Posts in Student (m-p)
Hanae Moreno

Hanae Moreno explores the physical and collective nature of the human form through painting. She seeks to understand what it means to occupy a body in space. Her work is also an autobiographical journey. Although she paints people, her work is not only of individuals. She looks at the weight of a sitter’s presence in intimate discourse with herself, and seeks to capture the experience of the self as viewed and interpreted, and the self as viewer and observer.

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Nancy Messegee

Nancy Messegee is a text- and movement-based artist living in Austin, where she is dedicated to fully inhabiting and exploring the sacred spaces of body, home, and world through iterative creative practice. Born in upstate New York, she grew up in a village of 750 residents in Alaska, which she left at 16 to attend and then graduate from Yale, becoming the first woman in her family with a college degree.

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Carrie E Neal

Carrie E Neal is an integral thinker. Liking the challenge of making connections between diverse fields of study and look for ways to connect the ethereal with the practical, Carrie find ways to bring design thinking, consciousness evolution, facilitation, social justice, and holistic healing to each project. As an artist and maker, the work spans multiple disciplines including video, multimedia theater projects, book making, and quilting.

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Nkechi Njaka

Nkechi Deanna Njaka (she/her) is a neuroscientist, choreography artist, leading mindfulness expert and meditation guide. She is the founder of The Compass, NDN lifestyle studio and co-founder of the sleep app DreamWell. She was a 2017 YBCA Truth Fellow and a 2021 Kennedy Center Artist in Residence. She is currently Esalen Faculty, an Advisor of Chorus Meditation, and a lululemon ambassador for her work in mindfulness.

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Phei Phei Oon

Phei Phei Oon is a Canada-based Registered Psychotherapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience. She was trained as a Clinical Psychologist and Drama Therapist and has worked at vastly diverse settings including hospitals, academia, non-profit community centers, the corporate world, and recently a reception center for Ukrainian refugees. She specializes in Selective Mutism, grief, and trauma.

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Eve Provost Chartrand

Eve Provost Chartrand earned an MFA at the University of Calgary in Canada and is now a PHD candidate both at Transart Institute and Liverpool John Moores University. Her current work investigates the nature of women’s negative body representations associated with aging. Her visual iterations explore the implications to self-identity and agency of current negative body definitions in women’s lives through the implementation of creative case studies.

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