(she/her) is a painter, meditator and teacher. Over decades, skills I developed for each of these disciplines have broken away from their separate categories to converse with each other in ways that I’m often slow to realize. It’s much more fun to approach life this way—by allowing the story of what we think we are or want to be, allowing that story to collapse. That way, everyday activities like cooking, sewing, writing to a friend, can join painting, meditating, and teaching in a jubilant defeat of categories.

(she/they) is a interdisciplinary visual artist whose work intersects photography, performance, and material culture to destabilize colonial and post-colonial cultural legacies through form and shape. As a transnational individual of African, Indigenous, Iberian, and Franco-Anglo-Saxon descent, her works touch on issues of translation and content transference of African diasporas, colonial and post-colonial cultural legacies, visualities, and cosmologies, using material culture to challenge photography and its Eugenicist tradition, to question how we relate to photography as an indexical device and, to open decolonizing possibilities.

Paula was selected to participate in the Light Work Artist Residency in 2022 and is currently pursuing an MFA at The School of the Institute of Art and Design of Chicago from which she was awarded a full merit-based scholarship. She holds a BFA with a concentration in Photography from UNC Greensboro.

She was awarded the 2020 Hariban Juror's Choice Award chosen by Lucy Gallun and the Silver 2020 Fine Art Award from the Budapest International Photo Award. She exhibited at the Weatherspoon Museum and the Southeastern Center for Photography. Her first solo exhibition is scheduled for January 2024 at the Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill.

(he/him) was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, more specifically in the Globeville community. Beginning as a graffiti writer, Anthony has since grown into a multifaceted creative entrepreneur and community leader. His artistic style incorporates traditional Chicano motifs. He pays homage to cultural, geographical, and historical contexts through the implementation of modern techniques and exploration of pop trends.

He is co-founder of the Birdseed Collective, a Denver-based nonprofit that aims to make a positive impact in local communities through programs and projects that emphasize creativity, educating and enabling the disadvantaged and the under-resourced.

(he/they) is an artist, educator, and scholar (BA, Naropa University, Fine Art and Environmental Studies; MFA, University of Denver, Emergent Digital Practices). They create adaptable and multicentered artworks about a mythic anthropocene and posthuman world by activating appropriation and digital/analog remix and collage strategies, and working with both a personal media archive and open algorithmic systems. Their work incorporates 2D / 3D digital fabrication, videos, installation, performance, and the internet. Phillips is Assistant Professor & FabLab Coordinator at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. They have exhibited extensively locally, nationally, internationally, and virtually. They live and work in Boulder, Colorado.

(she/her) (b. Montréal, Québec) is an interdisciplinary artist who works in still and moving image media. Her work engages and challenges representation, portraiture, racialized experience, and language in the United States through abstraction and experimental image-making in multi-year projects.

Warden’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Pictura Gallery, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and The University of Kansas Art & Design Gallery. Her work has been featured in publications, including Harper’s Magazine, Southwest Contemporary, Strange Fire Collective, Lenscratch, and Light Work’s Contact Sheet.

Warden was awarded artist residencies through the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists, Art Intersection, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, LATITUDE, ACRE, and Light Work. She received a BFA and BA from Arizona State University and an MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024.

(she/her) makes detailed pen, ink and colored pencil drawings, ceramic and wood sculptures, and Internet art. Wohlner is interested in real and imagined connections, unchecked growth, endurance, and how individuals find their place in digital and physical communities, and these themes recur in her artwork.

Wohlner’s solo exhibitions include Wildfruit Projects in Saint Louis, the Saint Kate in Milwaukee, and the Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery in Los Angeles. Wohlner’s notable Internet work includes co-founding Lex, a popular location-based queer community and dating app.

Jen Wohlner lives and works in Saint Louis, Missouri. She received her BFA from the University of Southern California in 2010 and will receive her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024.

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(she/they) is an artist, researcher and taijiquan teacher in the Yang lineage. They received their BA from Naropa University and are currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They study and teach T’ai Chi Ch’uan with Rocky Mountain T’ai Chi Ch’uan. They are a student and practitioner of Sogetsu Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging). Lord creates improvisatory 2.5 dimensional collages with remnant and hand-made fabric in dialog with queer and feminist hand-making traditions. Themes of harmony, precarity, and sensuality express their devotion to the natural world in this time of climate chaos. Recent exhibitions include Little Creatures at Boulder Public Library, Winter Blooms at Alto Gallery, Cryptic Perfume at Razzle Dazzle Museum, and Rainbow Above the Ruins with Noah Travis Phillips at Dateline Gallery. Bigger View(s): Earth, Anthropocene, Beauty, an exhibition curated by Lord, was part of the citywide event One Book One Boulder in 2021. Lord recently completed a residency at Mountain Water, a land restoration project that combines contemplative practice with creative expression. They are always reading several books concurrently. Born in Salt Lake City, they live, work, and teach in Boulder, Colorado. Their work is held in several private collections.