Andrew Wilson

Detroit, MI

“Objects have a spiritual resonance” - the idea that objects are imbued with memory and spirit.

As an artist, my goal is to highlight the spirit of the mundane and how we can amplify these particles to find new ways to other dimensions.

As a designer, my hope is to make your new favorite object. The one that feels worn in, like a hug or the hand-me-down hat from your homie, I want to make things that hold lifetimes and memories.

Ultimately, I think about the power of care - the ways it connects people across time and space.

Wilson received his BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University in 2013 with a concentration in Jewelry/Metals and his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. Wilson’s work has been in many galleries and institutions including: The Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SOMArts, the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Palais de Tokyo, Minnesota Street Projects, Jonathan Carver Moore, the Metropolitan Museum of Design Detroit, Scarab Club, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and many more. He has received such awards and honors as: the Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award, an Emergency Grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, the Emerging artist Program at the Museum of the African Diaspora and participated in residencies including the McColl Center, Galveston Artist Residency, Black (Space) Residency, the Ebb and Teena Haycock Public Art Endowment, Pentaculum, Chulitna Lodge and more.

He has worked with notable artists like Fred Wilson and Carrie Mae Weems on projects including: The Spirit that Resides in Havana, Cuba and The Future is Now Parade for the opening of The REACH in Washington D.C, A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, Sharjah Biennale 2023 and more.

His work has been collected by Carrie Mae Weems, The Flood Family Collection, Michigan State University, University of New Mexico and more.

https://www.aiwart.com/

Margaret Wiss

New York, NY 

Margaret Wiss (she/her) holds a Doctor of Physical Therapy from Columbia University, Master of Fine Arts in Dance with a concentration in choreography from NYU Tisch School for the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Kinesiology from Mount Holyoke College.

Her choreographic and screendance work has been presented across the United States and she has been commissioned by PDX Contemporary Ballet, North Atlantic Dance Theatre, The Harvard Ballet Company, and the Five College Dance Department. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance Science at Texas A&M University and has taught for Mount Holyoke College and Tisch School for the Arts Dance Department Future Dance Makers and Dancers Program.

Wiss has performed professionally in Boston and has worked with Pilobolus Dance Theater, Sidra Bell, Jennifer Hart, and Kinsun Chan.

She values the vitality of collaboration and is currently researching and writing a book on the subject.

https://www.margaretwiss.com/

https://vimeo.com/margaretwiss

Inge Lager

Cologne, Germany

Inge Lager is a willow-weaver and land-artist based in Cologne, Germany. Her art practice is deeply inspired by and connected to the natural world. Traditional basketry techniques form the foundation of her work, while she approaches them with a sense of experimentation.

Her way of working is intuitive and collaborative with the environment. She is drawn to organic shapes that echo the rhythms of nature - woven structures that resemble nests, cocoons, or spirals.

https://intotheweave.de/

https://www.instagram.com/inge.lager/

Lauren Boilini

Seattle, WA

Lauren Boilini was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. She received her BFA in Painting and Art History at the Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art. As a painter she also works in installation and public art, with upcoming projects for SeaTac and Sound Transit. She has served as an artist-in-residence in Italy, Ireland, Spain, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Vermont, Vashon Island, South Carolina, Key West, MASS MoCA, and at Amazon's headquarters. Lauren’s maximalist paintings explore ideas of excess, bringing together battles forged among species in the animal kingdom, echoing our own human behavior. Her imagery of birds, insects, snakes and other animals piled up in frenzied, often violent conflict, become so intertwined that the individuals become indistinguishable and fall into the realm of pattern. Research-based residencies at the Missoula Butterfly House, University of Virginia’s Mountain Lake Biological Station and Texas A&M’s Laguna Madre Field Station in Corpus Christi have helped develop imagery and concepts.

Lauren also teaches at The Evergreen State College and is represented by J.Rinehart Gallery in Seattle and Museo Gallery on Whidbey Island. She just installed her first museum exhibition at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art in March.

https://laurenboilini.com/

https://www.instagram.com/laurenboilini

Bella Trigg

Brooklyn, NY

Bella Trigg is a Yup’ik multi-media artist and journalist based in Brooklyn, NY. Working across writing, photography, and installation, she tells stories from her lived experience as an Indigenous person in the diaspora. She is often translating stories passed down from her matriarchs, along with documenting her reconnection to familial and cultural knowledge.

Through her practice, she intends on honoring her family, the Land, and her urban Indigenous community.

From the artist: 

I am a storyteller and a Native woman; I tell Native stories.
I tell stories through writing. I am translating oral stories passed down from my aaka. I am retelling these stories through my own voice, being raised severed from my Iñupiaq and Yup’ik heritage, and just now learning where I belong and who we are.
I also embrace telling new stories, ones that are happening as I begin to heal.
This often manifests as long-form, broken prose, as I oscillate between stories of the past, stories of the now, and stories I imagine being told through a healed lineage of Iñupiaq and Yup’ik women.
Through writing, through storytelling, I am a preservationist. I tell stories of my Elders, the Land, and our people. I tell stories as an art of belonging. I tell stories to heal.

linkedin.com/in/bella-trigg-0140ab1aa

Hongbo Cai

Los Angeles, CA

HONGBO CAI is a Chinese American diasporic filmmaker and sound artist bridging performance practice and critical inquiry into media. A Juilliard-trained pianist, he made his Carnegie Hall debut at 21 and joined New York University’s music faculty as an adjunct faculty member. The Herald praised him as “an accomplished musician … with command of style and a refreshingly individual approach.” He appeared as a soloist with the Shanghai Philharmonic, Shanghai Opera House, the Florence Philharmonic, and New York Philharmonic musicians. 

As a writer, he was a three-year accredited Cannes Film Festival press, and his auteur studies appear in leading journals such as Cineforum. As a director, his projects were selected by the Venice Biennale College, Beijing International Short Film Festival, and Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. A Van Lier Fellow in music, his work has been supported by Juilliard Risk Lab Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Asian American Arts Alliance, and New York Community Trust.

https://www.caihongbo.com/

Mateo Mena

Galicia, Spain

Mateo Mena researches sound phenomena located at the confluence between ecology and electromagnetism. He has designed and built devices that combine technology and art, seeking to renegotiate human-nature power relations by exploring the territory's sound dimension.
His main work aims to use sound as a vehicle to unveil hidden natural phenomena, especially within 'Natural Radio' broadcasts: radio transmissions of atmospheric or cosmic origin. This research has allowed him to work in isolated areas, collecting electromagnetic recordings and collaborating with astronomers, dancers, radio operators, and poets. His recent projects focus on how these invisible emissions shape our understanding of technological progress, appealing to a listening experience on the verge of disappearing.

https://mateomena.my.canva.site/en

https://soundcloud.com/mateomena

Shawn Skabelund

Flagstaff, AZ

From the artist: "I was raised in Idaho in the small logging town of McCall, which is surrounded by the mountainous Payette lake watershed. My fondest childhood memories were picking huckleberries in the forest. This childhood love of collecting continues with me to this day. The landscapes I live and work in are my studio, not as subject matter to draw or paint, but for observation, discovery and the collection of materials to create new forms of landscape portraiture (e.g., large scale, place-based, site-specific installations).

For thirty years I have practiced my craft, actively exhibiting and sharing my drawings, sculptures, and over ninety installations throughout the United States. As an artist and curator, I work in specific landscapes to reveal their complex issues, ecologies and cultural histories. My art explores the “unsettling of America” and how historical and contemporary Manifest Destiny has impacted the land. To prepare for each artwork, I “collaborate with place,” to learn how the historical interaction between the wild and the human determined the direction and cultural makeup of that place. This research helps me understand what I want to say and share. I create work that gives viewers time and space to think about the local communities, economies, and ecosystems they inhabit, and our responsibilities and place on Earth." 

https://shawnskabelund.com/

https://southwestcontemporary.com/work-in-progress-with-shawn-skabelund/

Lu Beltrán

Medellín, Colombia

Lu Beltrán (b. 1996,  Medellín, Colombia) is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator working across painting, drawing, ceramics, and metal. Shaped by the Andean landscape of her early life, her practice explores material, memory, and a deep connection to place, where nature and culture -- mountains, water, flora, people -- emerge as central subjects and metaphors. Her practice centers on ceramics and painting, driven by an intimate relationship with materials and the elements of fire and water. She is deeply interested in plein air practices, using direct observations to engage with landscape, light, and atmosphere, alongside an ongoing investigation of glaze chemistry through the mixing of raw materials and experimental firings. Process, chance, and transformation play a central role in shaping each work. 

Lu earned a BFA in Visual Arts from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and studied ceramics at Sheridan College in Toronto, with additional studies in Valencia and Madrid, Spain.  She also participated in the MFA Integrated Visual Arts at Iowa State University, where her interest in metal began. Her work is held in private collections internationally, and her honors include the Phyllis Roberts Award (2023) and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation International Grant (2024). Teaching is integral to her practice; she has led classes and workshops for students of all ages, viewing art education as a space for connection and shared transformation. 

https://lu-beltran.com