Sharmistha Ray (they/them) is a visual artist, art critic, curator, and professor 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.
My work reflects the dual perspectives of being both an insider and an outsider—living as a"forever foreigner." Shaped by the flux of immigrant status, I explore the hybrid existence with transformation and adaptation through found, recycled, and organic materials.
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 is an artist, author, media producer and director of the American Museum of Paramusicology ("brilliant and humbling," The Paris Review). Both creatively and through historical research, his work explores the inspired intersections of art and metaphysics and the intuitive disciplines they mutually employ.
Yatika Starr Fields is a painter and visual artist 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 interdisciplinary artist and educator working across ceramics, painting, installation, and text to examine race, gender, and power. Their work investigates how capitalism mediates intimacy and shapes desire.
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.
