Lu Valena
Executive Director
Lu Valena is a working artist, researcher, consultant and energy healer based in Jamaica Plain, MA. They were raised in the woods of coastal New Hampshire, got a BA in studio art from Hampshire College and an Masters in Gastronomy from BU. They are the former owner of coffeehouse and gallery Voltage Coffee & Art. Lu lives with their husband John and two extravagantly beautiful cats.
Cody VanWinkle
Art Director
Cody VanWinkle graduated from the Hugh Downs School of Media Fabrication, but took a meandering journey through visual art in order to arrive at something resembling journalism. He has lived all over the United States and currently resides in St. Paul, MN. He would like to someday combine his passions for making ice cream and knitting.
Jordyn Bonds
Programmer In Residence
Jordyn Bonds was born in North Dakota and has been collaging since high school. She also makes music, software, and tea (in ascending order of quantity). She has very little formal training in anything herself, but values and admires the studied expertise of others.
Special Thanks To
Kai-ching Chang, Co-founder and Musical Director of the original manifestation of this initiative
Hannah Epstein, Graphic Designer, for creating our branding
Christine Fernsebner Eslao, Librarian In Residence, for designing our call number system
Participating Artists
Wilmer Aburto is a Mokhinstis (Calgary) based photographer and multidisciplinary artist who captures the resilience of underrepresented communities. Born in Nicaragua and shaped by his cultural experiences, Aburto's work celebrates the intersection of identity, culture, and social transformation. His photography has earned international recognition, with exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and features in Freq Magazine and Imago Mundi alongside the Venice Biennale. Through his curatorial project, "Alphabet Mafia" for Calgary Pride, Aburto created a platform celebrating 2SLGBTQIA+ artistry and challenging traditional art narratives. Aburto's commitment to cultural exchange reaches beyond borders. In Nicaragua, he facilitates youth art projects and workshops for education providers, nurturing creative voices in underserved communities. His multimedia installations, including "Calm in the Storm" for Team Rubicon Canada, which explores the impact of climate change, weave complex social narratives into powerful artistic experiences. Through his practice, Aburto shows how art can amplify voices, challenge perceptions, and drive social change. Instagram: @wilmerphotography
Adams is a Brazilian student, author, screenwriter and director. They live in Natal, a seaside city, where they are always trying to find the balance between writing/creating and studying Psychology at the state's university. And they may just have found that balance.
An avid crafter, Carrie Adams lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts with her wife and feline familiar. You are likely to catch her reading on the beach, rearranging the furniture, or drinking anything bubbly.
Catherine Aiello is an artist working in printmaking, textiles and drawing. She's interested in using making as a way to connect with others and document the world around her, including social and interpersonal phenomena, in non traditional ways. She lives and works in Western Massachusetts. Follow her on Instagram at @aiello_catherine and at http://www.catherineaiello.com
When Shane Allison is not writing poems in a Barnes &Noble cafe, he's working tirelessly on new art. His new collection of poems "Turbulent" is available at Hysterical Books and Amazon.
Rebecca Aranda is an LA-based photographer. Her main area of focus is documentary photography; she shoots events and weddings as her day job and is working on long-term documentary projects in the meantime. She adores the Bait/Switch ethos and wishes she could come out to Boston to meet all the lovely artists involved. Until then, she invites you to follow her on instagram at @arandaphotos and say hello if you're ever in Los Angeles (she knows all the best places to get tacos and vegetarian food).
ARG is a writer, teacher, expressive artist, teen life coach, and a mom to two girls ages 21 and 16 and a golden doodle, Roxy. She runs writing groups for girls and lgbtq+ kids and produces an annual literary zine called Book and Cake. She is thrilled to collaborate with Anni for bait/switch because the conversations that the collaboration initiated were illuminating, freeing, and at times hilarious. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children. AEG is a junior in high school whose creative pursuits range from wood burning to assistant teaching arts in Morelia, Mexico at Hogar Irekani orphanage. She enjoys cooking, lacrosse, babysitting, and hanging with her friends.
Alison Arens is a textile collage artist working in the Twin Cities, in Minnesota. She creates quilts and other textiles utilizing thrifted and recycled materials. Her work explores the borders of what is natural.
Hagen Atkins: As someone who has mercurial moods I strive to capture the feelings of a moment, while simultaneously considering the lens of looking to past events. I do this through often exaggerated colors and mark making. Despite sometimes depicting more solemn moments I always love looking for the joke that can often be found if you cross your eyes hard enough.
Melody Attarha is a stop-motion animator from Boston, currently based in São Paulo. Melody draws inspiration from early animators and likes to experiment with unconventional techniques. She also works with puppets, cut paper, and illustration. You can see more of her animated work at vimeo.com/melodyattarha.
Avi is a Boston based teacher and film photographer who has been shooting for 11 years mostly with her/their Canon AE1. Avi loves documenting every day life experiences, both with portraits and urban and rural landscapes. They also shoot collaborative portraits that are meant to empower and embolden their subjects especially for other queer folks or folks with other marginalized identities. As described in a website review: “Each photograph is a vibrant, unfiltered keepsake of an ephemeral moment given over to memory."
Blaine Bacchiocchi is a Fine Artist and Art Educator. She is currently finishing her Masters Degree in Visual Art Education in the Boston Area and resides in Buzzard’s Bay Massachusetts. Blaine has a life-long love of creative endeavors and enjoys working in a range of media. Her current project is a mixed media installation dealing with the role of Visual Art education as part of a holistic education practice, and in particular when it comes to the needs of social emotional students, with a little bit of psychological theory thrown in the mix for good measure. She enjoys finding layers of connections between issues and concepts that may otherwise seam disparate and exploring those connections through the use of 2D and 3D materials.
Born and raised in Boston, MA, artist Josh Baptista completed his Bachelor’s of Fine Art at Montserrat College of Art at Montserrat College of Art in 2002. Josh subsequently pursued his Master’s of Fine Art from American University in Washington D.C., graduating in 2009. Josh currently lives and works in Providence, R.I.
Laura Barth is an artist, musician, and horticulturist from Eau Claire, Wisconsin currently living in the mountains of North Carolina. Primary media include photography (digital and analog), graphite, charcoal, and watercolor. Laura has a degree in music performance from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, and a Bachelor's and Master's degree in horticulture from North Carolina State University.
Ann Beardsley lives in Charlotte, NC, and spends her time sailing, walking, and reading, when she isn't making quilts. She grew up sewing with 4-H and graduated to quilts when left on her own for six months without a television. She was inspired in this by her daughter Kelly Walsh, who was featured in the Spring 2023 issue of Bait/Switch. She is the owner and founder of Nurse in a Bag (www.nurseinabag.com).
Aimee Belanger is a Boston-based illustrator, ceramicist, and art educator. She is interested in botanical and anatomical illustration, mystical symbolism, and discussing the cultural impact of memes with her brilliant and hilarious high school students. She is a resident artist at The Clay School in Lynn and the humble servant to an 11 pound tabby cat named Molly.
Sky Benson is a self taught artist who evolves with every piece. Much of his art work is aimed at destigmatizing sexuality and adult themes in western society by placing them under the veil of elementary art concepts. Basic human forms are often overlayed with abstract and geometric shapes and patterns in simple or primary color pallets.
Cynthia Berger is a multi-media artist working in St Paul. Her recent series of work has included paintings, small heart sculptures in tins, and ceramic pieces of hearts on cake stands.
A broken-hearted indie-punk intellectual whose idea of heaven is 2014-era Tumblr, D.S. Bigham is a writer currently trying to get the fuck out of Texas.
Church Goin Mule, or Marshall Blevins, is a southern artist who was born and raised across the south, her kinfolk came from the mountains, though she lives in the flatland swamp of Louisiana now. You can find her online at churchgoinmule.com
Katherine Blouch (1980, Brooklyn NY, United States) is an artist who works with a variety of media. Choosing mainly spray foam, she creates personal moments and daily life. She develops re-imagined forms from her childhood memories and everyday life.
Karen Bolan is a quilt artist, teacher, and quilt pattern designer in northern California. With a background in civil engineering, it’s no surprise she is drawn to the layers of design and expression possible in quilting, loves experimenting, and strives to find efficiencies in process and material use. She teaches nationally and her work has been featured in local and international quilt and art shows. You can learn more about Karen's work at www.karenbolan.com.
Jordyn Bonds was born in North Dakota and has been collaging since high school. She also makes music, software, and tea (in ascending order of quantity). She has very little formal training in anything herself, but values and admires the studied expertise of others.
Tanner Frost Bowen is a textile artist expressing identity through color, pattern, and texture.
Helen Bragger is UK based and works to stop financial fraud. She loves to explore multiple arts and crafts mediums to feel connected to history and nature. She has a particular focus on fiber art, such as weaving, and linocut printing.
William Brayton graduated from the University of New Hampshire, cum laude in studio art, and received an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles. Brayton has exhibited his work in a broad range of venues including: The Barrows Rotunda, Dartmouth College; The Mount, Lenox, MA; The Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY; The Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge, MA; Soil Gallery, Seattle WA; and the Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Sculpture Magazine, Art New England, The Seattle Times, and The Boston Globe.
E Brown is a farmer living on the northshore of Massachusetts where they were born and raised. They focus most of their art on music, block printing, and poetry.
Zach Bruno: Friends and family come and go, but kickflips are forever and you'll look hella dope. Follow me on my journey making dumb sounds for cool games @zachbrunomusic on your favorite social media platforms.
Tom Buckland is an Australian visual artist who deals in a correspondence of imaginary worlds. With sculpture, performance, and video he creates work heavily influenced by his own fascination with science fiction and fantasy, topped off with a refined joyful absurdism. He enjoys playing with audience interaction, taking much enjoyment in transporting his audience to other worlds across space and time.
Laura Bullock is an oil painter and ceramist based in Birmingham, AL. I’m focused on making works that represent fleeting moments from life that are otherwise only glanced at, or happen too quickly to be captured. I use recognizable but unfamiliar subjects as a bridge between my experience and others’.
Max Bussell is an artist originally from Ohio and has been living in LA since 2010. Grew up skateboarding every day and has transferred that same dedication to painting. Loves impressionist painters like Cezanne, Monet, Van Gogh.
Katie Byrd loves making things. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her current interests include jewelry, books, embroidery, and beadwork, though if you looked in her craft room, you’d also find supplies for woodworking, sewing, collage, drawing, and more.
Chick Byrne earned a BFA in studio art from Denison University in 2009. His work is an amalgamation of several art theories; focusing on the divine aspects inherent in everyone. He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Jack Cahillane is a musician and poet currently completing his senior year at Princeton University. Having discovered the power of music at a very young age, Jack found music and poetry to be the most effective means of expression through his personal struggles with mental health and addiction. His work seeks to borrow themes from his personal journey of recovery to convert painful experience into beautiful expression.
Jesse Caldwell: a photograph is a photograph is a photograph & i believe in making a photograph any way i can. is this my artist statement? i don’t know, there’s only this compulsion to depress the shutter button and try to make things stay still for once in my life.
Thibaut Camdessus: I was trained as a film director in Paris (BA Film Direction, ESRA 1983), and directed 3 short movies about art: Pollock, Klasen and Rocher. I was twice awarded (in 1992 and 1993) the Citère Grant (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) to research how new media technologies could be applied to create art. I was then hired to design the world first stock market website (NASDAQ, 1995) and created the Market Site wall for for the NASDAQ IPO lounge in New York (now also a landmark in Times Square). I went on to create web sites for major brands (Morgan Stanley, McDonald’s, Encyclopedia Britannica, Bayard) and the government of Taipei. From these experiences on data visualisation, grew the desire to control random feeds of numbers to create more “meaningful” abstract compositions. After several gallery shows in Singapore and Bangkok, I was invited as an Artist Resident at the Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts. This culminated in a retrospective of all my works at the Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center. For the Club Signature of the So Sofitel I created an installation around the 5 elements of the chinese Wu Xing. At the 2017 "Livre Paris" I was invited for a performance to create 80 artworks with the fair visitors.. For the past 10 years I have been writing l'Atelier de l'Aléatoire; a generative art application.
Laura Campagna is a story teller from Boston, MA. Also known as The Wednesday Witch, she is a practicing astrologer, tarot card reader and energy healer who posts weekly and monthly forecasts on social media. Laura's first novel, The Eleventh House, about a group of friends in New York City at the turn of the 21 century is forthcoming.
Julie Caves is a painter fascinated by sunlight, her paintings are full of ambiguity to allow the viewer to find themselves in the painting and she likes to see the paint before seeing the subject matter. She has an MA from Camberwell College of Art and completed the 2-year Studio Painting Programme at Turps Art School. She lives and works in East London and Margate, UK.
Dustin Cecil lives and works in Eastern Kentucky with a variety of materials, typically connected in some way to fiber arts and traditional crafts. Naturally suspicious of technology, Dustin tries to remain open minded about the coming digital 'singularity'- while exploring what it means to still be human. He remains hopeful that self-expression through some form of needlework will endure until the end of time (at least as we know it).
Kimi Ceridon is a food-lover with a background in technology. She combines her talents to create great food experiences with a bit of science and engineering. She holds a Masters in Gastronomy and Chef's Certificate from Boston University as well as Masters in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. She left her cubicle to pursue a multi-faceted (read:confused and torturous) life as a writer, personal chef, culinary instructor, event planner and try-anythinger who loves to ride a motorcycle, get outdoors and urban homestead. Follow along with her blog about "Cooking & Confessions from a Midlife Crisis" at www.noreturnticket.kceridon.com
Pianist/composer Kai-Ching Chang likes to explore the possibility of sound to capture emotion and feeling on the subjects. Taiwanese and Bostonian.
Zaccharie Charvolin: I am a physically disabled artist, with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. My work tends to focus on describing what that means to me. My medium of choice is photography and digital manipulation / digital illustration.
Lila Chatfield is an artist focused on quilts and mending, living in Brighton, UK. Her work tells stories of memory, place, mental health, relationships and love, looking at human experiences that range from the mundane to the sublime. She plays in an intuitive, improvisational way, often with discarded or vintage cloth and found objects, gently pushing the boundaries of what is and isn’t a quilt. She hand sews almost exclusively, meaning that her work, which combines both abstract and figurative composition elements, has an organic feel that embraces the joy of the imperfect and the unexpected.
chengchingyu is a Porto-based ghost, wandering in Portugal, born in Taiwan. Not yet an architect; not yet an artist. Follow on Instagram @chengchingyu.ii and read more at https://cargocollective.com/chengchingyu
Debbie Chessell is an independent artist who creates public art works, paintings and prints, and teaches across the South of the UK. She has been exhibiting for almost ten years and has pieces held in international collections including Dumfries House (Scotland, UK), St George's Hospital (London, UK) and the Suzzallo Library (Washington, USA). Her projects have been supported by O2, Mayor of London, SHEDx, Kingston Council and more - check out her current interactive public art project 'The Beehive' on her website www.debbiechessell.com
Sam Church is mysterious AF.
Jaina Cipriano is a photographer, filmmaker, writer and experiential designer whose work delves into the emotional complexities of religious and romantic entrapment. Through her immersive worlds, she invites viewers to reconnect with their neglected inner child, using explosive colors, elements of elevated play, and a dynamic interplay of light and dark to evoke deep, often unspoken emotions. In her photographic work, Jaina crafts everything in her studio, building elaborate sets and environments for the camera . She studied at the New England School of Photography and The Griffin Museum. She has shown at Leica Gallery Boston, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston University and Kingston Gallery. Her work has been published over 200 times and selected for the top 200 of Critical Mass 2024. As a filmmaker, Jaina writes and directs award-winning short films that navigate the challenging path of healing. Her second short film, Trauma Bond, a dreamy coming-of-age thriller that explores the allure of quick fixes for deep wounds, won the grand prize at the Lonely Seal International Film Festival. Jaina is the owner and executive director of the Arlington International Film Festival and the founder of Finding Bright Studios, an experiential design company based in Lowell, MA. She has collaborated with GRRL HAUS, Boston Art Review, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and was a Boston Fellow for the MassArt Creative Business Incubator. Jaina was a finalist in EforAll Merrimack Valley in 2022 and a 2025 recipient of New England Foundation for the Arts Public Learning Fund. She is currently enrolled in the Furniture Design Certificate Program at MassArt. jainaphoto.com @jainastudio
B Shawn Cox, an artist living and working in Austin TX, explores the traditional, transformative process of quilting via surface, pattern and the use of processed material as mark. Through various modes of palimpsest, he confront feelings of abandonment through their manipulation of familiar materials. Through cutting, folding, and re-assembly the artist adapts a patina of touch that conveys a sense of nostalgia to the viewer.
Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy is a fat-lady Jewish artist in Wheaton IL who makes quilts, tends the hearth, and mends the world in equal measures. Her training has included educational policy & methods and community development & justice work. Self-taught in design & construction, her textile art tends toward themes of body liberation and mental health.
Christopher Dallman is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based singer, songwriter, and producer. He used to make sad folk music. Now he makes electronic music. Life is wild.
Heather Dappen is a freelance graphic designer, artist, and muralist hailing from rural Washington State. She usually exercises her whimsy in the morning, and then settles into her analytical side by dinner. Every time Heather begins a new project, she feels baffled and grateful that her work allows her to solve puzzles in a playful and colorful manner.
A software lead by profession, a mixed media artist by addiction Debjani Das is from Great Britain of Indian Origin, who is passionate about South Asian folk painting style named Alpana. She lives in the UK and works in Data and Analytics division of a renowned local Bank. She is proficient in glass paintings, water colour techniques, acrylics on textiles and she finds no division or boundaries but limitless opportunities in the realm of Art and Craft in comparison to all other sectors of life.
Deejayeetee is also known as Jesse Tokarz. Among other things, I’m an electronic musician living near Boston, MA with my wife and cats. You can find my music in the usual places, including deejayeetee.bandcamp.com, and I’m on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook as Deejayeetee.
Nathaniel Devarie was raised in Easton, Pennsylvania and studied painting and sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). He relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, where he continues to paint and model for artists and classes. Switching between different mediums helps him to think differently and explore new avenues, as well as keep his mind sharp and excited to explore and experiment. Instagram: @nate_devarie Website: https://natedevarie.com/
Melissa Diaz is a Latinx artist, art therapist, educator & community arts organizer; she integrates these roles by threading wellness and inclusion throughout. Melissa primarily works in interactive installation art, exploring inner (intrapsychic) & outer space (interpsychic), while highlighting the power of playful engagement. She holds 14 years of experience in Art Therapy, as a therapist, program director, and Creative Arts Therapy Instructor. In addition to her therapeutic practice, Melissa founded, Open House BK (estb. 2010), a Brooklyn based, community arts initiative; and continues to exhibit widely throughout the nation. Read more at https://www.melissadiazart.com/ and follow on Instagram at @m_diaz_art
Disco Nap is an electronic dance/pop duo based in Boston. Band members Charlotte Huffman and Alison Murray are inspired by making bodies move.
Eviko (Evi Doe) is an artist living in New Zealand. Active in online art community spaces for most of her adult life, she produces both original and fan illustrations and comics. Her work often is digital, stylised to look like traditional mediums.
Frances Donovan's chapbook Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore is a finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards. Publication credits include Snapdragon, Oddball Magazine, and SWWIM. She once drove a bulldozer in a GLBTQ+ Pride Parade while wearing a bustier.
Mairen Doyle is a cartoonist, illustrator, and muralist from Toronto, Canada. Her main influences are space, disco, and Delia Deetz from Beetlejuice. Check out more of her work at www.mairendoyle.com, or on instagram: @wowflower1.
Wendy Drexler is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her fourth collection, Notes from the Column of Memory, was published in September 2022 by Terrapin Books. She’s been the poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, since 2018, and is programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club.
Charleston Ducote was born and raised in southern Louisiana and is currently a biochemistry and graphic design student in colorful Colorado. In her search to find her own artistic voice, her work investigates the coexistence of beauty and terror, as well as deconstructing trauma and empowering women.
Steven Dubrowski: 27 year old trans freak, artist and animal lover, I have been creating art as soon as I could hold a pencil. I have and will always be an artist, in everything I do. Enjoy my first published work, @steven_creates is my instagram
Pia Dugger is a painter who lives and works in Boynton Beach Florida. Painting in oils and acrylics she creates intellectual art in bright colors including glitch and pixel imagery contrasting with natural specimens, osteology and anatomy. Pia’s work highlights the ongoing struggle of natural beings in a technology- and profit-driven world.
Justice Dwight Is a self-taught visual artist who was born in Plainfield New Jersey but raised in Richmond Virginia. Besides being inspired by his family, he looks up to Black artists like Barkley Hendricks, Bisa Butler, and Derrick Adams. While also being in group shows, he's had the pleasure of sharing his art online which has given me the opportunity to create work for the University of Maryland and celebrities such as Issa Rae, Big Freedia, and Azealia Banks.
Denise Dynes is a wife and mother of four fantastic kiddos and spends her free time painting, practicing yoga, and napping. Her creative work is often personal, coming from a rich spiritual life and a desire to learn and grow. For kicks and giggles, she works as a receptionist for a swimming pool company in Phoenix, Arizona.
mk Eagle has been folding small squares of paper into even smaller squares for over twenty years. If she isn’t doing something with her hands, she probably isn’t paying attention to you. She lives in Louisville, KY with two cats who do not respect her artistic process. Follow on Instagram at @mkeagle
Gwen Edwards: Based in the west of England, I work in the tech sector, but at heart I’m a maker and a mender. Whether its gardening, sewing, printing, drawing, or sculpting my brain and hands are never still. Lockdowns in the UK have brought hand quilting into my life, and I’m hooked!
Etienne Eisele is an interdisciplinary artist based in Switzerland.
Melanie Faith is a night-owl writer, educator, and editor who has enjoyed drawing for years but just recently got brave enough to share her perfectly imperfect doodles. Her latest book, From Promising to Published, was published by Vine Leaves Press earlier this year. Learn more about her books, art projects, writing, and classes at https://melaniedfaith.com/ or @frompromisingtopublished99 on Instagram.
Amanda Falcon Ramirez, a Puerto Rican artist in the UK, is close to graduating in Art History and Classical Studies. Inspired by nature's beauty, her creations reflect both academic exploration and a personal journey towards self-kindness.
Jesse Farber’s sound and visual works suspend the distinction between natural and synthetic, opening space for questioning this division. He has exhibited and been a resident artist throughout the US and Europe, and his audio works have appeared in album releases, film scores, live events, and broadcasts. Jesse lives and works in Berlin. Follow on Instagram at @jesse.farber
Aiden K. Feltkamp is a collaborative artist who loves to write opera libretti, poetry, and experimental short fiction. They work for the American Composers Orchestra as their Emerging Composers and Diversity Director, and they're the Artistic Director/Founder of OperaRox Productions, a non-profit that hires underrepresented classical music artists and creates socially relevant opera. Most importantly, they're a trans nonbinary coffee fiend.
FemTotale is Madeline Martin: In my work, I harness the power of the female experience and explore the human ability to deeply transform oneself. I embarked on my healing journey in 2019 and it is thus the root inspiration for all my collections. My work explores themes around inner shame, identity, and fear - the deeper and often darker sides of the human experience.
Melissa Ferrick has released seventeen albums over the last twenty-five years and has won numerous awards for songwriting, production, and performance. On August 15th, 2023 Ferrick is releasing their first single in eight years, Black Dress, via the venerable Kill Rock Stars Records. Melissa is regarded in the industry and by their peers as one of the most prolific, generous, and hardworking people in the business.
Rafael Flores is a self-portrait photographer and artist from Canada. I create dark and surreal painterly like images that have been very therapeutic for me. I always create in the comfort of my home with my self-timer remote and my portable studio lights.
Rebecca Flores Martinez is turning 47 and actually living in Belgium and working in the theatre & dance industry, creating characters using different tools like masks, wigs, headpieces or/and makeup.
Liz Fohl is an LA-based songwriter, producer, and vocalist. In addition to her original songs, she creates music for multiple television shows, commercials, podcasts, and recently a lot of children’s programming! Liz enjoys combining organic and inorganic sound elements to create unique musical textures. You can find her work online (spotify etc) and at www.lizfohl.com
Ivoire Foreman is a black, queer and trans maker and a mixer. They employ a melange of media, experiences, pop culture, childhood, time periods, sound, Trans magic, multiple mediums and uncomfortableness - each filtered through assemblage processes. The results are contemporary art that re(re)appropriates, reflects and distorts dysphoria and marginalization while offering validation through visibility.
Raised in rural North Carolina and now living in Brooklyn, New York, Zak Foster is a self-taught textile artist whose work draws on Southern textile traditions while incorporating found fabrics and natural dyes. He practices an approach to design that is intuitive and improvisational and he is drawn to preserving the stories of quilts and specializes in memory quilts. His work has been featured in various magazines, websites, and galleries. Learn more about his work in his monthly email, Motivation for the Maker, at www.zakfoster.com/newsletter.
Alia Hamada Forrest is a poet, though she often forgets this superpower as she is also a mother of two young children and the executive director of a nonprofit. She is originally from Phoenix, AZ, but has lived in Boston, MA for half her life. Although Alia loves working with people, her favorite hobby is being alone.
Aerik Francis is a Queer Black & Latinx poet based in Denver, CO. They are the author of the poetry chapbook MISEDUCATION (NDR 2023), named the winner of the 2022 New Delta Review Chapbook Prize, and poetry chapbook BODYELECTRONIC (Trouble Department 2022). Check out their website phaentompoet.com for more fun poetry stuff & things
Sam Francis: Meaningful words, thoughts and poems told by the sincere voices of my illustrated characters. Follow on Instagram at @samuals.doodles
“FRKSE is Boston’s apex in the (under)current of esoteric rhythmic noise and hypnotic sampling...awakening elder mantras, inspiring the sacred and the paradoxical.” - J. Morse
Katie B Funk: Building a mercurial space in both the making and the made, her work endlessly chases the spaces that allow for static work to come alive and live work to stand still. Peering through multi-sourced lens in a cross pollinated practice, she hunts the possibilities of a tender construction through deconstruction, always making certain to leave a light on down the hall.
Elena Garrigolas: I’m a 24-year-old artist from a small town in Girona (Catalunya, Spain). I studied Fine Arts in the University of Barcelona and I graduated in 2020. Since then, I’ve been drawing non-stop and started to create my own world.
Alana Garrigues is an intuitive artist and poet who hails from the Pacific Northwest land of cedar and ferns and now resides among trees of the deciduous sort in Holden, MA. Infinitely curious about the what-ifs, the wonder of life, and the in-between, she spends her time exploring what paints and words and bodies and thoughts can create. Find her on Instagram @alanaofloveandlight or on her website at alanagarrigues.com.
Kyle Gerry is a freelance dancer and teacher based in New York City. He has worked most recently with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, and has also danced dozens of works by Merce Cunningham, including several of Cunningham’s solo roles. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a degree in Political Science and Economics. Follow on Instagram at @orlando_a_dance
Cord Gibson (they/them) is an artist, educator and aspiring community-worker living on traditional Ohlone land in Oakland, California. They try to move slowly in their fiber practice, allowing for natural upwellings. They believe that at least one of their ancestors was a rug-maker.
As a college administrator for over 30 years, Bob Gielow spends most his waking hours wordsmithing non-fictional email messages and policy/process documentation. During the weekends, he prefers taking walks with his family (and Sophie Fiona the dog), eating out and wordsmithing fictional short stories using non-traditional formats.
Alain Godefroid was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1949. He lives in Brussels, Belgium. Autodidact, Alain was born with a pencil and a brush in each hand. After a career as Art Director in advertising business he decided to live of his talent of painter and illustrator twenty years ago. He spends half of his time in his van travelling Europe on small roads. In love of nature he is fan of walking in the Alps. Beside his work of painting he became a specialist of digital drawing and finger painting on his iPad.
Marcelina Gonzales received a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art from the University of Texas at Brownsville in 2013. Born and raised along the Mexican American border her entire life, Gonzales, through her work, explores her identity in relation to her gender, culture, and memories. Ultimately she seeks empowerment as she works to destroy the expected social, political, economic, religious, and sexual role of a female living in today’s America.
Milka Gordillo, born in Venezuela and raised in Miami, now resides in Palm Beach County, Florida. Eight years ago, Milka made a bold career shift to follow her culinary dreams. This passion led her to create DreaMallows, the first-ever handcrafted stuffed marshmallow. Today, she has taken her passion to new heights with the introduction of a 3D Giant Mallow Art Sensory Experience, transforming her culinary creations into interactive art pieces that engage and delight the senses.
Liz Gotauco (@cosbrarian) is a librarian, singer, and cosplayer from Rhode Island. A former theatre performer and costumer, she now spends her days recommending books to teens and creating characters out of unconventional materials. She has two black cats named Miles and Louis and can't stop re-watching The Good Place.
Daniel Green is an autistic visual artist and photographer living and working in Kent, United Kingdom. He sees photography as an accessible art form, a great levelling tool in which those marginalised by society (by wealth, disability, race, age, sexuality etc.) can extend their voices and overcome the barriers to understanding between individuals. In line with this, he uses the technique of intentional camera movement (ICM) to portray his experience of environment and atmosphere, following Henri Cartier-Bresson’s notion by stripping away bourgeois concepts of sharpness from his work.
d a n g u z m a n is a Living 46 year old male Mexican artist, Musician and Architect. His work transmits emotions and thoughts in his own unique graphic language. He enables the viewer to observe in detail and figure out a message that will serve as a connection with the artist.
Jason Haaf is a writer and visual artist living in Brooklyn, NY. He believes in unruly perspectives and strong beginnings on paper and film. His debut novel, "Harsh Cravings" was released by Polari Press in 2022. Photo by Patrick Lupinski
Billy Hafferty is usually found eating nachos. Pre and post nacho eating he might also be seen running trails, riding bikes, or writing about any and all combinations of the three. His life goal is to convince Lou Bega to release Mambo #6.
Jackie Hamilton is a Scottish self taught free motion embroidery enthusiast living in Marseille in the south of France. She seeks the weird and wonderful, loves improvisation and writes down her dreams every morning. Her favourite phrase is "Destroy Power Not People " from the group Crass, and given the choice her super power would be either teleportation or the ability to speak with animals.
Olivia Sage Hamilton (Queens, NY): The farther I go/ the less I pack./ I need the space to collect all the things/ I might find. Follow on Instagram at @oliviasagehamilton and read more about Olivia at www.oliviasagehamilton.com.
Kerry Hammerton lives in Cape Town, South Africa and has an MA in Creative Writing. She has published poetry and prose in various South African and international literary journals and anthologies. Her fourth poetry collection, afterwards, was published in 2023. (Karavan Press) Kerry is a freelance tutor and supervisor at the Rhodes Masters Creative Writing programme. Instagram: kerry_hammerton
Nora Hanasy-Cheers was born in Budapest, Hungary and has lived in Australia for over 30 years. She completed a Bachelor of Education degree majoring in Visual Arts. She has been an art educator teaching Secondary Visual Arts for over 16 years and recently went part time to devote more time to her art practice. She works with a variety of mediums preferring to layer and mix her approach when interpreting themes and subjects. Her main medium is collage and assemblage art using discarded and found materials.
Rezaul Haque is a photographer based in Boston. He's passionate about art, design, and technology, and hopeful that together they can change the world.
Melanie Hardy is a vegetable and flower farmer by profession, and sometimes visual artist. When she's not at the farm, she can be found tending to her home garden, listening to podcasts and audiobooks, spending time outside, obsessing over fiber arts, and cooking feasts for friends/family. She lives in a small town with her longtime partner and a trio of senior animals.
Fran Harrington is a 34 year old graphic designer living in Jamaica Plain. He is the Media and Technology Manager for the International OCD Foundation. In his free time he is an avid soccer supporter.
Lex Harwood: I have spent a lifetime exploring the world through different modalities in art. Most recently I settled in on the North Shore of Massachusetts with my fiancée and opened Helen's Bottle Shop, a natural wine shop. Another avenue for creativity.
Max Havas is a musician and actor. His EP “The Rough Patch” was released last year. He currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Specializing in sculpture, puppetry, and computer modeling, Thom Haxo is an imaginative artist who served as an associate art professor at Hampshire College for many years. His works have been exhibited several places, including the Holter Museum of Art, the Boston Public Library, and a commission for the James Brendan Connolly Memorial in Boston. Haxo has worked on set, puppet, and mask design for such projects as The Skriker by Caryl Churchill and I Stand Before You Naked by Joyce Carol Oates. Haxo received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute and an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and currently lives in Massachusetts.
A self taught artist, Laura Hegarty has a lifelong fascination with textiles and the interaction of colours in all media. Alive to possibility and curious playfulness, she happily embraces new ways to express herself. Current interests include investigating paint and print alongside more established practices in weaving, spinning, knitting and crochet.
Sam Herschel Wein (he/they) is a Chicago-based poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. Their second chapbook, GESUNDHEIT!, a collaboration with Chen Chen, was part of the 2019-2020 Glass Poetry Press Series. He co-founded and edits Underblong. Recent work can be found in The Adroit Journal, Shenandoah, and Sundog Lit, among others.
Anne Holloway is founding editor of indie publishing house, Big White Shed. Her first collection There Are No Photographs was published in 2018 and looks at memory and the landscapes we inhabit. She is happiest by the sea, now lives in Morecambe, on the north west coast of England, and believes we are all poets. Follow her at @webepoets
Marilyn Holmes is an artist and art therapist originally from Louisville, KY. While she currently works as an outpatient counselor and art therapist in southern Illinois, she still enjoys the opportunity to work as a digital illustrator from time to time.
Charlotte Holt is a Philly based artist and printmaker, who was born and raised in Massachusetts. Holt predominantly works in the relief medium, creating intricate hand carved woodblock and linocut prints. Holt’s work strives to encapsulate the tenderness of the human experience and our relationship to the natural world.
Ali Homan is a quilter based in Durham, North Carolina. She learned how to sew from her mother and grandmothers at a young age, and has a deep reverence for quilts. When Ali isn't sewing she is working as a Massage Therapist, spending time with her loved ones, and readying herself to bring a baby into the world in June.
Eliot Hudson has just finished his first novel and is currently seeking representation. He’s read at the Popsickle Brooklyn Literary Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and was shortlisted for the Solstice Shorts Festival 2019 (Arachne Press)—to view more of his publications please visit his website: EliotHudson.com. Additionally, he writes music and his award winning song “Sinners in Church” is currently available on iTunes, Spotify, and Youtube.
Sarah Humphreys – modern quilt maker in Yorkshire, UK, on IG as EdwardAndTheWhiteBear. Experienced teacher, passionate about supporting others in their creativity. Unapologetic feminist.
Kayleigh Jeannette is a ceramic artist living and working in Boston. She first started playing with clay in her college ceramics classes (taught by the wonderful Megan Bogonovich) and has been mostly self-taught since then. She currently makes things at Village Clay in Brookline.
Claire Johnson is a visual artist based in Scottsdale, Arizona with a background in Business. Her creative process focuses on detailed, psychedelic visuals with an elegant flair. A love of illusions, intricacy, and the bizarre has influenced Claire’s art in all forms, including Art Cars, sculptures, drawings and paintings.
Don Johnson is an artist who loves to play with shape, line, and layers. He earned a BA in Fine Art and Business at Augustana University, and a MFA in Fine Art at the University of Idaho. Don is currently a working artist in Denver, Colorado.
Kathryn Juarez: I live in Pennsylvania. I have been practicing photography for 15 years and in that time I have found my place among the surrealism self portrait community. I love to create art that tells a story and can help others who are struggling with or have struggled with their mental health.
KatieLorraine: 20+ years @katielorraineart is a live performance speed painter, commission based artist, muralist & teacher.
Jeremy Kean is the chef and 1 of 4 partners at Brassica Kitchen in Jamaica Plain, MA. His focus within cuisine is centered around fermentation and utilization of waste.
Max Dali Kamilla Kulova: Italian, non binary, neurodivergent, chronic ill, award winner, multidisciplinary artist part of Techspressionism International Art Movement, their artworks have been exhibited in Fortaleza, London, Budapest, Athens and in several venues on the metaverse. Survival of an abusive familiar and social situation they transformed these ignominious harassment into an impulsive force that catapulted them on the stages as actor, performer and drag queen and on the streets, public squares and media as an activist for LGBTQIA+ Rights, general Human Rights, Animal Rights, Environmental Issues and everywhere they saw an injustice. https://sandwiche.me/maxdali_kamillakulova / https://www.instagram.com/ / maxdali_kamillakulova/ https://x.com/KulovaMax
A writer since her 1st grade writing assignment about a whale (and shaped like a whale) became so thick the stapler couldn’t handle it, Jennie Kelly has long been a lover of words and their interactions. Recently, she has been experimenting with the interplay of words and physical objects and spaces, a craft she calls graffigraphy. In real life, she works as a business consultant for operational efficiency and enjoys recreational sleeping in her spare time.
Rose Kendall is an illustrator and painter who recently moved from Scotland to Vancouver, Canada. She completed a degree in Design from the University of Dundee and now works as a freelance creative. Rose connects with nature through her art, using it to explore new places and themes, as well as connecting to the wild beauty of the highlands where she grew up. Follow on Instagram at @RoseKendallCreative
Megan Kennedy is an artist living in Canberra, Australia. An interest in the perception of space, communication, data, materiality, subjective experience, process, chronic illness and incidental interventions has led her to experiment with a range of visual media. More of Megan's work can be found at megankennedy.art and on Instagram at mk_photodiary and at mk_textile_work.
Faye Kennelly is a New Orleans-based, yankee-raised Art Therapist and Ceramicist. Her work both invites and simultaneously repels physical intimacy and touch, it’s intuitive, evocative, curious and animated. Faye believes that making art is dangerous and revealing and this is likely why she’s always done it.
Babel Khan makes "art" about Babylon Canton. It is his Homeland. His State of Mind.
Evan King holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin and a BS in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico. He is an avid creative coder, musician, and ubiquitous computing researcher. His creative work explores the entanglement of human life, technology, and the natural world. The data sonification tool he developed to compose his contribution for Bait/Switch (https://csv-to-midi.evanking.io/) has been used by artists and data sonifiers around the world to convert their datasets to melodies.
Joe Kitsch is a conceptually-oriented artist who works in a wide variety of media, getting inspiration from popular culture and the sciences. He thinks bees are out of this world. (See what I did there?)
Ariel Knoebel is a food historian and writer based out of the Northeast. In her free time, you’ll find her walking her dog through town or in the woods, traveling to farms across the country, and throwing dinner parties for good friends. For more of her work, pictures of her dog, and occasional musings about food and life, follow her on instagram @sipandspoonful.
KollektiveKonfusion: I grew up in Germany, but my parents are from Poland and Romania. After finishing school I started to travel extensively, got lost around the globe for a few years until I felt the urge to settle. My heart lead me back to Poland, where I currently live in carpathian mountains with my partner and our three cats.
Ally Kraus is a textile artist and instructional designer based in San Jose, CA. She weaves on hand looms, pieces and sews cloth, dyes fabric and yarn, and grows her own dye plants. Her goal in life is to acquire all skills – one she will happily never achieve!
Jijo Kuriakose is an artist, photographer, and writer who pursues mixed media fine art practices to depict his notions on same-sex intimacy and relationships across the facet of geography and space. He prefers to stand lost in art galleries and museums as much as he is keen to expand knowledge on queer art his/theirstory and contemporary art practices which present diversity of human nature. He looks for better opportunities to present his art, photography, and poetry work.
Vedika Kushalappa is a multidisciplinary artist, mixing mediums such as photography, drawing, and digital painting. Her practice explores the themes of symbology, nature, and the exploration of the human experience. Her artwork creates windows into the unseen, exploring relationships between nature and the spiritual, infused with a sense of contemplation.
Sarah Kushwara is Connecticut-based painter and photographer. She lives beyond time and listens to old Jazz and Blues records with her son and husband.
Alison LaFrance has traveled to many places in the past few years, living for a time in France. Her preferred medium is printmaking (intaglio and silkscreen), but also loves pen and ink. Themes of Alison's work include the supernatural and its effect of the self.
Elise Largesse (she/her) is a Massachusetts-based writer, environmental sociologist and design researcher with expertise in place, climate change, inequality and environmental justice. Her work focuses on the co-creative relationship between the human and non-human ‘natural’ environment - between place and space, the social and physical. How do we alter the space around us and imbue it with meaning, and how does the place we’ve made then shape us and others in return? Research: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7664-2817 Other work: ghostsafe.com
Krisztina Lazar, a Visionary artist living and working in Vellego, CA, creates images of Pop Shamanism, portals and visions that speak to today’s cultural climate of the occult, magic, psychedelics, meditation, pop, nostalgia, and the environmental movement. Originally from Cleveland, OH, she completed her undergraduate Bachelor of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 and her MFA graduate degree in 2011 at the San Francisco Art Institute New Genres department. Her paintings have been exhibited in group and solo shows throughout the United States and Europe, most notably at the H.R. Geiger museum in Gruyere, Switzerland.
leaving lost is Jaq Dunham. They write a lot of songs, knit a lot of hats, walk dogs, drink too much coffee, and watch a possibly unhealthy amount of Star Trek. They live in Fitchburg, MA with their partner, two giant fluffy cats, and a lot of miscellaneous music gear. You can find them online at leavinglost.bandcamp.com and on Instagram @leavinglost.
Deb Lehman graduated with degrees in English and Theater. She has lived in Chicago, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Kansas, Boston, Montana and the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia where she currently resides with her husband of 48 years and four cats.
Kelly Lenza is a portrait photographer and maker in Chicago, IL. They're often found posting selfies, fat advocacy, photography, and food they made on their Instagram profile, @LividLipids. You can find their portrait work at www.BloomPhotographyChicago.com.
Lauren Leone is an artist and art therapist living in Somerville, MA. She works predominantly in embroidery, quilting, and drawing, to explore themes of identity, connection, and communication. She often chooses to work in embroidery because the slow process of stitching allows her time to reflect and process emotions and ideas, and provides a sense of intimacy. Leone facilitates collaborative community-based art projects, in which she specifically employs textiles practices such as quilting because of their long history as activities that bring individuals together to share stories, address community issues, and even serve as a form of activism. IG: @_lauren_leone_ Website: laurenleone.com
Joshua Lewin is a cook and creator with a preference for right over wrong, and views action to be the purpose of thinking, and public iteration the fastest way to progress. As the chef and owner of Boston area restaurants, Juliet and Peregrine, and the director of of Juliet Media Verse, Lewin is aspiring to something; he just doesn't know what. Curious for more?: ofJuliet.com
Harold Lohner is a printmaker and font designer living in Phoenix, AZ. He is Professor Emeritus of Art at Russell Sage College in Albany, NY and has exhibited his prints nationally. He has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY and Kala in Berkeley, CA, among other sites.
Stefanie Lubkowski is a Boston-based composer who writes for various chamber ensembles, voice, wind band, and electronic media. She studied composition at Connecticut College, New England Conservatory, and Boston University. Stefanie creates sound worlds guided by harmony, punctuated by melody, and inspired by literature and the natural world.
Emma MacLean is a textile artist living and working in Medford, MA. She has always been a crafter and a maker of things, a passion that was nurtured by her mom and aunt Joan for as long as she can remember. She is fascinated by invisible things and truly believes that everything is art. You can see more of her work on instagram (@emmamakesit) or on her website emmamacleanquilts.com.
Enrico E. Manalo is a Boston-based poet and conflict resolution practitioner working toward racial equity. He is also the lead producer and host of All Aces On Air, a conversational interview show that elevates voices engaged in the work of racial equity through their various disciplines, fields, and passions. In his free time, Manalo can mostly be found listening to audiobooks while walking his dog, Chunk, or else cooking up a storm.
Stanislav Marmysh is a Boston-based and Soviet-born multidisciplinary artist with a scavenger's mindset. Much of his artwork combines disparate elements for surreal effects, searching for meaning in distortion. As a creator who has never felt truly American or truly Russian, his art is charged with valences of alienation and polarization.
Arina Martemyanova lives in Florida, managing research projects and the constant flow of her ideas by depicting them on paper. When she’s not painting, she enjoys running and hiking, learning everything she can, and traveling. See more of her work on Instagram at @martem.art.nova.
Breanna Cee Martins paints the mirage of an America that never existed, for people like her and entire swaths of the population of this country. The artist’s watercolor paintings fall away from the viewer like a half-remembered dream; images of ghostly and phantom children, coming together to explode in kaleidoscopic colors. Working from found black and white photos, the images metamorphose into Technicolor nightmares, the old made new.
Adrianne Mathiowetz is a studio portrait and documentary family photographer. She is a photo graduate of The Salt Institute of Documentary Studies, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Bust, The Guardian, Vice, The Boston Globe, Fast Company, Forbes, the Star Tribune, amongst others. She lives in Medford, MA with her serious husband, hilarious son, and two perpetually starving cats. Websites: adriannemathiowetz.com and amfamilyphoto.com
Email: info@adriannemathiowetz.com Instagram: @adriannelacy and @amfamilyphoto
Kyle Richard McCarthy is an award-winning filmmaker based out of Long Beach, New York known for his short films and mixed media music videos. His work has been shown on websites such as MTV, Sterogum, NoBudge, and BOOOOOOOM TV. His unique mixed-media style of filmmaking has recently drawn the attention of many on Tik Tok (@kylemakesshortfilms) where he currently has 49k people following his account.
Terri McCord has authored The Art and the Wait, In the Company of Animals, and the newest The Beauts. She has had poems nominated for Best of the Net, and Pushcart, and she has created the covers for her books. She has taught visual art, design, writing/composition, financial literacy and worked at many other things.
Zoë McDonnell is a multimedia visual artist and a professional in the sustainability sector. She is from Sonora, CA and is living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her artwork investigates her interest in the temporal nature of materials, memory and the body's experience of space.
Suzanne McLeod builds, paints, draws, and sews all sorts of things in her Arlington MA studio. She's inspired by daydreams, night dreams, and by her work as a psychotherapist. Finding her best way - whatever the medium - to respond to the call of the moment at hand brings her great satisfaction, and then more wandering and learning.
Christina Melchin, 27 years old, from Germany, social worker (field of migration and integration, refugee support), currently studying social geography with focus on urban health in Prague, (Instagram: p0srealidad)
Javier Mendoza was born in Mexico in 1984 and started taking photographs at the age of 14 in a self-taught way. In 2001 he started computer science studies in the local university and after graduating his love of the arts led him to move to Ecuador where he enrolled in the Photography and Imaging- Art Center. Since then he has been exhibited in galleries and art festivals in Ecuador and Mexico.
Bailey Merlin holds an MFA in fiction from Butler University. Her work has been published in The Lascaux Review, ellipses..., Dime Show Review, Streetlight Magazine, Into the Void, Crack the Spine, among others. She writes in Boston, MA where she lives with 9 other humans, a toddler, a cat, a dog, and a friendly ghost. Find more of her work at baileymerlin.com.
Michelle Meyer is a writer and artist from Cape Town, South Africa. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and an Honours degree in Biological Sciences. Her body of work weaves the themes of nature, the human body, and perception in weird and magical ways.
Quinn Miller was born and raised in Clewiston, FL. He discovered his love for photography during middle school when exposed to the work of Erik Johansson. This led him to pursuing an education in the arts, where he found himself at South Florida Community College and Florida Gulf Coast University, attaining a Bachelor's in the Arts. He currently resides in Lake Worth, FL and teaches art at the High School level.
Ellie Mitchell is a ceramic artist who has been creating pottery for over 10 years. Her work is deeply influenced by nature and the interplay between humans and their environment. She currently lives, works, and teaches in Brookline, MA.
Ali Mohammad is interested in lots of stuff and likes to build and to learn. At the moment, he's experimenting with coffee. Ali is from Iraq, Kansas and Cambridge (in that order) and has a doctorate in artificial intelligence from MIT.
Brittney Potter (AKA Brittney Monster) is a contemporary visual artist whose work tells stories of how she experiences the vibrational world around her. Her original images have opened up conversation about frequencies of the universe, healing through symbols, and mystical interactions with animals. Brittney lives in rural New Mexico with her partner, Regis, who is also a full-time artist.
Gregory Moon is an artist and photographer currently living in Michigan. In addition to self-portraits, Gregory works with dolls and miniatures to explore a variety of subjects.
Magnus Moon is a digital artist with a background rooted in storytelling and fictional narrative. His collages depart from the traditional cut-and-paste approach, utilizing textures and bold colors as the visual foundation. He tackles trivial yet profound themes in human behavior and relationships. He is still alive.
Carol Moses is an artist living in Cambridge, MA, who creates non-representational tableaus, employing grids, patterns, repeated linear elements, and biomorphic forms, in a distinctive visual vocabulary. Discrete styles namely calligraphic, gestural, and geometric appear throughout her omnivorous practice that moves between drawing, painting, printmaking and photography. She attends international residencies, and shows work in Boston at studio 213 at 450 Harrison Ave, in SoWa. See more at http://carolmoses.com/
Second-generation visionary artist and experimental animator Lisette Murphy makes art about the ineffable. Lisette hosts an on-going creative death cafe, The Art of Dying, and offers instruction in things like remix art, improv animation, and the role of the unconscious in the conscious creation of art. She is currently creating a psychedelic graphic novel based on the surprise mediumistic experience she shared with her husband & the spirit of her deceased father.
Mike Gintz writes, records, and releases music with his band Hex Map and his electronic project Mute City. His work is primarily inspired by climate change, social justice, and science fiction. For more music, visit http://mute-city.com
Simpson Myers is a multidisciplinary artist working on the unceded Boon Wurrung lands of the Kulin Nation in Australia. Primarily concerned with exploring the individual experience of self, the work is informed by human stories like religion and mythology, but also philosophy and science. Recently working more and more in emerging technologies, she is excited to question what the idea of self means in our modern, increasingly virtual age.
Amanda Nadig is a textile artist who finds inspiration in keeping with and breaking away from traditions in quilting. Each uniquely composed quilt combines colors, shapes, textures and patterns discovered in all types of found fabrics. Amanda has been a high school art teacher in the Chicago Public Schools since 2003.
Abby Neale is an artist and educator based in Boston Massachusetts. She’s a teacher at Boston Public Schools. She creates zines, community arts, and installation as Lavender Menace Press. Her work offers people a micro liberation that inspires resilience in people committed to social justice. Thematically, her work links nature, history, and activism.
Lizzie Needles (aka Lizzie Pearce) is a textile artist and needlefelter working primarily with wool and repurposed ceramic figurines. I make surreal and whimsical anthropomorphic creatures inspired by the British countryside, fairytale illustrations and children’s television from my childhood in the 1970s. Originally from Bristol in the South West of England, I now live a rural existence in Powys Mid Wales.
Noah and Jay are Blatino queer activists and social entrepreneurs from Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. When they are not focused on "putting more butts on bikes" at The Spokehouse, their community bike shop, they lend their voices to quirky parodies of some of the most iconic numbers from pop music and musical theatre. They are proud pet parents to Roxbury and Max, and unofficial gay relatives to countless neighborhood youth.
Vanessa Nelissen was born in 1982 Belgium, quit school at 16 years old and grew up to be a vegan, unconventional, eclectic, tattooed, body-positive, buzz cut feminist who unfortunately didn't get the chance to finish her studies of photography and find a job that suits her, due to Bipolar Depression and Irritable Bowl Syndrome. She always wanted to be a successful illustrator/photographer but lacked the talent and didn't get much further than doodles and hobby-photography and felt frustrated till she discovered analogue collages in 2015 and started experimenting with this media giving her more possibilities to bring the images, stuck in her brain, come to life. She loves smartphone-photography, making jewelry, listening to music of all genres, watching movies and series, visiting close friends (and being creative together), her husband, 2 poodles, gardening, collaborating with other artists and of course; making collages.
My name is Nivlac and this is my art. My only wish is that you accept it in its purest form. Whatever that means to you.
Dakota Noot is a human paper doll. Through crayon and color pencil drawings taped to himself, Noot transforms into characters beyond his own species and gender. He currently teaches and makes art in Los Angeles.
Alice Nora is a NYC based actor, writer and comedic genius. Alice is a self described nurturer of the creative process and strives to do so with joy, positivity and possibility. Alice holds a BFA in Theater Arts & Creative Writing and is a Member of the Dramatist Guild.
Alex Norby is an art therapist, educator, and artist living in Somerville, MA. She is interested in the intersection of creativity and bodyfulness in her clinical work, and emphasizes process, presence, and transition in her painting. Her current favorite form of expression is found in the kitchen- baking pies with a very fat lattice.
My name is Mélie Notari, or misty on social media, and I am currently studying art in Geneva. When it comes to my art, I like to create dreamlike worlds with disturbing elements, through which I talk about mental health and identity. I am also very inspired by music, especially punk rock and post punk genres. @misty_arrrt on IG
Brenda Oelbaum holds a BFA equivalent for the OCAD University in Toronto, Canada; She studied painting in Florence, Italy, under the direction of the late Aba Bayefski and received her MA in Gallery Administration from the State University of New York, F.I.T. campus. She is currently the Michigan representative for the Feminist Art Project, and past president of the National Women’s Caucus for Art.
Jeremy Ogusky is a studio potter, husband, father, hard worker, RPCV, collaborator, and passionate fermenting evangelist living in Boston, Massachusetts. He strives to create work that has use.
Jess Owens-Young is a mixed media artist based near Baltimore, Maryland where she lives with her wife and a cat named Milo. Her work focuses on using whimsical and imaginative visual images to help viewers rethink the narratives about Black people and their lives. She is also a public health professor in Washington, DC.
Hey I'm Chase Palmer, a graphic designer and artist from Chattanooga, currently in Virginia. I edit things, I love my future wife Kelly, our two cats, and I'm writing this at 6 AM after driving for basically ten hours with my future wife and two cats. Basically, I love doing everything and always wanna keep encouraging everyone around me to try everything too. <3
Dani Papanikolaou (or Papa for short) is a mixed media painter and sketchbook artist that explores saturation and line in a variety of forms, usually with nude figures as his vehicle for expression. Papa’s style and aesthetic is inspired by urban tribalism, Neo-Expressionism, abstraction, action painters, and street art, with an exploration in mark-making and color dissonance. Dani Papa was born and raised in Florida and has lived in many parts of the state; though currently lives and works in picturesque Naples, FL, where he has been an educator, mentor, and community leader for the past nine years. His long-term goals reside in continuing education, essentially branching off into the university realm and philanthropic efforts once Papa completes his MFA in Painting online at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD).
Based in the wooded northern hills of central Massachusetts not far from H.P. Lovecraft's imaginary town of Dunwich, illustrator Kim Parkhurst combines the familiar with the strange to conjure the cozy but eerie feeling of scary stories and regional legends. Surrounded by forgotten forest cellar holes and overgrown slate-stoned cemeteries, she keeps the fantastic and phantasmagoric close to her heart (in a shoebox under the floorboards.)
Natalie Partipilo is a long-time creative writer engaging in hobby writing and small projects. Her inspiration comes from real emotion and classical music. She resides in Portland, OR and is learning how to incorporate more creative projects into her life.
Christopher Pedraza is a queer artist living in Western Ma. Not bound to any mediums or styles, Pedraza’s work draws from a few inspirations like Da Vinci and Van Gogh, and can be classified mainly as pseudo-realistic or abstract. He mostly uses acrylic paint on canvas though he thrives in many other mediums, like oil and spray paint and digital.
Car Perea’s earliest memory of creating art was of a ball-point-pen sketch of a woman adorned in fabulous pieces of jewelry on a page of her mother’s journal. As a young adult she received a formal training in graphic design and later apprenticed in jewelry making. The greatest incentive in her creative journey lies in her introspective discovery along the way.
Darrel Perkins is an American printmaker, illustrator, and educator from Providence, Rhode Island. Subjects tend to depict the human form to portray a narrative scene, frequently with nautical, literary, or philosophical tones. He currently teaches Visual Communication at American University in Dubai.
Elijah Peterson lives in Providence, RI, works in Boston, and writes from somewhere in between. Most of his literary efforts explore the layers of memory, experience, and performance that are inherent in living as a trans person and a religious convert. He is a proud amateur.
Kristin Petrillo’s work examines the fleeting effects of light and shadow on form and color and how these elements can be harnessed to manipulate mood. Recent work explores how industrial architecture and uninhabited urban environments are transformed from banal to emotionally evocative by shifting to a point of view and color space different from daily experience. She explores these environments on foot, capturing images, then returns to her studio in Worcester, MA to digitally alter the photos before planning and executing the work in acrylics.
Meg Petrillo is an illustrator who hopes to become a good person someday. Meg sometimes works part-time, and is a freelancer. Meg lives in Munsee Lenape territory, also known as Rego Park, NY.
Jonathan Pinto is an artist living in Salem, Massachusetts. He works in a variety of mediums, including film photography, printmaking, and collage.
Armed with pencils, ink, paint, found objects, canvas, discarded materials, and recurring marks. I strive to create a language and exploration reflecting my personal journey in today’s world. My work has been shown across the United States. Michael Robert Pollard was born in Queens NY in 1970, raised in NYC, Tucson, Arizona and the San Francisco Bay Area. Pollard has resided in Chicago since 2004. A good art and sports town.
Eric Pow creates art based on his cultural influences of his upbringing and Chinese ethnicity. His techniques range from paper cutting to screen printing that all stem from his education as a Graphic Designer.
Adriana G. Prat is an academically-trained scientist turned non-representational artist on a quest to inspire awareness and change for the climate crisis, through her work and, via her curatorial activities, the work of other artists. In search of more sustainable art practices, she works on alternative painting supports such as corrugated cardboard and repurposed canvases. Adriana has exhibited at open studios, galleries, alternative spaces, and museums, in Argentina, and the US, mostly in the greater Boston area, and, more recently, in galleries in Reykjavík, Iceland, and London, UK; but she is always thrilled to welcome visitors to her studio in Cambridge, MA. IG: @agprat.art Website: agprat.com
Darth Presley: He wanted to Rock in the worst way, so he exposed himself to a lethal dose of radiation while listening to “King Creole.” Now he has mastered Rock! But at what cost? Snake River, Idaho
Ryan Prinz is a queer artist currently based in Boston, MA. His mixed media approach explores the codependent relationship between physical and digital works of art. He’d self-describe as an obsessive romantic with an unhealthy dose of unrelenting angst.
Slavek Pytraczyk: Born in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and living in Mohkinstsis, Calgary, Alberta. A graduate from the Alberta University of the Arts, I photograph architecture and public spaces often showcasing themes of change and impermanence. By creating works that come from these photographs, I attempt to draw attention to these spaces by combining the images symbolically with personal and formal elements.
Mammu Rauhala is a performer and artist born and based in Finland. Her work includes performance art, contemporary theatre, paintings, installations, sculptures, and media art. Mammu loves surrealism and ideas that emerge from the subconscious. She has a bachelor’s degree in performing arts. Headshot photo credit: Pasi Rauhala
RNL is Jesse Farber’s collaborative and solo project for sound, art, and performance. Founded in the early 1990s, it initially focused on tape experiments, collage flyers, and performative actions. Little of this original work was shared outside of a handful of group members, some of whom never met each other, or even realized they had participated. In 2019, Farber’s VONCONFLON label released RNL’s first public work, Conquering King Kong. A new album, The Living Things, is scheduled for release in late 2023. RNL has been featured worldwide on radio broadcasts, podcasts, and film soundtracks. As of this writing, present and past RNL members include Fleawig, Nøsferatu, Ms. Anthropy, Un-D.T., Loopis, Rusty Pipewater, and Mr. A/B, at least one of whom is Jesse Farber. Read more at www.rnl-tapes.com
Gabriela Rocha is a brazilian writer living in São Paulo. She has been a lawyer and a journalist who nowadays writes and works as a freelancer reviewer and editor. Gabriela is a feminist and mother of a girl.
DUVAL RODRIGUES along with his film-partner, JASON BURRELL, compose the primary components of the Boston based THIRD MIND PRODUCTIONS, an art-film collective which has been producing no-budget shorts and phantasmagoric curiosities since 2010. When two (or more) minds come together creatively, a third mind emerges, autonomous, and with a will of its own.
Victoria Rosenblatt is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and designer. Her miniature ceramic scenarios reflect her fascination with the narrative possibilities of quotidian objects and the way scale changes perception. She lives and works in New Orleans, LA and Brooklyn, NY and spends much of her time gazing at trees.
Elena Rossen is an artist, musician, educator, and coach living in Somerville, MA. Their work spans across different modalities, from cyanotype printmaking to figurative painting to songwriting, and often addresses their experience as a queer and neurodivergent artist. They see art as a way of being, of moving through and making sense of the world, and a vital means for community connection and activism.
Joel Roston composes music for all kinds of things, performs all kinds of music for all kinds of audiences, and teaches all kinds of musical things to all kinds of people.
Rukz One was born and raised in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. Often described as unique and polarising, he (and his art) swings between the simple and the complex. His art draws inspiration from skateboarding, hip-hop, the Melbourne street art/graffiti culture, and humanity.
Anna Ryan is a folk artist passionate about telling stories and sharing the beauty of nature in general and the Sonoran desert in particular through painting. She loves bright color, light, and collaborating with other artists—especially the ones in her family. She lives in Arizona, where she rummages through her father’s wood sculpting shop and steals his best scraps to paint, for which she’s very grateful.
Jenna Rycroft lives on the North Shore with her wife and most handsome cat. You'll likely find her reading on the beach, finishing a puzzle, or playing guitar.
John Savoia (b. 1986 in Boston, MA) is a fine arts photographer based in Boston. His work explores the idea that everything we create is a form of self portraiture, with a direct focus on personal connections to the body that break down cultural and societal norms of beauty, privilege, and power. He lives with his inspirational spouse, and their two cats in the scenic getaway of Jamaica Plain.
Michele Scaccaglia was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1984. He is a writer and storyteller based in Berlin. His short stories, poems and lyrics deal with the distorted perception of time and space, along with the dark sides of human beings.
Lauren Schaffer is an interdisciplinary artist who lives in Tkaronto, with roots in Tiohti:áke/Montreal. Through disruption of materials, her work considers the many overlaps between human and non-human, between ‘making and unlearning’. Closely observed location and sound circulate within the work, alluding to multiple scales of geography and time.
Joel Schenk relocated from Detroit to Cambridge in 2005 and, disregarding a transient year on the beaches of Southern California, has been at home around Boston ever since. Studies in Composition with Paul Brust at the Longy Conservatoire concluding in 2009, Joel has since sought to balance composing and concertizing with a wide array of other activities, including swimming, bicycling, playing ping-pong and taking Amtrak to the majority of its extremities. He currently resides in Jamaica Plain
Ben Schultz is a dilettante living in central New York. He makes computers do math, makes banjos make noise, draws cartoons and rides bikes in the woods.
North Carolina-based artist, Paul Seli, has been honing his skills in abstract and neo-expressionist art since 2002, and has more recently delved into digital art, artificial intelligence, and NFTs. Currently a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University (https://www.mindatlargelab.com/), and formerly a Banting Post-doctoral Researcher at Harvard University, Paul investigates consciousness in its various forms, with a particular focus on creativity and altered states of reality. In his studio, Paul blends his knowledge of the human mind with his passion for artistic creation, bringing about a symbiosis of his two passions.
Parker Shatkin is a multimedia artist focusing on unease and the absurdity of daily rituals and routines. Her work often takes the form of photography or is otherwise recorded as a way of blurring the line between what is and isn’t real, in an effort to synthesize internal and external sensations. She is currently based in Northern Colorado.
Sidestep Complex is a married musical collaboration creating intuitive multigenre music by weaving the epic violin tracks & experimental composition of Liz Anaya Sheils with the intricate raps & hip hop production of Scatterboxx. Our mission is to bring together visionaries, musicians, & creatives of all kinds in epic collaborations of love, revolution, & genuine self-expression. We write about our psychedelic romance, post-apocalyptic adventures, and the unfolding of the collective cosmic consciousness and we believe that a cross-cultural body of work can open minds and give folks the opportunity to connect with each other.
Erica Siefring is an interdisciplinary artist from Ohio who loves exploring different materials and processes. Lately her practice has had her investigating fiber arts, traditional women's crafts and the history of quilting and making.
Ben Sisto is an artist and curator living in Brooklyn, NY. He is the world's leading expert on Who Let the Dogs Out, and co-Founder of Silent Partners, which issues restriction-free $1,000 grants to Black Brooklyn-based artists and Movement workers. Previously, he founded both the Artists in Residence and Dear Reader programs for Ace Hotel, and has otherwise been involved with something like 2,000 public events.
Dr. Julia Skinner is a food historian, professional fermenter, academic, and mixed media artist living in Atlanta, GA. Her work focuses heavily on community and identity, and she tries to weave in community building and healing into all of her work as a chef, an artist, and beyond. You can find her food related work on social media @rootkitchens and the rest of her work at @bookishjulia
Rachelle Skinner: I live in the Minneapolis area and have been making art all my life. I have a particular fondness for making cute designs, but I don’t like to limit my art in any way. If it inspires me, I’ll paint it!
Sarah Dickenson Snyder has written poetry since she knew there was a form with conscious line breaks. She has three poetry collections, The Human Contract (2017), Notes from a Nomad (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2018), and With a Polaroid Camera (2019). Recently, poems appeared in Rattle, Lily Poetry Review, and RHINO. sarahdickensonsnyder.com
Dorota Solarska is an outsider artist living in Switzerland. She writes books, theatre plays, articles and a blog: www.bipolarlandscape.com. In addition, she’s an active visual artist, exhibited in Switzerland and Poland.
Mallory Sprunk is a self-taught painter, badass mother, and wife. Originally hailing from South Louisiana, she is currently calling the San Francisco Bay area home. Her paintings boast bold colors and promote body positivity through showcasing all shapes and sizes. She enjoys hiking with her family, exercising her demons out at OrangeTheory fitness, and a good laugh; whether it be at her or with her.
Banko St-Leger: I spent most of my youth traveling from one New York State town to another after being born on a military base to serving parents, I finally decided to settle in Brooklyn. Being a self-taught photographer since 2019, I translate my vision from lens to canvas. Gaining inspiration from childhood trauma, past and present relationships, and the difficulties black males face in America. These real-life situations serve as the foundations for my work, connecting them like a symphony. Amongst the numerous painters who have affected me in how I represent the views of a black man in a white world are Basquiat, Pollock, and Picasso. The intention is to provoke a dialogue within the observer about the dividing idealisms that surround our current state of mind, emotions, and physical condition.
Benjamin Stalnaker is a multi-media creator who dabbles in anything and everything that strikes his fancy. Born to a crafty mother and pack rat (engineer) father, he delights in making use of whatever he has on hand to inspire the next creation.
Natalie Stein grew up in Portland, Oregon, and is currently a student at KCAI where she is pursuing her BFA in Creative Writing with a minor in Fiber studio. Her work has been shown in the independent zine Hey Lady! and at the Ghost Gallery in Seattle.
Katie Straus is a Berlin-based abstract artist originally from the US. She creates colorful flower and plant artwork by painting layers of abstract shapes and then cutting that imagery back to create something representational. Her work leans on the unexpected and unplanned, relying heavily on process to create work that is both modern and fun.
Richard Tarantino is a musician based in Boston, MA.
Zachary Taylor: I am a fiber artist living in South-Central Indiana focusing primarily in quilting. I drawing inspiration from the quilters and makers before me and am ever exploring new methods.
TheFlyTy (Tyler Robinson) is a genre-bending Singer/Songwriter who was featured on Season 1 of NBC's The Voice, he was raised in Brazil and California and is currently living in Seattle. He Is a self-proclaimed Genre-bender but draws a lot of musical inspiration from jazz, R&B, EDM, Soul, Funk, and Disco. Collaboration is a goal for him and so far he's been featured on songs with SoulChef, Nieve, Abrio, and Korey Wade.
Emily Thibodeau picked up a pencil (or more likely a crayon) at an early age and has not stopped drawing since. She enjoys drawing bicycles, animals and animals riding bicycles. She is a former bike shop owner and current graphic design student at Massart.
Vanessa R Thompson never listened when her mother she told her to stop playing with her food. She grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut on a steady diet of 1980s horror films and feminism, seasoned with a dash of disordered eating and splash of punk. Now working out of Salem, MA, she uses items of consumable comfort; food, ephemera, and toys, in her analog photographs that range from abstractions to absurdities. Her work peels back their symbolism, leaving nerve endings exposed. IG: vanessaRthompson_photos
Jen Thorpe is a feminist writer and researcher. She writes novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction books. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with her husband, son, and their cat.
Christine Tierney’s debut collection of poetry, chicken+lowercase=fleur was recently published by Lily Poetry Review Books. Her poems and flash fiction have appeared in Fourteen Hills, Poet Lore, The Yalobusha Review, The Tusculum Review, Monkey Bicycle, Permafrost, Sugar House Review and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from The University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Writing Program, and a BA in film from Emerson College. She is a funk and disco lover, a photoartist and a wannabe comedian.
Su'ganni Tiuza is a 37 year old man, who is a writer, activist, and warrior. His passion is building a better and safer world for LGBTQ+ people in America and abroad. Su'ganni is a family and community man, who is blessed with a great circle of relatives and friends.
Stephen Tornero is an artist and educator from Canton, Ohio. His art practice is rooted in textiles, but explores the intersections of weaving, drawing, and non-traditional materials. His artistic mission is to create work and curate shows that put textile art in front of as many eyes as possible.
Taylor Torres is a Latina artist born and raised in the Sunshine State, now based in St. Petersburg. Capturing the fleeting moments of those in front of her, Taylor uses film photography to document life in the Sunshine State within the ever changing Florida DIY Music, Art, and LGBTQ+ scene.
Rachael Truesdell is a nomadic nature worshipper who derives inspiration from new experience, feeling free and open and without expectations. Her most creatively prolific times happen when she's out exploring, sleeping outside, and feeling untethered by social expectations. Being exposed, lonely, and vulnerable in new environments serves as a reminder of what's truly important and that's her relationships and connections with people new and old.
Decades ago, Patrick Tsao was born a screaming mass of black hair in a hospital in Los Angeles. Since then he's tried to bring that energy with him to everything he does, particularly creatively - which is why he finds himself these days living in Brooklyn, working as a comic artist, designer, illustrator, and game maker. His work can be found on his site at patricktsao.com as well as on his instagram @machiavelli33.
Alexa Turnbull: I am exploring how the body communicates, navigates and deconstructs built barriers and structures in our environments. I understand that everything exists on its own shadow. The shadow may seem intangible, just out of reach, but it is truly there.
David Turner lives on a small acreage in Illinois with his partner and their menagerie of animals. He finds pleasure in simple things like cuddly kittens, a well cooked egg or a fine cup of coffee and good conversation. When struck by inspiration he enjoys using his 8x10 large format camera to make paper negatives in his makeshift bathroom darkroom. His work can be found on Instagram @tungstensun or his website david-turner.com.
Jennifer Turpin is an artist, educator and musician living in Allston Ma. Primarily working in fiber, Jen likes to explore a variety of materials, techniques and alternative presentations in her art practice. When not creating visual art Jen is typically playing music or hanging with her cats Lizzy and Bigsby and husband Adam.
Sophy Tuttle is an English-born American muralist, painter, and installation artist. Her work celebrates and promotes culture-building between humans and all other forms of life. Often vibrant and dynamic, these murals are a way to begin conversations within the community about our relationship with nature and the ways in which we both conflict and collaborate with our fellow creatures every day. Sophy began painting murals while living in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2013, where she learned from local activists and artists. Her work can now be seen from Massachusetts to Colombia and she has participated in many mural festivals both nationally and internationally including Pangeaseed’s Sea Walls Festival (2020 & 2021, USA), Sunny Dayz Mural Festival (2024, USA) and the Cheltenham Paint Festival (2023, England). Read more at https://sophytuttle.com/ and follow on Instagram at @sophytuttle
Sara Ulfsparre is a UK-based artist working in many mediums, such as drawing, painting, soft sculpture, needle felting, stitching, and mixed media. Mainly self-taught, and with a heavily process-led art practice, Sara spends her time in the studio somewhat obsessively pre-occupied with making mysterious and playful shapes. You can connect with her Instagram @saraulfsparre
Yvonne Valdemarca studied Fine Arts in Durban, South Africa and went on to work in the advertising industry before discovering teaching Art at the High School level. She moved to Canada and has been fortunate to set up a home studio and get back into painting and drawing. She usually works in acrylics and watercolours, but often some collage creeps in and then dabbles with some digital art too.
Edso Valena: I am a jack of many trades and a master of few and have tackled a number of jobs in my years (some of which being the “new guy” played a role). My current artistic endeavor is trying to find an adoptive home for a musical-comedy that very much celebrates the lives of four well-meaning dogs. I’ve recently relocated to Worcester, MA with my wife.
Lu Valena (they/them) is an artist, researcher, and consultant whose work explores concepts of expansion, the space in between, and the role of narrative in unexpected places. In recent years, their artwork has appeared at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, the Shelter in Place Gallery, the Visionary Art Collective, and Level99. They live in Jamaica Plain, MA.
Meghan van Alstyne is a visual artist based in upstate New York.
Janet Van Fleet is a visual artist who uses found and manipulated materials to create assemblages and constructions, with current work focused on large wall-hung figures. Van Fleet grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, then went on to earn a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Education. She is a founder of Studio Place Arts (SPA), a three-story community center for the visual arts in Barre, Vermont, where her studio is located. Follow on Instagram at @janetvanfleet
Cody VanWinkle is from a few flyover states but now lives in St. Paul, MN. He spent five years illustrating children's books at the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute and was first officially published in 2017's And Lester Swam On. He loves comic books, making ice cream, knitting, and movies about robots with feelings.
Sandy Van Winkle: I am a retired fire department data analyst, map maker and grant writer. My creative interests lie in watercolor and writing, but I am also an avid reader and reviewer of new fiction, particularly debut authors. My greatest creative achievement has been raising two outstanding young men who make me proud every day.
Angelica Vanasse is an American bred, UK-based creative practitioner living in Lancashire, England with her partner and their springer spaniel pup Douglas Buttons. Angelica works as an engagement and learning specialist in museums and galleries alongside exploring creative processes rooted in photography, drawing, writing and sculpture. Cakes are one of her favourite creative mediums.
Tannar Veatch: Born in Grand Junction, Co in 1988. Living and working in San Francisco, Ca. Exploring alternate realities through diorama and digital photography.
Christopher Anthony Velasco is a photographer and performance artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his Master of Fine Arts from UC Santa Barbara in 2019 and his BFA from California Institute of the Arts. Velasco is an instructor at Ventura College and Los Angeles Valley college, along with CSSSA (California State Summer School of the Arts). Image credit: Juan Silverio
Ann Venezia is a visual artist based in Jamaica Plain, MA. Follow her @ann_venezia.
Niels Versavel, who goes by Emil Gries in the context of visual art and Casimirs Telos in music, is an illustrator, musician, oneironaut, adventurer, creative endeavorer and word-maker-upper who takes interest in the many facets of life that define the human experience. He draws inspiration from various disciplines, especially the realm of the physical sciences, notably the extreme micro and macro (particle physics and astronomy). His aim is to tap into the infinite yet elusive creative font while working out new ideas and ways to expand his horizon.
Miranda Viskatis dabbles; in illustration, photography, watercolor, music, philosophy... A natural dilettante. She is curious about the world and what there is to know about it, which sometimes dizzies her to an incapacitating degree. Thank God for deadlines, otherwise she’d never complete a single thing.
Gabriel Vituri is a São Paulo-based journalist, researcher, and photographer. He is currently pursuing a doctorate degree focused on the structures of violence and police organizations as well as working as a freelance writer and editor. In 2017, prompted by the birth of his daughter, he began developing his artistic practice as a photographer, exploring the themes of intimacy, cohabitation, encounters, and domesticity.
Pedro Vituri is a composer, producer and instrumentalist based in São Paulo, Brazil. He produces music for visual media, composes and plays guitar in his own projects and is influenced by a wide range of stimuli, from street noise to contemporary art exhibits. Vituri is an associate producer at www.capitaofoca.com and you can find more of his work on www.pedroviturimusic.com
Lilia Volodina (b. 1988) is an interdisciplinary visual artist, musician and playback theater actress, originally from Russia, who currently lives and works in Cambridge, MA. They like to explore themes of identity, connection, and various aspects of trauma in their often surreal and other-worldly work. In the past year, they started doing experimental semi-improvisational drawings in order to lower their own barrier of engaging in art-making, and are very pleased with the results.
Sarah Waddle: Small-town girl with big aspirations to make little things that interrupt peoples' day-to-day grind. Thinks rain is just the sky telling you to slow down. Likes: animals, pasta, writing and film/photography.
Meg Walker is an artist and illustrator, living and working in the Boston area. She enjoys working in a variety of mediums but has been focusing on digital illustration for the past few years. She is also an art educator, working with students in Boston Public Schools.
Kelly Walsh is a hand weaver living and working in Durham, North Carolina. She worked as a web developer for years before deciding to leave the tech industry to follow her textile artist dreams. She loves exploring the intersections between technology and art, function and decoration, math and color.
Nick Ward is figurative painter and printmaker who creates portrait based works that explore timeless stories through the internet obsessed eyes of today. Originally from a small town outside Portland Oregon, Nick currently resides in the outskirts of Boston, MA with his wife, daughter, and their scrappy dog. His work has twice earned him Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants for painting.
Georgia Warren is an artist, educator, and lover of cheese. When not knitting, she can be found hiking with her family or in the pursuit of something delicious. She lives in NY.
Charlie Welch constructs environments and playful sets which convey narratives about identity formation, public and private selves, and how we navigate daily life. His primary focus is photography, and within that it often includes sculpture, collage, and a performative nature. He is a co-founder of the NY Queer Zine Fair and was a part of the Queer Action Figures collective, and now lives in Philadelphia. charliewelch.com, charliefwelch.bsky.social.
Sam Herschel Wein (he/they) is a Chicago-based poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. Their second chapbook, GESUNDHEIT!, a collaboration with Chen Chen, was part of the 2019-2020 Glass Poetry Press Series. He co-founded and edits Underblong. Recent work can be found in The Adroit Journal, Shenandoah, and Sundog Lit, among others.
Brooke Welty lives with her husband and dog in the wilds of Lovecraft country on the North Shore.
Brian Westerlind lives and creates in Western Massachusetts. In addition to writing, he also practices collage and perfumery. Reach him on Instagram @sosproutwings.
Kate Williams is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Drawing inspiration from her love of light and shadow, Kate’s work primarily explores the interplay of reality and deception through visual illusion, object manipulation, and spatial relationships. Kate is also a Creative Arts Therapist and plans to pursue a PhD in Art Therapy and Neuroscience in hopes of bridging the gap between art and science.
Angie Wilson is an interdisciplinary visual artist working in textile-based sculpture, installation, social practice, and design. Her work investigates the parallels between interiority and the cosmos as well as the metaphors of string and fabric to describe the universe. Wilson lives and works in Oakland, CA.
Andrea Wolfe is an artist who is inspired by love and energy in the world and the people around her. She loves sunrises, sunsets, shimmering water, breaking waves, and all things that sparkle. She loves to dance, to give and receive hugs, and is known to ask, “So, what’s your story?”
Donna Wolfe is a life-long sketcher, currently staying relatively sane in pursuit of joy. BFA UMASS Amherst. Hospitality emeritus. Funky grandmother.
Lila Wordsworth is a multidisciplinary artist focused on salvaged and local materials, turning them into sculptures, textiles and cyanotype prints and photographs, living in Brighton, UK. Her work is expressive in style, embracing an abstract contemporary aesthetic. She is currently focused on exploring stories emerging from Brighton Beach, as a liminal space where humans, technology and the vastness of the sea meet.
Guiyong Zhu, also known as Zhuzhu, is an Adelaide-based full-time artist with a diverse artistic practice spanning murals, paintings, bespoke designs, art installations, and jewelry. Currently, her focus is on creating public art that enriches and beautifies communal spaces, bringing people together and fostering a sense of belonging within the community. Since relocating to Adelaide in 2019, she has collaborated with a wide range of organizations, including councils, universities, libraries, office buildings, commercial shops, and private homes, to design and create mural, sculpture, and art installation that enhance the visual appeal of these spaces.
Zof Zoltek is a knitter and poet based in Warsaw, Poland. They studied theology, Polish language and literature, and history. They like rats and hedgehogs but not hamsters.