(they/them) is a transdisciplinary researcher studying how chemical perspectives and materiality shift our understanding of bodies and environments. Doyle is a third year graduate student pursuing their MFA in Sculpture and Post Studio Practice at CU Boulder with support from the Beinecke Scholarship. A Pittsburgh native, Doyle received a BA in Studio Arts and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. They have been nationally recognized for their scholarly work thorough publications in both science and humanities journals, including Nanophotonics, ACS Optics, and You Are Here, and through art exhibitions across the United States. When not in the studio, they enjoy baking bread, running, and daydreaming.

(they/them) is a queer phenomenologist and creative geographer thinking, working, and worlding at the intersections of gender, space, subjectivity, knowledge, and nature. Their work focuses on themes of queer space, transgender embodiment, nature, and transformation. Eden engages multiple media – generally found materials – to explore and give form to queer visions and sensibilities. Using techniques of montage and assemblage, they seek to locate, create, and inhabit spaces, aesthetics, and meanings outside of dominant grammars of gendered being and belonging. Beyond their own creative work, Eden has served as an editor and curator of the multi-genre and interdisciplinary publication you are here: the journal of creative geography from 2020–2023.

(she/they) is a transdisciplinary artist and educator. Her performance, installation, and site responsive works examine our relationships to the mediums that connect us. These public projects are platforms for intimate interaction, an extension of feminist and queer praxis. She received her BA from Oberlin College, 1999; and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, 2007. She has exhibited at institutions including Carnegie Museum of Art, 2020; Oakland Museum of California, 2019; Jewish Museum, 2016; Tensta Konsthall, 2015; Brooklyn Museum, 2013; Museo Tamayo, 2010; New Museum, 2009; amongst others. She is currently developing a permanent public artwork for Schenley Park in Pittsburgh and a collaboration with Dana Bishop-Root for Counterpublic, St Louis 2023.

(they/them) is a research-based artist working in printmaking, book arts, time-based media, and social practice. Their work lives at the intersections of queer theory, ecology, and critical animal studies in the context of settler colonialism. Much of their creative practice centers on relationships, whether through collaboration, participation, interviews, or encounters with the more-than-human. Teed currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Art Department of University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on unceded Dakota territory. In Fall 2023, Teed will begin as faculty in Printmaking at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA.

(they/them) is a Denver-based artist working mostly with craft and DIY materials and techniques to create large plush sculptures, interactive works, and immersive installations. Frankie holds a BFA in Craft/Material studies from Virginia Commonwealth University, with a minor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s studies. Their current body of work focuses on the Queer Garden, a place that incorporates ideas of queer ecology to rethink human-centered narratives of relationships, family, selt, and the outdoors. Frankie has participated in many group shows and collaborations nationwide. Recent projects include a commission for Meow Wolf Denver’s Convergence Station and their public art installation “Public Body”. They have had residencies at RedLine (CO) and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN) among other places.

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(he/him) is an art historian and educator drawn to the intersection of critical theory and contemporary art. He received a BA in Art History from New York University with a focus on queer memory and affect in art of the AIDS crisis. A current MA candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, he is completing a thesis on queer ecological arts practices in relation to futurism and utopia. Shawn previously worked on the editorial staff of The Architect’s Newspaper, where he covered ecologically engaged projects on an international scale.