Abigail 通过 Pretty Girl Painting、Fremont Street Nursery 和 Arte Libre VA 在社区教授艺术。她还是雪兰多大学的艺术与设计教授。在雪兰多大学,她正在公平框架内开发艺术与设计学士学位课程。她还是 COIL 研究员、雪兰多对话研究员、22/23 教师发展补助金获得者,并带领学生出国游学拉丁美洲国家。
最近,阿比盖尔创立了 Arte Libre VA,这是一家 501(c)(3) 非营利艺术组织,旨在通过平等获得优质艺术教育和节目的机会,为拉丁裔、黑人和有色人种青年赋权。在 Arte Libre VA,阿比盖尔担任执行董事兼首席远见者、Maestra 校长。她推动并运行免费提供的视觉艺术课程。她管理全球多数青年的带薪实习,以及教学艺术家和助理教学艺术家的管理和培训,所有这些艺术家和助理教学艺术家都是有报酬的。通过 Arte Libre VA,阿比盖尔管理和推动了北谢南多厄山谷 30 多个合作和参与性公共艺术项目和壁画。
阿多尼斯·霍姆斯 (Adonis Holmes) 是来自芝加哥的作家、演员和喜剧演员。阿多尼斯毕业于伊利诺伊大学香槟分校,曾在芝加哥的多个小品表演中亮相,包括芝加哥小品节和最佳烦恼小品表演。阿多尼斯曾是 Second City 的黑人卓越表演秀“像有黑人在看一样跳舞”的特邀演员和作家,目前担任主舞台剧“不要放弃你的白日梦”的替补。除了共同创办和导演全黑人即兴表演秀“讽刺种族理论”外,阿多尼斯还是魔鬼女儿即兴表演团、即兴表演剧团美人鱼的成员、2022 年鲍勃·库里研究员,还是 iO 剧院的联合艺术总监。
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.
Ámbar 在设计领域拥有十年经验,拥有波多黎各美术与设计学院 (Escuela de Artes Plásticas & Diseño de Puerto Rico) 的设计与数字艺术学士学位,以优异成绩毕业。Ámbar 曾获得路易斯·A·费雷基金会 (Fundación Luis A Ferré) 和波多黎各 Seguros Múltiples 等组织的资助。她还获得了多个奖项,包括波多黎各恐怖电影节期间集体展览“El Bizarro”的人民选择奖。她的一件作品被收录在当代波多黎各艺术收藏品 (Colección de Arte Puertorriqueño Contemporáneo) 中。她的作品曾在 Exhibixiones del Plata、波多黎各美术与设计学院的 Lorenzo Homar 画廊 (Galería Lorenzo Homar) 和 Ballajá 兵营的美洲博物馆 (Museo Las Américas, Cuartel de Ballajá) 等知名画廊展出。她因在波多黎各国家马戏学校的短片《Isla Bonita Circus Tour》中的混音和电影剪辑工作而获得了 2021 年国际马戏电影节观众选择奖。在两年的时间里,Ámbar 曾在 SUAGM (Sistema Universitario Ana. G. Méndez) 下的国际设计与建筑学院 (Escuela Internacional de Diseño y Arquitectura) 任教。 Ámbar 还是 Currier 艺术博物馆 Currier Collective 董事会成员,她在该博物馆倡导对新罕布什尔州曼彻斯特的多样性和文化的认可。她目前在 BOLD 担任产品设计师,专注于 UI/UX 和视觉品牌。
艾米·琼是堪萨斯州劳伦斯市 Bluejacket Handcraft 和 Good Way Farm 的艺术家、活动家和种子保管员。她还担任土地研究所的土地关系专家,从事文化农业工作。她在华盛顿特区出生和长大,2023 年搬到堪萨斯州,在堪萨斯州、奥塞奇州和基卡普州的领地安家。虽然她深深扎根于摄影,但她喜欢采用多学科方法进行应用研究和工艺。她的作品很大程度上受到她作为俄克拉荷马州东部肖尼族登记成员的混合血统和酷儿身份的影响。她的作品涉及种族和社会正义、土著自决和粮食主权等主题。
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.
Angelica Trimble-Yanu, born and raised in Oakland, California, is an enrolled member of the Oglála Lakȟóta Sioux Nation from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Trimble-Yanu’s work has been exhibited at venues including the De Young Museum, MarinMOCA, and the Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello during the 2022 Venice Art Biennale. That same year, she was nominated for the SFMOMA SECA Award following her first solo exhibition, BLACK SUN, at San Francisco’s MRKT Gallery.
Her interdisciplinary and community-based practice has led to numerous public residencies and artist talks with institutions such as Google, the De Young Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art SF, the Berkeley Art Center, the Museum of Archaeology at South Alabama University, Oregon State University, and Santa Clara University.