With paper collage and mixed media wall sculpture, Natalie Beall invents new forms containing traces of functionality and fantasy. She earned her BFA from the University of Georgia and her MFA from Columbia University. 

Beall’s work has been exhibited at Standard Space (Sharon, CT; solo), the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY), the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), and Scaramouche Gallery (NYC), among other venues. Residencies include the Lighthouse Works (Fishers Island, NY), the Cooper Union (NYC), Catwalk Institute (Catskill, NY), and the Lower East Side Printshop (NYC).

In 2017, she was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts. Her work is available through Uprise Art. Beall lives with her husband, son, and their cat in Salt Point, NY.

Gabriella Belfiglio‘s work has been published in many anthologies and journals including The Paterson Review, The Centrifugal Eye, Folio, Avanti Popolo, Poetic Voices without Borders, The Potomac Review, Lambda Literary Review and The Paterson Review. She is the winner of a W.B. Yeats Poetry Award. She has also received awards from Plainsongs and Comstock Review.

Gabriella is currently in the process of publishing a full-length collection of her poetry. She is part of the trio of artists that make up The Ferlinghetti Girls.

She teaches self-defense, conflict resolution, karate, and tai chi to people of all ages throughout the five boroughs. She studied gender studies, literature and writing at Antioch College and received her MFA from American University.

Erin Deneuville is a representational artist who works mainly through oil paint. Erin earned a scholarship to study at the Art Students League in New York City. The technique she learned there is the tool with which she explores questions of subjectivity, personal constructs, and the relationships between people and objects.

Erin has exhibited throughout the northeast. She now lives in Freeville, NY, with her husband and two young boys. This is her first residency.

Rebecca Horne is a California-born, Brooklyn-based artist working mainly in photography. Rebecca has taught fine art photography at the California College of the Arts and Rutgers University and has written on art, photography and science at Wired, CNN, the National Academy of Sciences, and Nautilus Magazine.

Her photography has appeared in publications and catalogs including Tèlèrama Magazine, Adbusters and her book Pseudologia. Exhibition history includes solo exhibitions at Galerie Confluence in Nantes, France, Roebling Hall Gallery in New York City, the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and group shows including City Hall in San Francisco with SF Arts Commission, and the Recontres Internationales de la Photographie  d’Arles, France.

She has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

Lesley Téllez is a writer in Jackson Heights, Queens. Her work has been published in Food & Wine, TASTE, New Worlder, Bon Appetit, and elsewhere.

Her cookbook, Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City’s Streets, Markets and Fondas, was published in 2015 by Kyle Books.

Lesley is an alumni of the Community of Writers Workshop and the Yale Writers’ Workshop. Lesley is a proud Southern California native, raised in the Inland Empire. She is working on her first novel.

Max Delsohn is a writer from Seattle, Washington. Their short fiction and essays appear in VICE, The Rumpus, Passages North, Nat. Brut, and Triangle House, among other places. They have previously been awarded the Made at Hugo House fellowship and the Mineral School residency; they are now an MFA candidate in fiction at Syracuse University.

Max also used to work as a comedian and performed at festivals across the country, such as 10,000 Laughs, 208 Comedy Fest, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, and Intersections Festival. They are currently working on a short story collection and a novel.

Amy Lemmon is the author of Fine Motor (Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Press), Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press) and The Miracles (C&R Press) and coauthor, with Denise Duhamel, of ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books) and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press).

Her poems and essays have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, The Journal, Marginalia, and many other magazines and anthologies. 

Amy is Professor and Chairperson of English and Communication Studies at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, where she teaches writing and creativity studies classes. She lives in Astoria, Queens.

Heather Merckle is a multidisciplinary artist based in Queens, NY. Currently, her work is
influenced by stories conceived around the history of rocks and nature, how piles form,
geological time, and the space between where things begin and where they end.
Through factual research and imaginative investigation she creates graphite drawings,
collages, paintings, and small object based sculptures.

Merckle holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited in New York, most recently, with Trestle Gallery, NARS Foundation, and SPRING/BREAK Art Show, as well as internationally in Berlin, Reykjavík and London. She has been featured in several publications including ArtMaze magazine Anniversary Issue 20, New American
Paintings Issues 77 and 83, Studio Visit magazine, and MAAKE magazine Issue 6.

She has been an artist in residence with coGalleries and the Institut für Alles Mögliche, both
in Berlin, Germany; Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; Outpost Artist
Resources, Queens, NY; SÍM, Reykjavík, Iceland; and LUMEN, Atina, Italy.

Courtney Puckett is a Hudson Valley visual artist. In work that integrates both theories and methodologies of fine art and craft, she transforms domestic cast-offs such as old furniture, household goods, and textiles into abstract, human-size assemblages. 

She holds a BFA from MICA, MFA from Hunter College, and studied in Aix-en-Provence, France, Glasgow School of Art, and the University of New Mexico. Puckett was an Artist-in-Residence in LMCC’s Workspace Program, a Full Fellowship recipient at the Vermont Studio Center, and an Artist-in-Residence in Community Research with River Valley Arts Collective. She has an extensive exhibition record, collaborated with Neville Dance Studio for Norte Maar’s “Counterpointe” series at Brooklyn Ballet, and curated “Drawing for Sculpture” a 40-person exhibition at TSA NY. Puckett has been featured in ArtFCity, Hyperallergic, Painting is Dead, Tribeca Tribune, and NYTimes art blog.

She was a Faculty Artist at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and is currently a part-time instructor at Parsons School of Design, FIT, and runs the backyard art space White Rock Center for Sculptural Arts.

Corinne Spencer is a Brooklyn based artist working at the intersection of video, photography, and installation. Corinne received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014. Her work has been performed and exhibited throughout the US, including a 2015 city-commissioned installation of her ongoing video work, HUNGER, at the contemporary arts festival, Arts Emerge Boston, an exhibition with Samson Projects at NADA NY (New York, NY, 2016), Root Shock, a three person exhibition at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, 2019) and a two person show, Shanna Maurizi & Corinne Spencer, at La MaMa, La Galleria (New York, NY, 2019), among others.

Corinne is the recipient of several grants, awards, and fellowships including the Franklin Furnace Fund Award, two Foundation for Contemporary Arts grants, the MacDowell Fellowship, and an ongoing art residency with the Meerkat Media Collective, a renowned filmmaking group based in Brooklyn, NY.

Corinne’s current body of work, Splendor, explores the relationship between Black women, the natural landscape, and spiritual awakening. A solo exhibition of this work opened at the University of Rochester’s Hartnett Gallery (Rochester, NY) in March 2022.

Mimi Bai was born in Xi’an, China and is based in Brooklyn, New York. Using the imagery of camouflage and ghosts, she engages with ideas of labor, assimilation, invisibility and hyper-visibility, and survival as both a lived reality and individualist fantasy.

Bai has presented work at Artists Space, A.I.R. Gallery, BRIC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at organizations including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, BRICworkspace, Sculpture Space, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Bai was recently a SIP Fellow at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop as well as a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow for Interdisciplinary Work and a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Bai attended the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2017-2018 and is a graduate of Alfred University (MFA, Sculpture) and Wesleyan University (BA, Sociology).

Sophie Barbasch is a New York based photographer. She earned her MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and her BA in Art and Art History from Brown University. Selected grants and residencies include Light Work, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil.

Patrick Doerksen is a writer based in Brooklyn. He is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program, as well as the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in San Diego. His work has appeared in Penguin Canada’s Journey Prize Anthology and the Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, among others. He is eternally at work on his novel, Leave the World.

James Isherwood has exhibited his surreal architectural landscape paintings in New York, Toronto, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas and Valencia, Spain.

He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Parsons School Of Design in New York City. Isherwood has been awarded residencies from Virginia Center For Creative Arts, Robert Johnson Fellowship, Amherst, Virginia; The Mabel Residency at The Norman Bird Sanctuary, Middletown, RI and Willapa Bay AiR, Oysterville, WA. His work is in the US Department of State Art Bank Collection and numerous private collections.

Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Future Memory at Galeria Ana Serratosa, Valencia, Spain; Space Deconstructed at Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, New York; A Sense Of Place at Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY and group exhibitions Homegrown at Hauser & Wirth, New York,NY; and Friends From Social Media at Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia.

Isherwood lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Elizabeth Threadgill holds an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in Developmental Education-Literacy, both from Texas State University. She is from Marfa, Texas, and now lives in upstate New York, where she is an Associate Professor of English at Utica University. Her poetry appears in Poet Lore, The Offing, Fugue, Radar Poetry, DIALOGIST, Small Orange, and elsewhere.

Maryam Adib is a 26 year-old multidisciplinary artist that graduated from SUNY Cortland in 2020.  She works primarily in oil paint, gauche and screenprinting. 

Her art centers around themes of racial and environmental justice, exploration of the self and the unconscious/ conscious mind. Her art has transformative qualities, often examining the ails of society and transforming feelings of despair and anger into hopeful, beautiful art. 

In her art practice, Maryam uses a variety of painting and drawing mediums.  This act of building imagery from nothing is the nexus of her philosophy in art.  Building and creating illusions with paint in order to dispel old illusions such as societal norms, into something fresh and new.  The idea of art mimics society itself, society seeks to create its own illusions, standards and practices.

Maryam believes the artist can be the catalyst to creating and manifesting what society needs in order to heal.  Whether that means creating beauty, dispelling myths, spreading messages or just creating joy. 

Patricia Chao’s novels are Monkey King (1995) and Mambo Peligroso (2005), both published by HarperCollins, and she has three additional book manuscripts in process. Her poetry and essays have appeared in various anthologies and journals. She also reviews and writes about world music, with a specialty in Latin.

Awards include Japan-US Friendship Commission residency in Japan, New York Foundation for the Arts, Cuba Writers Conference, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Patricia’s latest non-literary accomplishments include getting licensed as a Zumba instructor and completing two semesters of intensive Cantonese. Her home base is New York City.

Debbi Kenote (b. 1991, Anacortes, WA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and a BFA from Western Washington University.

Kenote has exhibited in the United States and Internationally, including Page Bond Gallery, The Cob Gallery, Peep Space, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Peekskill Project and Deanna Evans Projects. Kenote’s work has been published through Elle Magazine, The Hopper Prize, Art of Choice, Page Bond Gallery, Otra Vox and Curina.

Kenote has been an artist in residence at the Cob x PLOP Residency, Vermont Studio Center, DNA Residency, Nes Artist Residency, and CAI Projects. In 2021 she was shortlisted for the Hopper Prize. She has curated exhibitions at Open House and the 2018, 2019 and 2021 SPRING/BREAK Art Shows.

Lark Omura is a mixed Japanese/white writer, born and raised on the island of Maui, and currently residing in Brooklyn, NY.

Her work spans geographies, and often explores patriarchy, labor, longing, and the concept of “home” within the context of capitalism and settler colonialism. She has received fellowships and support from the Community of Writers at Olympic Valley, Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA), Winter Tangerine, and Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writers Lab.

Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, The Offing, Muzzle Magazine, and The Hawai’i Review, among other places.

She holds an MFA in poetry from Rutgers University-Newark. 

Michael Christopher Zuhorski, (b.1992 in Detroit, Michigan), works with photography, text, and sound. Michael’s first time living alone was as a volunteer lighthouse keeper.

He holds a BFA in Photography from the College for Creative Studies, in Detroit, and he is currently an MFA candidate at Syracuse University.

Michael’s practice consists of acts of sustained attention. He studies information-sparse subjects – textureless white wax, sprawling fields of snow, blank walls, rivers in the dark – over the course of months and years. In doing this he shows qualities and changes that would otherwise remain unseen. He demonstrates how acts of sustained attention change the shape the world takes.

María Isabel Álvarez is a first-generation Guatemalan-American writer and educator. She received her BA in English Literature and her MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University.

Her writing has received fellowships and grants from The Elizabeth George Foundation, the Speculative Literature Foundation, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Colgate Writers Conference, Yaddo, and Hedgebrook.

Her short fiction is published in Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, Sonora Review, and Gulf Coast, among other venues, and has been anthologized in The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States and Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction. Poems of hers are published or forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, DIALOGIST, Breakwater Review, and elsewhere. Alongside the poet, Dante Di Stefano, she co-edited the poetry anthology, Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America (NYQ Books).

She lives and teaches in upstate New York and is currently at work on a novel and a collection of short stories.

Adele Quartley Brown is a New York City-based, emerging artist interested in narratives around perception and misconception. Adele, a published author and consultant to the humanitarian sector, pivoted from corporate work to focus full-time on her photography. She has been photographing steadily since receiving a Polaroid Swinger camera in her teens.

In 2021, Adele was honored to have her work exhibited, along with 25 emerging artists, on billboards in Los Angeles, CA, as part of The Billboard Creative juried competition.  Later that year, Adele was awarded two First Place awards and a Runner Up award for three photographic series at the 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. She also received recognition at the 16th and 15th JMC Awards. Her photographs have been published in the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library’s literary journal, So It Goes, and online.

Since 2020, Adele’s photographs have been selected for group exhibitions in Texas, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Barcelona. Her Culture & Daily Life series was exhibited at the 6th Barcelona Foto Biennale in December 2021.

Brianna L. Hernández (b. 1991) is a Chicana artist, curator, educator, and death doula guided by socially-engaged practices. Her background includes experience working in community organizations, gallery, museum, and higher education settings, and as a consultant with public health researchers. In developing as an artist and creative professional Brianna credits her late mother, Sylvia D. Hernández, as her most significant mentor and inspiration for the creativity, resilience, and compassion she demonstrated throughout her life.

In the studio, Brianna creates installations through several mediums including large-scale charcoal drawings, video art, sculpture, and performances. Her work focuses on end-of-life care, grieving processes, and mourning rituals based on lived experience, cultural research, and collaborations with peers. In addition to formal artworks, her practice offers workshops and takeaway resources for viewers to self-educate through the safety of the creative process.

As a curator, Brianna works with artists to make socially-charged topics publicly accessible in order to create opportunities for education and empathy. As an extension of this socially-conscious approach, Brianna frequently collaborates with community health researchers to incorporate the arts into collection and dissemination of public health project data.

Brianna proudly serves as Curator and Board Secretary of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, New York. Additionally, she is currently the Curatorial Fellow at the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, NY, Board Treasurer at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Committee Member for the Gente Chicana/SOYmos Chicanos Arts Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.

(Photo credit: Jeremy Dennis)

Joseph O. Legaspi, a Fulbright and NYFA fellow, is the author of the poetry collections Threshold and Imago (CavanKerry Press), and the chapbooks Postcards (Ghost Bird Press), Aviary, Bestiary (Organic Weapon Arts) and Subways (Thrush Press).

He co-founded Kundiman, a national nonprofit serving writers and readers of Asian American literature. He lives with his husband in Queens, New York.

(Photo credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths)

Suliya Gisele is a Brooklyn based director and production designer whose work is informed by her experiences as a woman of color.

She is drawn to filmmaking as a medium capable of directly reaching and reassuring those whose identities have relegated them to the margins. Her work as a director and a production designer creates an environment that engulfs the viewer into the world and experiences of the character. She believes that their environment is an extension of their being and does the speaking for them.

She is currently working on visual poems and narrative films aimed to celebrate and uplift the Black community. 

Born in 1990 in Cali, Colombia, Luis A. Gutierrez moved to the U.S as a teenager. He studied painting under the mentorship of artist Alfred Razza and attended Broward College. His passion for history and interest in social injustices and imperialism have influenced his work throughout his career. He currently lives and works in New York City.
 

Gutierrez is a 2021 recipient of the City Artist Corps Grant, an online resident at Silver Art Projects, and a 2020 AIM fellow artist at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. In 2019, He exhibited “Entre Sombras, From Figuration to Abstraction” (solo) at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. He has also shown work in the Coral Springs Museum of Art, in private galleries, and Christie’s, New York. In 2016, Spectrum Miami Art Fair awarded him the Launchpad Artist Award and a site-specific installation. That year Gutierrez was a semi-finalist for the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series.

Clare Jones has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a graduate of Carleton College, the University of Iowa Center for the Book, and Queens’ College, Cambridge. Her poems have been published in Poetry, PN Review, The Chariton Review, Sport, and elsewhere.

Kathy Miller is a writer living in Syracuse, NY. Kathy started writing poetry as a teenager growing up in a Pennsylvania Dutch farming community in central Pennsylvania. In college she majored in psychology but minored in English and became an assistant in the English department, a fortuitous assignment which led to her involvement in organizing readings on campus by eminent writers and poets of the time.

After receiving a graduate degree, Kathy started pursuing a career as a counselor. She also spent a year as a non-matriculated student in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Arizona. For the next 35 years Kathy worked as a prevention specialist in a variety of settings in Arizona, California, and New York while also raising a family.

After retirement in 2018, Kathy decided to try her hand at creative writing again, this time focusing on creative nonfiction. She attended classes sponsored by the Downtown Writers’ Center at the Syracuse YMCA, Syracuse OASIS, and Creative Nonfiction magazine, among others.  Most of her writing has focused on memoir, including micro-memoir, but she has also dabbled in fiction and poetry. 

Kathy’s work has appeared in Persimmon Tree, Writer’s Club, The Ponder Review, Jewish Women of Words, Planet Scum, Stone Canoe and the online version of The New York Times’ Tiny Love Stories.  Her latest project is a compilation of short memoirs for an eventual chapbook.

Patricia Miranda is an artist, curator, educator, and founder of the artist-run orgs The Crit Lab and MAPSpace, where she developed residencies at MAPSpace and in Italy.

She has been awarded residencies at I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio. She has received grants from Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (2021); two artist grants from ArtsWestchester/New York State Council on the Arts (2014/21); Anonymous Was a Woman Covid19 Relief Grant (2021), and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth (1995). In 2010 she was a finalist for an MTA Arts in Transit project in Brooklyn.

Miranda has developed education programs for K-12, museums, and institutions, including Franklin Furnace, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian Institution. Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA Gallery, The Clemente Center, ABC No Rio, Wave Hill, and Rio II Gallery, (NYC); The Alexey von Schlippe Gallery at UConn Avery Point, (Groton, CT); the Cape Museum of Fine Art, (Cape Cod MA); and the Belvedere Museum, (Vienna Austria).

Recent solo exhibitions include the Jane Street Art Center in Saugerties, NY, (2022) and The Garrison Art Center (2021). The Garrison Art Center exhibition, Punto in Aria, was featured in the Brooklyn Rail.