Jordan Jackson-McCoy & Danielle McCoy-Jackson: Jordan (he/him) and Danielle (she/her) are a creative duo representing the African-American and West Indian branches of the African Diaspora. Through their joint practice, Amen, Amen. Studio, they utilize graphic design, apparel & textile design, printmaking techniques and other methods from their cultural backgrounds as channels for expression and communication for personal and client projects.

Alim Ringgold is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Engaging primarily with ceramic sculpture and sound, they use these mediums as tools for developing a language of personal symbolism and spirituality informed by a desire to intermingle and dissolve the boundaries between our physical, spiritual, and emotional realities. Most recently performing and showing work under the moniker Neolith, Alim utilizes noise, performance, and sculptural installation to bring forth disruptive wisdom embedded in the metaphors of stone and the earth's many magical and transformative geologic processes.

Anne Chen (b.1991, DC) is a Taiwanese-American craft artist who makes things you can touch. Her work endeavors to bring to light the ancient histories and false narratives woven into objects. Her research explores how physical artifacts, whether stolen through colonization or having migrated in someone's suitcase, carry unspoken values that can only be revealed through context, the density of the environment, and the attention of the interpreter.

Arielle Wilkins is a U.S. Portland-based artist/designer raised in the heart of Texas. Color, creativity, and black pride intertwine in the magical mystery ride within Arielle's art. She effortlessly notes the evolution of the portrait painting tradition and makes anyone who views her pieces smile. Her characters exist in a world more bold and colorful than our own. Where natural hair roams free and strong yet relaxed/confident/ personas come to the forefront. Arielle's work is meant to prompt a wide spectrum of untapped exposure and celebration of black culture.

Bridgette Hickey is an artist who explores interspecies and multidimensional communication with her ancestors and beyond human beings. She works in repetitive, time-intensive traditional mediums of weaving fragmented and disembodied themes and materials. This includes weaving, writing, natural dyeing, quilting, sculpture, poetry, vocalizations, and performance. They are an artist, community herbalist, poet, educator, and care worker developing their skills in textiles, education, and grief facilitation. In the spring of 2023, Bridgette installed her floating sculpture “Amplification” at Oregon Contemporary for homeschoolpdx’s show “Omens of Capacity.” “Amplification” begins her new body of work: Symbology of an Echo/Dream Amulet.

Brit Abuya (They/Them) is a first-generation trans non-binary artist from the Filipinx diaspora based in Portland, OR. They grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, where their passion for creating art was formed. Their work navigates an indescribable urge to get to know themselves better. Their practice is confessional and deeply personal, unpacking their past and present experiences in an attempt to connect with others who might have parallel or similar experiences. All of their works are self-portraits unless stated otherwise. @just___brit

Bryan Yonki is an artist, sign painter, and teacher currently based in Portland, Oregon. His love for hand-painted signs began during his childhood in Santiago, Chile, where he grew up admiring the art adorning public transportation buses and witnessed the decline of this traditional craft. For the past seven years, Bryan resided in Los Angeles, California, where he taught himself the art of sign painting and established his own sign studio called "Well Done Signs" in 2016. Bryan actively shares his knowledge through workshops and frequently travels to offer these in various cities across the West Coast.

Christina Martin (She/they) is a Mexican-American, Queer, interdisciplinary artist and printmaker. Originally from Dallas Texas, they moved to Portland, OR where they received their MFA in Print Media from The Pacific Northwest College of Art. Christina’s work challenges traditional printmaking as well as traditional ideas. Their material exploration often transforms the print past paper, introducing and interlacing new forms of media with various printmaking techniques. Within their artistic practice, they engage in conversions of identity and expression. Their work is rooted within their own intersectionality and alternative embodied experience. Overall, their work evokes a space for self-exploration, self-love, and pleasure.

Claire Barrera is an artist, activist, and educator based in Portland, Oregon. They are the author of the new zine el lenguaje nos gusta y nos confunde and the coeditor of When Language Runs Dry. Upcoming collaborations include work with Allie Hankins and Maya Dalinsky. They work in anti-violence movements and organize with Brown Girl Rise.

Claire Gunville (Seattle, Washington) is a visual artist and printmaker based in Portland, Oregon. By employing used and outdated electronic items, her work ruminates on the ways in which humans have impacted our global ecology through technological advancements. Her work has been shown at Blackfish Gallery, MRKT Gallery, and Carnation Contemporary. She was awarded a Make|Learn|Build grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council in 2021. Claire works as the gallery assistant to Nucleus Portland and received her BFA in Printmaking from Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Daniel J Glendening is an artist and arts worker living in Northern California on Southern Pomo land. He has exhibited internationally, has published several essays, artist’s books, and one novel, and is a founding member of the artist-led paranormal research team GWC Investigators. Past work has included accumulating embodied objects, scouring the night skies for UFOs, speaking to ghosts in Eastern Oregon, and broadcasting messages to outer space.

Daniela Repas is a Bosnian born visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work ranges from drawing and animation to installation and film. She has shown her work nationally and internationally, from New York to New Zealand. She is a recipient of the Dorothy Lemelson Scholarship and an alumna of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she earned an MFA in Visual Studies. In 2019 she was a recipient of the Princess Grace Award and in 2020 an IEFTA Award. In 2023 she was awarded the Oregon Media Arts Fellowship Award for her work in film and visual arts.

Daphne Kauahi'ilani Jenkins is a culinary artist, writer, and micro baker whose work explores identity and belonging as a mixed Kanaka' Ōiwi and Keiki O Ka' Āina ("child of the land") born and raised in Hawai'i, now living in the diaspora. Through stories, recipes, and dishes, she expresses her deep love and longing for Hawai'i while allowing herself to break tradition and embrace diasporic influences as joyful play. Her work aims to disrupt the mainstream media constructs of "Hawai'i" and "Hawaiians" by leveraging intrigue and deliciousness to add nuance, depth, and complexity of flavors and textures to conversations about Hawai'i.

Emilly Prado is an award-winning author, journalist, educator, and D.J. Her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA, won a 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Award, among others. Her writing has appeared in 30+ publications, including NPR, Marie Claire, Eater, and The Oregonian. She is a Tin House and Las Dos Brujas workshop alum. She has earned fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Randolph College MFA, where she graduated, and a journalism fellowship (awarded by Oregon Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Pulitzer Prizes). Emilly co-founded BIPOC arts non-profit, Portland in Color, and Noche Libre Latiné DJ collective.

Jordany Genao is a Dominican interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Queens, New York (Lenapehoking). Their work has a reverence for nature while also building on Dominican folk art and identity, which pays homage to Arawak-Taino ancestry. Their practice emphasizes visual and theoretical connections between Arawak-Taino cosmology, ceramics, Caribbean plants, and queerness. Since Genao received their BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2014, their work has been featured in group shows at Flux Factory and Turley Gallery, among others. They completed their MFA at Hunter College in May 2023.

Julia Keefe (Nez Perce) is an internationally acclaimed Native American jazz vocalist, bandleader, actor, and educator based in New York City. Her professional career has spanned nearly two decades, and she has headlined marquee events at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., NMAI-NY, as well as opened for the likes of 20-time GRAMMY Award winner Tony Bennett and 4-time GRAMMY Award winner Esperanza Spalding. Her life's work is the revival and honoring of the legendary Coeur d'Alene jazz musician Mildred Bailey. It leads the campaign for Bailey's induction into the Jazz Hall of Fame at Lincoln Center. In addition to rehearsing for an upcoming album, she is currentlydirecting the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band, a new project highlighting the history and future of Indigenous people in jazz, and the Mildred Bailey Project, which will be releasing its first studio recording in the fall of 2023.

Kyle b. co. is a transdisciplinary artist, performer, and printmaker. Their work often investigates cultural modes of violence through the material engagement of imbued objects, imagery, and surfaces. They are currently exploring race as an embodied sense through the mediums of sound and performance.

Laura Heit An interdisciplinary artist, Laura Heit’s work has been exhibited and screened in the US and abroad, at venues including Track 16 (Los Angeles, CA), Boise Art Museum (Boise ID), Adams and Ollman (Portland, OR), The Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, OR), The Schneider Museum of Art (Ashland OR), She Works Flexible (Houston, TX), REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), MoMA (NYC, NY), Millennium Film (NYC, NY), Pompidou (Paris, France), TBA Festival (Portland, OR), and Detroit Institute of the Arts (Detroit, MI) among others. She currently lives and works in Portland Oregon.

Mali Obomsawin is a bassist, singer, and composer from Odanak First Nation and one of GRAMMY.com's top ten emerging jazz artists to watch this year. Her debut album, Sweet Tooth (Out of Your Head Records, 2022), garnered international acclaim and was named in 'Best of the Year' lists from The Guardian, NPR, and JazzTimes upon its release. Evocative and thunderous, Sweet Tooth delivers a gripping and dynamic performance, seamlessly melding chorale-like spirituals, folk melodies, and post-Albert Ayler free jazz. Obomsawin's ensemble occupies a completely different musical universe, bringing skronk and reverence to every stage.

Marvin Parra Orozco is a Portland-based printmaker. His interdisciplinary work focuses on identity, culture, spirituality, and uplifting marginalized communities. He uses layering, cultural symbols, abstraction, fragments, and photo collage as a means of creating a utopian world. Marvin Parra Orozco uses prayer as a means of survival. His hopes and dreams with his work are to help others imagine a different kind of world where love and community are at the root.

Matt Perez is an artist from Northwest Indiana living in Portland, Oregon. Perez graduated from the University of Southern Indiana (USI) with an emphasis on woodworking and sculpture. After completing the Efroymson Family Bridge Year Fellowship, Perez was accepted into the Pacific Northwest College of the Arts (PNCA) Masters Program for Visual Studies. Perez completed his master’s degree from PNCA in 2020, has exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions in Indiana and Oregon, and was a panelist during the 2019 International Sculpture Conference in Portland. Perez has worked as an assistant to the sculptor Pete Beeman.

Maya Lewis went to Arcadia University, where she received her BFA in Painting and Art Therapy in 2019. After returning home to Albany, she explored many different mediums: murals, jewelry, pottery, and paper-making. She's been in a few local shows, including Albany International Airport, Saratoga Arts Center, and Second Street Studio. She works at Hamilton Hill Arts Center in Schenectady, NY, where she teaches art to children ages 5-13. She finds time for her personal work as a Waterbrook Potter's Studio member. She plans to do more projects that uplift Black artists in the Capital Region.

Melanie Griffin is a Virginia-based artist who was born in Georgia. She received a B.A. in Visual Arts at Antioch College in 2004. Through textiles and performance, Melanie explores issues around home, sickness, healing, race, gender, and sexuality. She creates talismanic-like pieces through vibrant colors, geometric shapes, and symbolism. She has been a part of group shows at the Pasadena Arts Armory, the Queer Biennial, Human Resources, SOMArts, and LACE. Melanie has attended residencies at The Los Angeles Feminist Center, Marble House, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center For The Arts, and Millay.

Sara Victorio (she/her) is a Filipino American ceramicist from the San Francisco Bay Area. She moved to Portland, Oregon, in 2016 to pursue a bachelor’s degree in social sciences. Her ceramic work converges form, function, and color with an emphasis on traditional methods. She reveres traditional craft and folk art as integral touchstones for the longevity and utility of beautiful objects in the everyday. Sara strives to soften the boundaries between craft and fine art in order to increase accessibility and spotlight the grit of handmaking.

Tamika Abaka-Wood (b. 1989, London, UK) is an NYC-based cultural anthropologist, strategist, and artist. Tamika’s practice is anti-disciplinary and honors the in-between, emergent, and liminal. Dependent on context and power structures, she is devoted to being invited or trespassing into worlds to interrogate and explore both from an “inside” and an “outside” perspective to co-create more potent, equitable, and life-enhancing possibilities for our futures. She’s deadly serious but having fun with it at the same time. More info on: www.tamikabakawood.com or www.dial-an-ancestor.com

Zoë Gamell Brown is a queer Boviander Guyanese American integrative artist, educator, and storyteller based at Kalapuya Ilihi in Eugene, Oregon. Their work explores multiplicity within Guyanese relationality, extending from and beyond South American shores to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf Coast through ceramics, culinary catharsis, creative nonfiction, experimental video, restorative cartography, and photopoetry. Brown is a doctoral student in the University of Oregon Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies’ inaugural cohort and a New Media Culture Certificate recipient. They are a teaching apprentice with Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools, a Seeding Justice Lila Jewel Award winner, and a Charles A. Reed Graduate Fellow through the UO College of Arts and Sciences. Learn more about their work: zoegamell.com.