different communities.
Performing artist who has participated in workshops, courses, and diplomas with national and international stage artists. She was part of the Oaxaca Dance Company and in 2019 she completed a residency with Rolando Beattie Ensamble Danza Contemporánea. She has taught introductory dance workshops, contemporary dance (to children and adults), and observed movement through the camera. She is currently an independent creator.
Geneva Faye is a filmmaker and linguist, raised in both the United States and Mexico. Her work as a director and producer is deeply influenced by the cultural and geographical space between these two countries. Faye's projects often explore themes of identity, culture, and the complexities of human connection, aiming to challenge and expand traditional narratives.
Pedagogue who facilitates active participation processes through the arts. Socially-oriented scenic creator with experience in actor's theater, dance-theater, contemporary dance, butoh, and puppet’s and mask’s theater. She co-founded the theater company Teatro Tetris, presenting the works "Ecos" (2016) and "Tototl" (2021), for which she is the playwright, director, and performer. In collaboration with her father, a puppeteer, she founded ALMUD - Casa Teatro de los Títeres (2022). As an educator has collaborated with Italian and Mexican associations, including Arciragazzi, KR, and Gulp (Italy). In Oaxaca, she has made notable contributions as a workshop facilitator, conducted workshops addressing topics such as gender-based violence, the body as a territory, and active participation of children and young people through mural painting.
Cultural manager, exhibitor, and film programmer. She is dedicated to research, teaching, and production of cultural projects aimed at the design and development of audiences. She is currently the artistic director of the El Público del Futuro Seminar at the International Film Festival of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (FICUNAM) and co-founder and director of OaxacaCine.
Visual artist originally from Oaxaca. His work uses painting as its main medium. He has taught plastic arts in different communities around Oaxaca. He began his training at the Rufino Tamayo workshop in painting, sculpture and printmaking. He holds a diploma of Contemporary Art from CEACO and participated in the Ecological Printmaking workshop at CaSA. He received a grant from the Young Creator’s program in the category of Visual Arts in 2023.
is a social practice queer artist who explores the entanglements of relationships through performance, sound and clay. They hold a license in clinical social work and their primary training is in trauma-informed care. They view their clinical practice as a form of cultural work and are interested in the complexities of the human and non-human relational plane as materiality. They center a process-based and collective approach in their practice and have contributed to numerous collaborative projects over the last 15 years.
Through drawing, his work has developed around letters as an illustrator and editorial designer. Traditional design processes and printing methods are the primary means of functional ideas. In collective everything turns out better. Founder of Cardumen | 467 visual communication office. Tattoo artist since 2016, exploring calligraphy on the skin.
His most recent work as an illustrator includes Kaab Cuatro Museo Vivo and a field guide around the conservation and cultivation of bees and meliponaries in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Residency

2024

Is a Czech photographer and writer currently based in the Netherlands. She uses photography to challenge the existing boundaries and taboos surrounding the themes of gender, sexuality, and trauma. He works are an intersection of academic and visual research. She currently contributes to GUP Magazine, EEP Berlin, and Discarded Magazine showcasing the developments of contemporary photography. She’s the author of The Ambiguity of Visual Representations of Trauma (2020) and Catharsis (2021), and the curator of XXX a new section of Discarded Magazine showcasing the vision of contemporary erotic photography.
New York-based strategist who creates culture through storytelling and partnerships.
She has spent her working life advocating for underserved voices by using new digital formats. While working as a journalist and editor, she covered youth protests on Instagram, curated a female art show on sexuality at the Museum of Sex titled “Female Gaze”, and conceived and facilitated events around social causes like youth incarceration and urban natives. As a bi-national, she founded Mex and the City, a creative collective and consultancy devoted to promoting contemporary Mexican identity through art and design.
Visual artist from Mexico City whose lines of research are the interdisciplinarity between art and science, the aesthetics of interculturality and visual communication for regional development. He is currently a Professor-researcher at the Universidad del Mar and is part of the Doctorate program in Sciences and Humanities for Interdisciplinary Development at the Autonomous University of Coahuila.
is a filmmaker, educator, and founder of Tesh Ciné Lab. Over the last decade, Nesanet has immersed herself in many creative fields. As Vice President of Operations at Atom Factory, she managed the company's in-house creative agency. From there, she and her mother co-founded Azla, a plant-based Ethiopian eatery inspired by the idea that the dining table is a space to share food and your life. Working with and listening to her mother inspired Nesanet to preserve her family history via her lifelong interest in film. Her short films, Bereka, Afrikan Space Program Forever, and Phillis Wheatley, have screened at Sundance Film Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, Durban International Film Festival, Ambulante Gira de Documentales, and Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival. Today, Nesanet brings her extensive career and artistic experiences to Tesh Ciné Lab named after her father, Teshager Abegaze Gebere, a self-taught musician and photographer. She develops arts curricula and teaches workshops, consults educational institutions and organizations, and collaborates with friends on design and film projects.
She has worked in social practices for almost 10 years, recently focusing on issues of regeneration of dry lands, as well as issues related to water. She lives in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region where she works with young people, sharing diverse eco-technologies to solve community problems.
His work focuses on documentary film, video and currently on media such as drawing, ceramics and painting. He has produced nine documentaries, edited eight, directed two medium-length films and is currently working on his debut feature “La Espera, el baile de las ánimas”.
His documentaries have been shown at different film festivals in Mexico and internationally and he has participated in workshops and training programs in documentary film with directors and scriptwriters from around the world.
Rosa Chang (장수연) is a multidisciplinary artist who utilizes installation, performance, and machine-learning computation to explore nostalgia, displacement, and intrafamilial dynamics. Her research focuses on the diverging Korean and Western social landscapes and how they can escalate emotional responses of anxiety, aggression, and polarized media reactions. In the process, Chang directly calls attention to various social ‘taboos,’ such as public surveillance, misguided feminism, tradition-oriented hierarchies, media censorship, and emotional codependency. She explores how material reactions are, at their core, automated performances—whether expressed through decomposing paintings or kinetic sculptures. In her latest works, Chang employs machine-learning neural networks to code installations that possess the ability to 'perform' independently of her physical presence. These installations execute decision-making processes and alter physical spaces based on their outputs, pushing the boundaries of bodily representation and audience interactivity.
is a queer Muslim activist and educator. She holds a Masters in Interactive Media Art at NYU and is currently a research resident in the same program, supporting curricula, students, and conducting research in memory and sound. She’s also a freelance curriculum developer, building toolkits for first-gen and disabled students and run a Muslim art magazine.
They are an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, multimedia sculpture, writing, tattooing, and oral history. Their work is rooted in storytelling and the visual language of identity construction, exploring subcultural semiotics and the meanings we make from bodily adornment. As a queer and trans Mexican-American artist, their practice memorializes the language and resistance strategies used by “othered” populations to build alternative worlds. They are deeply invested in the intersection of tattooing and the prison system as a site through which to research the body's rebellion under state control.
Tiago Mena Abrantes (b. 1993 in Luanda, Angola) is an artist working in a variety of 2D and audiovisual mediums. In his body of work Mena uses imagery and concepts drawn from surrealism, science-fiction, nature and Angolan culture. He received a MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School in New York City. Throughout his career, Mena has been a frequent collaborator on film, fine arts, theatre and editorial productions in Angola, USA and Europe.
Is a visual artist from Bergen, Norway. She studied fine arts and classical philology at the University of Hamburg. She lives in Berlin and recent solo exhibitions include the Volksbühne Berlin, the ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art (RUSSIA), Dzyga Gallery Kiev (UKRAINE), the Trafo Kunsthall (NORWAY), Kunsthalle Mannheim (GERMANY), Koganecho Bazaar (JAPAN) and the Westfälische Kunstverein / LWL Museum Münster (GERMANY). In 2020 she was a professor at the art academy HFBK Hamburg and currently works on nature and the loss of wilderness.
Graduated from FAD-UNAM and from the Master's in Cinematographic Art from Casa Lamm. She is co-founder of Bismuto, an animation studio where she works as a director, animator and illustrator. She is currently working on "Los rostros del rostro", an animated short film selected in the residency program of the Casa del Autor de Zapopan (2023-A) and at PECDA Oaxaca (2023).
Visual artist with a background in linguistics. Her artistic practice is multidisciplinary, from photography, drawing, text and actions. Through the word-idea relationship she constructs works that appeal to processes susceptible to the ephemeral and the forms of the stain. She has trained in institutions such as the Academia de San Carlos, the International Center of Photography, the Centro de la Imagen and the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín. Her book Nivi Ve'e was part of the 2022 shortlist of the Foto Book Festival Kassel Dummy Award. She was part of the Projeto Ativa in a cultural management and artistic production residency at the Coati Building, the latest project by architect Lina Bo Bardi in Salvador, Bahia. She also completed the artistic residency of the Galería del Agua in Atlzayanca, Tlaxcala as part of the Turista Mundial collective in 2018. In 2017, together with Alexia Zúñiga, she created the visual dissemination space Casa Garita. In 2024, she completed the Art Division artist residency program in Los Angeles, California. She currently lives and works in Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca.
Walter Cruz is a NY-born and Bronx native creative who explores intersections of art and design through his Dominican-American lens. His work aims to understand how Black and brown people inhabit space. He has exhibited at venues including the Bronx Museum, The Museum of the City of New York and completed residencies at organizations like The Laundromat Project. Cruz serves as the visual designer for the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), bringing an artistic eye to social justice issues. He co-founded Zeal, a cooperative uplifting Black multidisciplinary artists. His goal is to create work that encourages Black and brown communities to embrace the built environment and explore their shared histories.
Is a Rotterdam based multidisciplinary artist working across a range of media including film, sculpture, drawing, performance and site specific installation. Their current work mainly revolves around juxtaposing my modernist graphic design heritage with influences from my Chinese-Malaysian diasporic upbringing. By focussing on themselves as a site where different legacies and languages converge and complicate each other, they look for overlaps that speak cross culturally. Wong works from an auto-etnographic lens and through it questions the dominant frameworks that permeate almost every aspect of their life.

Residency

2024

Adriana Gallardo

Aleyi Sánchez

Angela Saenz

Camila Carrera

Chris Salas

Claudia Lopez

Ellen Rutt

Emilia Yang

Fre Wuhn

Gabriela Jarquín

Gabriella Garcia

jo valdes

Johnny Costello

Laura Middlehurst

Lhotse Collins

Marco Velasco Martinez

Marina Santiago

Matthew Nelson

Meii Soh

Nanaki Singh

Owandi Michel González

Prithika Mohan

Sonia Desai Rayka

Story Wiggins

Suzanna Missenberger

Vera Amaya

Vic Liu

Vickie Vertiz

Vico Valle

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Alejandra Ortega is a psychologist and photographer. She holds a degree in Psychology and in 2016 began her studies in photography at the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center. She attended the Specialization in Contemporary Art Clinic at La Curtiduría Centro de Artes Visuales and Production in Visual Arts Program at the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (2019). Ortega teaches workshops in different cultural centers in the city of Oaxaca focused on issues of functional diversity through photography. She has exhibited collectively in Oaxaca in spaces such as the Regional Museum of the Ex Convent of Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán (2019) and at the San Agustín Center for the Arts (2019). She has published several books, both collectively and individually and her current artistic work revolves around contemporary documentary photography and plastic intervention on texts taken from digital media.
Alfonso Barrera lives and works in Oaxaca, a place that significantly influenced his training as an artist. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, the United States, Europe and Japan. His images examine human expression and the symbolic, drawing from his own personal experiences and emotions. In this sense, his art is self-referential. In his artistic language, he boldly combines dissimilar references, such as horror cinema, pre-Hispanic art, popular music, religion, spirituality, visual metaphors/representational, and art history. In 2012 he founded, together with the artist Mirel Fraga, the independent publisher Polvoh Press, a multiple graphics project that brings together his personal work and that of local artists.
Andrés Vázquez is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. As the seventh son of Mexican migrants and a descendant of the Bracero Program, Andrés’s filmmaking searches for the beauty that can be found in darkness. His work explores themes of spiritual mysticism, intergenerational memory, and the transformation of diasporic and detribalized narratives into intimate traditions and haunting mythologies. He is currently a contributing director and digital producer with Futuro Media . His work has premiered with Remezcla, NPR Music ALT LATINO, and the Los Angeles Times. His recent films, Omolara and El Llano En Llamas, were official selections of the Urban World Film Festival and the HOLA Mexico Film Festival presented by Warner Media and HFPA (2021). His original play, Ciudadano Desaparecido, was commissioned and presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association for the program Latino Americans: 500 Years of U.S. History. His script, Despierta, won the Sundance Co//ab “Sound as Storytelling Challenge” presented by the Dolby Institute. He received his MFA from the School of Cinematic Arts (USC)."
I'm a writer, art historian, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Currently, I am a PhD candidate in Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, with research interests in textiles, archival practices, and art pedagogies, especially in the Caribbean and Latin America. My dissertation, “Texture of the Weave: Techniques for Ch’ixi Modernity in the Americas,” takes a material approach to the co-constitution of modernity, coloniality, and indigeneity through weaving practices in Puerto Rico, Mexico City, and Oaxaca in the mid-20th century. I hold a B.A. from Vassar College and have worked as a writer and editor for a number of art galleries, magazines, and independent publishers. My writing has appeared in e-flux journal, Protodispatch, and The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, and I have a forthcoming text in small axe's literary platform, sx salon. Essential to my art historical work is my ongoing collaboration with artists from a range of disciplines--sculptors, weavers, performers, poets. For the past two years, I have also been a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, developing educational programs alongside artists in the exhibition "no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria.
Angeline Marie Michael Meitzler is a Filipino American writer and animator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work utilizes magical realism and etiological myth to reflect on legacies of empire inform social and economic value systems. She received her MFA through both the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago and Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work has been included in new media festivals and galleries including Natasha Singapore Biennial, Singapore (2022); SummerWorks Festival, Toronto (2022); The Human Terminal, Anonymous Gallery, NYC (2021); Initial Public Offering, Reddit, online (2019); Feminist Media Studio, Montreal (2018). She is the author of the forthcoming chapbook, A Drop of Sun (Fauxmoir, 2023). Meitzler’s work has received support from Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, HarvestWorks, New Artist Society Fellowship, MAAF NYSCA & Wave Farm.
Diane Jean-Mary is a strategy leader dedicated to fueling the impact of the creative economy. She has over a decade of experience advising the C-suite in culture and entertainment in areas of strategic management - leading projects that span growth scaling, internal innovation & org culture, brand strategy, and social impact strategy. With the analytical rigor of a strategist and the emotional resonance of a storyteller, Diane helps organizations to unlock their potential and build their next era of impact.
Oaxacan architect, researcher and plastic artist focused on the use of cochineal. His work is informed by the cultural and natural architecture that surrounds him.
He has participated in various exhibitions in the United States, London, Finland, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Mexico City, as well as the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (CaSa) and the Site Museum of the Archaeological Zone of Monte Albán in Oaxaca.
He has focused on the cultivation of the cochineal and has delved into the study of the biological, chemical and historical process of the insect and the cactus. He has collaborated with various Institutions and developed educational projects that have brought new generations closer through pre-Hispanic art and techniques with this pigment.
Frewuhn is a visionary creator who explores the realm of devotion, transcending the constraints of time and space. With a deep commitment to accessible pedagogies and a belief in the transformative potential of performance, she ignites benevolence through her artistry. With a diverse educational background encompassing Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, History, and Theological Studies, Frewuhn's artistic vision is rooted in a profound understanding of cultural heritage and the complexities of the human condition. From immersive sonic experiences to evocative lyric poetry, she creates sonic experiences that challenge audiences to explore their inner worlds. Her collaborations have graced institutions such as Art League Houston, Lawndale Arts Center, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Project Row Houses, August Wilson African American Cultural Center and Moore’s Opera House, to name a few. Frewuhn is dedicated to sharing her expertise through thought incubators conducted at The Campus for Human Development, Fisk University, and Chattanooga State Community College and HYPE Freedom Schools. Her workshops empower participants to explore alternative learning, through engagement in liberatory and devotional practices.
Heejoon June Yoon is a multidisciplinary artist. Yoon’s research uncovers the ecology of absurdity and latent violence within anthropocentric culture and contemporary society . Her recent work revolves around web-culture and feminist narratives through building immersive audiovisual environment as a storytelling platform. Through various forms of storytelling, Yoon has been exploring the cycle of perception/ framing/ indoctrination of normality while questioning the ridiculousness/hypocrisy found in this circulation. Yoon earned her BFA in Painting at Seoul National University and her MFA in Digital + Media at Rhode Island School of Design. Her films and other works have been presented internationally at such venues as the Montreal World Film Festival; in Boston at Boston Cyberarts and Shelter-In-Place gallery; in Gimpo at CICA Museum; in Seoul at Wooseok Gallery, Space 413 and White Noise; and in digital platforms at Foundation.app and the Wrong Biennale.
Iliana Olalde (Necia fellow) is an artist whose work takes place in the field of live arts, performance and video, where she addresses issues of gender, representation and landscape. Through the body, her practice investigates stillness and the subtle as spaces of power, exploring the relationship between the construction of time and the viewer's gaze. She has been a selected Movement Research artist performing at the Judson Memorial Church in New York City (2019) and was part of the accompaniment program of Piso 16. Laboratorio de Iniciativas Culturales UNAM (MOC, 2019). Her individual and collective work has been presented in Mexico, the United States, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Germany and Colombia. She is co-founder and member of Sociedad del Paisaje (2019-present), a research, experimentation and artistic production project that crosses performative and sound practices in the relationship between body, landscape and noise. She was recently part of the First International Diploma in Art and Gender, coordinated by the Extraordinary Chair of Art and Gender Rosario Castellanos and the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM.
Jazmine Hughes (b. 1991) is a black, lesbian writer living in New York City. Hughes has worked for the New York Times in various capacities since 2015, and, in 2022, she became a staff writer. Earlier that year, she received an award from the American Society of Magazine Editors for exceptional talent from those under 30. At the New York Times, Hughes writes largely about celebrity: joining Viola Davis in South Africa, vacationing in Italy with Whoopi Goldberg, driving around Los Angeles with Lil Nas X. Both inside her day job and out, her work is focused on power, identity, belonging and trickery.
Afro Latinx Writer, Intimacy Coordinator, Organizer, and DJ from The Bronx. I currently reside between New York City and Los Angeles. They studied Writing, Culture, Media & Film at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and want to make a really good television show one day.
Kasser Sánchez (Oaxaca, 1989) artista plástico y visual. Co-fundador de Yope Projects Space, una plataforma, grupo de trabajo y espacio dedicado a la producción y difusión del arte contemporáneo. Su obra se nutre de elementos simbólicos de sus vivencias, los cuales emplean como recurso dialéctico para generar reflexiones visuales y conceptuales, que transcurren entre el dibujo y pintura extendidos a la escultura e instalación.
Destaca su exposición Hacer Cancha, Espacio Rabia en Oaxaca (2024); en la que investiga la cancha de baloncesto como un espacio de transición y significado ritual dentro de las comunidades de Oaxaca, siendo un punto de convergencia y encuentro relevante para intercambio cultural local. La exposición analiza la relación histórica y el posible sincretismo simbólico entre el juego de pelota mesoamericano y el baloncesto actual, resaltando sus coincidencias en aspectos culturales, ceremoniales y económicos.
Mariana Parisca (she/they) is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator from the USA and Venezuela. Their work investigates cultural notions of the relationship between matter and consciousness through sculptural, lens-based, and performative works. Parisca received an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media department at Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Parisca’s work has shown at dOCUMENTA 15, Kassel, Germany, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY, Mas Allá, Bogota, Colombia, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, Rudimento in Quito, Ecuador, NARS Foundation in New York City, NY, the New Wight Biennial in Los Angeles, CA, the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Anderson Gallery, and Cherry Gallery in Richmond, VA, the Virginia MOCA in Virginia Beach, VA, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO, and New Works Gallery in Chicago, IL among others. Mariana has received various awards including an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Tribble Grant, the Eliot Scholarship, and the Paul F. Miller Scholarship. They have been artist in residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Nave Proyecto, Vermont Studio Center, Visual Arts Center in Richmond, VA, and Studio Two Three. They currently teach sculpture at George Mason University.
Marisol Aliseda Torres is a cultural activator and explorer of creative languages around the body, passionate about interdisciplinary processes. An independent creator, her body practice has been nourished by various voices including Natsu Nakajima, Lola Lince, Claudia Lavista, Yumiko Yoshioka, Evoé Sotelo and Tadashi Endo. She has collaborated with Rizoma Cultural Agency, Open House, La Sonora Performancera, Xoxollywood Productions, Collectif VIDDA, El Movimiento, Kronik Pictures, Cervantino International Festival. She teaches workshops to diverse audiences, young people and adults in cultural spaces, and to children as an approach to artistic language. Her current exploration is focused on the body in situation. The creation and improvisation in landscape.
Is a queer multidisciplinary artist and arts worker - musician, writer and documentary filmmaker. They work professionally in cross-cultural spaces with First Nations communities in the Central Desert of Australia on unceded Arrernte country, program managing a music program and festival in remote Australia, as well as working writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Their music and creative practice spans recent key solo performances such as Big Sound, Julia Jacklin tour, Nine Lives festival, as well as performance art pieces in Spring1883, Dark Mofo, and internationally at (En)countrers festival in India. 2023 will see the release of a second solo album of left-of-field electronic/pop, as well as a collaborative art piece album with James Rushford and Veronica Kent.
They hold a First Class Honours degree in Cultural Studies from Melbourne University and sit on the board of directors of Watch This Space Artist Run Initiative in Alice Springs.

Mi’jan Celie Tho-Biaz Ed.D., is a cultural leader, oral historian and documentarian who shares narratives of personal transformation and community change. As the founder and Director of the New Mexico Women of Color Nonprofit Leadership Initiative at the Santa Fe Community Foundation, she works with communities across the themes of sovereignty, transformation, healing and equity. Mi’Jan designed and led the Steinem Initiative’s public policy digital storytelling pilot at Smith College, was a visiting scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics at Columbia University, and served as a New Mexico Humanities Council Scholar. These days, her collaborations include serving as a 2019-2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist, and Encore Public Voices Fellow. Mi’Jan graces audiences with her visionary, story-rich talks at a range of institutions, from Carnegie Hall to the Institute of American Indian Arts to SXSW. Her goal? To make the historical contemporary and personal, while surfacing the marginalized stories that need to be heard.
Miguel Cinta Robles lives between Oaxaca and Mexico City. He studied at the National University of Arts in Buenos Aires and studied visual arts at ENPEG Esmeralda. His interests focus on building strategies and models that make it possible to create spaces for socialization and learning outside of academic circuits. He is the curator and founder of Margarita, a research space in Oaxaca de Juárez focused on the fusion of technologies such as sculpture and agroecology. At the same time, he manages "Domingo de cerro" a project dedicated to generating walks, workshops and activations in the mountains of Oaxaca and other states of the republic. These walks seek to integrate the fields of biology, ecology and the arts with the political contexts of the territories. Currently, he collaborates in the reforestation and eco-construction project "Terreno Familiar" where he is dedicated to planting, building with earth and researching eco-technologies and ways to achieve food sovereignty and live in interdependence with the earth.
Miriam Hillawi Abraham is a multi-disciplinary designer from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With a background in Architecture, she works with digital media and spatial design to interrogate themes of equitable futurism and intersectionality. She holds an MFA in Interaction Design from the California College of the Arts and a BArch in Architecture from the Glasgow School of Art. She has worked as a game design instructor at Bay Area Video Coalition’s after-school program for over three years. She is a CCA-Mellon researcher for the Digital Now multidisciplinary project, a 2020 fellow of Gray Area’s Zachary Watson Education Fund and a Graham Foundation 2020 grantee.
Nahum Saldaña (Necia fellow)b.1989,is a designer, researcher and sound artist based anywhere in the world. His work has been exhibited in institutions such in Europe and Latin America. His approach to sound comes from percussion with extreme sounds, experimenting with different styles such as noise, drone and ambient. He has been a drummer and guitarist for Peruvian underground bands such as Ávida, Tefrosis, Rabia, Escarnnio, Thanatophobia, Paranoia, Cabeza de Perro Atómico, among others. His work as a sound artist is focused on revealing the vulnerability of the human being in nature, understanding its impact from sound as a place of resistance from the political, biological and social sphere.He is currently discovering the intersections between voice, soundscape and sound ecology with climate change and in sound futures speculation.
She is a Brooklyn-based ceramics artist and creative art therapist (MPS, LCAT, ATR-BC), working primarily with themes related to race-issues, cultural identity, femininity, social stereotypes, and popular culture perspectives.
Her work aims to instigate a conversation exploring the dichotomy between softness and strength, highlighting negative tropes associated with the traits of masculinity, virility, and aggression of Black people.
She has explored various mediums within both educational and mental health forums; including non-profit organizations for housing and health, workforce development institutions, and inpatient psychiatry.
Noura al Khasawneh is an artist and curator from Amman, Jordan. Over the past 4 years she has been directing MMAG, an art foundation based in Amman, where she was responsible for setting up the foundation's residency and exhibitions program. She also runs Spring Sessions, a residency and learning program that she has co-directed and curated since 2014. Spring Sessions is an experiential project that aimed to introduce its participants to diverse artists practices, while continuously exploring site-responsive forms of research and learning. She recently completed an MFA in Studio art from SAIC in Chicago and left her job at MMAG earlier this year in order to focus on her own artistic practice.
Rafe Scobey-Thal is a filmmaker, documentarian and photographer living in New York though his work spans across different locales and countries. He is focused on creating narratives that illustrate the power of stories to heal as well as be a force for good against the ongoing spiritual, political and social violence our society is experiencing. He has had the pleasure of collaborating on projects with Syrian refugee communities in Jordan, migrant communities in Honduras, and Mexico, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as well as a litany of amazing artists, musicians, dancers and activists over the years. He believes that stories have a unique power to connect the inner with the outer and his hope is that his films show that the line between what we struggle with inside and what we are struggling against outside is thinner than we might think.
is a multidisciplinary artist born in Oaxaca, Mexico. He graduated from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda" and was a student at the Haute École dʼArt et Design (HEAD) in Geneva, Switzerland. His work has been exhibited in Germany, France, Switzerland, as well as museums and independent spaces in Mexico City and Oaxaca. Through painting, drawing, video and the construction of objects, he explores the relationship between creativity and everyday life. He is especially interested in how artistic processes build a different perspective on reality and how they can help us reflect and generate awareness about ourselves. In his practice, he combines analog and digital tools, as well as participatory dynamics. His main intention is to trigger reflections on the relationships between the work and the viewer, in order to help create a notion of bonding and awareness of the environment and the narratives that are generated in it.
Samantha Martínez is a textile artist & designer who studied architecture in the city of Oaxaca. In 2019, she began to focus her practice on the tailoring and design of women's clothing, which confronted her with the reality of fast fashion and consumption habits that are not friendly to the environment. She has participated in textile, dyeing, embroidery and weaving workshops given at the Oaxaca Textile Museum and the San Agustín Arts Center (CASA), which encouraged her to continue working in the textile field as a self-taught designer. She is currently in charge of the Koto project, textile tests.
Visual Artist who has participated in different residencies and specialization courses such as the CaSa Visual Arts Production Diploma. Recent solo exhibitions include Dry Season and Concrete Landscape in Oaxaca. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, England, Brazil, Ecuador, the United States, Lebanon and Venezuela. He was selected for the XII FEMSA biennial and international video art festivals including nodoCCS and the Urbs International Video Art and Experimental Video Exhibition. He was a recipient of the 2018-2019 FONCA Young Creators scholarship and the CAST artistic residency in Cornwall, England (2023). His work is part of several catalogs and collections such as the Museum of Philately of the city of Oaxaca (MUFI), the FEMSA collection, the collection of the Museum of the Chancellery and the Toledo / INBA collection.
Wilber Mendoza is a digital and stage movement artist, screendance producer and dance teacher. He focuses on improvisation practices and screendance production. His work has been presented in national and international venues such as the kNOwBOX dance Film Festival (USA, KOR, MEX 2021, 2022), Texas Dance Improvisation Festival (USA, 2019, 2020 and 2021), Festival Internacional VideodanzaBA (ARG, 2019) and Muestra Audiovisual de Movimiento (MEX, 2019). Mendoza has trained professionally in Mexico and Europe. He organized three editions of the kNOwBOX Screendance Festival in partnership with HÁBITAT OAXACA and Quadrivia Puebla, with the participation of local visual and performing artists who exhibit his works and guide movement workshops. In 2020 Wilber co-founded Coctelito de Videodanza, a screendance production and distribution platform that seeks to redesign the screendance market through monthly events in Mexico (Oaxaca, Puebla, Mérida). All the projections include a conversation that brings the public and the artists together, regardless of their geographical location.
Viridiana Martínez Marín lives and works in Oaxaca. She is a researcher, professor and programmer and a PhD candidate in Cinematographic Theory and Analysis from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM-X). She has a master's degree in Conservation of Documentary Collections at the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography, and a bachelor's degree in Sociology at the UAM-X. Her fields of research and pedagogical practice are; experimental cinema, contemporary art, posthumanities or non-Eurocentric and Anglo-Saxon humanities, historical and present review through cinema and cinema as a means to enhance pedagogical projects. As a teacher she has worked in the studies of art, culture and audiovisual media and has collaborated with the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, Universidad LaSalle and Universidad Regional del Sureste en Oaxaca.
Artist and curator with theoretical-practical research from somatic, choreographic, medial and art history perspectives, on perception, movement and configurations of imaginaries.
Master in Art History, her work has been developed in video, stage, installation and editorial projects. She facilitates movement improvisation sessions through contact. She accompanies artistic and exhibition processes from affective and soft curatorships. She is the creator of the platforms Agite y Sirva, and UNE_ Practices in art. She designs and facilitates programs such as the International Diploma in Choreocinema, as well as artistic residencies. Her work has been presented internationally.
Zainab "Zai'' Aliyu is a Nigerian-American artist and cultural worker living in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). Her work contextualizes the cybernetic and temporal entanglement embedded within societal dynamics to understand how all socio-technological systems of control are interconnected, and how we are all materially implicated through time. She draws upon her body as a corporeal archive and site of ancestral memory to craft counter-narratives through built virtual environments, printed matter, video, archives, installation, oral histories and community-participatory (un)learning.

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Graduated from the Active School of Photography in Oaxaca. She is part of the 2010 generation of the contemporary photography seminar at CaSa. In 2011-2012 she attended the first group of the Diploma of Visual Arts, also taught at CaSa under the tutorship of Luis Felipe Ortega. She received the grant SECULTA "C13" and is currently finishing the Contemporary Photography Program taught at the Pachuca Center for the Arts under the mentorship of Javier Ramírez Limón.
originally from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, graduated from the UABJO School of Plastic and Visual Arts. She places her work within the contemporary, which reflects on a concern for her cultural identity, collective memory, and her mother tongue. Since 2016 she collaborates with the Gubidxa Gallery located in her community with different projects that have a focus on community. In 2020 her work became part of the collection of the 2nd Hall of Latin American Graphics by the Universidad del Bosque and Taller Anachrónico in Bogota, Colombia. Her work reflects on the idea of identity and how we build experiences from daily life and the collective. Intervention and appropriation are part of her process to highlight the traditional from the contemporary. She also proposes questions about the sense of belonging and the construction of space and how it is formed through collective memory, attachment, affective ties, and all the objects with which we build our identity.
Artist not Artist. Not Mexican. Politicized rapper not necessarily feminist. Vallista of the Isthmus, Jarocha, Chiapaneca and Guerrerense. Predictable mutant from the 90s. Astrologer Artist Addicted To Analysis. Attempted Artist. Ordinary artist. Visual artist tired of seeing, fed up with repetitions and "ready mades". Artist, thank you. Graffiti artist without a crew. Versatile hiker of language. Lazy, sometimes full. RuralUrban. Sensitive self-critical. In 2018 she published her first demo — "DOMA. Vol. 1". The same year she was mentioned along with other female rappers in the NYT article "The female voices of Rap in Oaxaca" and offered Rap workshops in various regions of the state to high school students, addressing issues of sexual and reproductive rights.
is a theater and radio actress from Oaxaca. She is also a playwright, director, puppeteer, manager, mother and feminist. Originally from El Coyul Huamelula, she has spent 16 years in the Oaxacan performance scene as an independent artist. In 2011, Esmeralda -- together with the actor Gustavo Martínez -- founded the theater company PELO DE GATO with which they have toured more than 80 rural and urban public schools. Her recent work: “El Coyul”, is the winner of the open call for Theater Production in Community Theater in Oaxaca, 2018, in which she explores themes of origin and upbringing.
is an award-winning writer/director and actor born and raised in the Dominican Republic whose work lives within the intersection of fiction and poetry. She writes flawed people with larger-than-life ambitions, driven women with sour senses of humor and families living between opposing cultures. She aims to draw cultural bridges that lead to the Caribbean and tell stories that represent the people she grew up with, authentically. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California's BFA in acting program, a 2021-2022 Sundance Institute "Art of Practice" fellow and is currently based in Los Angeles. Gabriela was selected as one of the ten writer/directors of the 2021 Rising Voices fellowship created in partnership by Lena Waithe's Hillman Grad productions and Indeed. She is a Sundance Lab, Nalip Latino Media Market, HBO Tomorrow’s filmmakers today and IAMA under 30 lab alum.
Born from Cameroonian, Togolese-German and Morrocan-French parents, their understanding of art-making is heavily influenced by the ways they relate to migration and colonialism. They draw from their nomadic migrations to understand, situate, and contextualize their work, as multidimensional, which is often described as ‘personal ‘intimate’ ‘transfixing’ ‘collaborative’ and ‘reflective.’ In all, they are a collaborator: she co-created NO EVIL EYE, a nomadic radical microcinema that curates an eclectic mix of films and programs political workshops around cinema. Through a non-hierarchical framework, Ingrid has (co)taught youth & adult art programs at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Black Quantum Futurism’s Black Women Time Camp, Powrplnt, Eyebeam’s Digital Day Camp, Mono No Aware, Education Video Center, Harlem School of the Arts, and more. They currently co-teach at The Young Artist Program in Philadelphia, PA and virtually co-facilitate the Teen Council cohort at Bronx Museum of the Arts.
"(born 1997) is an independent filmmaker based in New York City. She has made a name for herself through her work in film, theater and more recently, art curatorial spaces. Since the late 2010’s, she has captured visual stories which aim to showcase the power of a liberated Black imagination. Garraway's films typically evoke a poetic melange between narrative and documentary storytelling. She finds an authentic rhythm within the core of her work and masterfully centers her stories around self-discovery and double consciousness. Her work often is layered with subtle shifts in perspective and purposeful symbolism found within archives from Black culture. Garraway insists upon enhancing our cultural perspectives through a surrealist lens. Her artistic motto is centered around familiarizing the strange and mystifying the familiar. Her auteur presence was born from her theatrical background where the world became her stage and everyone has a part to play. Through any medium she chooses, Garraway is strategic in how she uses her work to manipulate the concept of realism.
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is a film director, visual artist, animator and actor. Jamal poetically works across a wide range of disciplines – Live action film, animation, video, drawing, painting, photography, and performance. Across media, he builds rich, prismatic worlds that examine displaced black identities, love and relationships, cultural consciousness and society. In his work he seeks to investigate the mythical, the cosmic, the infinite, the indigenous, and the fantastical, through dreamworlds which explore the sacred power of the elevated feminine to construct a higher, more evolved society and way of being. He is currently based in Los Angeles and is writing and developing projects for film & television in hopes to facilitate healing.
is a queer diasporic Chinese artist born and raised in Tkaronto/Toronto, with ancestral roots in Singapore, Taiwan, and Fujian, China. Her artistic practice explores the deep reverence she has for our collective home planet, Earth. Her paintings and drawings are meditative rituals which channel her desire to be in harmonious relation with human and more-than-human kin. Together with the liberatory embodiment practice of gardening, artmaking is a vital part of her holistic work of transforming racialized and gendered intergenerational trauma into joy and freedo
is a writer, editor and filmmaker native to the central valleys of Oaxaca who works with objects from the natural world and collects testimonies from people whose life experience and personal-professional activities are important to society. He co-founded the magazines 'El Jolgorio Cultural' (2008-2014), 'Yagular' (2011-2014) and 'Pochota' (2021). Since 2013 he has worked on the development of the Itinerant Audiovisual Camp (CAI), a film training initiative with a community focus for young people from Oaxaca and from all over the country. He is currently an editor at Fruta Bomba and Yagular Ediciones and works as a literary programmer for the Oaxaca International Book Fair. He researches the history of music and likes to share it on the radio. He produces two ongoing radio series: 'Membrillo' and 'Intemperie'. He teaches classes and workshops on literature, history, and film appreciation. He is currently developing Reasons for the Name, his first documentary film.
"is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and color material researcher. In her practice she works with natural materials, such as ochres and mineral pigments, as well as dyes and inks made from plants. She holds an MFA from SUNY Purchase and an Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has exhibited at galleries such as Lyles & King (NYC), The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), and Dread Lounge (Los Angeles, CA), and has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, SIM Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland, The Wassaic Project, Cooper Union, and Mass MoCA. She has worked as a museum and arts educator at the New Museum, Pioneer Works, Swiss Institute, Abrons Art Center, Dia:Beacon, and Harvard Art Museums - the latter of which she conducted natural color material workshops in the Materials Lab - an education space that runs in conjunction with the Forbes Pigment collection.
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was born in Oaxaca. Collection, transformation, and intervention are some of the strategies he uses to build a relationship with the world through art. He currently lives and works in Oaxaca City. He is a member of Estudios Benito Juárez. He holds a Master's Degree in Artistic Production, has been a FONCA fellow of Young Creators program in the 2014-2015, 2016-2017, and 2019-2020 cycles. In 2013 he was awarded the Roberto Villagraz scholarship in Spain and was also the winner of the Hector García biennial. He has exhibited individually and collectively in Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Chile, Spain, the United States, and Canada..
is an artist, printmaker and educator. Born in Oaxaca and raised in Oaxaca, he is the co-founder of Espacio Pino Suárez, a printmaking workshop and space for visual arts and is a member of Estudios Benito Juárez, a group investigating and discussing contemporary art in Oaxaca. He is nterested in understanding and expanding the concept of drawing as an exercise in observation, recognition, memory, writing and as an object, working with issues such as violence, the political and the personal, collective creation and his relationship with everyday objects. Marco studied design, drawing and graphics at the Mesoamerican University, at the Centro de Artes de San Agustín Etla, Oaxaca and at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, Austria, Italy and the United States.
is an independent artist who express herself through the creative realms of music composition, where she writes, sings and plays instruments, as well through a visual language, mostly by making short films. She comes from both Angola and Benin, and is based in Luanda. She has a Masters in Critical and Creative Analysis (Sociology and Critical Studies) from Goldsmiths University. In music, she transits between improvisation and experimental Soul music. Her first album, O Baile dos Sentidos, was released in 2017. Her latest EP (2019) is entitled Língua Livre. The album reflects on the complexity of Language in a formerly colonised space. She have written and directed three short film; Ndozi Blues (2018), Dikenga (2021) and Domingo é Dia de Descanso (2021). She is interested in exploring the complexity of her own Being, through a lens that is autobiographical and also invites fiction, immersed in the journey of documenting, transforming and sharing possible healing processes through art; mostly sound, by looking at her own healing mechanisms and that of others. She is interested in Language as a whole, not only as a means for communication, but also as a tool for self-knowledge, especially in places where language has served as a vehicle for oppression and domination in the past. In general terms, all the intentionally creative actions that she engages with are done through a deep calling to decolonise her own mind, affirm herself as a Black African woman, and use both aspects to contribute to the contexts of her surroundings with her experience and findings.

is a queer writer from New York City, where she lived until she moved to Seattle/Duwamish Territory in 2011. She is an interdisciplinary teaching artist, facilitator and activist and the 2020 Erin Donovon fellow in poetry at Mineral School in Washington . Her work can be found in various journals including Longleaf Review, Entropy, Lunch Ticket and Peatsmoke. She holds an MFA in creative writing and a Certificate in the Teaching of Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles; a BA in cultural studies from Eugene Lang and a BFA in photography from Parson’s School of Design. She has taught since 1999 in various locations including Elevated Urban Arts & Education, Bushwick Arts & Literacy Program, Arts Corps, Book It Repertoire, Silverkite Community Arts, Creative Advantage, Path With Art and Hugo House’s Scribes writing camp. In Seattle she also founded and facilitated a satellite of New York’s Interdependence Project, a meditation group.
Mi’jan Celie Tho-Biaz Ed.D., is a cultural leader, oral historian and documentarian who shares narratives of personal transformation and community change. As the founder and Director of the New Mexico Women of Color Nonprofit Leadership Initiative at the Santa Fe Community Foundation, she works with communities across the themes of sovereignty, transformation, healing and equity. Mi’Jan designed and led the Steinem Initiative’s public policy digital storytelling pilot at Smith College, was a visiting scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics at Columbia University, and served as a New Mexico Humanities Council Scholar. These days, her collaborations include serving as a 2019-2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist, and Encore Public Voices Fellow. Mi’Jan graces audiences with her visionary, story-rich talks at a range of institutions, from Carnegie Hall to the Institute of American Indian Arts to SXSW. Her goal? To make the historical contemporary and personal, while surfacing the marginalized stories that need to be heard.
grew up in Bandung, a city on West Java, Indonesia, and moved to San Francisco, California after she graduated high school in 1998. Shortly after she moved to the U.S., she discovered literature, a discipline that was not part of her schooling in Indonesia; she cannot remember a time when she read a poem or short story or novel for school. Literature was suppressed (and in some cases, banned) in Indonesia because the Indonesian government at the time did not want to promote critical thinking and expand people’s imagination. Her day job in the past decade has been to help enable non-American, non-English speaking communities to enjoy and take advantage of products in their local languages and cultural environments. This entails translation and transcreation, but most importantly, it involves education and evangelization that there are many different ways - linguistically, culturally, creatively - for individuals in different parts of the world to live their lives, including how they express their thoughts in verbal and written forms.
is an expert in design thinking who has worked in the US, Japan, India, and Tanzania. She has spent over 16 years helping Fortune 100 companies, international development organizations, and non-profits use design thinking to create for the future. She currently runs a design consultancy helping organizations leverage the power of design thinking to future-proof their organizations and co-create sustainable solutions with end users that create positive societal impact. She pulls from both her Masters in Public Policy (MPP) and MBA to understand systematic hurdles and create breakthrough solutions. She teaches courses at Parsons School of Design and NYU around innovation and human-centered design for societal change.
Paloma Lounice is an emerging photographer born in 1996 to a Oaxacan father and an American mother. Her photography explores intimate themes such as community, family heritage, and identity and memory as social constructs. She holds a degree in Modern Languages and Interculturality and received most of her training in photography from the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center where she was also selected to exhibit.
is originally from Juchitán de Zaragoza on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, she grew up on the coast and now lives in the Etla Valley. She is a nutritionist and practices nutrition through an inclusive and anti-fat-phobic project. She is also a social researcher. She holds a master's degree in social anthropology and through her own experience as a Zapotec woman in this historical time. Through her research, she seeks to make visible the discrimination and violence that young Zapotec women of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec experience, to question the essentialist representations that art and academia have made about them. She is a Ph.D. candidate in feminist studies at UAM-Xochimilco. This year she started working in cinema. Along with her partner, Yoari, she won a financial stimulus for audiovisual creation of indigenous and Central American communities. In this project, she aims to narrate the stories of her community and seek creative platforms that promote dialogue and navigate between the different disciplinary borders.
"is a Brooklyn based designer, researcher, and editor who works to break down barriers to knowledge and resources—currently, by leading the design and development of a free curriculum for public-sector professionals exploring ethical design and research in partnership with a nonprofit civic design studio. Since 2016 she has run the free weekly newsletter Words of Mouth, sharing jobs and opportunities across design and other creative domains with tens of thousands of readers every Monday. She is also a textile and repair artist intent on deepening her understanding of the non-human world through hand-led learning. With Sam Bennett, she co-runs Repair Shop, a nascent research and learning studio exploring how critical considerations of maintenance and craft can inform approaches to design, production, and consumption.
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is a visual artist and editor who currently works as editor of Entrópico Ediciones. His work investigates the relationships between the book, photography and writing. He holds a Master's Degree in Artistic Production from the UAEM and has received the PECDA Oaxaca scholarship (2017), the FONCA Young Creators scholarship in Photography (2018) and the Roberto Villagraz Scholarship from EFTI, Spain (2019). In 2019 he was selected as part of Artemergente, Monterrey National Biennial.
"is a Brooklyn-based maker, ethnographer, and designer with expertise in the fields of space, materials, and objects. She believes in slow research that minimally impacts our planet and advocates for human well-being. Currently, her own research focuses on consumption, reuse, and repair of objects. You can find her investigating people’s relationships to objects in the domestic space, making with mycelium and discarded materials, repairing meaningful artifacts, and running Clever/Slice, a global space to share in-progress creative work. She is currently a senior researcher at Healthy Materials Lab collaborating with designers, architects, and manufacturers to bring healthier materials into affordable housing. She also co-runs Repair Shop with Rachel Smith. Together, they are developing a repair hub at the Brooklyn Public Library, researching the aesthetic values of maintenance in the built environment through the Maintainers Movement 2022 Fellowship, and leading textile repair workshops with learners around the world. Sam also teaches at Parsons School of design, Pratt Institute, and New Jersey Institute of Technology in the Interior Design and Industrial Design departments. In her free time, she darns and writes letters on one of her five typewriters.
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studied sociology, performance and theater in Oaxaca. He has been part of projects that reflect on performativity and social space. In 2005 he was the organizer of the Oaxaca Action Art Encounter-Laboratory, mapping those involved in the territory of action and art in the city. Since 2008 he has been a beneficiary of multiple FONCA and CONACULTA programs such as Young Creators and PECDA, as well as the winner of various awards in the performing arts. He currently directs theater and stage projects aimed at children at the Central de Abastos. Co-founder of "El Balcón" at the Central de Abastos de Oaxaca, he was the winner of the program for the "Together for Peace" Strategy. He is a programmer for the Oaxaca International Book Fair (FILO) in the children's workshop area.
(B.1992 Dhaka, Bangladesh) is a fiber artist who navigates with found-objects, sculptures, installations and tapestry weavings. Her practice revolves around re-purposing recycled materials through traditional textiles techniques. Growing up at the cultural intersection of Bangladesh and the American South her work reflects on the relationship of garmentry in society as it relates to fast fashion and the nonlinear journey of the Muslim experience. Currently her work is on food waste and weaving together a plastic quilt on what we may consume on a regular basis. She received her BFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in Textile Arts from Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in 2016. She lives and works in Atlanta, GA.
"is a Canadian-Haitian interdisciplinary textile artist presently residing in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, Canada. She studied both at Concordia University in Montreal and The Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. Her interest lies in exploring and researching the intersectionalities between Black culture, geography, mythology, and architectural paradigms. Inspired by the untold stories of Black people, threads and visual techniques for materialization are hidden in the seams of her work. Using textiles as a primary framework, her interest lies in investigating and weaving ancestral relationships between fiber and form. She is presently a fellow at Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism, a project birthed by Black Lives Matter activists who hope to build an enduring space that could cultivate the most transformative and radical ideas from Toronto’s diverse Black communities and beyond. In addition, she is working under the mentorship of textile artist, educator, and producer Victoria Manganiello.
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is an artist-curator, social worker, and doula with a strong community building background. Suzy has worked at various community development organizations in Houston and internationally. Suzy also founded an artist collective that celebrates different disciplines through curated experiences hosted year-round in Houston and New York. The collective’s experience as children of immigrants, artists of color, musicians, independent and women business owners, and mental health professionals inform the productions they organize. The spaces they organize promote creative expression, build community connections, facilitate cultural exchange, and further restorative healing. Past events include: art exhibitions, musical events, mural productions, and pop-up dinners, among others. In 2020, Suzy she a full-spectrum doula training and is committed to connecting with families in Houston to improve birth outcomes and addressing maternal health disparities by making doula services accessible. Suzy earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas in International Studies and Spanish with a Minor in Latin American and Latino Studies. Suzy also attended the University of Houston where she received her Master of Social Work. She currently works in the Media and Tech industries where she focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
is originally from Oaxaca de Juárez, where she works as a visual and performing artist. In 2017 she co-founded “Ojo Tres” a workshop dedicated to creating ties between artists through graphic, photographic and editorial production. The workshop itself is a member of MUTACIONES editorial -- a platform for creation and dissemination of the work of women artists through active listening. She has collaborated in various multidisciplinary projects that mix illustration, book, graphic, audiovisual and dance. Her work investigates issues such as memory and boundary, exploring the relationship between image and movement and our human footprint, the way we move and the traces we leave.

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2022

Residency

2022

Adinah Dancyger

Aimarielle AbuBakr

Aliffer Zamira Sabek

Allie Bird

Amina Hassen

Aria Curtis

Ariana Faye Allensworth

Becca Fuhrman

Cecil Howell

Daniel Wirtberg

Eriko Tsogo

Eushavia Bogan

Gabrielle Ione Hickmon

Isaac Benavidez

Ivan Sikic

Jemma Brown

Johnica Rivers

Joshua Lynch

Juan Pablo López-Fonseca

Juliana Ronchesel

Katayoun Vaziri

Lauren Oliver

Lisa Riordan Seville

Mae Eskenazi

Maghan Baptiste

Magida El-Kassis

Marie Lambin-Gagnon

Mary Casella

Nicole Yi Messier

Noam Keim

Rachel Lin

Rafe Scobey-Thal

Ray Freedman

Sara Urbaez

Simonetta Nieto

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2022

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"grew up in the rural town of Taos, located in northern New Mexico. She spent the majority of my homeschooled childhood exploring the desert, and speaking very little. At the age of thirteen she moved to Canada alone to pursue her education and left the high desert behind for Canada’s low prairie lands. She recently completed her final year of undergraduate study in the department of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. Through her architectural practice she seeks to better understand inhabitation of place through more direct connections to land.
Born 1983 in Angola, Alida Rodrigues is an artist living and working in London in the medium of collages which are created from cuttings of botanical illustrations and found images applied to 19th century postcards, carte de visite, and cabinet cards. They are peculiar, grotesque and strangely beautiful re-imaginings of the human form. By using botanical illustrations to show the exoticism of the plants referencing the distant land they originated from, for example Africa, South America and Asia while mainly focusing on the lack of photographic images, showing people of different ethnic groups which were mainly kept in museums or hidden away in storage. The work focuses on loss of identity, and it poses questions about the ""sense of belonging"" or ""sense of un-belonging"" that is familiar with those who have experienced living in a country they may or may not have been born into as well as hidden history which has been taken away from them. She is interested in the hidden historical position of the 19th century photographs, as a relic of the colonial period. By transforming the portraits with plant elements, she interferes and disrupt the narrative of the image, and its associated histories.
is an actor, accessibility designer, movement teacher, musician, and director based in New Orleans, LA. She is a founding ensemble member of Chimera Ensemble in Chicago and a graduate of The School at Steppenwolf in Chicago, The Academy at Black Box in Chicago, and The University of Mississippi. She is committed to a world that is more welcoming and inclusive.
takes a distinctive approach to jewelry design, informed by her fine art sculpture training and years spent at the helm of her two New York based brands. She creates a unique style through an alchemical merging of the beautiful with the perfectly imperfect, irreverence with femininity, and a modern sensibility with timeless chic.
is a visual artist working in multiple disciplines, techniques and materials with the belief that creative work is not limited to achieving a goal but is also a path of multiple learning. After many years working in art restoration she now dedicates herself solely to her own creative work including painting, drawing and textile experimentation with human hair. Her work is characterized by the use of organic and natural elements, configured from rigorous manual exercises to better understand her own self-knowledge and the world around her. These two axes, the material and the execution, allow her to create a narrative that resembles the traditions present in artisanal processes, a principle that characterizes her work.
is an artist from Cali, Colombia. His work deals with topics such as the passing of time, memory and identity. Using the creation of images as a starting point, he explores materials and techniques; ranging from his classical academic training to contemporary explorations in painting. His process is one of continuous transformation, in which wear and decay are as important as the representation of people and spaces from his own past and present. Solo exhibitions include Lisbon, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Bogotá and several group shows across Latin America, the US, the UK and the EU.
is a writer and translator living between New York City and San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is a PhD candidate in English & Comparative Literature at Columbia, where she focuses on women's performance and multimedia practice in the Americas from Zora Neale Hurston through Ana Mendieta. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Lit Hub, the New Yorker online, the Los Angeles Review of Books, small axe, and Bookforum, among other venues. She won Gulf Coast's 2016 Prize for her translations of the poet Marigloria Palma, and collaborated with Erica Mena, Ricardo Maldonado, and Raquel Salas Rivera on the bilingual poetry anthology Puerto Rico en mi corazón to raise money for hurricane relief (Anomalous Press, 2020). Her essay ""The Ladder Up""--a chapter from her forthcoming book, The Other Island--was nominated for a 2020 National Magazine Award in the Essays category. She is the happy recipient of residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, and the Banff Center for Literary Translation.
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is a writer living and working in New Orleans. Her work centers on family as a space to explore how whiteness and othering influence our most intimate relationships. In addition to her writing, she also works in reproductive health, wellness, and movement. She is currently working on a book and collection of short essays.
is a Chicana artist with a background in Ballet and modern/contemporary forms of dance. She received her BFA in Photography from Parsons The New School for Design and currently reside in Brooklyn, NY
is a native of Mexico City. She began painting in 2009 when her grandfather passed away and she could not attend his funeral due to her student visa status being pending. A combination of sorrow and anger ignited her work. Painting served as an emotional outlet. Constanza is a lover of color and texture, she focuses on the female gaze and strength through her subjects. She has a studio in her home in Silverlake in Los Angeles, CA.
In addition to painting, Constanza is a film producer and has a company in Los Angeles
is an Afro-Venezuelan born artist who lives and works in New York. Her practice combines painting, sculpture, drawing, and collage, as well as unexpected materials in an effort to break down archetypal aesthetic barriers while at the same time knocking down stereotypical perceptions on issues of race, gender, religion, and cultural identity. While her aesthetic is influenced by Japanese scroll art, Renaissance painting & architecture, the content of the work focuses on preconceptions and expectations regarding human interaction and behavior. Her paintings ruminate on the politics of everyday life through connecting materials and their changing nature with the present and past articulations. Inspired by experiences as the daughter of Trinidadian immigrants in Venezuela, her work foregrounds history in recasting the material artifacts of the past, offering depictions of personal mythologies
is a theatre practitioner and arts activist. She co-founded of Global Hive Laboratories, an international collective working toward a global theatre. Chicago directing and curating credits include productions with a long list of theatre & production companies Denise is committed to supporting arts organizations as they champion the ideals of equity, diversity, access and inclusion into their programming and internal operations and move forward as transformative Anti-Racist forces in their communities.
interdisciplinary cultural worker and stage creator with a special emphasis on comedy. Her work spans a myriad of disciplines including theater, dance, circus, and writing. She writes, directs and performs her own pieces which are often self-referential and address current social issues.
is a native New Yorker, dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, photographer, writer and designer who holds a B.A. In Anthropology from Barnard and an M.F.A. In Dance & Technology from NYU Tisch. She has apprenticed, performed and toured with, Dance Brazil, Earl Mosley, Bill T. Jones, Hernando Cortez, Urban Bush Women, and was a featured soloist with MOMIX for 8 years. After living abroad in Brazil and then Italy, Djassi returned to NYC working primarily on film & TV and experimenting with her work from behind the lens. She choreographed for film & TV in Italy and collaborates internationally with visual artists. She is also a published writer, and, currently the dance writer for Copenhagen based lifestyle & fashion magazine, Kinfolk.
Designer and founding director of Hacer Común, a center for inclusive design established in Zimatlán. Through this project, he seeks to promote the talent of the people in this community, value the trades and the creation of everyday objects in order to preserve knowledge, memory, and tradition. Eduardo believes in the power of design as a tool for social transformation and exploration that can help build a new reality in his community and a better place for everyone to live.
is an artist and designer working in painting, textiles and ceramics. Based in New York and in Sicily, her practice is fueled by her exploration of materials, her feminine identity and by traditional Sicilian crafts. In 2019, Gabriella founded Idda Studio, a design studio specializing in limited edition textiles for the home. Meaning “her” in Sicilian dialect, Idda Studio creates designs that celebrate the mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, aunt and friend. With a commitment to high quality and ethically sourced material, Gabriella handpaints each Idda Studio piece and prints the fabric designs in Italy. Born in New York City and raised between New York and Sicily, Gabriella graduated from the Rhode Island school of Design with a BFA in Painting. Her work has been exhibited internationally and written about in a range of publications including Architectural Digest, Sight Unseen, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Corriera Della Ser
Born in 1994, in Atlanta, GA, Gabrielle Velez received her BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 2017. Her practice uses textile and drawing practices to probe the role of language in the formation of cultural identity. Language may manifest verbally but she believes it forms through contact with objects, geography and through her experience of making. Her work explores how material structures reflect the navigation between two places; two languages. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
"is a second-generation Mexican American artist who resides in Brooklyn, NY. WIth a BFA in Fashion Design from The Pratt Institute and a MFA in Studio Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his background in art & design has included creating and running a contemporary dance space, presenting his own movement based performance work, teaching design to undergraduate students, and working as a still life stylist. In 2007 he began to study the craft of natural dyes by traveling to Canada, India, Mexico, and within the United States to learn from natural dye experts. His current practice utilizes the craft of natural dyes as an entry point into decolonial ecology through research, textiles, and texts. He has presented work at MoMA PS1, The New Museum, Gordon Parks Foundation, Motherbox Gallery, Mahler & Lewitt Studios, Salomon Gallery, Marso Gallery, amongst other spaces.
is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley in the Energy and Resources Group, whose identity and research take place in India where she explores the development and implementation of gender equity measurements. Born in India, she immigrated to the US when she was six years old, moving from the South to the North, and finally settling in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work/research explores metric and indicator development as a “boundary object” between global health and community art practice. Developed by sociologists, the “boundary object” is the space where various fields or social words interact by using the same term but to different ends. Global health is a practice of studying, knowing, and doing. Through empirical research, global health aims to better the well-being and health for all. Its history, however, is marred by colonialism and Western positivist science where the truth is measured by indicators and simplified into convenient categories for easy consumption. Alongside Megan Wischer, she hopes to explore the boundaries of public health “knowledge” and question the notion of truth and meaning in health sciences. To express how creating and collaborating are the boundary objects that facilitate opportunities of connections - even if the “truth” doesn’t translate.
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(b. 1988, Oaxaca) Her practice focuses on graphic arts and editorial processes, creating in spaces such as Juan Alcazar's Taller comunitario, La curtiduría, La Ceiba Gráfica, Taller El Izote, and recently at the Escuela de grabado no tóxico (fifth generation). She was Director of the Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca (IAGO) from 2015 to 2019, where she managed and curated content and activities with the aim of reinforcing the criticism, practice and dissemination of Graphic Arts in Mexico. She founded and coordinated the editorial project '' La Maquinucha Ediciones '', with the support of the artist Francisco Toledo, dedicated to the conservation and promotion of native languages, natural diversity and cultural heritage of the state of Oaxaca, as well as the IAGO Collaboration and Self-Publishing Conference, an international space for meeting, experimentation and professionalization for the publication of printed materials. Recent exhibitions include “Tú de mi, yo de ti.” Museum of Contemporary Arts of Oaxaca (2021), Mondo Dernier Cri. Úne internacionale sérigrafike'' Musée International des Arts Modestes (MIAM) de Sète, France (2020 ), Women and Identity. Collective Exhibition of women in Oaxacan Graphics ”School of Fine Arts, Oaxaca (2019),“ Her graphic work has been published by various editorials and she continues to work across the mediums of drawing, embroidery, graphic production, cultural management and curation. She has a degree in Visual Arts with a specialty in Graphic Arts from the Universidad Veracruzana.
is an artist and teacher who practices in Bennington, Vermont. Their works are called Neveruses (never·uses). Neveruses are hybrid painting-objects composed of recovered plastic bags and colored fibers such as wool yarn, silk thread, and patterned cloth. In exhibitions and performances, Neveruses invert painting conventions by thwarting the traditional protocols of form, use, and meaning. Blackwell’s work has been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, the Mackintosh Museum at the Glasgow School of Art, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and MoMA PS1 in New York as well as in solo exhibitions at galleries in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Paris. J is a member of the visual arts faculty at Bennington College and is represented by Kate MacGarry, London.
is an architect based in São Paulo and the co-founder at Entre Terras, a young architecture atelier with a great interest in material gesture that researches the ability of architecture to choreograph the experience for the discovery of space. After having worked at Mapa and Andrade Morettin she had her project “Landmarks: a nautical path through the Patos' Lagoon” awarded in 2015 by Archiprix as one of the world's best graduation projects. In architecture, the execution is usually entrusted to other teams, depending on the size of the project, both, the design and the built process involve many people. Five years ago she became fascinated by the possibility of imagining an object and executing it with her own hands and started taking classes in a clay studio. She is now a ceramic artist with practice based in the wheel, studying how a better understanding of the techniques in hand building pottery, could make her work more expressive.
His practice focuses on sculpture, video, and drawing. Through the use of found materials and the intervention of public space, his work addresses issues of territory, transformation, and memory. His work has been included in exhibitions in Mexico, the United States, Korea, Indonesia, and Singapore.
is a Taiwanese-American artist raised in Shanghai and currently living in California. Her work is about self-reflection on identity, human nature, and intangible aspects of life. Through illustrating amorphous and faceless figures, she aims to express the universal thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are shared by us all.
"is a multicultural birth worker, law professor, and creative based on Chahta Yakni and Chitimacha land (New Orleans, Louisiana). She is the founder of indigo birthings x brownstead, two cooperatives rooted in racial justice, working in tandem at the intersection of safe places, food security, and restorative creativity to produce better outcomes for all stages of pregnancy. Joyell uses her 12+ years of anti-oppression advocacy work to disrupt misogynoir and unlearn global narratives that perpetuate colorism, rape culture, and reproductive harm.
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was born on a Monday morning. Today, she is an artist, poet, and mender living on Lenape land known as Brooklyn. Since graduating from RISD, she has worked as a tailor. A child of Vietnamese refugees and avid birdwatchers, she seeks out what is fragmentary and forgotten—silences between words, elbow-worn holes in a shirt—restoring value to the discarded with a slow hand. Informed by her studies in textiles and literary arts her work is dialogue with the cultural and corporeal histories of the “hand-me-down,” or found material. Her interstitial, intersectional practice resembles that of the common tailorbird native to tropical Asia: a shy songbird with a loud call, which forms its nest in the cradle of a leaf sewn together with plant fiber or spider’s silk.
is curator and cultural producer at MoMA PS1 in Queens, NY, and has slowly been nourishing a personal studio practice. Her education in the arts is non-traditional (receiving an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing) and her own creative studio practice has always been her touchstone to the visual arts and ultimately an entrypoint for a career in the field. She has a deep enthusiasm for being creative in community and strongly believes that creative exchange is one of the most precious and enlightening aspects of artistic (and also just plain human) growth. For this reason, a majority of her creative work goes towards initiating and organizing opportunities for artists and audiences to make space for collaborative expression and the sharing of ideas and information. She does much of this organizing at MoMA PS1, where she programs exhibitions, educational programs, and events dedicated to providing community and platform specifically for artists and artist communities that promote expansive definitions of identity, gender, sexuality, and body.

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2021

(b. 1993, Oaxaca) is a visual artist whose work focuses on graphics and painting. Her current work consists of paintings made up of graffiti fragments, anonymous paintings and tags from streets of the Iztapalapa neighborhood in Mexico City. These pieces explore elements and characteristics of painting based on analysis of various pictorial practices inherent to urban mobilizations such as: scratching, tagging, making murals, signs, dedications, signatures, etc. She graduated from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, La Esmeralda in Mexico City and has participated in individual and group exhibitions at Karen Huber Gallery in Mexico City, Galería los 14, Proyectos Maleza in Bogota, Spazio Ridotto / Zucca Project Space in Venice, the Alternative Space Gallery at the National Center for the Arts, Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Oaxaca, at La Esmeralda and in the Young Creators program at the Image Center,
is a British, self-taught photographer who has been shooting professionally for almost 9 years after working in fashion and design agencies in the UK. Commercially she has worked with a wide variety of travel, lifestyle and interiors brands and publications and in 2017 made the move from London to Los Angeles where she now continues to work as a commercial photographer and explore her artistic practice. In 2019 she exhibited at Merchant Gallery in Venice.
(b.Guayaquil-Ecuador, 1985) is Visual artist whose work moves between painting in diverse media out of the canvas (wood, textile) and installation. She seeks and explores the transformation from image to object with the intention of preserving in it a memory, question or emotion and communicating it with the surroundings. She is curious about human emotion and her work aims to bring up conversations around women and cultural identity, building a visual registry of a dialogue between various feminine forms, herself and the voices that surround her.
is a Mexican-American architect whose practice lays in the boundaries between architecture, design and art. Interested in less traditional applications of architecture, she has devoted a great part of her career to designing exhibitions, working at diverse cultural institutions in both Mexico and the USA such as MUAC in Mexico City and The Art Institute of Chicago, where she is currently the Creative Director of Exhibition Design. Her focus in designing narrative spaces and exhibitions has largely influenced her independent creative practice. On an individual level and responding to her background of growing up and developing professionally in two countries, she is interested in exploring citizenship across borders and the cultural influence that migration has in cities. Her most recent work has focused on documenting the architecture, visual and aesthetic codes of neighborhoods where Mexican communities have established in Chicago, by employing tools that are common to architecture, exhibition design and storytelling. Through these explorations she aims to destigmatize migration and visualize the role that cultural mobility plays in our globalized world.
is a cultural producer and strategist, and founded her consulting firm Luce Productions in 2015. She has worked with dozens of arts and cultural organizations across the U.S. and Canada on a range of strategic initiatives and programs, including seminars, conferences, lecture series, training programs, auctions, tours, and fundraisers. Prior to Luce Productions, she was National Programs Director at ArtTable, and Communications and Projects Manager at No Longer Empty. Lucy’s work centers on how to support arts and culture projects that drive political and social change, and is interested in cultural policy and diplomacy. Among her independent projects, she has curated community-focused exhibitions in Cali, Colombia, and the Bronx, NY, and has given talks about the relationship between art and community building, including a TedX talk in Bogotá. She is currently the co-chair of the Northern California Chapter of ArtTable, is on the Young Patrons Steering Committee at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in Bushwick, and was formerly the elected Democratic representative of her Election District in Brooklyn. She received her MA in History of Art and Archaeology from the University of Edinburgh and has a Business Certificate from the UVA Darden School of Business.
"is a performance artist who weaves a movement vocabulary of dance, speech, and video that complements and challenges histories of improvisation. Deviating just so from dance-contact, Asare-Boadu considers how improvisational forces explore the self and relational entities both animate and inanimate. This repertoire of movement tests the possibilities of sensuality, with Asare-Boadu meandering between stoic and seductive postures that navigate how affect, audience, and architecture inform the physics of the black female body. She has presented work at The Dreamhouse and BRIC, both New York, Dallas Museum of Art and Soho House in Los Angeles. Asare-Boadu lives and works in New York.
is a Colombian creative consultant living & working in Madrid, Spain - focusing on communications, events & PR for lifestyle brands, travel & fashion. With a keen eye for all things visual, and a long standing career as an illustrator and visual artist.
an urban planner and interdisciplinary artist. She has created and performed ontological movement pieces in the Bay Area and Istanbul, and recently installed two conceptual artworks: ceremonial thresholds on the Albany Bulb, and a geometric, medicinal-herb planter box on UC Berkeley’s campus. She received a Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley in 2020, where she completed a capstone project for the Yurok Tribe. When not schooling, she spends her time training in a range of performance and movement techniques, from ballet to aerial, contact improv to aikido. Natalie is half Finnish and half Mexican, an ancestry that feeds her interest in the multicultural, the , and the sacred.
is a multidisciplinary artist, collector, explorer and the founder/creative director of her namesake label, Nia Thomas, a eponymous ethical fashion label that specializes in celebrating wearable art and artisanal crafts. Based in New York, she honors hand knitting, hand crochet, hand embroidery, all natural plant dyeing of upcycled and deadstock fibers as well as couture sewing techniques. Choosing to forego mass production, she instead relies on the talent and the expertise of a small team of knitters in New York City, Canada and Puerto Rico. Every piece is knitted by hand using time-honored knitting techniques and at the core of all of this, is a belief in sustainability and the immeasurable value of community..
Centering on portrayals of ephemeral sites of belonging, Marly Gallardo’s work is a meditation on impermanence and renewal. Through her work, Gallardo explores themes such as migration, nostalgia, and yearning. Her pieces reflect the nature of being uprooted from one’s homeland and yearning for a return, whether that return is to a geographical location or an emotive plane. Gallardo’s art is informed by indigenous craftsmanship, featuring elements of ancestral folklore, spiritual botany, and historical connections to land. She has won numerous awards for her work. Most recently, Gallardo was named a recipient of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Award. She currently teaches illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design
"grew up in Mexico City and currently lives in NY. She studied architecture at UNAM, worked as an architect in office of Javier Sánchez in Mexico City for three years, and for four years independently. After moving to NY, she began working in a workshop making leather accessories by hand, with traditional techniques. At the same time, her interest in theater led her to an MFA at Yale University in Stage Design. Since then she has dedicated herself to designing sets for regional theaters all over the US as well as in New York (The Public Theater, Lincoln Center, The Atlantic, Soho Rep) which has also led her to collaborate with great playwrights. She is now interested in dedicating more time to her longtime interest in painting and ceramics.
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is a behavioral scientist and HIV researcher at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia who works on a research team that reviews the World’s body of HIV behavioral prevention intervention literature and identifies evidence-based interventions for dissemination to the American public. Additionally, she conducts and publishes systematic reviews and meta-analyses on pressing areas of need within the contemporary HIV field which are used by clinicians, policy makers, health departments, and public health professionals to make life-saving decisions for Americans. She is a graduate-trained public health professional and has focused my research efforts on HIV for seven years. Photography has long been a favorite tool of engaging with the world for her -- she has found parallels between this history preservation technique/ art form and research – like the scientific research world, 2D images can be used to identify disparities, process/build meaning, theorize/strategize/problem-solve, and convince others of the issue’s merit. She is a self-taught photographer, devoting the past three years to the medium of film photography exclusively.
(b.1993 Yokohama, Japan) is a artist based in Japan and works internationally. Her artistic practice revolves around the idea of subversive aspects of handcraft. By applying various mark-making methods she explores how small actions of hand can evoke larger philosophical questions of our age of social and environmental crisis on a planetary scale.
is an archivist, painter and poet living in Ridgewood NY, interested in creating alternative realities through folkloric expressions. They are currently focusing on the pattern of gates as energy fields as boundaries and in daily life they work as an archivist at the Studio Museum in Harlem working to organize and digitize the work of many black contemporary artists.
is a Nigerian-American artist working primarily in stone, metal, and glass who has recently begun experimenting with fibers and sound. The main outlet of her creative practice is her brand, Octave Jewelry which focuses on custom-cut stones in hand-fabricated kinetic arrangements, creating wearable art from unusual and underrepresented gemstones.
is a Guatemalan Artist & Designer. Born in 1985 in Guatemala, she studied Drawing, Painting & Graphic Design and spent most of her life traveling, living for 10 years in Europe where she earned two Master degrees in Advanced Typography at EINA, Barcelona; and a second in Strategic Direction for Communication at IED — Istituto Europeo di Design, Barcelona. She is the founder of Sade.Studio, an art direction & design concept studio. Painting is an essential part of her practice and she has developed her work in different techniques — oil painting, acrylic, water color and print making which she has developed in Guatemala, Madrid & Barcelona. She was part of the group representing Guatemala in the London Design Biennale ´18 and has worked and collaborated in international projects along Switzerland, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Denmark, Honduras, Mexico and USA with collaborators from various studios, artists and designers.
is a visual artist from London based in Los Angeles whose work combines aspects of painting, sculpture and drawing. She is represented by Tappan Collective and co-owns the LA based store & gallery Merchant Modern & Merchant Gallery. She holds a BA from Camberwell College of Arts in London and has exhibited in London, Los Angeles, Abu Dhabi and Leipzi. Her most recent collection, launched with Tappan, is called ‘ Living on Water’ — a series of works made during her time at Varda Artists Residency
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is a multimedia visual artist, and designer with over a decade of experience working as a textile, concept + color specialist for various brands. She studied Visual Art and Comparative Literature at Brown University, and Textile Design at Central Saint Martins College in London, and at The Rhode Island School of Design. Sheena was an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA in 2017 and will participate again in 2020. In 2013 she launched abacaxi, a womenswear line balancing bold color, handcrafted techniques, natural fibers, and an innovative play on traditional silhouettes. Sheena’s artwork—ranging from weaving, embroidery, fiber art, to painting, drawing, and muraling— is an exploration of the natural world and it’s connections to the spiritual, planetary and cosmic realms. Growing up in Minnesota, she traveled occasionally back to India with family where she first experienced daily life in saturated color. Those childhood visits sparked an ongoing obsession with travel, textiles, color, and pattern. She gained a deeper understanding about her heritage at an early age, which would later become a source of inspiration and celebration. In recent years she has traveled around the world, amassing an array of knowledge on indigenous textile techniques that she embeds in her design and ethos today.
is an educator, artist and advisor working across the field of art and public engagement. Born in Buffalo, New York, Sheetal is a first generation Indian American. Currently based in NY, Sheetal is the Interim Managing Director of Common Field, serves on faculty at School of Visual Arts in the MFA Fine Arts program, is an advisor through her agency Lohar Projects, and the Board Chair for Art + Feminism. Previously, Sheetal served as the first Director of Public Engagement at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, worked at The Museum of Modern Art as the Assistant Director of Learning and Artists Initiatives, served as Director of Educational Programs at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University and worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago where she redeveloped the family and youth programs division.
is a writer, performer, producer, and critic whose artistic work is focused on work with vulnerable communities, children and intervention in public space. She graduated in Humanities with a specialty in Philosophy and was a 2020-2021 scholarship recipient of the Foundation for Mexican Letters in the area of Dramaturgy. Together with the Oaxacan artist Saúl López Velarde she directs The Parasitic Device Balcony at the Central de Abastos in Oaxaca and the Compañía Fantasma theater company of which she is a producer and actress. She has studied theater, theater criticism and dramaturgy in various states and national institutions.
is a French/American designer currently based in New York City. Her work spans across object/furniture design, spatial/interior design and graphics, though her primary focus is 3-dimensional work. She established her studio two years ago, and since then has been focused on objects of everyday use, mostly using glass as a medium and exploring the interaction between object and user. Her stance is that objects have an innate power to enhance their user's mood through form and function. She trys to focus on simple objects and rituals, to see how she can alter these in ways that are surprising and elevate the user experience. She believes that the objects which we surround ourselves with can and should be imbued with a certain poetry, creating a relationship between humans and objects built on mutual respect.
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is a photographer and visual artist. Her work refers to documentary photography, looking to generate a visual language reflecting on memory, the archive, and the present. Within this she explores possibilities offered by manipulations of the image, developing a connection to the physical object through artistic, collective, and personal interest.
is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer whose creative practice investigates and generates an emotional resonance with the hidden systems that surround us. Her current projects question dominant narratives and create new ones through intertwining aspects of identity and collective memory with landscape forms. She works as an Executive Director of Product Design at The New York Times and is based in Brooklyn, NY. She is dedicated to building communities for mutual support, learning and dialogue, so she’s taught interaction design at the School of Visual Arts, spoke at events like South by Southwest, and participated in venues like Chinatown Book Club.
Based in Nairobi, Velma is a maker in the visual arts cultures, creating things she thinks about; doing things that embody the complexities of who she is. Her practice pulls inspiration from African folklore, mysticism, African cinemascapes, and images that document a time defining a post-colonial African identity. From her parent's old photographs (Kenya) to the masters like Sanlè Sory (Burkina Faso) and Felicia Abban (Ghana) - Their silhouettes, tones, and composition play a big part in constructing her imagery. Her relationship with her work is exploratory and spans several mediums - photography, performance, and curation. She is interested in the abstract way of representing the self as a woman coming into her own and is focused on her contribution to the different variations of the black woman in the spectrums of blackness. She aims to reach into people's cultural libraries and contribute to the shift in the thought process. Her own process is largely introspective, drawing from an unconscious storehouse informed by memory, observations and is lead by serendipity, emotion, feeling, and operating in the arts - choosing herself as the muse; her portraits are examinations of internal journeys and existence in the different spaces she have been to as well as her experiences within them.
is an Eritrean and Ethiopian-American writer and filmmaker based in New York City. For the last five years, she has been a staff writer at Vanity Fair, where she has written cover stories on Chadwick Boseman, Regina King, and Janelle Monáe. She is also an MFA candidate in film/television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, honing her craft as a writer-director.

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is an independent artist working in illustration and textile design. She has worked in La Curtiduria at the Visual Art Center in Oaxaca City, Proyecto Toledo at La Ciudadela Library in Mexico City, and participated as a production and textile design assistant at the Center for the Arts in San Agustin Etla, Oaxaca. Her illustration work has been published in various national and local magazines. She has exhibited at a local, national and international level and was selected as part of the 2019 Photo Mexico Network for her textile interventions in photography. She is the co-founder of Etecos Creando con Causa (ETC), a collective dedicated to the dissemination of the arts in the community.
is an artist working with Oaxacan leather as well as textiles, dyes and natural fibers. Originally from the coast in San Pedro Pochutla, she is also a business administrator, studying gastronomy and cultural management before arriving at the study of saddlery. In her leather studio, Xhiaruxxa -a Zapotec word meaning “the most beautiful rose”- she now focuses on experimentation fueled memories of her upbringing on Oaxaca’s coast and textures developed into utilitarian and decorative objects as well as works of art.
is a Korean-American photographer currently based in San Francisco, CA. Her work centers around still life, portraiture, beauty and austerity. She’s completed recent editorial and commercial projects for clients such as Apology Magazine, The New York Times, Metropolis Magazine, Opening Ceremony, Outdoor Voices, Vice Magazine, and The Wing.
is an artist working in sculpture and textile. He has a degree in Visual arts from Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca (UABJO) and has studied art and design through programs at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM) and Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Etla (CASA). His work has been shown at galleries and museums throughout Oaxaca and Mexico and has participated in residencies both nationally and internationally.
His work -- political, humorous, and always self-referential -- explores identity through body, gender, race, and sexuality, which he uses to address socio-political issues such as machismo, racism, and homophobia.
is New York-based Curator of German-Colombian nationality. Born in Vienna, she works as an independent curator for a private art collection in Iowa. Most recently, she has recently finished a curatorial fellowship at the New Museum and was the programming coordinator at Independent art fair for their 10th anniversary. She has an MA in Critical Theory and the Arts from the School of Visual Arts and has formerly assisted curators and program directors in Europe, New York, and Latin America.
professionally known as Fat Tony, is a Houston-born rapper, DJ, and television host. He participated in pianist Chilly Gonzales' Gonzervatory 2018 in Paris, France where he collaborated with musicians from around the world despite language barriers and unfamiliarity culminating in a graduation concert at the Le Trianon theatre. In 2016, he lived in Mexico City and created Function, a monthly nightclub residency where he was the resident host/DJ and talent buyer bringing performers from all over North America to interact with Mexican Hip-Hop musicians.
is an artist and chef. She has been nominated for a James Beard Award and has shown her work through the DC gallery, Civilian Arts Projects. Although she has owned her own restaurants, for the past few years she has been building and improving restaurants for others- in Johannesburg, South Africa and most recently in the Andes (Cordillera Blanca) . This past year she has been running a culinary residency, mentoring and developing cooks at a small restaurant at a former feminist artists colony, founded in 1887 by Candace Wheeler.
is a Los Angeles based visual artist whose personal practice is rooted in art as healing, as meditation, and as a way of getting back to center. A graphic designer by trade, her focus lies in the transformation that comes with making and it’s affect on not just the maker but the viewer. She is the co-founder of Arms Studio (a design and fine art house) and has shown her works on paper at various galleries in LA and elsewhere.
CJ Hauser teaches creative writing and literature at Colgate University. Her novel, Family of Origin, will be published by Doubleday in July 2019. She is also the author of the novel The From-Aways (William Morrow 2014) and her fiction has appeared in Tin House, Narrative Magazine, TriQuarterly, Esquire, Third Coast, SLICE, Hobart, and The Kenyon Review. She has received McSweeney's Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, The Jaimy Gordon Prize in Fiction, and Narrative's Short Story Prize.
is a documentary filmmaker and illustrator from Croton-on-Hudson, NY. His primary creative interests are strange archival discoveries, animation, immigration, childhood fantasy, and queer identity. Daniel has completed documentary fellowships at the Jacob Burns Film Center and UnionDocs. He roamed the US to record and edit hundreds of audio interviews for StoryCorps, and also produced many of StoryCorps’ animated shorts. The interview he recorded with activist Alex Landau and his mother was produced into the documentary short Traffic Stop, which won a 2016 News & Documentary Emmy Award. His most recent documentary work dealt with a bodega worker who fled Yemen’s ongoing civil war (Sandwiched, Director of Photography), and two Syrian brothers who came to the US in the 1890’s and became beloved small town dentists (Kassab Family Dentistry, Co-Director). Daniel is currently focusing his energy on illustration and design work.
is a French-Haitian artist born and raised in France, currently based in New York. She paints & draws (acrylics on canvas & watercolors on paper) female bodies in a surrealistic & warm tropical background, strongly influenced by African, Caribbean & French culture and diaspora.
is a musician originally from Tijuana. He uses his musical solo project, Deserve, to explore various themes dealing with immigration, grief, and the natural world through the use of experimental sound synthesis, field recording, and poetry. He has collaborated and performed with various Portland musicians and writers, such as Zachary Schomburg, Brandi K. Herrera, Indira Valey, Ash Wyatt, and more. He is currently the guitarist in the band Palm Crest, and has performed in several musical projects since 2011. He lives and works in Portland, OR.
is a multidisciplinary artist whose personal studio practice consists primarily of oil painting and ceramic sculpture, and whose professional life has spanned across publishing, art, film and fashion including three years at Artforum magazine. Raised in a quiet New England beach town, she attended Rhode Island School of Design, where she focused her studies in painting, textiles and sculpture as well as literature, philosophy, psychology. She is currently based in Brooklyn.
Born in 1994, in Atlanta, GA, Gabrielle Velez received her BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 2017. Her practice uses textile and drawing practices to probe the role of language in the formation of cultural identity. Language may manifest verbally but she believes it forms through contact with objects, geography and through her experience of making. Her work explores how material structures reflect the navigation between two places; two languages. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
is an early childhood educator who explores anti-bias education, social-emotional development, and language acquisition. She holds a B.A. in Latin American/Latinx Studies from Smith College where she focused on U.S./Mexico Politics, particularly on the identities, cultures, and histories forged by communities existing on the border. Herself a person of mixed-race with Mexican lineage who grew up in Southern Arizona, each day brings with it constant discoveries about what it means to navigate multiple languages and identities in the multicultural epicenters of the U.S.

is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Maryland Institute College of Art on Piscataway Land (Baltimore, MD). She is a first-generation American Latina/Mestiza whose librarianship is guided by critical perspectives, not neutrality. With a firm belief that art is information, she is interested in the research methodologies of artists, particularly those highlighting social justice issues. Jennifer is a Library Journal 2018 Mover & Shaker.
is a LMSW & educator and a senior social worker at P.S. 165 Ida Posner, an elementary school in Brownsville, Brooklyn through Partnership with Children. She is the co-curator of INSIGHT, an online art magazine and has worked in professional and youth development around gender, sexuality, and racism.
is a housing and human rights advocate and arts-based facilitator, who has 10 years of experience leading responsive arts-based community programs in the charitable sector. After recently transitioning into work as a freelance grant writer, she is motivated by finding better ways (i.e. outside of the charitable sector) to tackle systemic divides that shape who has access to financial resources for creative social interventions, and who does not. She is committed to supporting access to resources for communities that have historically (and continue to be) marginalized from financial opportunities as a result of colonization, racism, ableism and patriarchal economic structures.
is a self studied painter, raised in Wisconsin and living in New York since 2006. Her work contains layers of spontaneous washes of color organized into logical order by geometric overlays - using layers to explore the subconscious or private mind selves vs outward, public-presenting egos. Her work varies - sometimes leaning towards the geometric and sometimes towards the spontaneous.
is a Visual & Culinary Artist, Creative Consultant, and Writer. Her work focuses on food at the intersection of emotion and consumption. She approaches comestibles, their creation, and experiences centered on them, as tools for community building that can heal a variety of traumas. Viewing food through the lens of healing, allows her work to juxtapose cultural exchange and storytelling with systemic power and oppression, self-care with blind self-destruction, and womanism with feminism. Some of her past works include an experimental frozen desserts concept, KarmaPop; the creation of Baltimore’s first food vending tricycle, The PieCycle; and experimental pop-up dinners. She has assisted at the annual Icon Dinner at The James Beard House, was named a “Woman To Watch” by the Baltimore Sun, and was featured on the Cherry Bombe 100 by Cherry Bombe Magazine as a food industry “Change Agent”. She is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland.
is a Sydney-based curator and writer who works at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), a public art museum in Sydney, contributing to the acquisition, display and care of the contemporary art collection and working closely with artists in developing and delivering exhibitions and commissions. She is currently curating an exhibition that focuses on recent acquisitions for the AGNSW collection by women artists and is authoring an accompanying publication. Previously, she worked in curatorial roles at the National Museum of Australia and National Gallery of Australia. Her writing has featured in a number of international and national art journals and magazines. Each of her experiences in the arts have been underpinned by a firm belief in the enriching contribution art in all its forms can make to public and community life.
is a Mexican-American artist from Northern California. She received her BFA in Photography from Sonoma State University in 2016 and her MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2019. Cruz was awarded the Mercedes Benz Financial Services New Beginnings award in 2019. Through an interdisciplinary practice that includes photography, video, and painting, she investigates post-colonial theory and decolonization.
is a Spanish architect based in New York. After studying architecture in Spain, she co-founded GMTmas, an architecture office which she was part of for two years. In 2013 she moved to New York to pursue her Masters in Science in Advance Architectural Design (MsAAD) at Columbia University. After graduating I began working at ICRAVE as an interior designer and brand designer and last year she joined A+I as part of the brand and strategy department. Design as a broad term has always been her passion which drover her to start her own practice two years ago, TheDreamLab, which she run in parallel with her full time job, allowing her to test design ideas and develop personal aesthetic.
is the author of the novels TOKYO and Forgetfulness, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is editor-in-chief of Western Humanities Review, co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, and a professor of English at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City.
is a performing artist and dancer. She has studied and performed theater, dance and circus arts for over 15 years with various art centers, teachers and companies in Oaxaca such as the Miguel Cabrera Centro de Educación Artística, Miguel Ángel Díaz, Claudia Vázquez, Laura Vera, Rolando Beattie, Lukas Avendaño, Saúl López Velarde, Compañía Teatral Lola Bravo, Compañía Rodolfo Álvarez y Tierra Independiente.
is an independent curator, educator, and art advisor based between New York, San Francisco, and Mexico City. Over ten years and two art history degrees in New York City (BA, NYU; MA, Hunter College), she has worked in both the art market and art education to focus on creating and expanding access for artists, collectors, and the public, by demystifying the history and structures of the art world. Recently she has organized and written about the work of José Antonio Suárez Londoño for a show of contemporary Latin American artists who work from source material; ran a storytelling workshop with the art Pablo Helguera, and organized La Austral, an interactive storytelling museum run by a group of immigrants to the United States; and finished a master’s thesis at Hunter College on two functionalist houses built in 1929 in Tunis and Mexico City.
is a freelance dance artist, interpreter, performer and emerging choreographer based out of Tkaronto (colonially known as Toronto). Through the means of storytelling, her curiosity to connect humanity lies at the core of the work she is drawn to. Nyda has studied and worked with a large scope of movement languages leading to her interest in trauma informed practices. Her interest in the states of the undefined where vulnerability, humanity, mystery, conflict, difficulty and process exist inform her personal practice and explorations choreographically. Her intersectionality has informed her interest in exploring movement languages that create availability in the body to develop and research emotional states and experiences. Nyda has recently been exploring 'identity', as a racialized, marginalized body, leading to the importance of diasporic and colonial history in Nyda's artistic development and processes.
is a graphic designer and musician working with both image and music to highlight the evolution of Oaxaca culture. He has worked professionally in graphic design for 12 years, having graduated with his degree from the Mesoamerican University of Oaxaca and working with Oaxaca projects and businesses specifically in the artisanal mezcal industry. As a musician and audiovisual producer, he has helped to develop the presence of the Reggae genre in Oaxaca and is currently part of the band KALEWA which explores the influence of Jamaica’s musical legacy on the world.
is a visual artist working in screen printing, painting and ceramics. She owns and runs Kingsland printing, a production screen printing studio in Brooklyn. kingslandprinting.com
is a visual artist and editor, who uses photography as her primary medium but is active in performance, video, and writing. She has had training as a political scientist, visual artist and contemporary art critic by the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Etla and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She was coordinator of education at the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center; worked in the Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca as personal assistant to the teacher Francisco Toledo; was the assistant coordinator of the Contemporary Photography Seminar at the Center for the Image of the Center for the Arts of San Agustín, Etla, Oaxaca, and has been a tutor at the PECDA Oaxaca Scholarship (Stimulus Program for Artistic Creation and Development), accompanying 7 visual artists through their creative process. She lives and works between Europe, Asia, and Central America, sharing workshops focused on social themes, including local projects with the prison system in Oaxaca and as a tutor in a Cambodian photo festival.
As an artist, her line of work focuses on issues of resilience with vulnerable groups (prostitution, addition, and persons deprived of liberty), working with issues like sexual violence, incest, family stories, drug use, and death.

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is an urban planner and researcher exploring relationships between communities and food, between communities and the natural world, and between our built environments and justice. In theory and practice, she examines how to create spaces that build community, and question conceptions of health and wellbeing, identifying them as holistic notions of physical, social, political, and environmental conditions; states mediated through space and time. She is currently getting her Masters in Urban Planning at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, examining relationships between seed saving, bio-cultural diversity and food sovereignty. katiegourley.weebly.com
has over six years of experiences as a creative communications professional, offering services such as copywriting, graphic design and public relations to help clients verbally, visually and aurally share their stories. She also hosts and produces Kidnapped for Dinner, a podcast featuring conversations about disorienting moments in the creative process. In her own artistic practice she explores how we understand ourselves and our own interior/intimate worlds, and through that relationship understand others and our environment. She works with a variety of media including zines/print, tapestry/weaving and most recently, with a combination of poetry, video and sound. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Miami. kristensoller.com
is a New York based Designer with a background in Painting and Sculpture. She is the Founder and Creative Director of a Women's wear line called LOROD. lorodstudio.com
writes about death and loss for The Rumpus. Her debut novel, HOME MAKING is forthcoming from Harper Perennial (Winter 2020) and her fiction has been featured in The Offing, Denver Quarterly Review, Hobart, Joyland, Jellyfish Review, Nat. Brut, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, crag, Bridge Eight, the Austin Review, and Cosmonauts Avenue. Her essays and reporting have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the National, and Flavorwire, among others. She has been a contributor to the Tin House, Bread Loaf, and Sewanee writers conferences, and has been awarded residencies at the Arctic Circle program and Art Farm. She is at work on her second book. leematalone.com
is a Minneapolis-based photographic artist working with alternative processes; platinum printing, cyanotype, photo constructions and multiple-pass printing. Her photographic work ponders universal themes of fragility and resilience, loss and persistence and the passage of time, employing shadow, light, and manipulation as metaphors for what is fleeting and ultimately mysterious. Working with the ephemeral natural world of plants and flowers, and the imprints made by their tenuous presence, her work is an affirmation of the beauty of change and a reminder of the temporal condition. She has recently received two Minnesota State Arts Board fellowships.
is an artist and photographer whose work investigates American culture. Through deconstruction and appropriation of art, artifacts and various sub-cultures, she recreates the narrative from her personal perspective. Born and raised outside of Chicago, she holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Colorado-Boulder and a Masters in Education from DePaul University in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally — currently at the American Embassy in Uruguay — and also resides in the permanent collections of the Illinois Institute of Art, Wheaton College, Harrison Street Lofts, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Lowey, LLP and a number of private collections.
was born in Ottawa where she first connected with dance in the Canterbury High School arts program. She trained at the National Circus School in Montreal before moving to Toronto in 2014 to attend the School of Toronto Dance Theatre where she was a scholarship student. After graduation, she joined the Toronto Dance Theatre and is currently in her third season as a company member. Recently, she has participated in The Banff Centre's Creative Gesture Dance Residency, SpringboardDanse Montreal, and is an OAC grant recipient. She is currently exploring her South American roots and that area of her existence.
is a multidisciplinary artist working with a range of media that include drawing, painting, sculpture and photography. Her work explores ideas of transformation through material explorations focused on process and color. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico and currently based in Brooklyn, Garibay Raeke holds a BFA from the California College of the Arts and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. Her recent solo exhibitions include “closing the space between us”, The Chimney, Brooklyn; and “Every Number is One”, Transmitter, Brooklyn. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Arts and Design, NY; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO; and Casa Abierta, Mexico. She was a founding member of Grupo < > (2015-2017) a collective focused on supporting and promoting the work of Latin-American women artists in New York and is a co-founder and editor of Asteroid and Asterism a digital publication of conversations with artists on the nature of making and matter. Other recent projects include We Are What We Do, a fundraiser in support of immigrant rights.
is a designer and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Passionate about the creative process, her work focuses on the search for new perspectives by decontextualizing and re-contextualizing visual languages in order to create new narratives. She is the founder of A WINDOW, a NYC based creative studio that aims at finding new and unique ways of creating, presenting and consuming design, fashion and art. Past collaborations and exhibitions include Hotel Particulier, Shop Cooper Hewitt, Gowanus Print Lab, Various Products Group Show, N0thing Magazine, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Endless Editions, Impressions National Juried Printmaking exhibition and the upcoming Stand Out Prints printmaking exhibition. Her work is distributed at Project No8, the Brooklyn Museum store, Printed Matter and McNally Jackson Booksellers. She is currently Assistant Professor of Fashion at Parsons School of Design and was previously part-time Online Professor at Academy of Art University School of Fashion and a visiting Fashion critic at Pratt Institute, RISD and Parsons and a design critic at NJIT and Parsons Product Design department in the School of Constructed Environments. marianavidal.com
is the founder of an ethical and sustainable clothing line called Anaak - creating textiles and working with artisans in developing countries through non-profit organizations, with a focus to empower women through education and employment. With a background in painting, textile design and many years of experience in fashion, she has now worked for 17 years with artisans in India as well as Bolivia.
established in Minneapolis yet he has maintained deep roots with her native Mexico and strong ties with her people. She is an active participant in the workshops of Magnum photographer Nikos Economopoulos, a strong influence in her work and has participated in various collective exhibitions including “Día de los Muertos - A Spiritual Legacy” at the National Museum of Mexican Art and a 2016 Photography Bienal in Berlin. She currently has a solo exhibition of “A Mexican Portrait” at the Nan Yang Academy of Art in Singapore. Her work is in the collections of the Minnesota History Center and the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.
is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary designer offering creative direction, design and consultancy on textiles and materials for interior, product, art and fashion. She investigates contemporary culture to create intelligent concepts and material innovations for clients from various fields. Her collections and art installations examine the function and conventional use of materials to develop new design perspectives. Her internationally exhibited research projects question the relation between garments, individual and society to reveal unconscious patterns of behavior in the everyday use of textiles. She studied textile design at Berlin School of Art Weissensee and at the Rietveld Academy Amsterdam. nadinegoepfert.com
is a Brooklyn-based artist and educator. Her work emerges as a way to shift dynamics about who is worthy of having a portrait made and to recontextualize the way black and queer experiences are pictured, understood, and therefore lived. Her conceptual inquiries position as primary the body and language as a way of indexing, collecting, and archiving forms of subjectivity. She thinks of the body as a site of experimentation, one that is fluid, and where notions of access and transformation can be examined. Naima holds an MFA in Photography from ICP–Bard, an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. Solo exhibitions in 2018 include All the Black Language and A Collective Utterance. Her work has been at MASS MoCA (2018), International Center of Photography (2018), Houston Center for Photography (2017), Bronx Museum (2017), BRIC (2015 and 2016), Arsenal Gallery (2015) and Macy Gallery (2013 and 2014). Green has been an artist-in-residence at the Bronx Museum (2016), Vermont Studio Center (2015), and recipient of the Myers Art Prize at Columbia University (2013). Her work has been published in Arts.Black, The Atlantic, California Sunday, Cultured, The Fader, The Nation, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Spot Magazine, and SPOOK, amongst others.
is an artist working with photography & site specific installations as well as a storyteller, amplifier of women’s voices, and longtime partner at a boutique branding agency. Born and raised on the southern tip of Texas along the Mexican border, she now lives in New York. She has recently begun working with sound to create transformative experiences and cultivate deep listening, interested in integrating sound and imagery to activate the imagination, heighten senses, and make stories richer. She is currently focused on independent creative collaborations straddling the worlds of photography and writing — her photography work is part of the permanent archives of the Tate Modern, the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, the Buhl Collection, and The Harwood Museum in New Mexico and she is a contributing travel editor to Aegist Magazine in Los Angeles, as well as content contributor to Discovery Channel and Travel Channel. patriciagarciagomez.com
is interested in the ways we come to know and express our bodies from within: the voices we give our ecstasies, pains and in-betweens. As a painter, she explores visceral sensation, hoping to locate and translate the invisible. She is interested in the space surrounding translation—where language and meaning are lost and found, and in in the imagery and energies surrounding inner and outer landscapes, healing practices and the sacred.
is passionate about artist's needs and the unpredictable alchemy of collaborative tension. For five years, she was Artistic Director of the Pink House in St. Louis (MO), a neighborhood art space for creative exchange, especially with young people. Regina is influenced broadly from a bachelor’s degree in photojournalism and a master’s degree in social and economic development from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. She is a graduate of the Community Arts Training Institute through the Regional Arts Commission in St. Louis. She is co-founder of the clothesline, a monthly audio/visual installation alive for one night only. She is a collector of children's art. She is the 2017 St. Louis Visionary Award recipient for Community Impact. She is currently Artist Engagement Manager at Threewalls supporting artists’ process and research based in Chicago.
is a writer and cook based in Los Angeles. Her poetry and fiction have been most recently been published in Tierra Adentro (Spanish translation), Eleven Eleven, and Black Clock. She is also a founding organizer and regular contributor to Enter>Text, an on-going performance series interested in the expansive and immersive experience of literature. She holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Calarts and conceptualizes food as a medium in the practice of art-making, holding in equal value the process and the finished plate.
is a writer and researcher of overlooked stories of the African Diaspora. A former magazine editor, she has written for The Atlantic’s CityLab, New Internationalist, Ford Foundation Report, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine, where she brought Adrienne Fidelin’s story to the American mainstream in 2007 with the article, “Yo, Adrienne.” Patterson co-authored the bibliographic entry on Fidelin in the Oxford Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biographies, and an essay on her in the forthcoming Musée D’Orsay exhibition catalogue for The Black Model: From Géricault to Matisse. She holds a BA from Columbia University in African-American Literature and an MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
is a designer originally from Northern California now living in Los Angeles. She has worked in apparel design for seven years, and currently designs and produces her own brand, DAL RAE, manufactured in Los Angeles. In Oaxaca will study the form and practices behind traditional jewelry made pre-and post Spanish colonization in southern Mexico, working in a traditional medium of jewelry design known as Lost Wax. She is interested in examining the original form and practices of jewelry making in the area in order to explore the relationship between traditional forms of expression and how historical cultural influences shape current design perspective, tying to her own heritage of both Mexican and Spanish origin. samanthaegarcia.com
spends a lot of her thought space contemplating pleasure, pain, healing, and growth- and how inextricably those concepts are linked. With deep interest in BDSM, ritualization, relationship dynamics, and personal development of awareness and wellness, she promotes the use of food as a tool for self-care and healing. She is the owner of Harvest & Revel- a collaboratively-run, women-led, full service catering company based in Brooklyn that focuses on using organic, seasonal, locally sourced ingredients to create elegant culinary experiences.
is a designer based in Montreal with a background in Art History who builds rational, speculative and vernacular environments through the production of cinema, exhibition and publication. Her work deals with urban and social territories in which she produces rational analyzes of existing and fictional proposals, a dialectic in which one feeds the other. She is looking to develop a fragmented and soft cartography of the city of Oaxaca to reveal its occupied, empty, and safe places to in preparation for urban interventions (active, passive or preservative).
is a creative practitioner working across the fields of art and public engagement as an educator, artist, curator and administrator. She is currently on faculty at the School of Visual Arts (New York) in the MFA Fine Arts program and works as a advisor and consultant in the field through her newly formed venture, Lohar Projects (loharprojects.com). She has worked as educator and administrator in the arts for over 15 years, at places such Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art (New York), and most recently (until Sept 2018), as Director of Public Engagement at a multi-disciplinary art center in Brooklyn, Pioneer Works. As an artist her work has focused on exploring notions of emergent intimacies through object and performative practices. Currently she is focusing her creative efforts on an book project. sheetalprajapati.com
is an Iranian American attorney living in Los Angeles. Born in Tehran, she immigrated to Los Angeles when she was eight years old. Passionate about gender equity, she is now working at the Title IX Office at UCLA, investigating cases of sex discrimination, including sexual harassment and sexual violence. She is currently looking looking to explore more creative ways of working towards gender equity, specifically more proactive measures - rather than reactive ones - that will help foster changes in culture.
is a community arts organizer and facilitator based in St. Louis. She serves as Public Programs and Engagement Manager at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, a non-collecting art museum, where she assists in the management and coordination of large-scale commissions and projects, working to engage community members as integral partners in Pulitzer programming. Outside of the Pulitzer, she collaborates with artists and activists to bring co-created projects to life, using the arts to connect people, build relationships, share under-heard and under-acknowledge stories, foster empathy, find collective power in our creativity, see ourselves and each other through new lenses, and become better neighbors.
is an artist / designer exploring the parallels between Fashion and Art together with resourceful design methods. Her works are handmade by process of editing, deconstructing and reconstructing obsolete clothing and materials - embracing simple, hand made techniques to design and recreate the obsolete into clothes, art and objects. Her work places significance on the natural, durable and sustainable elements of materiality. She is one half of TLC Store, a platform for celebrating the hand of the maker. tlcstore.com
is a creative director, designer and founder of the multidisciplinary creative studio HelloMe, based on Berlin. HelloMe develops concepts, art direction, graphic design and visual experiences for various protagonists in fashion, arts, culture and business. The studio works closely with partners from all fields to develop extraordinary work and interdisciplinary cross-media formats – creating progressive forms of communication and new gestures at the intersection of contemporary arts and culture. Recent commissions include the creative direction and visual identity of Volksbühne Berlin (in collaboration with Manuel Bürger), the rebranding of and ongoing art direction for Warp Records, collaborations with fashion brands COS and Nike, multiple publications designed for Sternberg Press, as well as the art direction and design of several exhibitions and identities for various international cultural institutions.
is an artist and scenographer based in Stockholm Sweden, doing both collaborative and independent projects within various contexts and disciplines. Her practice moves freely between installation, painting, ceramics, textile and video and her work has been presented at art galleries, theaters, subway stations and independent art spaces in Japan, UK, Sweden and Denmark. As a scenographer she have worked with music artist Robyn and choreographers Stina Nyberg, Ellen Söderhult, Klara Utke Acs and Lisen Pousette and is currently doing set design for an opera project at Stockholm University of the Arts.. She studied at Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design (MFA 2013–2015) Stockholm; Elisava School of Design and Engineering (exchange 2011) Barcelona and Beckmans College of Design (BFA 2009–2012) Stockholm.
is a visual artist and restaurant industry veteran living in New York . She is currently the Events Director for Andrew Tarlow’s Marlow Collective in Brooklyn, NY. Before Marlow she was the Events Director for Roberta’s (Brooklyn) and prior to that managed the kitchens at April Bloomfield’s Manhattan restaurants The Breslin and The John Dory Oyster Bar. As an artist, she has worked with photography, textiles & sculpture with an emphasis on thread & fabric. She has shown her work internationally and continues to explore the tentative nature of human connections and emotions through both written and visual mediums. Before landing in Brooklyn, Tucker spent many years in the San Francisco Bay Area making and exhibiting art, honing cooking skills and nurturing her food passion. She continues to make art, make food and eat well.

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is an artist, curator and writer. Her visual work has been exhibited internationally at galleries in New York, Paris, and Chicago. She has organized exhibitions in conjunction with MoMA, NADA Miami, and Phaidon Press among others. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, Food + Wine, Conde Nast and W and she co-authored her first book, A Wilder Life in 2016. She was the founder and co-director of the artist-run gallery space and bookstore Public Access in Chicago, IL and is currently the creative director of Gazebo Projects. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
was born in Milan, Italy and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice exists between painting and sculpture with an emphasis on notions of routine and ritual and the resulting artifacts. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015. Her work addresses themes of memory and the ways that it simplifies and distorts an experience to the point of abstraction — creating systems of colors, textures, shapes and objects that evoke the sensations that make up an experience, or the recollection of one. Exploring the implementation of visual codes and iconography in the absence of language, and the ways that we collect, assemble and compose the physical objects in our lives as a method of communication or reflection, her works have been exhibited at Ghost Gallery (NY), Exposé (RI), The Gallery Annex at Ace Hotel (NY), Danforth Museum of Art, and One Grand Gallery (OR).
grew up in Brooklyn, New York, raised by a Puerto Rican mother and Italian-Irish father. Growing up in the kitchen, she has a fondness and appreciation for the beauty and joys of cooking and the study, handling and preparation of food is a form of meditation. She has always used her hands to learn from the earth and from her ancestors and to engage with her creativity. She is also a writer and poet, working intersection of food and poetry and exploring the experience, nostalgia, memory, sense, and self.
is a product of a faulty thermostat on a cold winter’s night and holds a BA from Bard College in things no longer applicable, or lucrative. She’s worked as a fact-checker for Condé Nast since 2005 and teeter-totters between feeling hopeful and feeling meh. While Alison has no bestsellers, grants, awards, stage adaptations, or syndicated content to speak of, she does have a backbone and resolute sense of justice. She is currently moonlighting as a cartoonist and plans to complete a graphic novel before September 14, 2024, the day her license expires. She lives in Brooklyn.
is an advocate for physical & mental health and access to care, assisting clients diagnosed with and affected by chronic medical and mental health ailments to gain self-efficacy and stability. With twelve years of experience in clinical psychology, medical case management, and behavioral health interventions, Amber’s areas of focus include improving communication around disease-related education, behavior change strategies and psycho-support. Amber currently runs a collective, LifeCycle Biking, creating programming focused on emotional health and community building through cycling for women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ and low income communities.
is a fiber/mixed media artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is also a Nurse Practitioner working in high-risk obstetrics. Her work considers materials that are often considered "trash" once they've served their singular purpose: bubble wrap, cardboard, etc and is concerned with our culture of disposability, instant gratification, mass production, and waste.
was raised on ballet, religion and the violin, which she followed with graduate and doctoral studies in Middle East politics. She is now a political scientist with a focus on the intersection of Islam, politics, and the War on Terror. She is Assistant Professor at Miami University and her first book, Bureaucratizing Islam: Morocco and the War on Terror was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Yet her heart remains in the arts and she is now beginning a small flower farm on her property this year, and using this residency to explore her voice in personal writing.
Anthony Sullivan’s work explores the perception of color and space and the cognitive, environmental, and cultural conditions that affect perception. He draws inspiration from nature, ecology, the idea of the umwelt, phenomenology, evolution, neuroscience, and the intersection of modern sciences with eastern thought. Born outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1980, Sullivan grew up in greater Philadelphia and later in Birmingham, Alabama, where he received a Visual Arts degree from the Alabama School of Fine Arts. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University, and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has participated in exhibitions at the Birmingham Public Library, the Alabama School of Fine Arts, Auburn University, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London with Farshid Moussavi Architecture. Sullivan currently lives and works in New York.
is a writer living in Los Angeles. His debut novel "The Bygones" will be published by Random House in 2019. His short stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Guernica, The Rattling Wall, Beecher's, and Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial. He is currently working on his second novel.
was born in Maputo, Mozambique to an American father and a Mozambican mother, and then raised in cities across Africa, Haiti, and in the United States. Her paintings reflect this nomadic upbringing, as well as the near-constant mobility of her adult years. Painting is but one part of a catholic cultural sensibility—one also informed by cinema, fashion, and literature. Her studio practice is unanchored from the studio itself; she paints on the move: on the road, in hotels and Airbnbs. B. 1988, she lives & works in Los Angeles, CA.
is a dancer, musician, and founding partner of Assortment and Assortment Press, an agency that supports artists working in photography, motion, and sound with an independent publishing branch for fine art books. She has been a member of the New York-based contemporary dance company Atelier de Geste for six years performing internationally at venues including MoMa PS1, Barshynikov Arts Center, and Kaaitheatre in Brussels, Belgium. As of late she has been making ambient experimental electronic music as a part of duo Pétra alongside musician Brian Allen Simon. Prior to founding Assortment, she was co-owner of a small gallery in New York City focusing on emerging contemporary artists.
is a NY based photographer. Born in the Bronx, he was the recipient of the Foam Talent award from the Foam Museum in Amsterdam in 2013; and in 2014 published Strange Paradise, a book of his photographs and collages which explores American anxiety and lethargy. In 2015, he held his first solo exhibition, "Intervention," at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles and has had additional exhibitions at PCNW in Seattle, Rosfoto in St. Petersburg, Design Center Shanghai and Foley Gallery in New York City. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, W, Vice, Cultured and Bloomberg Businessweek. His work can also be seen in collections at the MoMA library, the Henry Art Museum in Seattle and Haverford College.
is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice includes work on paper, narrative, wearable art, soft sculpture, and ceramics. She is currently interested in how the study and preservation of precolonial African wisdom, history, and culture can be an asset in developing alternative narratives of self-identity within the Black diaspora. Her work has been shown at Spring/Break Art Fair, Dak’art Biennale, and Lagos Fashion Week.
was born and raised on the island of Guam in the Pacific, until attending NYU’s theatre program with an emphasis in choreography. Since then she has danced, choreographed and taught yoga and currently owns a studio in New York. She has choreographed a range of self produced and co-created pieces for theater, music videos, films, and performance art at an array of NYC spaces. She will be working on a new dance theatre piece using a mix of dramaturgical research, movement vocabulary generation, and setting choreography on her body. chloekernaghan.com
is an independent artist living in New York City exploring themes of ritual and space. As a Creative Director and Designer, she consults for various companies on branding and design projects. In 2014 she launched Tenfold New York, a range of luxury homewares manufactured all over the globe exclusively for The Line. She paints in Tribeca, teaches yoga in Nolita and resides in the East Village.
is an artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico who has been living and working in upstate New York for the past twelve years, showing paintings and related projects in NYC, Boston, Charlotte, Portland, and Tokyo. Her work and practice consist of paintings, sculptures, works on paper, collages, writing and research - exploring the ways that visual language, writing, and art can connect us to spirit, as well as the infinite threads of rituals secular/sacred that connect one to oneself and each other. lacaprojects.com/artists/cristina-toro
is a documentary and commercial producer, branded content director, and emerging street photographer. Her images blend immersive street photography and portraiture with a highly visual, sensual style. Her work has been featured in Subbacultcha Mag, SPOOK Mag, and Visual Supply Company. She lives, works, and eats grapes between Detroit and Brooklyn.
is a painter living in Los Angeles. He studied philosophy at the University of Chicago, where a course in art writing spurred his interest in art making. His work has been shown in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and his writings about art have appeared in The Midway Review.
is a Mexican American artist and chef, growing up in Chicago and Montreal to Mexican parents. She attended culinary school and as of recently worked at the restaurant located in the New York MoMA. With a deep love for design and sculpture, she uses the techniques she learned with her hands while cooking to influence her ceramic work. She works with clay in her home studio and is currently finishing her Bachelor Degree in Ceramics in Montreal. In Oaxaca, she will be researching the Mexican American experience - exploring where her American identity begins and where her Mexican identity ends through clay sculpture and the creation of objects she grew up with such as "jarras" and ceramic plates.
was born and raised in New York’s Hudson River Valley, and has spent the last twelve years living and creating in New York City. After receiving a BFA from Pratt Institute, she continued her art education by working for and collaborating with other artists and maintaining her own studio practice. While always stimulated by working in a variety of media, her work consistently explores the intimate relationship we share with objects, meditates on the art object itself and reflects her appreciation for and connection to nature.
is an activist and organizer whose work has focused on resource redistribution and building a just transition to a different economy with roots in the food justice movement. Currently in her first year of a Masters in Urban Planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, her academic pursuits focus on designing and building a world where justice and community voice are paramount. As an organizer who has seen communities continuously and courageously fight to say “no” to policies and programs that were designed without community input, she is eager to learn more tools and practices that can be used to build a world in which we want to say “yes.”
was born in the South of France, growing up in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico; New York City; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was previously editor in chief of Yahoo Politics and Washington editor of Yahoo News, a senior editor and columnist at The Atlantic, national online politics editor at The Washington Post, and a senior editor at The American Prospect magazine. She has been awarded an October 2018 residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy, was in 2006 a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy Schoo., and taught in Georgetown's Master of Professional Studies in Journalism program. She is currently working on her first book, a memoir about AIDS, activism and coming of age in America in the late 1980s.
is a chef, artist and photographer based in Sydney. After ten years studying art, philosophy and photography she graduated with a Masters from Sydney College of the Arts in 2012. Her artistic practice employs photography, performance and video to explore relationships with time, memory, mortality and subjecthood. In Oaxaca she hopes to research and experiment with collectively made ‘food experiences’, to explore the ritualistic nature of cooking and to look at new and collaborative ways of preparing and creating memorable and meaningful shared experiences around food.
is an Auckland-based photographer and filmmaker working with analogue mediums. Her focus is to contribute and build a female-directed representation of women in media through stories and fashion. Recent personal work on the Varda residency explored the emotional quality of textiles and memory, demonstrated by hand-sewing a hanging fabricated out of imagery printed onto silk. The images were deconstructed and sewn back together into a new composition. She will be working on a short film made in collaboration with resident Thea Blocksidge, following one female character as an intimate portrait of daily life. gretavanderstar.com
is a St. Louis-based sculptor with a durational arts practice aimed at addressing issues of social justice. Her practice is based on her belief that art can (and should) change the world. She understands change to be the result of small shifts often expressed through simple artful gestures. Her most recent creation, Room13Delmar, is a tricycle-based mobile art studio. She has a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and currently holds a post graduate fellowship in Social Practice in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts of Saint Louis University. For the past six years her practice has primarily been focused on seeking to address St. Louis’ Delmar Divide by developing a more visible arts presence in the blocks of the Grand Center Arts District north of Delmar. nodhouse.com
(b. 1995, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – la isla) integrates practices of collaborative performances, textile craft, sculptures, inclusive workshops and discourses around safe space in response to concerns on human connections, social constructs, colonization, human rights and natural resources devastation. Realizing that a safe space is not entitled to a constraint territory nor the premises behind cultural hierarchy, but a state that we wake up to when we recognize each others as humans, she been exploring ways of creating safe spaces by constructing integrative looms for anyone to feel capable and welcome to weave and add their own energy through fabric scraps, as a way of giving more emphasis to all the makers that collaboratively build on the pieces.
has worked at the intersection of food systems change, community capacity building and local economic development for the last 15 years. Her work has been primarily in New Orleans, where she lived both before and after Hurricane Katrina, she began working with on school food reform with middle school students in an after school program called Rethink and later founded Grow Dat Youth Farm, a farm-based leadership development program. Following her work in New Orleans, she accepted a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard and later moved back to her hometown, Santa Fe, NM, where she now works at an affordable housing development organization called Homewise, driving the strategy and vision for the groups emergent commercial development work.
is a San Francisco native whose work involves photographing and reframing sculptural forms. Her work has been featured at The Museo ItaloAmericano, Perspective Gallery, 66 Balmy as well as exhibited by the Griffin Museum, Cannessa Gallery and The MPLS photo center along with various private collections and institutions. The recipient of the Eureka Fellowship, SECA Nomination, Mills Graduate Research Grant and Nell Stinton scholarship, she now resides in Evanston, Illinois where she maintains a working artist studio and has launched a community exhibition space, Platform, with artist Maggie Mieners. maggiemeiners.com

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is a designer and the founder of Off Season NYC, a women's collection designed in NYC and inspired by Rockaway beach. She was born and raised in New York City and lives year-round in Rockaway Beach.
has been investigating water through the lens of baking. The past year she has been working at a wood-fired bread bakery in Maine and studying the intersection between swimming, food, writing and community. She grew up in the Haight-Ashbury of San Francisco.
is a graphic designer and art director based in Oakland, California exploring wellness and the healing power of plants while shaping the interaction between word and image to design forms of communication. Along with residents Kate McCambridge and Deidre Pierce, she will be further developing their previous body of work in a new environment enabling a new set of interactions and images.
was born in Paris and studied art history in La Sorbonne as well as Fashion Design at Esmod and Graphic Design at LISAA. After working as a graphic designer, she began the flower design company ANATOMIE last year. She will be working on a collaboration with Norwegian photographer Ingrid Pop to explore flowers as objects and experiment with ways to preserve their beauty, stopping their process of decay by attempting to turn them into sculptures.
is an artist, chef, forager, ikebana enthusiast, writer, food activist and traveler based in new york city. born in utah to palestinian immigrants, ahmad spent her early life traveling back-and-forth between the southwest and her family’s village in the west bank, where her interest in foraging began. since then she has studied culinary traditions and wild food ways in italy, mexico, palestine, and north america in an effort to record and help preserve indigenous culinary traditions and methods of survival.
is an editor, food and crime fiction writer, and Bartender-at-Large. She is the co-author of Dinner at the Long Table and the Saltie Cookbook as well as the founding editor of Diner Journal, an independent food, art and literature magazine since its inception in 2006.
is a New York based architect and the design manager for exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Met Breuer. Before life at the Met he taught courses on architecture, furniture design, and fabrication and was the Director of the Yale Architecture Gallery. He grew up in Iowa and resides in Brooklyn New York.
is a NY based attorney and photographer, spending her days practicing public criminal defense and immigration law in the Bronx, and her nights/weekends devoted to documentary and fine art photography.
is vocalist, songwriting collaborator and percussionist of Sávila as well as video installation creator, costume and set design enthusiast. She holds a degree in international politics and Latin American studies with a focus on international indigenous rights advocacy, working for organization Cultural Survival and as a social worker in Mexico and with Native Youth in the Pacific Northwest. Her background in independent music as the vocalist of all-woman identifying queer band Swan Island took her around the United States and she has studied theater/clown at the Ecole Phillippe Gaulier and with Giovanni Fiusetti after which she travelled by train as a performer with the 200 year old Ringling Brothers Circus for two years.
is a natural dyer and textile designer living and producing her work in New York. She is committed to sustainable and ethical production, sourcing ethical and sustainable fabrics and creating unique editions exclusive to the environments in which they are sold.
is a photographer from Menorca, Spain currently working on a documentation of Oaxacan Mezcaleras.
is a painter, printmaker, textile artist, and teacher. She is the founder of Wildcraft Studio School in White Salem, Washington and Portland, Oregon, a creative center offering workshops in traditional skills, studio arts, plant medicine, and sustainable practices.
is a designer and visual artist based in Philadelphia, PA. She works in several mediums, including printmaking, ceramics, painting, and sculpture, as well graphic identity and floral work. Her interest in plants and flowers motivates both her art and design.
is a fellow and contributor at the Nation Institute, where she reports on race and politics, and an investigative fellow at Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting. She received an Emmy for work on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes and won the National Association of Black Journalists’ 2016 award for commentary. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Glamour Magazine, and New York Magazine among others. Collier lives in Brooklyn.
is a chef and founder of JOINT VENTURE, an alternative approach to serving food by creating unique experiences among the communities we engage with.
is a designer and founder of ARC objects, a body of work that seeks to encourage mindfulness and individual creative expression. From jewelry to home objects, it is a collection that explores and experiments with wearable and functional sculpture. She works and lives in New York City, as well as Mallorca, Spain.
is a Canberra, Australia based artist working with ephemeral installations, collage, performance and wearable objects. She is in the first year of a PhD speculating on the relationship between my digital and physical presences and what might happen if the body’s physiology has agency in digital environments. Prior to her visual arts practice, she was a biological chemist with research interests in tracking complex information systems inside cells, and ways of integrating prosthetics with the human body. Through her work with residents Alison Moeller and Kate McCambridge, she is exploring how water-based metaphors might be used to create systems in which expressions of consciousness, the physical body and digital engagement may merge.
is a New York based multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores themes of identity, growth and deterioration, permanence and temporality. She works in textile, sculpture, installation and print.
is the founder of New York's Rockaway - based Arts in Parts, a program creating diverse and unique learning experiences for kids led by artists, educators, and creatives -- empowering young minds through, creativity, critical thinking and curiosity for the natural world. She makes work and lead workshops relating to food education and human's relationship to nature.
is a novelist and essayist based in Brooklyn, NY.
is a Los Angeles based nurse and writer whose writing explores health, illness, and care.
is a natural dyer, jeweler and fiber artist working in Brooklyn, New York. Her namesake accessories line, Erin Considine, is inherently multidisciplinary, bridging the worlds of fiber, natural dye and metalsmithing.
is guitarist, songwriting collaborator, looping and effect pedal magician and experimental synth artist of Sávila. She is also the Creator, Editor and Chief of She Shreds Magazine the world’s only magazine dedicated to female guitarists-advancing women’s place in music and culture through this publication as well as curating female-fronted showcases and acting as a consultant with larger brands in an effort to help reshape their existing norms and expectations of women in the music industry. She is also a part of latinx female dj collective Noche Libre highlighting different styles of music by artists from all over Latin America and creates as a solo artist and under the name Reyna Tropical.
is a NY based chef and the cofounder of the culinary creative company bigLITTLE Get Together with Lauren Gerrie, creating private dinners, brand experiences, private chef opportunities, pop ups, and styling. She is currently executive chef for a hotel & travel brand as well as guest contributor for Counter Service Magazine.
is a doctoral candidate at Bard Graduate Center in New York, with a background in Design History & Material Culture. She is investigating the documentation of craft through various modes and media of representation, with special reference to Navajo weavers and the ‘photography of making.’
is a Bay Area native, who has lived in New York the last 5 years as a baker, cook and caterer. Previous to her work in the kitchen she worked in early childhood education for many years, specifically Headstart. While she still loves teaching, working in food refines what she most appreciates about working in schools and education: getting to know different children, families, and through those relationships getting to know different cultures and communities.
is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked with non-profit, writer-run presses and organizations such as Ugly Duckling Presse and Wendy's Subway as an editor and programming assistant. For the last four years she has organized site specific installations featuring new work by artists in both Los Angeles and New York. She joined Joint Venture as the managing director in November of 2016.
is a New York City based costume designer working in theater, opera, film and TV. She will be researching weaving as a living expression of cultural memory, and a way of preserving and confirming one’s existence in the world as well as exploring her own cultural heritage.
is a printmaker, prop stylist, and adjunct faculty at Parsons/The New School in New York City, with degrees from Rhode Island School of Design (textiles) and Cranbrook Academy of Art (fiber). She will be looking at the Zapotec sculptures from Monte Albán, using their head dresses, ear plugs, feathers, etc. as elements in a series of drawings and silkscreens of hybrid beings like chimeras and cyborgs.
is a writer, editor and author based in New York City. She has worked as the Managing Editor of Serious Eats and Senior Editor of Tasting Table, and is the co-author of four cookbooks, including the IACP and James Beard Award-winning "Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking" (Ten Speed Press) with chef Naomi Pomeroy of Beast in Portland, OR. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Saveur, Lucky Peach and more. She is a frequent audio guest and correspondent on The Lonely Hour, Prince Street Podcast and various Heritage Radio Network productions and will be working on a personal project exploring the most universal and most challenging of human experiences: change.
is an artist based in New Mexico. Her work is an investigation of art's alchemical capacity to transmute obstacles into talismans, new forms, and medicine. She is the co-founder of the Canaries Collective, a network of cis women, trans and non-binary people living and working with autoimmune conditions and other chronic illnesses.
is an Oakland based painter and Ceramist currently studying at Pratt in NY. Her work has been shown at the Berkeley Art Museum, various galleries in San Francisco, Oakland, France and Japan
is a playwright, musician, and performer based in New York. He, along with collaborator and dancer Rachel Abrahams, are exploring a project deconstructing memories to reconstruct these stories through music movement.
is an artist working across installation, performance and photography, recently completing her MA at the Royal College of Art and MSc at Imperial College. Her work moves between gallery, stage and public space and draws from such diverse areas as archeology, choreography, cognitive psychology and typology. Along with residents Alison Moeller and Deidre Pierce, she will be further developing their previous body of work in a new environment enabling a new set of interactions and images.

is an artist born and raised in the Midwest and Hong Kong, whose interests include color psychology, geometry, light and shadow, global and local architecture, and human interaction with the land. Inspired by her research into color theory and basic brain science, she plans to create a body of work inspired by the landscape of Oaxaca.
is a prose writer currently in the University of Virginia’s MFA program. She has worked in the marketing departments of Random House and Knopf and is currently at work on an essay/collage/translation piece called “Translating Lorca" through the combined exploration of Federico García Lorca’s poem “Ciudad sin sueño,” a 1968 Playboy magazine, the Mexican game Lotería, and personal experience.
is a classically trained artist and painter who has been working as a creative director in New York for the past 12 years and has now returned to making her own artwork.
is a writer and co-director of Food Book Fair, an event set at the intersection of food culture and food systems. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
is a designer and Creative Director in New York and LA, creating narrative environments, immersive art installations and cultural happenings. She is currently working on a sculptural project inspired by the cultural landscape of Oaxaca.
is a chef, dancer and artist. She is the cofounder of bigLITTLE Get Together with Flannery Klette-Kolton, a partner and pastry consultant at Cervo's restaurant, a food writer for Paper Magazine, Domino Magazine + more and when not cooking she co-teaches an all levels adult dance class called MOVES. She is preparing for a month long restaurant pop-up in Geneva prior to her residency along with other freelance chef work.
was the founding President of the Trust for Governors Island. Under her leadership Governors Island was transformed from an obsolete military base into a dynamic public space focused on extraordinary, inclusive design and a unique, open approach to cultural programming. Previously she was the founding CEO of the Fund for Public Schools, an educational non profit in New York City and an executive at Microsoft. She is now an independent advisor working on public & private partnerships.
is a Montreal born artist based in New York City. She has exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows and is also the co-founder of NUT, an all-women's annual art publication.
is an artist whose practice focuses on soft sculpture. Based in San Francisco, she works sculpturally to create textured surfaces & forms with natural materials such as wool, cotton, jute, & indigo.
is a Amsterdam - based photographer. After finishing a degree in fashion photography from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague she has been traveling internationally, exploring humans through the photographic lens. She has also taught drawing and painting in India as well as photography in the townships of Capetown and at a refugee center in Holland. For the past three years she has been working with an agency in Amsterdam on various commercial work.
is a Mexican architect with a focus on traditional wood architecture. After studying at the ITESM Chihuahua and finishing her graduate degree in architecture at Columbia University, she has spent the past four years working at the IM Pei office in New York as well as teaching as an adjunct professor in Monterrey. She is also a painter.
is the founder of off-space Pied-à-terre, through which he has organized group exhibitions, solo exhibitions and reading series as well as publishing collections of writings, interviews and catalogues. He has been commissioned to make a new 16mm film and will be documenting the landscape and sense of place in specific regions of Mexico.
is the San Francisco born, Bali -based founder of Menyan Projects, making natural and plant based products.
is a weaver and researcher, working through ideas on Anni Albers practice and her legacy as an educator. MJ's work takes the form of research/creation - it includes written components but also informes her future weaving and dyeing work, exploring questions about how or what we can communicate through textiles today.
is a Brooklyn based writer, the author of the novel Tuesday Nights in 1980, and the founder of The Blue School, a progressive, creative writing school in Brooklyn.
is a Vancouver-based photographer whose work explores issues of movement, belonging, loss and the impermanence of things. She was born in Karachi, Pakistan and grew up in Saudi Arabia . A solo exhibition of her series 'There, There' was part of Vancouver's Capture Photo Festival last spring. She is also a writer and poet and has worked in broadcast journalism at NBC News and as an anchor and reporter at DawnNews in Dehli.
is a free lance dance artist based out of Toronto, Ontario. She has worked for companies including Opera Atelier, Cadence Progressive Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Creole, and Kemi Dance Projects amongst many others. Previous to her move back to Toronto she was dancing in Montreal and with Citie Ballet in Edmonton, AB. She has a background of classical technique from studies at The National Ballet School of Canad and her curiosity to connect humanity lies at the core of the work she is drawn to and the exploration and creative processes she develops choreographically. She allows ambiguity to be present in both her interior and exterior realms, having studied and worked with a large scope of movement languages leading to an interest in trauma informed practices. Her personal practice is informed by her bi-racial identity and experiences as an undefined melting pot. She practices and is interested in a state of the undefined where vulnerability, humanity, mystery, conflict, difficulty and process exist.
is the author of the novel Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney’s). She is a poet. She was born in South Korea and lives in Los Angeles.
is a NY based Puerto Rican photographer, designer and musician studying indigenous music through both photography and sound.
is a freelance dancer also working with Yoga, Pilates, and Thai Massage. She, along with collaborator and banjo player Jim Kivlen are exploring a project deconstructing memories to reconstruct these stories through music and movement.
is an artist, jewelry designer and writer living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Born in Alaska and raised in Maine, her creative sensibility is steeped in saltwater and mountains. Her work is focused on the perplexing character of interactions with the natural world, and the subsequent ramifications. Grady holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
is a social worker and sexual health educator living and working in Manhattan. During the day she teaches sex education, developing educational programming designed to deepen commitment to service, diversity, equity, and inclusion through girl's leadership programs, service learning experiences, and cultural events. She is also a painter and her work in Oaxaca used this medium to explore the meaning of intimacy and the implications of this concept on how young people conceptualize sexual experiences and human connection.
are chefs, artists and herbalists as well as the co-founders of the Kosmic Kitchen, teaching elemental theory and kitchen herbalism. They will be studying how folk herbal traditions are interwoven into life in Oaxaca through medicine making, food and ritual as well as the role of women as healers, cooks and stewards of the family. They are currently in the process of writing their first book.
is a writer and collage artist. She is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State and the novel Binary Star. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Vice, The Baffler, and other journals, as well as anthologies. She teaches writing in New York City.
is a floral designer, stylist, and writer. She is the founder of Saipua, The Little Flower School, and World's End Farm.
is a Brooklyn based ceramic artist studying ancient forms and techniques from cultures with deep roots in hand built pottery.
is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her research examines the cultural politics of oil & gas development in northwestern New Mexico. She holds a Masters in Geography from the University of Toronto. She is collaborating with artist Rebecca Mir Grady on STRATA, a project that responds to climate change across geological, hydrological, and atmospheric mediums.
is writer and photographer with a background in filmmaking and visual art, recently completing her first novel originating from a video project in the holy city of Varanasi and the desert of Rajasthan. Her writing is featured in many arts journals and, as an arts journalist, she has interviewed writers and filmmakers such as Wim Wenders, Marina Abramovic and Andrea Arnold. Born in the U.K, she has lived in Paris, Brooklyn, Berlin, and Indonesia.
is a photographer and consultant raised between London and Los Angeles, now based in Paris. With a background in design and art direction, she approaches projects from the perspective of each person involved in creating a body of work, resulting in many long lasting collaborations between designers, brands and magazines. She is involved in organizing and teaching annual photography and textiles workshops in Rajasthan, India and is in the process of developing a range of printed textiles from her grandmother’s 1960’s design archives.
is a storyteller, documentarian, and recent graduate of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program at Duke University. She explores dialogues between decolonizing language, femalx/queer embodiment, and the natural world through multimedia installation, documenting movement research and composing new written work.
has been bouncing between the art world and the food world for the past 10 years, recently discovering they co-exist. Born in Cambridge MA and currently based in New York by way of Oakland, Tali is an observer and a listener, and cooking has always provided, in some subtle way, a form of sculpture -- fine arts training was bridged with cooking by training as a butcher, sculpting meat. Tali is currently working on with Hannah Jacobs on a food pop up, babydudes, as well as a number of arts education and accessibility projects at MoMa and elsewhere.
is a Dallas -born, Brooklyn -based artist who has worked as a musician for most of his life. In high school he picked up knitting to pass time, and continued to do so on and off over the next years. Two years ago, he began teaching himself how to weave and is now working and experimenting in this medium that fully engages his entire being.
was born in Mexico City and raised in Colima Mexico. She has been living and working as a potter in upstate NY for the past seven years in the at a craft community called The Rochester Folk Art Guild, before which she attended Parsons School of Design in NYC. Her pottery is functional, and transmits the work that has been passed on to her.
is a visual artist and sculptor based in Atlanta, Georgia who explores ritual and alchemical transformations through the unknown and through universals, including the natural world, catastrophe, chaos, and the cosmos. She has been granted a Research and Development award to attend this residency from Idea Capital in Atlanta, GA, working on a project which fuses the research of traditional Zapotec weaving methods and Zapotec black pottery traditions of Oaxaca, Mexico.

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