Priyanka D'Souza/ Pinka PopsicKle is a visual artist, writer, and poet from Mumbai, India. In her academic and artistic practice, she works with crip time and protest in ecological reimaginings, Mughal miniatures, early modern natural history, and the concept of the ajai'b (wondrous/strange), particularly in imaginings of borderlands of nation-empires and as applied to anomalous bodies.
She is one half of the artist duo, Resting Museum, with Shreyasi Pathak. Resting Museum uses rest, queerness and disability as methodology in its art practice and curatorial...
Arianna Khmelniuk (Ukraine, 1987) is a Bay Area experimental artist. She is the creator of the artistic ventures Zapah Lab and Olfactory Playground, both of which focus on artistic research and aim to further the creative and theoretical use of smells in an art context. Her artistic investigations span topics such as art and reality perception, space and time, grief, and notions of knowledge, interpreted through the sense of smell, performance, and installation.
She has shown her work in a duo exhibition "Phantoms and Soft Time" at Swan Coach House Gallery with Wihro Kim, curated by...
Viviana Martinez is a transdisciplinary and research based artist born and raised in Mexico and currently based in the Bay Area. Her work is located at the intersection of multimedia installation and photography. In her work she challenges traditional narratives and conventions of cultural uprooting, normative femininity, memory and grief.
Jasmine Nyende is an artist and musician from Los Angeles, CA. Her work explores how patterning in punk, astrology, poetry and craft can become healing collaborative modalities in our communities. She is an astrologer rooted in the planet Saturn’s legacy told through African American culture, lead vocalist for the Black queer punk band FUCK U PAY US! and has a textile practice creating assemblage art from repurposed and recycled materials.
Bryant Terry is a multidisciplinary artist defined by the fluidity with which his practices move between cooking, writing, publishing, curation, music, design, food justice activism, sculpture, and social practice. He draws inspiration from his ancestors, motivating us to strive for a more healthful, just, and sustainable world.
San Francisco Magazine included Terry among 11 Smartest People in the Bay Area Food Scene, and Fast Company named him one of 9 People Who Are Changing the Future of Food. Terry served as the inaugural Chef-in-Residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora (...
Zekarias Musele Thompson(they) is an artist based in Oakland, CA, and Reykjavik, IS who is interested in humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures and how we bring them into material form. Their practice seeks to create containers that support our ability to navigate emergent psychosomatic responses through deep listening and close attention. Through sonic composition, photography, collaborative group practice & performance, writing, and mark-making, they intervene with entrenched historical narratives around individual and collective self-deception and embodied...
