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is a product of a faulty thermostat on a cold winter’s night and holds a BA from Bard College in things no longer applicable, or lucrative.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

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.