• A Palestine-American artist born & raised on the south side of Chicago. His portfolio reflects a human-centered practice of finding connections between humanity and cultural nuances. In this vein, much of his work instills a child-like curiosity and sensitivity that highlights underrepresented narratives and identities.

    Website: http://www.ibrahasan.com/

  • Christopher Paul Jordan is a painter and public artist from Tacoma, Washington. Lacing salvaged materials such as window screens and debris netting with acrylic paint, Jordan simulates conditions of removal, relocation to surface questions about human relationships. Through parallel practices in performance, installation, and sculpture, his investigations are often staged or permanently embedded in public space. Jordan’s first museum exhibition: In The Interim - Ritual Ground for a Future Black Archive, buries African American predictions of the end of the world on the grounds of the Frye Art Museum until the year 2123. His 20ft bronze, aluminum, and steel sculpture andimgonnamisseverybody (2021) is the centerpiece for The AIDS Memorial Pathway in Seattle. Jordan is a Leslie Lohman Museum Fellow, A Queer|Art Fellow, and holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art (2023).

    Website: https://chrispauljordan.com/Home

  • Capt. James Stovall V was born and raised in Altadena, CA. He is a self-taught artist, husband, father, and former rock-paper-scissors champion. Stovall’s interest in art as a kid led him to attend the Art Institute of Philadelphia where he studied advertising, before transferring to the San Diego campus where he eventually dropped out to pursue his practice in 2013. Stovall’s free flowing style pushes the joy of making to the forefront as lived experience and history are used as catalyst to disrupt the preciousness of traditional forms. Using line work, written text, and expressive brush strokes to question the difference between a drawing and a painting, or a finished or unfinished work.

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

    Alim Ringgoold (b. 1999) lives and works in Portland, OR.

    https://neolith.studio/

  • Samantha Wall, originally from Seoul, South Korea, is an artist working in Portland, Oregon. Wall immigrated to the United States as a child and comes from a multiracial background. Operating from within this framework, her drawings embody the experience of navigating transcultural identity through portraiture, gesture and ritual practices. Her projects have been exhibited at the Hangaram Art Museum in the Seoul Arts Center, CUE Art Foundation in New York, and the Portland Art Museum, as well as exhibition spaces in New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Frankfurt. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including an MFA Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, a Golden Spot Residency Award from Crow's Shadow Institute for the Arts, a Hallie Ford Fellowship from the Ford Family Foundation, and named one of six finalists for the Seattle Art Museum’s 2023 Betty Bowen Award.

  • SHAN Wallace (b. 1991) is a nomadic award-winning interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and image-maker, from Baltimore, MD. Wallace utilizes a range of mediums to weave narratives and imagine new stories. Rooted in image-making techniques such as photography, film, and collage, as well as in situ installations, these mediums serve as the foundation of her artistic practice.

    SHAN's work is in both public and private collections across the US. She has exhibited work internationally in galleries and museums including The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Annenberg Space For Photography in Los Angeles, CA, Elsewhere museum in Greensboro, NC, the New Gallery of Modern Art in Charlotte, NC, the Mariano Arts Center in Havana, Cuba and Maryland’s the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, The Contemporary and Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center.

    SHAN lives and works in many spaces between Brooklyn, New York and Baltimore, MD.

    Website: http://shanwallace.work