Bio: Monica Tyran is a screenprinter/printmaker and arts administrator who was born and raised in New Orleans. She creates illustrations and printed goods that reflect her imagination and formative imagery connected to her upbringing and family memories. She studied screenprinting and printmaking at Penland School of...
Amanda Choo Quan is a writer, artist and essayist who is both Trinidadian and Jamaican. Winner of the 2020 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers' Prize, one of the most significant for emerging writers from the region, she is also a Truman Capote, Callaloo, Juniper,...
Thom Wheeler Castillo lives and works in Miami, FL; Graduated from PNCA, Intermedia. Wheeler Castillo is interested in the landscape and ecosystems, past (art history) and present (Environmental Studies); he works from an interdisciplinary approach in his relentless pursuit of poetry, art history, earth science...
Jenny Perez is a Caribbean-American painter and visual artist based out of Miami, Florida. With nearly over a decade of experience, Perez’s projects span a wide variety. She began her career as an apprentice under internationally-recognized painters inspiring Perez to explore her own voice as an...
“My studio practice reflects my approach to life: to cultivate meaning with a combination of structure and fluidity, and to glean from each process all the leftover bits that get misunderstood and tossed aside. My studio process consists of bending solid structures into curved forms...
Laura Ann Samuelson (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist working in contemporary performance, sculpture, and writing. Their work follows the transmission of feeling across objects, sites, and bodies, searching for new strategies to help us bear impermanence, attachments to living, and to one another. Laura Ann’s...
Cherish Marquez (b.1989 El Paso, TX, USA) spent her childhood in Sierra Blanca, TX, and adult life in Las Cruces, NM. Currently, she lives and works in Denver, Colorado. She holds a BA in Fine Arts and Creative Writing at the New Mexico State University...
Rosie Gordon-Wallace is a recognized curator, arts advocate, community leader and pioneer in advancing contemporary Caribbean diaspora art. She founded the Diaspora Vibe Culture Arts Incubator (DVCAI) to serve as a local and global laboratory dedicated to promoting, nurturing and cultivating the vision and diverse...
My name is Yacine Tilala Fall, I am a Muslim Senegalese-Mauritanian American. My connection to my ancestry and my culture is what drives my practice and influences my perspective. I am a multidisciplinary artist concerned with the body: the body as means of creation, as...