Stephan Joseph Ravare Jr. transcends the title of mere artist. His work embodies the role of a storyteller, channelling ideas, confronting and breaking barriers, and honouring his Louisiana Creole heritage through his art. Viewing art as a catalyst for transformation and acceptance, Stephan uses culture and differences to not only cope with mental health but to inspire solace and creativity.
Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
Born in Sacramento, CA, MJ Pope is an American multimedia artist currently based in Boise, ID, studying at Boise State University to get her BFA in time-based art. She enjoys creating visuals for musical compositions, or filming performances with the intention of creating a video work out of it. Through art, she wants to explore my identity as a queer woman.
Göksel Doğan is a professional sculptor and underground artist. As a professional underground artist, he produces cartoons, posters, graphics, fanzines, and webzines. He is decoding “meaning” throughout the found objects and collages, and he calls this self-process of decapitalization of things (an attempt to reproduce human meaning against capitalist means of production by using sculptural elements).
HetHeru RaatMut, aka Vanessa Marshall, is a Kemetic Priestess and Shaman. She is a digital, mixed media, display, and installation artist. HetHeru is also a cultural educator, feminist, human rights, and climate change activist. She owns and operates a clothing retail business called Kultural Adornments. NU World Kulture is her digital and mixed media art collection.
Sarah Buckius (b. 1979 Urbana, IL) is an artist and educator living in Northern California. Her recent creative work is situated at the cross-section of women, technology, and lens-based media. In her latest series, Hidden Mothers: Re-& Enactment of Emotional Labor, Buckius proposes that the emotional labor mothers perform actually reveals much about their identity – their ingenuity, inventiveness, commitment, and emotional labor and strength.
Taline Balian works primarily with portraits. Social media requirements are being represented in her practice by aesthetically attractive faces when seen from far. When closely looked at, these livid faces convey a disturbing feeling of loss of control and glitches, the cracks of the virtual world, and its illusion of perfection. Drained out, most of the Human Faces‘ expressions and facial muscles are fading away.
James Johnson-Perkins is an award-winning British artist who currently lives and works in the UK and China. His practice draws from themes of memory, nostalgia, and play. His VIDEOSTALGIA work, ‘Four Films in Reverse’, combines important and poignant places, with filmed performance to camera and nostalgic music to explore the many aspects of change.
Joas Nebe is a self-taught artist, born in Hamburg but now located in South Germany. By turning his film cabinet of curiosity into an intriguing jigsaw puzzle of hybrid geometric patterns, Joas Nebe teases the viewer into accessing his game. He believes that "Riddle games of this kind spark creativity and pass on the role of the artist to the viewer."
