San Juan Community Theatre, Inc.

Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Inc.

Santa Cruz Valley Art Association

Santa Fe Friends of Traditional Music

Santa Fe Pro Musica

Discipline: Crafts

Sarojni Singh is an artist from Leone, American Samoa. She has a wide range of artistic expressions ranging from painting to jewelry making to flower preservation. She started a small business called “Roji Ella Handmade” where she creates earrings out of mostly polymer clay and adds a Polynesian twist. She has also collected local flowers in American Samoa, preserves them and turns them into jewelry and adds them to her paintings as well. Singh acknowledges that the Samoan Art class she took in college taught by her teacher Regina Meredith gave her valuable knowledge of Traditional Samoan art forms that still inspires her work today.

Screamfest Horror Film Festival

Discipline: Crafts

Shannon Quan Iriarte was born and raised on the island of Guahan. In May 2016, she graduated with a bachelor’s of Arts in Theatre with a focus on Theatre for Young Audiences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She had designed shadow puppets for “Secrets of Green-Wood” at the 2018 New York Theater Festival Winterfest and “The Cadaver Synod: A Pope Musical” at the 2017 New York Musical Festival.

She performed as a puppeteer for the 2018 Jim Henson Foundation Puppetry Residency’s performance “Ruby and Charlie” at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. From 2017-2019, she performed with The Shadow Box Theatre, a children’s puppetry theater company in Brooklyn, NY. Most recently, she co-devised and created a tall puppet for Breaking Wave Theatre Company’s award winning devised piece, “We Will Not Go Silent”. She continues to use her passion for puppetry to help reinforce Guahan’s indigenous Chamorro culture and language.

Shireen Alihaji is a First Gen, Ecuadorian-Iranian, Muslim and Disabled artist. Her intersections inspire her to create space through the intersection of art and technology. Given how we remember is pivotal to healing, her work uses memory as a central gaze to uncensor the imagination and mirror our infinite reflections. With over a decade supporting labor unions with media justice work, she has developed a social arts practice across all her projects.

Silambam Phoenix

Silverton Creative District

Sonoma State University

South Asia Cultural Association (SACA)

Southwest Roots Music, Inc.

Spokane All City Jazz Ensembles

Star Valley Arts Council

Estefania Ramirez began her career as a dancer at 17, making her debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London. She toured nationally with Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco before relocating to Spain in 1997, where she studied extensively with many grand maestros.

Ramirez served as a dance professor and movement theory specialist for the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Education, developing K-9 dance education programs for music and physical education in public schools across the Communitat Valenciana.

In May 2018, she debuted “Mujeres Valientes” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, a dance drama choreographed by flamenco icon Belen Maya. Ramirez was also featured as a leading flamenco dance soloist at the Women in Dance International Dance Conference at Drexel University in Philadelphia and recognized at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals Cohort Leadership Conference in New York City in January 2023.

She is currently the co-director of Entreflamenco in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Stephen Aifegha was born in Lagos State, located in the western region of Nigeria. His artistic practice is deeply influenced by his identity and culture as an African, shaped by his experiences of being born and raised in Nigeria. Although rooted in his Nigerian heritage, Aifegha identifies more broadly as African.

He is a contemporary African artist currently living and working in the United States. Aifegha holds a bachelor’s degree in art with a minor in visual communication from Idaho State University.

As a mixed-media artist, he incorporates newsprint and African fabrics as primary elements in his collages. The newspaper serves as a vehicle for social commentary, while African fabrics prominently featured in his work reflect his cultural identity and that of the broader African community.

Aifegha’s work focuses on post-colonial themes, addressing historical, political, and socio-cultural narratives. Through his art, he explores and depicts the enduring legacies of colonialism and the influence of Western culture on the African continent.

Stillwater Music

Story Crossroads

Strings Music Festival

Su Teatro Inc.

Sun Valley Museum of Art

Sun Valley Performing Arts, Inc. dba The Argyros