Irene Loy is a theater maker, creative nonfiction essay writer, and university arts administrator living in Salt Lake City while she finishes her doctoral studies. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of New Mexico and an MA in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Indiana University-Bloomington. She has lived abroad in Canberra, Australia, and Vienna, Austria, and domestically in several US states.
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Anne Sophie Lorange grew up in the U.S. and moved to Scandinavia as a teenager. With her bilingual background, she explores the notion of liminality, nostalgia and belongingness. Her narrative invites the spectator into a reflective space between inner and outer landscapes. Her artistic practice explores creative dialogs of liminal space that illuminate a pathway into identity, cultural history and personal narrative through abstraction.
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Juliette M Ludeker is a multimedia visual artist and a professor of English. Primarily a camera-based artist, she also works in mixed media, painting, bookmaking, collage, printmaking, and fibers, often creating pieces in one medium to be in conversation with pieces created in a different medium.
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Nancy Messegee is a text- and movement-based artist living in Austin, where she is dedicated to fully inhabiting and exploring the sacred spaces of body, home, and world through iterative creative practice. Born in upstate New York, she grew up in a village of 750 residents in Alaska, which she left at 16 to attend and then graduate from Yale, becoming the first woman in her family with a college degree.
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Milos Zahradka Maiorana is an artist-philosopher who began his career as a sound and performance artist. Currently he works with screen printing and bookmaking investigating the threshold between art and writing.
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Jisun Myung is a food performance artist and musician who leads community based projects with 2 cups of love and a sprinkle of humor. Her most recent work is the Miyeokguk (미역국, seaweed soup) Project - A performance of identities of Korean women diaspora and their reproduction stories (AZ commission on the arts R&D grant recipient 2022).
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Carrie E Neal is an integral thinker. Liking the challenge of making connections between diverse fields of study and look for ways to connect the ethereal with the practical, Carrie find ways to bring design thinking, consciousness evolution, facilitation, social justice, and holistic healing to each project. As an artist and maker, the work spans multiple disciplines including video, multimedia theater projects, book making, and quilting.
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Nkechi Deanna Njaka (she/her) is a neuroscientist, choreography artist, leading mindfulness expert and meditation guide. She is the founder of The Compass, NDN lifestyle studio and co-founder of the sleep app DreamWell. She was a 2017 YBCA Truth Fellow and a 2021 Kennedy Center Artist in Residence. She is currently Esalen Faculty, an Advisor of Chorus Meditation, and a lululemon ambassador for her work in mindfulness.
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Phei Phei Oon is a Canada-based Registered Psychotherapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience. She was trained as a Clinical Psychologist and Drama Therapist and has worked at vastly diverse settings including hospitals, academia, non-profit community centers, the corporate world, and recently a reception center for Ukrainian refugees. She specializes in Selective Mutism, grief, and trauma.
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Holly Rhame is an artist based in Hudson, New York. The driving engine behind her practice is the process of recuperation or the inclusion of all that is abjected from consciousness. This process of death and rebirth generates a unique symbolic order that she uses along with the process of image making as a map for the building of her life as well as for my continued investment in the process of individuation.
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Kim Robertson is an artist and educator. She has a Bachelor’s in Design (Textile Design) from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts, Dundee, and an MA in Fine Art from the RCA in London. She founded her own design and manufacture company based in London selling works to boutiques, galleries, and high-end department stores.
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Dawn Schultz is a movement artist and educator currently creating works out of Monmouth County, New Jersey (USA). In 2018 she founded the Movement Exploration Laboratory, to promote choreographic perspective in young artists and is the co-director of the Dance Department for the Visual and Performing Arts Program in Ocean Township Schools.
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Brady Smith is a visual artist, working and living in his hometown of Arvada, Colorado. He holds a BFA in 2-D Studies with an emphasis in etching from Brigham Young University - Idaho and a Master’s in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art - London.
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Tara Turnbull is an Actress. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Philosophy from Bard College At Simon’s Rock, advised by Karen Beaumont and Dr. Brian Conolly, her Master of Fine Arts at University Of California Los Angeles’ School of Theatre, Film and Television, and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics, advised by Dr. Mairead Case.]
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Jake Tkaczyk’s formal arts education to date has focused on live theatre performance, with a diploma in Theatre Performance and Creation from Red Deer College and a BFA in Acting from University of Alberta. He has performed with various theatre companies in Edmonton and toured throughout the province of Alberta.
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Ali Williams is a writer, educator, and creative practitioner from California, a landscape with a deep influence on her transdisciplinary work investigating the human relationship with land, more-than-humans, and each other. Her current research-based practice centers on materiality, embodiment and place, particularly in the consideration of grief as a response to environmental, collective, and personal loss.
Erin Wilkerson works to expand the definition of invasive species beyond the botanical and zoological, facilitating an investigation into anti-colonial methodologies. Growing up in proximity to the US/Mexico border, her work investigates imposed boundaries and liminal spaces.
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