Fa'ameaalofa & Uso

Co-Owner, Tri-Phoenix Media

O la'u malaga faapolofesa fatufatuga na amata a o talavou. O aʻu o se faʻapolofesa faʻapolofesa ma faʻalapotopotoga ma faʻaleaganuʻu. I le 2010 O laʻu kamupani Tri-Phoenix Group, LLC na fausia ma talu mai lena taimi na galue ai i le tele o galuega faʻapitoa ma galulue faʻatasi. Ou te faaaogaina ata vaaia e faailoa ai la'u galuega. O aʻu foʻi o se tusitala / tusisolo / failauga ma tufuga faʻasalalau fefiloi. Na ou amataina le pisinisi e fesoasoani i tusiata Tutoatasi ma DJ i le faʻailogaina, ala o fesoʻotaʻiga lautele, faʻalauiloa, atinaʻe o le tagata lava ia / faʻapolofesa, pulega tusiata ma le PR. O le kamupani foi o se tulaga mo au e faatino ai solo ma tomai tautala. Sa ou maua le fiafia i le tusiaina o blogs, nusipepa ma tala faatino. I le faaopoopo atu i laʻu galuega, ou te umiaina ma faʻatautaia se leitio initaneti, ma talimalo i vaiaso taʻitasi YouTube faʻaaliga.

Mai galuega laiti, solo solo i le galulue faʻatasi, o loʻo ou sailia pea le avanoa e suʻesuʻe ai auala fou ma aʻoaʻo se mea fou e mafai ona ou faʻaoga i laʻu galuega. Pe a ou aʻoaʻoina ma atiaʻe se mea, ou te manaʻo e faasoa atu i isi. Ou te talitonu i le avea ma se auaunaga i tagata. E mafai ona ou auauna atu ma le faatufugaga ma le tomai.

A citizen of the Catawba Indian Nation, Aaron Baumgardner began studying traditional art in 2022 at the Catawba Cultural Center, learning pottery from master potters and elders. Drawing inspiration from his great-great-grandmother, Sallie Rebecca Brown Beck, he continues the 4,000-year-old tradition of Catawba pottery, a vital part of his people’s identity.

Baumgardner is also the first Catawba in over a century to create a river cane basket, a skill learned from Cherokee artist Gabe Crow. He now teaches these traditions to the next generation and collaborates with land conservancies to steward river cane and culturally important plants.

A 2024 South Carolina Arts Commission Emerging Artist, he is also a 2025 Running Strong for American Indian Youth Dreamstarter and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation LIFT awardee. Through these projects, Baumgardner teaches basketry, explores sustainable pottery methods, and helps sustain Catawba art as a living, community-rooted practice.

O Abigail Gómez o se tusiata ata Latina, tusiata faiaoga, faufautua faatufugaga, faʻavae e leai ni tupe, ma le pule ma le tusiata i Pretty Girl Painting, LLC. Na ia mauaina le BFA mai Virginia Tech i le 2007. Na ia aʻoga i le Santa Reparata International School of Art i Florence, Italia i le 2003. Ia Tesema 2015 na ia maua ai le MFA i ata vali mai le Academy of Art University i San Francisco CA.

O Apikaila e a'oa'o ata i totonu o le nu'u e ala i Pretty Girl Painting, Fremont Street Nursery, ma Arte Libre VA. O ia foi o se Polofesa o Art and Design i le Iunivesite o Shenandoah. I le SU o lo'o ia atia'e se polokalame BA i Art and Design i totonu o se fa'avae tutusa. O ia foi o se COIL Fellow, Shenandoah Conversations Fellow, e mauaina le 22/23 Faculty Development Grant, ma taʻitaʻia suʻesuʻega i fafo mo tamaiti aʻoga i atunuu i Latina Amerika.

Talu ai nei na fa'avaeina ai e Abigail Arte Libre VA, o le 501(c)(3) fa'alāpotopotoga fa'apitoa e fa'amalosia le Latinx/e, Black, ma le Autalavou o Lanu e ala i avanoa tutusa i a'oa'oga ma polokalame fa'apitoa. I Arte Libre VA, o lo'o galue Abigail o le Fa'atonu Fa'atonu ma le Pule Va'ai Sili, Maestra Principal. Na te fa'atautaia ma fa'atautaia polokalame fa'ata'ita'iga fa'atusa e ofoina atu e leai se pili. Na te fa'atautaia galuega fa'atino totogi mo Autalavou o le Global Majority, fa'apea fo'i ma le fa'afoeina ma le a'oa'oina o Faia'oga Tusiata ma Fa'afaiaoga Fesoasoani, e totogi uma i latou. E ala mai ia Arte Libre VA, na fa'atautaia ma fa'atautaia e Apikaila le silia ma le 30 galuega fa'atino fa'atasi ma fa'asoa fa'alaua'itele ma ata i le Vanu o Shenandoah i Matu.

Pule o Aoga, Le Uamea

O Adam Chuong o se tusiata Amerika Teochew ma se faiaoga o lana galuega e suʻesuʻeina mea faitino e avea ma pusa mo le faʻasinomaga, faʻanoanoa, ma le tausiga. I le avea ai ma se tamaititi a tagata sulufaʻi mai Viatename ma Cambodia, o le gaioiga o le faia e faʻamalolo ai lo latou vaʻaiga i lo latou faʻasinomaga faaleaganuu, i le taimi na vavae ese ai e ala i le faʻateʻaina ma le faʻalavelave.

E ala i le gaosiga o le Taoist & Buddhist sauniga ma meafaitino, latou te saili e maua se malamalama loloto atu i tu ma aganuu ma faia ni uiga fou mai tu ma aga masani. Queerness⁠—le lala sooupu e toe faafoʻisia ma toe fanau—e faatalanoaina le toe faaleleia o lo latou faasinomaga faaleaganuu; fa'a-peteriaka, fa'akolone, ma fa'atama'ita'i fa'ale-aganu'u ua 'alo'ese ona o vala'au mo le agamalu, tausiga, ma le fa'afeusuaiga.

Talu ai ua vavae'ese mai i latou o lo'o malamalama i le aganu'u a Asia, o le avanoa i tu ma aga masani e masani lava ona ala mai i tioata o le fa'atatauina ma le toe fa'aliliuga. O le mea lea, o le lolomiina ma le faʻasalalauina o zines e taua tele i la latou faʻataʻitaʻiga, ina ia mafai ai ona toe maua, faʻasalalau, ma faʻamaumauga faʻapolopolo poto.

Amioga: Folklife/Tufuga Fa'aleaganu'u & Tufuga Va'ai

Adina Zamora is a cultural artisan born in California and raised in Harmon, Dededo, Guam. Of Chamorro heritage, she is the eldest of 21 siblings and grew up helping raise her family. Inspired as a teenager by her Palauan neighbors, Zamora developed a passion for coconut leaf weaving, later learning from Samoan, Yapese, and Chamorro teachers. She creates handmade shell jewelry and hopes to open a shop in Chamorro Village where she can sell her work and teach weaving to all ages—preserving a fading cultural tradition and sharing it with the next generation.

Tusitala, Fa'afiafia, Kose

O Adonis Holmes o se Tusitala, Fa'afiafiaga, ma Fa'afiafia mai Chicago. Na faauu Adonis mai le Iunivesite o Ilinoi, Urbana-Champaign ma sa faʻaalia i le tele o ata faʻaaliga i totonu o le taulaga, e aofia ai le Chicago Sketch Fest ma le Best of Annoyance sketch show. O Adonis o se fa'afiafiaga fa'afiafia ma tusitala mo le Second City's Black Excellence Revue, 'Dance Like There Are Black People Watching' ma o lo'o galue nei o se tamaititi aoga mo le gaosiga o le 'Don't Quit Your Daydream'. Faatasi ai ma le Co-faavaeina ma le taitaia o le All-Black improv show 'Satirical Race Theory', o Adonis o se sui o le Devil's Daughter Improv, le Improv trope The Mermaids, a 2022 Bob Curry Fellow, ma o le Co-Artistic Director of the iO Falemataaga.

Amioga: Tufuga

Aisha o se faletusi ma tagata tusiata lautele e galue muamua i le omea ma le apamemea. Na ia mauaina le omea i totonu o se faleaoga a le nuu, a o galue agai i se faailoga i le gagana Sipaniolo i le Kolisi o Grinnell i Iowa. Ina ua uma ona faauu, sa ia faaaluina le lua tausaga na sosoo ai e faiaoga i vasega tolu ma le fa i Atlanta, Georgia, ma sailiili omea i Callenwolde Fine Arts Center i Georgia, ma Penland School of Crafts i North Carolina. Na filifili Aisha e toe foi i le aoga ma maua se BFA mai le Washington State University, ma se MFA mai le Iunivesite o Nebraska- Lincoln. O lo'o galue nei o ia i se komisi faatufugaga lautele i fafo ma le Iunivesite o Washington Tacoma ma le Washington State Arts Commission. O lana galuega faʻapitoa o loʻo faʻaalia i le atunuʻu ma galuega lata mai i le Whatcom Museum, The Bascom: Center for the Visual Arts, Crocker Art Museum, Northern Clay Center, Wa Na Wari, Bainbridge Museum of Art, Jordan Schnitzer Museum i WSU, ma i Leonor R. Fuller Gallery i le South Sound Community College.

Amioga: Tu'ufa'atasi

Akilah Martinez (igoa tusiata: Glittering World Girl) o se tusiata manumalo a Diné, fa'atekonolosi fa'akomepiuta ma tu'ufa'atasiga fa'aleaganu'u o lo'o taula'i i le toe fa'afouina o gagana ma aganu'u e ala i ata vitiō ma tekonolosi XR. Akilah o lo'o umia le BFA mai le Iunivesite o Niu Mekisiko.

O le sini o le olaga atoa o Akilah e fa'aaoga ala fa'aonaponei e fa'aauauina ai le gagana & aganu'u Navajo na amata i le talavou o le 3 tausaga, ina ua uma ona molimauina i taimi uma ona matua matutua (unilingual Diné bizaad speakers) e tatau ona matamata i polokalame TV na'o le gagana Peretania.

O le 2019 Crux XR Immersive Technology Fellowship na mafai ai e Akilah ona faimalaga i le va o NYC ma LA e aʻoaʻo ai mai le taʻitaʻia o tekinolosi XR, tagata fai pisinisi faʻapisinisi ma aʻafiaga a le aufaipisinisi. O Akilah o se tagata na mauaina le Fulcrum Fund 2022, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation LIFT 2022, The Artizen Fund 2023, 2024 New Mexico Women in Tech Emerging Leader Award, o se failauga asiasi i le MIT XR Reality Hackathon ma le 2024 City of Albuquerque UETF. Tufuga Agalelei i le Nofo.

Amioga: Media Arts

The founder of Marianas Visuals is a dedicated videographer and filmmaker from the Northern Mariana Islands. Their work is deeply rooted in capturing and preserving the rich cultural heritage of the CNMI through documentaries on traditional practices, local artists, and cultural events.

Primarily self-taught with a 2004 film school certification, they also contribute to cultural and language preservation as a media specialist at the Chamorro Carolinian Language Policy Commission. Beyond cultural documentation, their diverse portfolio includes sports and special events, product commercials, hotel promotions, family portraits, and wildlife photography. Through Marianas Visuals, they actively uplift Pacific traditions and connect with their community by sharing its unique stories and beauty.

Alexandra James, o se tagata na fanau mai i Saute Maine, faʻanofo ma tina. I le avea ai o se tusiata tutoʻatasi, o loʻo ia faʻatasi ma le faʻaleleia ma suʻesuʻega faʻapitoa, le suʻesuʻeina o aʻoaʻoga ma faiva, saili le saʻolotoga e ala i le faʻamaoni o le malamalama faʻapitoa ma le fefaʻasoaaʻi o faʻataʻitaʻiga. I le faaopoopo atu i lana matafaioi o le BDF's Director of Training Programs, o Alexandra o se polofesa o siva i Bates, ma o le faatonu faatufugaga o se kamupani Hip Hop talavou. O lana galuega sa tuuina atu i Chicago, Niu Ioka ma Aferika i Saute, faatasi ai ma se faiga faafaiaoga o loo tauaveina i le atunuu. Na ia mauaina lana BFA mai le Dance Center o Columbia College Chicago i le 2009.

Alexandra Olivares is an arts administrator based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her focus is audience research and evaluation, leveraging qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to inform institutional strategy and drive meaningful community engagement. Her expertise is demonstrated through her published work examining motivations for and barriers to arts participation, as well as the role of cultural representation in shaping visitor experiences.

With over a decade of experience in the museum field, she has developed innovative evaluation initiatives to systematically collect and apply visitor feedback, building deeper connections between museums and their audiences. As board president of the North Carolina Museums Council, she leads statewide efforts to strengthen collaboration, advocacy and professional development across North Carolina’s museum community.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Sui Usufono ma Fa'atonu Fa'agaioiga, Benvenuti Arts

Alicia Margarita Olivo (theythem) o se tagata fai tala, tagata fai pese, ma tagata fiafia i le tau, o lana galuega e taulai atu i fegalegaleaiga afi i le va o le faasinomaga, itupa, ita, ma le manatua. O tala faatino a Alicia ua fausia ma maua faitauga i Stages, Company One Theatre, The Workshop Theatre, Teatro Chelsea, Telatúlsa, AlterTheater, ma The Inkwell Theatre. Alicia o le Sui Usufono ma Fa'agaioiga Coordinator i le Benvenuti Arts, o se kamupani faufautua fa'ata'ita'i mo fa'alapotopotoga fa'atutufu laiti ma malolosi. BA Kolisi a Wellesley. E fiafia Alicia e talanoa e uiga i tusi malie, meaai lelei, ma le tau. @aliciamargaritx / amolivo.com

Amanda King is a classic singer of standards and jazz, celebrated as a true chanteuse with a straight-ahead style steeped in tradition.

Praised by The New York Times critic Stephen Holden as one of the nightclub world’s “exceptional rising talents,” King dives deep into the treasure trove of musical history, honoring the stories, songs, and legends that shaped the rich tapestry of early American popular music and jazz.

Having recently made her international debut, she is currently touring across the United States, captivating audiences with her smooth voice and confident style. Her performances, infused with the sophistication of a bygone era while resonating with contemporary vibrancy, have earned her the affectionate moniker “Las Vegas’ Queen of Swing.”

In 2024, she was featured on “Standards Deluxe,” an album by the Rob Dixon/Steve Allee Quintet. The record spent 18 weeks on the JazzWeek Top 50 chart.

Fausiaina o Avanoa i Nuu ma Afioaga Fa'apolofesa

O aʻu o se tagata tomai faʻapitoa mo le fausiaina o le Community Capacity Building ma le poto masani i le mamanu ma fuafuaga o polokalame, faʻaleleia o meaola faanatura, ma polokalame faʻataʻitaʻiga. Ou te fiafia tele e fautua mo nuu lanu, fafine, faufau, ma tagata faigaluega matitiva o loʻo i ai i le tala faasolopito. Ua ou tu'uina atu le tele o a'u su'esu'ega ma tomai i 'au e fa'aleleia ai tala fa'asolopito, faatufugaga, ma feso'ota'iga i nu'u e fa'amalosia le tutusa i totonu o nofoaga tetele mai le Talafatai i Sasa'e i Misisipi. Faatasi ai ma se faailoga o le Bachelor of Arts i Media Studies & Production ma African American Studies mai le Temple University, ua ou faia pea lava pea ma aʻu sini o le fusifusia i le fatuina o faatufugaga ma le faʻavasegaina ma le galulue faʻatasi o faʻafitauli-faʻafitauli. Ou te fiafia e galulue ma 'au o tagata, fa'atonu tamaiti a'oga maualuga i ata tifaga ma tautua sa'o i nu'u e le'o maua. Ou te ola foʻi mo musika ola agaga, taʻavale taʻavale, uila ma ata tifaga.

Faatasi ai ma le sefulu tausaga o le poto masani i le mamanu, Ámbar o loʻo umia le BFA i Design & Digital Arts mai le School of Fine Arts & Design of Puerto Rico (Escuela de Artes Plásticas & Diseño de Puerto Rico), faʻauʻu o Summa Cum Laude. Ua aloaia Ámbar i fesoasoani mai faalapotopotoga e pei o le Luis A. Ferré Foundation (Fundación Luis A Ferré) ma Seguros Múltiples o Puerto Rico. Na ia mauaina foi le tele o faailoga, e aofia ai le People's Choice Award mai le Collective Exhibition “El Bizarro” i le taimi o le Puerto Rico Horror Film Fest. O se tasi o ana galuega taulima o lo'o fa'aalia i le Contemporary Puerto Rican Art Collection (Colección de Arte Puertorriqueño Contemporáneo). O lana galuega na faʻaalia i fale faʻaaloalogia e pei o Exhibixiones del Plata, Lorenzo Homar Gallery (Galería Lorenzo Homar) i le School of Fine Arts & Design of Puerto Rico, ma le Falemataʻaga o Amerika i le Ballajá Barracks (Museo Las Américas, Cuartel de Ballajá). Na ia mauaina le faailoga Audience Choice i le 2021 Circus International Film Festival mo lana galuega i le Sound Mixing and Film Editing i luga o le ata puupuu "Isla Bonita Circus Tour" mo le National Circus School of Puerto Rico. Mo le umi o le lua tausaga, na galue ai Ámbar i le Faculty of the International School of Design & Architecture (Escuela Internacional de Diseño y Arquitectura) i totonu ole SUAGM (Sistema Universitario Ana. G. Méndez). O Ámbar foi o se vaega ole The Currier Collective board mai le Currier Museum of Art, lea na ia fautua mo le amanaiaina o eseesega ma aganuu i Manchester, New Hampshire. O lo'o galue nei o ia i le BOLD o se Fa'atauga Fa'atau oloa e taula'i ile UI/UX ma le fa'ailoga va'aia.

O Amy June o le tusiata, tagata fa'amalosi ma le tausi fatu i tua o Bluejacket Handcraft ma Good Way Farm i Lawrence, KS. O lo'o galue foi o ia o se Fa'apitoa mo Fegalegaleaiga Fanua i le Inisetiute o Fanua, fa'atasi i le vaega fa'ale-aganu'u o fa'ato'aga. Na fanau ma tausia o ia i le eria o Uosigitone, DC ma toe siitia i Kansas i le 2023, ma faia ai lona fale fou i Kaw, Osage ma Kickapoo teritori. A'o maua'a malosi i ata pu'e, e fiafia o ia i le fa'aogaina o su'esu'ega ma galuega taulima. O lana galuega e tele lava ina logoina e lona tupuaga fefiloi o se sui auai o le Eastern Shawnee Nation of Oklahoma ma le faʻasinomaga. O lana galuega o lo'o fa'atatau i autu o le fa'ailoga tagata ma le vafealoa'i fa'amasinoga tonu, Fa'atosina a le Atunu'u ma le pule fa'atatau o mea'ai.

Amy Le Ann Richardson is a writer, educator and advocate from Carter County, Kentucky, where she lives and works on her multi-generational family farm. Rooted in Appalachia, her writing explores place, resilience, motherhood and people’s connection to the land. She is the author of three poetry collections—“Make Believe Worlds We Built Together,” “Who You Grow Into” and “Out of Places”—and editor of the forthcoming “Rooted, Resilient, Rising: Women Growing Food across the Mountains.”

Her work has appeared in Still: The Journal, Appalachian Journal, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel and Kentucky Monthly. She holds a bachelor’s in English from Morehead State University and an MFA in creative writing from Spalding University, and has received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Through teaching and community workshops, Richardson works to expand literary access and amplify women’s voices in Appalachian communities. She leads the Bloodroot Writers Collective, a youth-centered literary initiative fostering creative voice and place-based belonging across eastern Kentucky.

Amioga: Tu'ufa'atasi

Na ou fanau ma ola aʻe i le motu o Guam. Sa ou faiaoga Elementary ESL mo le 28 tausaga. O la'u mea e fiafia i ai o le vali togitogi o laufanua Guam ma faatusa e fai ma sui o le aganuu Chamorro. Ou te manaʻo e faʻalauiloa le aganuʻu a Chamorro e ala i ata ma faʻasoa atu loʻu fiafia i ata vali togi ma faʻataʻitaʻiga lautele i aʻu tamaiti aʻoga.

Hakeem Furious (Andre Carbonell) is a wordsmith from Jacksonville, Florida, with roots in the Rocky Mountains. He graduated from a Southern performing arts high school as a theater major and developed a passion for words through the spoken word community at Florida A&M University, a historically Black college and university that deepened his understanding, appreciation, and preservation of Black culture and resilience.

Currently, he travels the country performing poetry and comedy, curating shows, and writing curriculum and grants as CEO of the #UltraTerrestrialTour.

Pule o Polokalama- Fa'ata'ita'i o Lanu Fa'avavevave Feau, Le 224 EcoSpace

Andre Rochester o se Fa'ata'ita'i Lelei mai le itumalo o Greater Hartford o Connecticut. Na ia suʻesuʻeina faʻataʻitaʻiga i le Iunivesite o Connecticut: School of Fine Arts ma faʻamaeʻa lona BA i le Studio Art i le Charter Oak State College. Na ia maua foʻi le MS i le Taʻitaʻi Faʻalapotopotoga mai le Iunivesite o Quinnipiac. O lana auala e sili ona fiafia i ai o le valivali acrylic. E fa'aaoga e Andre lana faatufugaga e fai ai fa'amatalaga e le lava upu, e fa'ailoa ai lagona fa'avae e feso'ota'i ma le mataupu. O se tu'ufa'atasiga o ata ma galuega fa'apitoa e feso'ota'i ma fa'amatalaga o ona aafiaga patino. I se talavou, na avea le faatufugaga ma meafaigaluega mo le faʻamalolo ma faʻamalosi mo fesoʻotaʻiga. Na atiina ae i se auala mo Andre e faailoa atu ai i tagata e le o tuua na o i latou i lenei faigamalaga o le olaga.

I le faaopoopo atu i le galue o se tusiata ata, muralist, ma le faiaoga tusiata, o Andre o le Polokalama Pule mo le au tusiata o le lanu faatelevaveina mafutaga. O ia o se sui o le komiti faafoe i Windsor Art Center i Windsor, CT lea e avea ai o ia ma Taitaifono Curatorial, sui o le komiti faafoe i le Connecticut Arts Alliance, ma le Komiti Faafoe i Wadsworth Atheneum. Sa galue foi o ia i le City of Hartford Commission on Cultural Affairs (2014-2015). E fesoasoani foi Andre i le au tusiata o loʻo tulaʻi mai i le atinaʻeina o faila, faʻatonuga, ma faʻatalanoaga mo faʻaaliga. Na te faʻamalosia le au tusiata talavou e atiaʻe a latou faiva e aunoa ma le leiloa o le taulai atu i le aʻoaʻoina o tomai faʻapitoa ma pisinisi. E talitonu o ia i laasaga uma i luma, e tatau ona tatou faʻamalamalamaina se ala mo isi e faʻatasi ma i tatou.