Demetri Burke (Visual Art)
Demetri Burke (he/him) is a young artist residing in Atlanta, GA with a BFA Degree in Studio Art from Georgia State University. His work has been shown nationally in galleries, museums, publications and online exhibitions. Highlights include his 2022 debut solo exhibition, titled And Then We Heard the Thunder.
Kearra Amaya Gopee (Visual Art)
Kearra Amaya Gopee (they/them) is an anti-disciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin-island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living on Lenape land (New York). Through video, sculpture, sound, and writing, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work: a world that they are intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. They have been developing an artist residency in Trinidad titled a small place, after Jamaica Kincaid's book of the same name, due to begin in 2023.
Miller Robinson (Visual Art)
Miller Robinson (they/them/it/itself) is a trans, 2Spirit artist of mixed Karuk, Yurok, and European descent residing on unceded Tongva Territory (Los Angeles). Tethered by sensibilities that prioritize collaboration, storytelling and the passage of non-linear timelines, themes of transfiguration, temporality, and care are routine to its process. They work in constant dialogue with the state of materials, informed by other-than-human kin, basketweavers and fix-the-earth People. Through performance and sculpture, it incorporates garments, poetry, tattooing, and installation to create detailed ecosystems that seek horizons in Queer and Trans potentialities. Miller studied at Otis College of Art and Design and has exhibited in Los Angeles at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and Heritage Square Museum amongst others. They are a recipient of the 2022 Los Angeles Artadia Award.
Miranda Haymon (Film)
Miranda Haymon (she/they) is a Princess Grace Award winning writer, director, and curator currently developing several projects in theatre, opera, podcasts, and film. In the brand sphere, Miranda has directed projects with Gucci, Garage Magazine, Dunkin’ and Spectrum. Currently, Miranda is a Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre Company and as a writer is under commission by Jeremy O. Harris. Miranda is a graduate of Wesleyan University where they double majored in German Studies and Theater and were awarded the Rachel Henderson Theater Prize in Directing.
Nora Sharp (Performance)
Nora Sharp (they/them) is a creator, performer, filmmaker, and writer who uses world-building narrative, interpersonal curiosity, and movement improvisation to draw attention to queer and trans people’s unfolding relationships with themselves and each other. Nora's work has been presented by On the Boards, Steppenwolf Theatre LookOut, Midwest RAD Fest, Shawl-Anderson, the Fly Honey Show, and Movement Research at the Judson Church, and supported by residencies at the Hambidge Center, Links Hall, and High Concept Labs. Nora also facilitated a community works-in-progress series in Chicago from 2014-2019 and has co-organized collective response efforts and community care systems within Chicago performance ecosystems. Nora’s currently working on The Real Dance, a DIY reality TV show, and The Dumpster Out Back, a solo show that channels imagined extraterrestrial understandings of queerness and transness.
Lu Yim (Performance)
Lu Yim (they/them) is based between NYC and Portland, OR. They are a choreographer, teacher and poet. Yim’s work is influenced by their peers and by community care practices. They create in dialogue with mental, emotional, and physical well-being, which is articulated in both visible and invisible ways. Their choreography has been shown at SculptureCenter (NY), ICA London, Center for Performance Research (NY), TBA Festival (Portland, OR), and recently at No Gallery (IL) in collaboration with sculptor Catalina Ouyang. Yim co-organizes two artist-run, queer and BIPOC centered collectives: PE and pidzn club. They were an Artist-in-Residence at UCross Foundation (WY, 2019), and at Center for Performance Research (NY, 2020-2021). They have been published in interdisciplinary online publications: FormIV:Issue 12, curated by Isabel Mallet, and Ear Wave:Issue Six, curated by Jules Gimbrone.
Catching On Thieves (Film)
Catching On Thieves (she/her) is a multimedia artist who creates to both understand what is to be & to stay alive. She writes of spies & prophets, Y2K conspiracies & the relationship between abstraction, perception & interoception, using her body as a question mark meant to disturb our assumptions about what we say we know about what we are. Titles of her recent works include: Piano Lessons, "Memory, Vein," Mulata She-male Gets it From All Sides, & "Not One & Simple, or, What Would James Baldwin Do?" Resident at the Queer Materials Lab, Translab, The Performance Intensive, PAPA, PAAFF, & Session 9 of the Raw Materials Academie hosted at the ICA. She is working on a sequel to the Bible called ZombiChrist, founding a church devoted to the worship & study of art, & will be attending the University of Pennsylvania MFA program in the fall of 2022 on full scholarship.
Zefyr Lisowski (Literaturę)
Zefyr Lisowski (she/they) is a trans disabled poet, Pisces, and multidisciplinary artist. Her work uses ghost stories, sex poems, and griefwork to explore the complexity of trans and queer love under patriarchy/capitalism/ableism/transantagonism/white supremacy. The recipient of fellowships from Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, Blue Mountain Center, and more, Zefyr is a poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal and the author of the short Lizzie Borden murder book Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press, 2019); her essays, poems, and comics have appeared in The Offing, DIAGRAM, Catapult, the queer horror anthology It Came From the Closet (Feminist Press 2022), and elsewhere. Zefyr grew up in the Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina and has seen a ghost twice.