Nicole Asselin is a textile artist and educator based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her work explores the intersection of craft, technology and the natural world. Asselin’s practice is narrative, telling the story of an object or material and its potential, both real and imagined. Her work utilizes magnification, abstraction, hyper-local material, and a hybrid digital/analog approach to making. She addresses and challenges themes of locality, tradition, innovation, handcraft, and sustainability.

In her practice, Elicia Epstein works across a variety of media, from sculpture and installation, to documentary photography and video, publication and collage. The objects and experiences Elicia creates serve as visual, physical and spiritual interventions. Whimsy and "nonsense" are essential to Elicia’s life and art practice; as a practicing Jewitch, magic and art are her sharpened tools for a more liberated future.

Anne Wu is an established exhibiting artist working out of northern New Mexico. Curiosity inspires her to explore a variety of media and techniques to create dimensional objects and installations. The last decade has been spent primarily in cutting perfectly good pieces of fabric into very tiny pieces and sewing them back together.

Sareh Imani is an Iranian-born, multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Imani received an MFA in Painting from the University of Tehran and an MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York. In her practice, Imani explores the ways of achieving resourcefulness, through care, mending, and healing in times of inadequacy. For the past 2 years, she has been making a series of videos that study the relation between virtual and visceral, borrowing from medical methodologies and exploring the reparative potentials of art and science, intimacy and distance, instructions and poetics.Imani has been exhibiting her work in group shows both in the US (New York, Austin), Europe (Venice, Gothenburg), and the Middle East (Tehran, Dubai). She is the recipient of the one-year A.I.R fellowship (2020), and the Skowhegan School of painting and sculpture scholarship in 2018. In addition, she participated in the MASS MoCA residency (2018), AIM program at the Bronx Museum (2018), BRIC Workspace Residency (2019), BRIC Media fellowship (2020), and NARS foundation (2020).

Adam Eckstrom is half of the artist collaborative, Ghost of a Dream, with Lauren Was. The collaborative’s work embodies the essence of opulence while being constructed of materials that typically end up in the trash. They mine popular culture searching for discarded materials that people use trying to reach their goals. Whether it is a Hollywood film that transports the viewer into a dream reality, a travel poster promising a luxurious vacation, or a lottery ticket that gives the possibility of a future full of rich decadence; they use these remnants to both re-create people’s dreams, and portray the dreamer. They have recently been included in exhibitions at the MAAM museum, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Crystal Bridges Museum, Telfair Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum, Frist Center for Visual Arts, The Courtauld, and The Mint. Other recent solo exhibitions include CES Gallery, Smack Mellon, and 601Artspace. Ghost of a Dream has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, Hyperallergic, BlouinArtinfo, ArtFCity, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, World of Interiors, VICE Art Talks as a documentary, and Southern Foodways alliance as a short film. To learn more about Adam and Ghost of a Dream's work, please visit their C.V. on their website.

Nich uses art to conjure immersive experience(s) and emotions within himself and others. Through human expression, he weaves together photography, poetry / creative writing, spoken word, illustration, multimedia, public installations, and bookmaking. He finds power in story--the way folktales travel through time, and how stories continuously shape many aspects in life. He seeks to create narratives that remind himself, and others, to unweave internalized harmful narratives / social standards, provoke self-love/smiles, create mischievous shenanigans, and to appreciate the many-varied emotions within the human experience.

Yari is a queer woman of color, an artist, and art historian focusing on bringing light and creating better opportunities in art spaces for queer artists of color. Even while pursuing her undergrad she took every opportunity to focus her papers on censorship of queer artist and lead seminar discussions on intersectional feminism. Her greatest affinity and source of inspiration for strength, courage, and charisma being the ballroom scene in 80's New York City. Truly falling in love with the mix of art, performance, and authenticity in personal identity and self-expression exhibited in the ballroom scene. She plans on focusing her future higher education on art history as it intertwines with the history of queer culture.