Karen Ami is a visual artist, curator, and educator from Chicago. She is a graduate of The Boston Museum School, Tufts University (BFA) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA) majoring in ceramics and sculpture. She is the Founder of The Chicago Mosaic School, the first and only center for academically oriented Mosaic Arts Education outside of Europe.
Read MoreGina Dominique is a New York based artist-academic. She has had 13 solo shows, most recently 'Skin Deep- On Abstract Painting & the Nature of Beauty' at Greenspring Gallery, Stevenson University, Stevenson, MD. Her art has been shown in more than 50 group exhibitions across the US and in England.
Read MoreMarie France Forcier is a Canadian choreographer, performer, writer and pedagogue of contemporary dance forms. She is the director of Forcier Stage Works and the co-director of ReLoCate . Through studio research, public performances, publications and community initiatives, she predominantly engages with the intersection between trauma studies, somatic practices and western contemporary choreography.
Read MoreAndrew Freiband is an artist, filmmaker, educator, producer, and research-artist. His praxis sits among the many intersections of art, education, media, film, journalism, literature, social impact, international development, research, and strategic design.
Read MoreFred Han is currently an Associate Professor at the School of System Design and Intellectual Manufacturing in the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. Prior to his current position, he served as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for nine years.
Read MoreAnne Sophie Lorange grew up in the U.S. and moved to Scandinavia as a teenager. With her bilingual background, she explores the notion of liminality, nostalgia and belongingness. Her narrative invites the spectator into a reflective space between inner and outer landscapes. Her artistic practice explores creative dialogs of liminal space that illuminate a pathway into identity, cultural history and personal narrative through abstraction.
Read MoreNancy 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.
Read MoreTine Frich Møller is a multidisciplinary artist, painter, writer, and educator in Norway. At core, she is humbled and puzzled by life, by people and all their worldly complexities - and in the midst of this, she thinks of her selves as an explorer, a people-traveller or a hoarder of people and their life stories and a thinker-doer.
Read MoreErin Wilkerson works to expand the definition of invasive species beyond the botanical and zoological, facilitating an investigation into anti-colonial methodologies. Growing up in proximity to the US/Mexico border, her work investigates imposed boundaries and liminal spaces.
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