Maria Liebana

Maria Liebana is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in New York City. Her practice involves collects pop-culture images and thrift-store finds to reassemble them with organic and abstract forms. Maria received her BFA from Pratt Institute and MFA from Maine College of Art. She is a recipient of 2018 and 2020 Queens Council […]

Caren Beilin

Caren Beilin is the author of a nonfiction book on gendered medical gaslighting, Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman Books, 2019), a memoir, SPAIN (Rescue Press, 2018), and a novel, The University of Pennsylvania (Noemi Press, 2014). Her writing can be found in Fence, LA Review of Books, Territory, and New Life Quarterly. She teaches creative writing […]

Erik S Beehn

Erik Beehn is an artist and educator working out of Las Vegas. Beehn received his MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (’15) and is currently adjunct faculty at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Beehn’s work employs painting, photography, printmaking and installation to investigate an arc of mark making techniques throughout […]

Andrej Bereta

Andrej Bereta (1970, Doboj) is a curator, art historian and cultural entrepreneur. He is the Co-founder of ARTIKAL, Belgrade, since 2008. Since 2011 he is investing his strengths on the Project About and around curating/Kustosiranje (co-author with Srdjan Tunic), an educative and research curatorial project, based on the idea of lifelong learning, designed for professionals […]

Mia Kang

Mia Kang writes poems and other perversions. She is the author of City Poems (2020), a poetry pamphlet from ignitionpress. Mia was named the 2017 winner of Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Contest by Mónica de la Torre, and her writing has appeared in journals including POETRY, Washington Square Review, Narrative Magazine, and PEN America. She […]

Alana Bartol

Canadian artist Alana Bartol comes from a long line of water witches. Her site-responsive artworks explore divination as a way of understanding across places, species, and bodies. Through collaborative and individual works, she creates relationships between the personal sphere and the landscape, particular to this time of ecological crisis. A multidisciplinary artist with a B.F.A. […]

Leah Patgorski

Leah Patgorski is a Pittsburgh-based artist who was born in Virginia Beach, VA. She earned a degree in Architecture at the University of Virginia followed by an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Drawing on a background in architecture and landscape architecture, she develops contextual textile installations for interiors as well […]

Christine Mullen Kreamer

Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer is Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, where she has worked since 2000. Her exhibitions and publications explore art and ritual, gender, African systems of knowledge, and museum practice, and they bridge the disciplines of art history, anthropology, and museum studies. In addition […]

Robert E. Straight

Robert Straight is an artist based in Wilmington, Delaware.  He has been working as a painter for the past fifty years, during which time he has exhibited  his work throughout the United States in both solo exhibits and group exhibitions.  In addition to keeping the studio fires burning he is an avid gardener and enjoys […]

Jason Bayani

Jason Bayani is the author of Locus (Omnidawn Publishing 2019) and Amulet (Write Bloody Publishing 2013). He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College, a Kundiman fellow, and works as the artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country. His publishing credits include World Literature Today, […]