ebere agwuncha (she/they) is an Igbo-American craftsperson and educator born and based in Chicago. Their practice embodies the histories of various Igbo (an ethnic group of Nigeria) sites, objects, architectures, paying homage to the traditional collective crafting practice of Nigerian …

Victoria Boateng (she/her/they/them) is a dynamic African drummer, autism self-advocate, and educator who uses the djembe as a powerful tool for awareness, healing, and representation. Diagnosed with autism at the age of three and nonverbal until the age of seven, …

Tommy Carroll (he/him) is a Chicago-based drummer and composer working primarily in the areas of modern jazz, folkloric percussion, and electro acoustic improvisation. He showcases his jazz compositions with the Tommy Carroll Quartet and explores groove-based improvisation with Prosthetic, an …

Nina Castillo-D’Angier (she/they/siya) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice combines immersive theatre, production design, and interactive installation. With a focus on worldbuilding and the curation of spaces that allow audiences to safely explore vulnerability, Nina’s work invites active participation …

Rammel Chan (he/him) is an actor, comedian, game developer, science fiction writer, and playwright proud to call Chicago his home. The eldest of Filipino immigrants, Rammel grew up on military bases in Germany before moving to Michigan where he fell …

Chih-Jou Cheng (程之柔) (she/her) is a Taiwanese movement artist, physical theater creator, and puppeteer based in Chicago. Her interdisciplinary practice weaves together physical storytelling, puppetry, theatre of the oppressed, and community engagement to explore the challenges and joys of the …

Wendy Clinard (she/her) is a Chicago-based dancer, choreographer, educator, and relationship builder, and the founding artistic director of Clinard Dance, established in 1999. Her work is rooted in flamenco but extends across contemporary performance and community-centered practice, pioneering a unique …

Torrence “Tea Buggz” Griffin (he/him) is a dance artist, pop-locker, teacher, and cultural worker based out of Chicago, IL. Rooted in the Black American street dance style of popping, Griffin carries forward a lineage that began in the Bay Area …

Ariella Granados (she/they) AKA Sparklmami is a multidisciplinary artist that transcends mediums to build a world untethered to conventional structures. Born in Texas and based in Chicago, Sparklmami introduces us to a new world, engaging us in a story of …

Tom Lee (he/him) is a teacher, puppet artist, designer, and director. He began his career at La MaMa Experimental Theater in New York with the encouragement of Ellen Stewart. Tom’s work often explores manipulated objects, miniatures, and figures in dialogue …

Kristin Idaszak (she/her) is a playwright, essayist, and dramaturg whose recent work focuses on the climate crisis, gender, and disability. She is a two-time Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow. Her play Second Skin received the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Award and …

Kara Jackson (she/her) is a writer, musician, and performer based in Chicago, Illinois. A daughter of country folks, her work draws a map from the Deep South to the Midwest, where she was raised. Through her work she tries to …

Leasho Johnson (he/him) is a visual artist working primarily in painting, installation, and sculpture. He was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and raised in Sheffield, a small town on the outskirts of Negril. Johnson uses his experience growing up Black, …

Maxwell Senteney (he/him) is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer from Carbondale, IL. Raised by record collectors, he developed a passion for music at a very young age. Before long, he found himself immersed within the DIY community of artists …

Fern Logan (she/her) has been showing widely since the early 1970s when she emerged as a promising photographer from the Apeiron Photographic Workshops. Her work was included in the groundbreaking exhibition, Reflections in Black: Contemporary African American Photographers at the …

Jess Atieno’s (she/her) practice engages African modernisms and visual culture through a postcolonial lens, critically examining the enduring imprint of colonial photographic practices on representations of place, home, and identity. Her research interrogates historic images, attending to their spectral presence and …

Odette Stout (they/them) is an artist and drag performer whose multimedia club performances and experimental handmade silicone costumes are a staple in Chicago underground nightlife. They become and cast collaborators as otherworldly living artworks called on to tell stories from …