Nicki Green is a transdisciplinary artist working primarily in clay. Her sculptures, ritual objects and various flat works explore topics of history preservation, conceptual ornamentation and aesthetics of otherness. She has exhibited internationally, notably in La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, the New Museum, New York and Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France. Green is a 2022 Tiffany Foundation Award Winner, a 2022 Nancy Graves Foundation Grantee, and a 2020 ART MATTERS fellow. She received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute (2009) and an MFA from UC Berkeley (2018). She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramic Art at Alfred University.

Marcel Marcel is an emerging neuroqueer artist based in Boston, born in Riga, Latvia. Their work is multi-part and multi-time in a speculative imagining of liberatory futures. Marcel recently completed a 3 year artist studio residency at Boston Center for the Arts. In addition they are a core member of the new media artist collective Digital Soup and member of Mobius Artists Group, a longtime performance art collective. In 2018, they received their MFA from VCFA creating a gesamtkunstwerk called Hot Dogs 24/7. In July 2023, OyG Gallery in NYC named Marcel as an artist to watch for. In July 2024, they had their first piece in a show in NYC. In October 2024, they were named an Artadia finalist for Boston. In 2025, they were a MCC grant recipient. They are excited to have their first piece in a show in LA in October 2025.

Dan Schapiro is an HIV+ disabled writer, artist, and access worker of Ashkenazi descent. Drawing from Disability/Mad Justice, pop music, and birds, his work troubles received scarcity models—what he calls “triage logics”—by embracing sic(k)ness and invalidity in their broadest senses. Dan’s debut collection of poems and images, HOLEPLAY (Nueoi, 2020), distills this guiding ethos down to a singular question: “but what is the point of Poetry— / If not to Infect—!” He has given talks and readings about disability, art, and poetics at the Whitney Museum, Flow Chart Foundation, One Institute, and elsewhere.

Blue Reinhard is an artist, educator, and curator based in Los Angeles, California. Reinhard’s oil paintings mythologize mundane moments into sacred acts, embracing the queer instinct to reimagine and recreate the world. By inviting viewers to interact with installations, Reinhard explores how collective rituals cultivate intimacy. Reinhard also leads workshops focused on combining materials such as clay, textiles, and cyanotypes in unexpected ways. As a curator, Reinhard brings interdisciplinary artists together in group shows that facilitate connection and collaboration. Queer futurity and Jewish mysticism deeply inform Reinhard’s work as they seek to embody new truths grounded in ancient percipience.

Fiona Baler is a transdisciplinary artist and educator from Los Angeles. Their work explores the passage of time, memory, and belonging. They work primarily with photography, sculpture, and painting. Their practice is conceived through ritualistic modes which allow them to synthesize time and experience, particularly its nonlinear and unraveling nature. Fiona received their BA in Studio Art from Pitzer College. Currently, they teach art at LACMA and LACHSA.

Esther’s practice is based on the belief that collective cultural imagination can influence human evolution. Her inspiration for the character of a post-human draws on biocentrism, jewish mysticism, and cyborg theory. Esther envisions a future where we can relearn wisdom, radical empathy, and a higher form of collective consciousness outside of a human-centric understanding. Through surrealist sculpture she constructs the post-human imaginary, inviting viewers to expand their vision for the future of life in this world and elsewhere.