Sharmistha Ray (they/them) is a visual artist and Estella Loomis McCandless Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Their artistic practice uses modes of abstraction to explore imagery related to Hindu and Buddhist cosmologies, the patterning and ornamentation of South Asian crafts, and sacred architecture in relationship to global modernisms and queer futurity.
Dahn Gim works through material transformation, altering and reassembling repurposed objects and personal archives to navigate shifting boundaries between familiar and unfamiliar, known and unknown.
Soulaf was born and raised in Damascus, Syria. In 2008 she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Indiana State University. Then, she returned to Syria and taught art at the Arab European University. She also spent some time translating books and articles in Arabic and English.
Matt Marble (b. Meridian, Mississippi, 1979) is an artist, author, and media producer whose work explores the intersections of art and spiritual imagination through archival research, curatorial storytelling, and creative practice.
Yatika Starr Fields is a multi-disciplinary artist with an emphasis in painting, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A member of the Osage, Cherokee, and Muscogee Nations, Fields grounds his work in Indigenous identity while pushing the boundaries of contemporary Native art.
Jory Drew is an artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice explores how identity, memory, and social histories shape the possibilities of intimacy, kinship, and care within Black and queer life.
Rachel Gloria Adams is a multidisciplinary artist living in Portland, ME. Adams has developed a vibrant, graphic pattern-based visual language filled with references to the natural world and motherhood that possesses an heirloom quality. Her work takes form by way of quilting, painting, design and murals.
Olivia Berke is an emerging artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received a B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Oberlin College with an emphasis on sculpture and ephemeral art in the Early Modern period.
