Theatre and Arts Foundation of San Diego County dba La Jolla Playhouse

Tiare Ribeaux is a Kanaka Maoli filmmaker, artist, and creative producer based in Honolulu. Her work takes a decolonial approach to storytelling, using non-linear narratives inspired by elemental cycles to explore themes of transformation and healing. Ribeaux centers her stories on the deep connection between bodies, land, and water systems, integrating magical realism into her films. She employs speculative fiction and fantasy to reimagine present realities and envision future trajectories of land reclamation, restoration, queerness, and belonging.

Her work extends beyond film festivals, featuring in galleries and museums as multi-channel immersive installations and live cinematic performances. Ribeaux has showcased her projects nationally and internationally and is a recipient of numerous accolades, including the Creative Capital Award, the NDN Radical Imagination Grant, and the Sundance Native Lab Fellowship.

Timpanogos Storytelling Institute

Toiyabe Chamber Music Society

Discipline: Multidisciplinary

Tonto Community Concert Association

Tower Theatre Foundation

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Trent Segura is a researcher, writer, and artist based out of Denver and Saguache, Colorado. He works as an independent graphic designer and is a member of artist collective M12 Studio. He is also a colcha embroidery artist and co-coordinates the San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery Project. Colcha embroidery is a textile practice that came to Colorado’s San Luis Valley from Northern New Mexico in the 19th Century and has been shaped by revival movements into a pictorial art that often illustrates local architecture, landscapes, community traditions, personal narratives, and folklore.

Segura is heavily inspired by the work of his great aunt Tiva Trujillo who lived and worked in Saguache. He learned colcha embroidery from artist Delores Worley who was a member of the stitching circle La Costura de Saguache with Tiva. He has also received instruction from NEA Heritage Fellow Josephine Lobato.

True Concord Voices & Orchestra

Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association

TwispWorks Foundation

U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network, Inc.

Ulhaas - Bengali Association of Utah

University Enterprises, Inc. dba Sacramento State Sponsored Research

University of Arizona Foundation - Arizona Arts Live

University of Colorado Boulder Artist Series

University of Denver

University of Hawai‘i (UH Mānoa)

University of Utah

University of Washington Meany Center for the Performing Arts

University of Wyoming Department of Music - UW Cello Festival

Utah Tech University

Utah Valley University

Vaimoana Oufi Khalil is an artist, educator, and performer whose work spans painting, mural-making, poetry, acting, and theater directing. Born in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, and raised in Hawaiʻi and Utah, she has spent more than 20 years teaching at colleges, universities, public schools, senior centers, and community centers across New York City.

Khalil earned her undergraduate degree in painting and performance from New York University, received the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship in painting and drawing at Yale University, and attended Columbia University’s graduate program in theater and acting.

She has created and led over 38 community murals around the world, including projects in Australia, Kenya, Jordan, New Zealand, Palestine, South Africa, and across the U.S. in California, New York, and Utah. She was a founding member of Mahina Movement (2000–2020), an all-BIPOC women’s music and poetry trio that performed on more than 700 stages in the U.S. and traveled to Ireland.

Khalil has written, performed in, and directed numerous theatrical productions at various venues, showcasing her dedication to storytelling and community art.