Rozalinda Borcilă - October-November 2025

Rozalinda Borcilă is a Romanian artist, researcher, and activist based in Chicago. She is interested in tracing the ways colonial violences coalesce around material extractions and flows of capital, in institutional grammars and forms of possession -- but also around modes of feeling, modes of relation, and everyday experiences of being in place. Her current projects focus on glacial landscapes and wetland development sites. Borcilă has exhibited internationally in the U.S., Europe, South Africa, and the Occupied Territories of Palestine. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Newberry Library Research Fellowship, 3Arts Award, Illinois Artist Fellowship, Chicago Filmmakers Grant, and Art Matters Award. She is active in migrant solidarity and border abolition struggles and is a core member of NoShelter, an activist media project exploring migrant child detention in the U.S. and the efforts to dismantle it. She works in museums, universities, art centers, community spaces, squats, and in the streets.

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Shona Masarin - October-November 2025

Shona Masarin is a Pennsylvania-based Australian filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores perception, abstraction, and the construction of visual worlds. Working primarily with large-format photography, moving images, and experimental analogue film processes, she creates abstracted landscapes and dimensional spaces where scale, materiality, and form remain ambiguous—inviting viewers to question what they see and how they experience it. Her work meditates on the relationship between natural and artificial environments, memory and physical presence, and the merging of inner and outer landscapes. Masarin’s films and installations have been presented at festivals and art spaces including the Melbourne International Film Festival and galleries in New York, with support from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, and the Jerome Foundation.

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Jackie Milad - October-November 2025

Jackie Milad (Baltimore City, 1975) is a U.S.- based artist whose mixed-media abstract paintings and collages address the history and complexities of dispersed cultural heritage and multi-ethnic identity. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Select exhibitions include The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD), The Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), Academy Art Museum (Easton, MD), Weatherspoon Art Museum (Charlotte, NC), The Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), Arthur Ross Gallery University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), and Harvey B. Gantt Center (Charlotte, NC).

In 2024 Jackie Milad became a Creative Capital Grantee and the inaugural Robert W. Deutsch Foundation's Alumni Rubys Artist Grantee. Milad is a multi-year recipient of the Individual Artist Grant from Maryland State Arts Council. In 2019 she was named a Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Finalist and a Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Ruby Grantee. In 2022 Jackie received the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Travel Prize to conduct in-depth research on the Egyptian antiquities held at the British Museum and Petrie Museums in London. Her work is included in several public collections, including, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Academy Art Museum, Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Library, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, and the Pizzuti Collection. Milad received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, and her MFA from Towson University. She is currently represented by SOCO Gallery in Charlotte, NC. And Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

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Christina Schmid - October-November 2025

Christina Schmid is a writer who thinks with art and experiments with prose. Her arts writing unfolds at the intersection of journalism, scholarship, and creative non-fiction. Through art, her work engages with the ways cultural narratives shape experiences and encounters, delves into ethics, the politics of immigration, feminism, queer ecology, practices of belonging, and wherever else art takes her. As a writer, she is interested in the materiality of text, haptic criticism, and the ways art can embody, archive, and generate ideas. Her essays and reviews have been published online and in print, in anthologies, journals, zines, artist books, and exhibition catalogs. She works at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Art in Minneapolis where she teaches contemporary art, critical practice and theory. She has been a finalist for the Rabkin Prize in Art Writing and the Andy Warhol Foundation's Award for Short Form Arts Writing. She is a recipient of a MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant for Creative Prose.

Annika Earley - August 2025

photo by Marion Earley

Annika Earley (she/they) makes drawings and sculptures about the demands and joys of parenthood, sensuality and sexuality, gender, and pre-teen nostalgia.

Earley grew up in rural Switzerland but moved to mid-coast Maine in 2000. When she was very young, she used to play in the woods; there she found a small, shingled hut with tiny windows and a locked door. Raised on Grimm stories, Earley was absolutely certain that this must be a witch’s house and proceeded to avoid it at all costs as she had no interest in being baked into a pie. At age twenty, she returned to Switzerland for the first time after ten years and discovered that this hut was not a witch’s house but, in fact, a storage shed belonging to the forestry department of her village. This experience continues to have a profound impact on her work.

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Asuka Goto- August 2025

Asuka Goto is a Philadelphia-based visual artist who works across drawing, printmaking and photography. Her artist book, To Send a Telegram, was recently acquired by the Free Library of Philadelphia and was also selected as a semi-finalist for the MCBA Prize.

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Luis Sahagún- August 2025

Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and now lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Luis is an artist and ritualist whose practice confronts the palpable inescapability of race and transforms art into an act of cultural and spiritual reclamation. He has exhibited widely at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Latchkey Gallery NYC, Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles), and The National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago), among others. He has held residencies at Roswell, NM; The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program (LAP), Saratoga, CA, the Chicago Artist Coalition; and was a Critical Race Studies Scholar at Michigan State University. His work has been examined in publications including Artillery Magazine, Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, Newcity, and the Chicago Tribune. His work is included in the Fidelity Collection of Boston, Alta Med Collection of Los Angeles, the Allex Ko Collection, and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, among many others. His practice has been spotlighted as having a unique voice helping to shape, shift, and touch the world on radio, podcasts, and television networks such as MundoFOX, NBC, UNIVISION and WBEZ-NPR. He received his undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University- Carbondale, an MFA at Northern Illinois University. Luis is 3Arts awardee and a 2023 United States Artist Fellow.

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Stacy Pratt - April-May 2025

Stacy Pratt in the Surf Point archive room. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Stacy Pratt is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. A poet, art writer, and musician, she primarily writes for First American Art Magazine.