Talia Sullivan is an artist hailing from the picturesque landscapes of Devon, UK. From a young age, she developed a deep connection with the outdoors, nurtured by her upbringing in the countryside. This affinity for nature continues to inspire her artistic journey today. Immersing herself in the tranquility of her surroundings, Sullivan finds solace and inspiration through outdoor activities like biking and running, which also serve as meditative practices. These experiences infuse her work with a profound appreciation for the natural world.

In her studio practice, Sullivan explores the relationship between humanity and the vastness of the landscape. Her art often features anonymous figures seamlessly integrated into expansive natural settings. Through her work, she seeks to evoke a sense of wonder and reverence for the world around us.

Stephanie is an artist, coach, educator, naturalist, and writer that shares her love for life through writing and photography. Her curiosity and creativity over the years have allowed her to create short poems and capture precious moments to share with others. She hopes to continue capturing life's big and small moments through visuals and writing and sharing them with the world to see.

Ashley Lindo (b. 1993 in Queens, NY) is a Jamaican-American artist based in South Florida. In 2017, she received her BFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in painting, from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. Ashley's work captures the soft and quiet moments of everyday life where stillness and gratitude meet. Some of her recent illustrations highlight people, interior spaces, and products within the specialty coffee industry. Ashley currently works as an enrichment instructor, and is the founder and roaster of Quiet Coffee Roasters. Sharing her love for coffee and the arts, Ashley is also a collaborator in the Miami-based collective, blk brw.

Eleni Berg is a ceramic multidisciplinary artist and lifelong Bay Area resident, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts with a focus on ceramics. Her work reflects her own background as a Guatemalan-American artist, and she seeks to identify the root causes and systems that have contributed to a severed relationship with the natural world, and the continued erasure of indigeneity. Her interest in vintage items, textiles, identifying wild mushrooms and plants, and relationships to objects and inhabited spaces and their often westernized origins inform her aesthetic and conceptual choices in her practice. Having worked with ceramic for over a decade, Eleni seeks to use clay as a medium to create engaging and activated compositions that draw the eye with small details and visually endearing figures.

Clara MacDonell, also known as Colors of Clara, is a contemporary artist and graphic designer based in San Francisco, California. Growing up in rural North Carolina, she discovered art as a form of escapism and developed a passion for the creative process. Clara studied Graphic Design at North Carolina State University before relocating to the West Coast. She enjoys using bold imagery to portray playful scenes, with the goal of making the world a more loving and colorful place.

Fía Kvissberg is a Swedish artist In her world of imagery, anything can happen where imagination knows no bounds.
Her work explores a wide spectrum of emotions and poses many questions related to the experience of being a woman. Using color as her medium, she creates in oil, acrylic, printmaking, and sculpture.
Her art is represented in hospitals and government institutions throughout Sweden, and she has received numerous grants and awards both nationally and internationally. She has also participated in many artist in residence programs across different countries.
Fia has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Sweden and abroad.
See CV at Kvissberg.com.

Wiepke Wolfsbergen is a textile artist based in The Netherlands who has been developing and experimenting with their own sustainable material.

They graduated from the Swedish School of Textiles with a bachelors in Textile design in 2024 but have been working with textiles since they were 5 years old. Wiepke participated at Fashion Week Amsterdam at age 17. This gave them the opportunity to create a collection in which they explored queerness and labels as a non-binary artist. Being a fashion designer sparked an interest in material, and a desire to create and design it themselves.

This culminated in their degree work, where they developed their own biomaterial from bioplastic and waste-yarn. These yarns would otherwise be destroyed but are now given a new purpose while still being recyclable in the future due to the bioplastic being biodegradable. Strokes of this playful material were then hand-woven into light-objects.

Since then, Wiepke has opened their own studio where they create eye-catching sculptures and light objects while exploring topics like geography, sustainability, the innovation of materials and drawing inspiration from their environment.

My name is Princess Bizares and I am an illustrator and painter for animation. In my professional and personal work, I am interested in telling Filipino stories and sharing my culture. I am also interested in sharing the whimsy I often saw as a child and continue to see as an adult, in the natural world as well as in the animals I’ve observed in the wild, particularly, in birds. My illustrations–whether they are paper collage, watercolor, or digital– are a love letter to childhood imagination and allowing myself to take center stage in spaces I did not see myself represented in as a child, as well as finding magic in nature and what others might consider to be mundane.

Nina is an indigenous artist based out of Houston Texas, her mother is Wixárika, and a big inspiration behind her art reflecting her indigenous roots.

Jessica Bain is a multidisciplinary artist from Brooklyn, New York, whose work spans writing, dance, and audiovisual storytelling. Influenced by the dynamic energy of New York City and deeply enriched by her Belizean and Grenadian heritage, her practice weaves together memory, movement, and media to explore identity and the rich complexity of Black womanhood. She is currently focused on developing fiction and screenwriting projects that illuminate the inner worlds of Black women. Whether on the page or through performance, Jessica is dedicated to crafting stories that resonate deeply and reflect the cultural pulse of her city and beyond.

I'm a multidisciplinary designer and visual artist based in Montréal.
My practice blends graphic design, scenography, photography and handcrafted techniques to create poetic, immersive and sensory experiences. Deeply inspired by everyday life, cinema, and places charged with emotion, my work explores themes such as memory, intimacy, and the relationship between people and their environments. I value slowness, softness and intuition in her creative process.

In Antigua, I hope to develop a research project rooted in observation, encounters, and a deep attention to local textures, colours, and narratives.

My name is Prisila Perez, a Guatemalan American photographer dedicated in creating meaningful work that captures stories, emotions, and cultural identity. Through my lens, I strive to highlight the beauty of diverse experiences, focusing on authenticity and connection. Photography allows me to preserve moments, spark conversations, and inspire empathy. Whether documenting personal narratives or exploring the intersection of cultures, I am passionate about using my art to tell stories that matter.

I grew up in an environment where doing things with my hands was a natural and everyday activity. In a Sámi family of reindeer herders, clothes were made by hand from materials obtained from reindeer. My parents, born in the 1920s, taught me to save everything if I ever needed materials. Today, I use these leftover materials in my art and try to use them ecologically. Later, I have studied Sámi handicraft and design, duodji, so that I have made a profession out of it. I create textile art from the same materials obtained from reindeer and express my culture through and with it. I actively participate in exhibitions and teach duodji in the world's only institution that teaches duodji, Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Kautokeino, Norway. At the same time, I research and write about expression, theorizing Sámi know-how based on the methods of science and art. Through natural materials and the Sámi dress tradition, I create art and experiment with materials and techniques so that my ancestry and cultural bond can be consciously visible and interpreted. Duodji is not just a form of culture, but a way of thinking about life and the world. I'm interested in experimenting with different techniques with duodji materials and vice versa. Through my artistic dissertation, I have studied traditional formal dress and, in the second section, art in public spaces through textile art. I use materials from my own culture and perception of beauty when creating art.

Born in Bamberg, Germany, and shaped by an upbringing across Kansas and Florida, Gianna Cabrera’s artistic journey is a tapestry of transformation. At 22, she moved to New York City, immersing herself in the intersecting worlds of fashion and music. Collaborating with stylists, video directors, and makeup artists, Gianna cultivated a deep understanding of color, creativity, and design.

Amid the pandemic in 2020, she returned to Florida, where her practice shifted to painting and mixed media using acrylic and charcoal. Her art became both a sanctuary and a medium for healing, a way to connect with heritage, and a platform for storytelling.

Gianna’s work bridges personal and collective narratives, inviting viewers into conversations of self-discovery and transformation. Her art transcends the canvas, creating space for dialogue, healing, and the expansion of the human spirit.

Mia Bella Chavez is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of activism and artistry in her native city Los Angeles. In all mediums her work shares one throughline: storytelling with truth at its forefront. Before the age of 18, the young artist had already shown work at Moca Grand and The Getty, in addition to other local galleries. She is trained in Photography by the Los Angeles Non-profit circuit (Las Fotos project, Echo Park Film Center, Inner-city arts, and Barnsdall Art park) with supplemental education from CalArts and Loyola Marymount University. This knowledge has led her to the world of image production, fulfilling roles such as photography, gaffer, and production manager for companies such as Nike, RollingStone, Fear of God, Footlocker, and Skims. Most days, you will find her working in her art studio creating art objects out of materials most would regard as trash, ranging but not limited to: sandwich bag lamps, bottle cap carrying cases, aluminum can palm trees, and a milk jug resin collage. She hopes to use these materials to convince the world around her to do their part.

I am an Afro-Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist exploring the tactile connections textiles and craft offer in accessing cultural identity and using decorative architectural motifs to evoke the duality of comfort and discomfort within our environments. Through printmaking, ceramics, collage, and fiber art, my work investigates the interplay between “hard and soft,” questioning material representation and its connotations in design history. My practice draws visual inspiration from rejas (iron gates), to evoke the duality of comfort and discomfort in our environments. Taking its form as a personal investigation of culture and my position within it through this study of colonial architectural elements; the rejas, that protect our homes and sites of comfort, also send conflicting messages of identity, territoriality, exclusion, and status.

Currently pursuing an MA in Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), I focus on decolonial arts programming, artist resources, and fashion collection management and archiving. I hold a BFA with a minor in Fashion Studies from Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. My work delves into how environments act as external reflections of self, examining the dual significance of decorative objects in bringing beauty to space while interrogating their colonial and cultural implications.

Seyi (shay-yee) Adeyinka is an intuitive textile artist and psychiatrist, exploring the intersection of wellness, creativity, and self-expression. Her art practice is rooted in curiosity, joy, and flow. Using techniques such as natural dyeing, hand stitching, spinning, and weaving, she embraces the creative process, allowing each step to guide the next.

With a background in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, integrative psychiatry, and women’s mental health, Seyi connects her therapeutic practice with her artistic practice to further explore themes of healing and well-being.

Rebeca is a Dallas native multidisciplinary artist, currently based in Utah. She received her BFA in 2023 where capstone work examined the abstraction of the soul and emotion through the lens of magical realism and musical collaboration. She is currently an MFA candidate. Her work has evolved into a collection of thoughts that reflect the nuances of human interconnection, exploring the complex layers of perspective, perception, and interpretation. She navigates these intricate terrains, creating visual dialogues that weave historical and cultural strands through drawing, painting, and projected imagery. This past spring she exhibited “A Small Presence” an ongoing project at Mi-Whi Cube Gallery. Group exhibitions include Breaking Bread in collaboration with the Georgia Southern University, and Time, Place, and Proximity, at Eastern State University. When not in the studio you can find her immersed in a good book or playing the cello, further nurturing the connection between, sound, image and the stories we tell. Through her work she strives to weave a narrative of resilience, remembrance and community that honors the past while illuminating the paths forward.

Danielle Marie Ochoa (Nebraska, b. 1997) is a Mexican-American fashion and textile designer based in Tempe, Arizona, pursuing a Master of Arts in Art History at Arizona State University. Her research areas include Mesoamerican material culture and the textile traditions of present-day indigenous peoples in the Americas. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion and Fibers at the Savannah College of Art and Design before working in the industry for a large brand. As a designer, she created embroidery artworks, developed woven and print fabrics, created knit layouts, and developed fabric techniques for high-end dresses and jackets. In 2024, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Arizona State University and moved to Arizona to pursue graduate school. She currently works as a curatorial intern at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Hannah Longbottom Estrada is a painter and printmaker, originally from Los Angeles County. She studied Fine Arts and Emergency Health Services at the George Washington University, and created an 8-piece undergraduate studio art thesis focused on the colonization of Central America. Her recent work in conservation with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and her Guatemalan heritage inspires her current passion for Maya textile work. She hopes to study regional textile patterns and palettes, and better understand traditional back-strap and pikb’il weaving techniques.

I was born and raised in northern Chile, where the Pacific Ocean meets the Atacama desert. The unparalleled environment in which I grew up has instilled in me a deep affection for distinct landscapes.

My childhood recollections and evocative imagery continue to fuel my artistic inspiration to this day. The dreamlike quality of my artwork is a product of my travels and past residences, which all contribute to my creative process. My art is a fusion of drawings, woodcuts, and collage, each piece emanating from my emotions, experiences, and surroundings.

Elena Vela Rey is a Spanish artist and designer currently based in London, known for her multifaceted approach that bridges contemporary art, traditional crafts, and design. With over a decade of experience in advertising and branding in Madrid, Elena’s career began in the digital realm, where she honed her skills in conceptualization, art direction, and UX/UI design. However, her passion for tactile creation and hands-on craftsmanship remained a constant undercurrent, deeply rooted in her early love of painting and crafting, inspired by her mother.

In 2016, a bookbinding course became the turning point that reignited her connection to manual crafts. Feeling the need for a creative reset, she took a year-long journey across Asia in 2017, immersing herself in local craft traditions. She explored block printing in India, leatherwork in Thailand, basket weaving in Cambodia, Bali, and Laos, and ceramics in Japan. This transformative experience expanded her technical repertoire and deeply influenced her perspective on the interplay between tradition and innovation in the creative process.

Upon returning to Europe, Elena moved to London and pursued studies in photographic art direction for fashion at UAL. This period marked her transition to a multidisciplinary practice, blending art direction, branding, and craft. After working in a multinational design consultancy, she founded her own branding and design studio in 2022, focusing on projects that emphasize craftsmanship and materiality. In her Hackney Wick studio, affectionately dubbed “my cave,” Elena develops her art and leads workshops in rattan basketry, leatherwork, and mixed-media art.

Now in her second year of a BA in Art and Contemporary Craft at West Dean College, Elena is delving deeper into the theoretical and practical aspects of traditional craft. The program complements her ambition to create work that seamlessly integrates handmade techniques with contemporary design, bridging the gap between digital and physical experiences.

Elena’s practice is characterized by its dual focus: commercial projects that emphasize immersive brand experiences and personal sculptural works exploring themes of identity, balance, and human connection with space. She aims to craft installations and objects that are as emotionally resonant as they are visually compelling, drawing on her diverse background in both digital innovation and traditional craftsmanship.

Through her evolving work, she seeks to inspire audiences by crafting deeply personal yet universally engaging multisensory experiences.

Isabella Porras is a graduate of the Bachelor of Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (2021). With a major in Documentary Photography, Porras’ work has explored Australian identity, migration and melancholy through an intimate lens. Using a collaborative approach to photography, she works closely with her subjects to give them agency and power over their image. Porras aims to develop her practice and skills as a documentary photographer, with a focus on long-form narrative storytelling.

Alexandra Antoine is an interdisciplinary visual artist and cultural apprentice based in Chicago, IL. Her work acknowledges the influences of her Haitian culture and interest in portraiture, food, farming and the physical labor that goes into traditional artistic practices of the Afrikan diaspora. She honors her ancestors always and is currently growing food in several community gardens on the West side of Chicago!

She received an undergraduate degree from a fancy art school and exhibited her work in many places but collaborating with folks throughout the Afrikan diaspora is her life's work.

Patricia Aquino is a multidisciplinary artist originating from the Philippines + based in Chicago. Her background as an ICU nurse has broadened her awareness of racial, health and financial disparities. This has carried onto her work as an artist in the way that she sheds light on societal topics. Her portraiture embodies the subjects’ essence. She aims to understand and amplify the energy in the people she photographs. Patricia’s motion projects carry themes of moving through difficult emotions and our sense of identities - she beautifully amplifies stories through the use of symbolism, colors and poetry.

Patricia has been part of Soho House CFC and presented her short film which expands on themes of societal standards and racial stereotypes that forces individuals to feel trapped in their perceived identity. This poem touches on the importance of actively questioning and growing past these beliefs. She has also conducted a video project for International Women's Day, and interviewed impactful women of Chicago. This video emphasizes the importance of empowering one another and the strength in building community.

She hopes to continue to create documentaries, photographs and short films that empower groups of people in creating and sustaining change. There is great power in collaboration and in creation. With her ability to deeply connect and understand individuals, she aims to shed light and amplify voices among the people she has the honor of sharing space with.

Casey Baden (b. 1991 Houston, TX) is a Los Angeles-based, interdisciplinary artist whose expressionistic painting and textile works explore the transformative nature of human intimacy. Through paint, natural dye, woven cloth, and patch-worked sewing, Baden composes the surreal inner worlds of her subjects into scenes of domestic life and leisure. She borrows strategies from craft practices, surrealism, and expressionism, collaged together to create figurative narratives with a measured irreverence for convention and categorization. She has been awarded residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Vermont Studio Center, The Reef, AZ West, Textile Art Center NY, PADA Studios, and The Plum Lime Residency NY, and JO-HS, CDMX. She has exhibited works in the US and Europe, with exhibitions in LA including La Loma Projects, The Middle Room Gallery, The MAK Center, The Santa Monica Art Museum, The Palos Verdes Art Center, Quarters Gallery, and Spring Break. She is also an adjunct professor of art teaching across mediums in drawing, painting, and textiles.

Jackie Schuld is an Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT) who specializes in late-identified autism. She utilizes art to help clients process their new identities and learn how to work with their neurodivergent minds. As an autistic/ADHD individual herself, she also creates illustrated nonfiction books that explore psychological subjects. She is the author/illustrator of seven books, including Grief is a Mess and Life as a Late-identified Autistic. Her watercolor and acrylic artwork capture the intense emotions of complex experiences, while her written work focuses on describing and explaining psychological topics in relatable, clear words.

Veronica Melendez is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator. Having been raised in and around Washington D.C amongst one of the largest Central American populations in the U.S, her work centers diaspora studies and the archive. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, NPR, VICE, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail among others. Veronica is also founder of La Horchata Zine, an arts publication highlighting creatives from the Central American diaspora. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography, Creative Arts and Visual Culture at Hampshire College.

I am a multidisciplinary artist, I live in Paris, I am 47 years old. I studied fashion design and then at fine arts school. I create using various mediums including oil painting and ceramics and threads. My studio is located in the 19th district of Paris. Over the past ten years, I have exhibited in Paris, Madrid, and Athens, and have done textile residencies in Los Angeles, Iceland, and the south of France.