was born in Venezuela and partially raised in Florida. She is an interdisciplinary artist with a penchant for dense, fantastical landscapes and abstract shapes. Her style is informed by her studies in architecture at Florida Atlantic University and in the Department of Film, Video, and New Media at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her BFA. In 2018 she received a fellowship at CU Boulder, where she is currently pursuing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices as part of the 2020-2021 Engaged Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Scholars cohort at CU Boulder.

graduated Skidmore College with a B.S. in art history and painting and earned an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. As a research-based artist, she collaborates with scientists and has investigated the ice fields of Antarctica, Argentina, Greenland, Iceland, and more. Her work is in the permanent collections of such institutions as The Art Institute of Chicago, Delaware Art Museum, Hood Museum, Michener Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Tang Art Museum. Awards include two NEA Artists’ grants, an Independence Foundation award in 2013, and the Fleisher Art Memorial Founders award in 2019.

Born in Mexico City, Candiani has developed various media practices that confront the complex intersection between language systems: -phonic, graphic, linguistic, symbolic and technological. She received the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in 2018; a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2011; and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica in 2013, among others. She represented Mexico, in collaboration with Luis Felipe Ortega, at the 56th Venice Biennale. Among her monographic books are: Possessing Nature. Pavilion of Mexico (2015); and Cromática (upcoming in 2021).

is a composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. He has exhibited or performed at Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, REDCAT, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, 18th Biennale of Sydney, and The Kennedy Center. Every year, he teaches for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

grew up in South Carolina, where she earned her BA from the College of Charleston, and then moved to Colorado earned an MA from the University of Northern Colorado, where she was awarded Best in Show at the annual student exhibition. Spanning a breadth of mediums including paintings, wall hangings, installation work, and embroidery, her work reflects a contemporary experience of nature and the struggle to preserve wilderness.

recently returned to her hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she teaches math and works as an artist. After many years of studying abstract mathematics, she decided to pursue a career as an artist. Since this transition, mathematical concepts and way of thinking have become an integral part of her practice.

received her BFA from the University of Utah in painting and drawing and her MFA from the University of New Mexico. Erika’s artwork deals with cultural connections to place and environment, which garnered her a Fullbright fellowship in 2019. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, with over ten solo exhibitions and over 80 group exhibitions in recent years. She is currently an Associate Professor at Colorado State University.

was born in Graz, Austria in 1968. Previously a curator and book buyer at the New Museum in New York, Pföstl is the co-author of To Die No More, and author of Light Issued Against Ruin and Schrift-Landschaften. His recent translation, A Shelter for Bells: From the Writings of Hans Jürgen von der Wense, was published by Epidote Press. A painter of plants, animals, and saints, Pföstl’s artworks are held in both public and private collections.

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is an artist and writer whose poetic nonfiction films about science and the natural world have shown at the New York Film Festival, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Whitechapel Gallery in London, and more. She is co-director of NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts and an assistant professor of Cinema Studies & the Moving Image Arts & Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder. More about her work in co-convening the Environmental Futures project can be found here.