Maia Chao is an interdisciplinary artist from Providence, RI. Co-creator of Look at Art. Get Paid. (LAAGP), Chao is committed to socially engaged art that models counter-institutions, alternative spaces, and redistribution. LAAGP is set to launch across a cohort of art museums in Massachusetts in 2019-2021, funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Chao has shown at the Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown Art Museum, Brown University, RISD Museum, School of the MFA, and RI’s Center for Reconciliation. Residencies include the Fine Arts Work Center, Haverford College, and Pioneer Works. Commission include the Museum of Capitalism and The Shed. She is a Van Lier Fellow of the Asian American Arts Alliance and National Art Strategies Fellow. A Fulbright grantee, Chao holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from RISD.

Brian Gonzalez is a filmmaker, interdisciplinary artist, and educator working in a variety of mediums including video art, immersive installation, virtual reality, and performance, all under the artistic pseudonym Taxiplasm. Gonzalez graduated from the School of Visual Arts as the winner of Outstanding Cinematography of his class and shown video work at Times Square, Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA Art Fair, Lincoln Center’s Dance On Camera, and more, along with residencies at The Robert Wilson Watermill Center, The Standard, and the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Gonzalez has also created content with Untitled Magazine, Atlantic Records, Chimera Music and recently shot and directed a feature documentary produced by Sean Ono Lennon, while working to develop multi-sensory interactive experiences that bring us closer to personal catharsis.

Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer, director, and the artistic director of the feath3r theory and New Brooklyn Theatre. A two-time winner of the Princess Grace Award and awardee of a Creative Capital award (2019), Raja is the 2019-2020 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts and an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Over the past decade, Kelly has created thirteen evening-length premieres and six short-format works as well as choreographing extensively for Off-Broadway theatre in New York City, garnering a Breakout Award from SDCF (2018).

Patrick is a queer Korean American documentary filmmaker, writer, and community organizer. He’s interested in building collaborative, community-based models of filmmaking that reject traditional hierarchies of authority and that equip queer and trans people of color with media-making skills. Patrick has made films about Asian American coming out stories, LGBTQ self-representation, and queer Asian history. His reporting has appeared in Mother Jones, ProPublica, The Atlantic, CNN.com, and more. In 2018, Patrick helped organize KQTcon, the first national Korean queer and trans conference in the US. His favorite snack is kongjang (soy-braised black beans).

María José Maldonado is a Salvadoran-Ecuadorian queer writer, creator, performer, and comedian from Queens, NY. Her work explores queerness, resistance, and anger through speculative fiction, poetry, and comedic performance. Her writing has been featured on Autostraddle and she has performed at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Center for Book Arts, Settlement University, and Dixon Place. Currently, she’s working on her novel set in New York City about a queer Latinx woman who becomes a lovable serial killer of cisgender men. She’s a graduate of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art’s “Creative Writing from Queer Resistance” workshop, is a co-founder of “Streaks of Lavender” zine, and is launching a podcast focusing on women, trans and nonbinary folx’s rage called “I Killed A Man” in Fall 2019.

Felicita “Felli” Maynard is a first generation Afrolatinx genderqueer interdisciplinary artist, storyteller and educator. They use analog and wet plate photography to explore their identity as a descendant of the African diaspora. They received their BFA from Brooklyn College, with a concentration in photography. Maynard has exhibited at Bushwick Open Studios in NYC, Brooklyn College, Westchester Community College and Pen + Brush Gallery in NYC. They are a New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow (2018-19) and a BRIC Media Fellow (2018-19). They have participated in residencies at Smack Mellon and Nurture Arts. They are currently interning in the Digital Collections & Services department at Brooklyn Museum.

olaiya olayemi is a blk/trans/femme/womxn/artist/educator/and activist who centers womxn of the african diaspora in her performative/literary/cinematic/and sonic works of art. she has performed at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, JACK, AAA3A, metaDEN, The Wild Project, The Langston Hughes House, Starr Bar, Mayday Space, and Dixon Place. she holds a bachelor of arts in english/creative writing (with a minor in african/black diaspora studies) from depaul university and a master of fine arts in creative writing from emerson college where she was a recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship. she is a 2019-2020 Performance Fellow in Queer Art’s mentorship program. she is also a Fall 2020 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grantee. her experimental screenplay was recently advanced to second round consideration for the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab. she currently lives in queens.

Anthony Rosado is an Afro-Boricua Queer Nuyorican storyteller merging anthropological literature, visual art, interactive installation, and immersive performance. His curatorial practice is grounded in influencing people to collect, preserve, and glorify stories of community-driven cultural conservation. Rosado produces art series and exhibitions to provide platforms for marginalized artists, artisans, and organizers to cross-pollinate resources. His works address identity, ancestral legacy, giving/receiving love, and knowing true stories. Rosado administrates event development with grassroots groups, galleries, collectives, and nonprofits from gentrified neighborhoods to bridge residents in pursuit of progressive community-inclusive city planning; housing justice; story-telling and -archiving.

Sarah Sanders is a performer, writer, musician, and emergent strategy advocate raised in Montana and based in Brooklyn. She believes in art as a space to hold and dig into multiple truths, and makes work exploring narratives and boundaries of the self, ritual, and lots of kinds of love. She has developed new work with The Bengsons, the Satori Group, Undiscovered Countries, and the Hearth, and playwrights Mallery Avidon, Dipika Guha, Lizzie Stern, and Elinor Cook. As an actor, Sarah has performed at places including Dixon Place and The Tank in New York, On The Boards in Seattle, and The Pleasance Theatre in London. Sarah has a BA from Williams College and an MFA in acting from LAMDA.

Sarah Zapata makes work with labor-intensive processes such as handweaving, rope coiling, latch hooking, and sewing by intersecting theories of gender and ethnicity with pre-colonial histories and techniques. Making work with meditative, mechanical means, her current work deals with the multiple facets of her complex identity: a Texan living in Brooklyn, a lesbian raised as an evangelical Christian, a first generation American of Latin American descent, a contemporary artist inspired by ancient civilizations, an artist challenging the history of craft as “women’s work” within the realm of art. Zapata’s work has been exhibited at the New Museum (NY), El Museo del Barrio (NY), Museum of Art and Design (NY), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (NY), Boston University (MA), LAXART (CA), amongst others.