Zuhoor Al Sayegh graduated with a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019 and participated in a residency program at the Textile Art Center in Brooklyn, New York, in 2019–20. She is an interdisciplinary artist and Assistant Curator at the Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi. She is inspired by movement and stories, and her research revolves around indigenous textile practices and the decolonization of her own craft, which she explores through her work in fiber, sculpture, and mixed media. Al Sayegh has exhibited at the Acre Projects space in Chicago; the Jameel Art...
Eleni Maria Berg is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist working primarily with painting and ceramic sculpture. Eleni’s personal identity as someone born in the Bay Area by a family of immigrants from both Central and South America influences her work in every aspect. Our relationship to nature and animals, the erasure of indigenous culture and practices for self preservation, and the “culture” of mass consumption and waste many of us have now due to imperialism are all themes Eleni wants to discuss. Identifying herself as a product of Eurocentrism by exploring her Mestizo ancestry is...
Gian Campos is an artist, graphic designer, and educator from Los Angeles, CA. Their practice centers collage as a visual discipline, research strategy, theoretical framework, and a metaphorical motivation for building solidarity. In their previous body of work, Dungeon Flower, they collected the traces and ephemera from sites of queer gathering—screenshots of (now deleted) porn from tumblr, condom wrappers, out-of-print magazines, and 'trash' transmuting them into dense, over saturated technicolor compositions. The poetic ethos of this body of work approximated their...
Kristiana 莊礼恩 Chan (she/they) is a first generation Chinese Malaysian artist, writer, and educator from the American South living in California. Her work examines the material memory of the landscape and the excluded histories of the Asian American diaspora. She researches the political, historical, and environmental heritage of the landscape and its material elements and organisms incorporating their properties into her processes. She is interested in the relationships between themes of migration, labor, trade, and reciprocity with the natural world, challenging ideals of extractive...
Swaleha Masude is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work delves into the moments that reveal the essence of our existence as individuals in relation to the world, with a focus on the experiences of Muslim women in the West. She holds degrees in Human-Computer Interaction and Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from the University of Washington.
Swaleha has served as a teaching artist in various mediums at K-12 and Community College students, where she empowers youth through self-expression and fearless exploration. She is also the co-founder of Dou Number Club, a collective...
Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán is a disabled, first-generation Mexican-American painter and illustrator from South Berkeley, California. His art is a rich tapestry woven from the influences of Mexican artists, revolutionaries, and icons, blending the realistic colonial Mexican Spanish caste paintings with the flat, evocative aesthetics of Aztec pre-Columbian art. This unique fusion vividly represents his Mestizo identity.
Drawing from moments of his life, Muñoz-Guzmán incorporates recurring personal elements alongside Mesoamerican imagery and diverse environments he has inhabited. His...
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...
