Alexander Rondeau is a queer artist, writer, and curator from Northern Ontario, Canada, now living in Arcata, California. Rondeau is currently working towards his PhD in Cultural Studies, and holds an MFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practice, and a BFA in Photography Studies. Often using a mixture of photography, writing, and sculpture, his artistic practice contends with the entanglements and misreadings across both queer and rural visual material culture. Rondeau's curatorial practice and  PhD research focus on spite-specific exhibition-making in rural communities. In 2021, he launched an experimental art gallery in a pheasant coop called Between Pheasants Contemporary. Rondeau will be included in a forthcoming group exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery in Durham, Ontario (August 2025), and his next curatorial project will open in June (2025) at the Brenda Tuxford Gallery in Eureka, California.

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Bongani Sibanda is the author of the novels Jimmy and the Giant Insects, The Goat that Refused to be Slaughtered, and the collections Grace and Other Stories, Everyone is a Robot Until Proven Otherwise and, Goodbye Thabo and Other Stories. In 2016, his short story collection was rejected by the Zimbabwean Ministry of Education for perceived political overtones.

His short stories have been published in literary venues such as New Contrast Magazine, Munyori Literary Journal, Kalahari Review and Lolwe Magazine. He has also been featured in three of Weaver Press Short Story Collections – Writing Mystery and Mayhem (2015) Writing Lives (2014) and Windows into Zimbabwe (2020), which was translated into German. In 2015, he was long listed for the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Award for Musoke, a fictional account of the Ugandan former rebel, Dominic Ongwen. In 2018, he attended the Caine Prize work shop in Gisenyi Rwanda, where he wrote Ngozi, a short story that featured in the Caine Prize collection, Redemption Song and Other Stories.

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Carissa Lillian Clark (she/they) is an interdisciplinary, project-based artist whose work includes a wide variety of social practice collaborations and a studio practice of visual, craft, and performative mediums. Using site-specific materials (invasive plants, industrial remnants, soil, algae), painting, printmaking, and installation, their work engages with themes of climate resilience, interspecies relationships, and queer ecofeminist desire.

In 2012, she co-founded and -operated Utila Art Space in Utila, Honduras; from 2014 to 2022 she co-founded and -operated the Sanctuary in Arcata, California; in 2020 to 2021 she was a working member of Dream Farm Commons in Oakland, California. They received a BFA in Sculpture and Social Practice from California College of the Arts. They have shown work and contributed to permanent installations in the U.S., Honduras, México, and Germany. Clark lives and works in a small town in northern California.

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My name is Chaeyeon Hong. I live and work as an artist in Seoul, South Korea. In painting, I primarily work with oil on canvas. I earned both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Western painting from Ewha Womans University in Korea. I hope to continue living as an artist, and I am constantly striving toward this dream.

About My Work: I create paintings that are both connected and disconnected. My works often extend to the sides of the canvas, always leaving room for potential "proliferation." To create these proliferating paintings, I collect images from everyday life that inspire me and reflect my imagination by engaging in conversations with the objects that appear in those images. This act of conversation fuels the endless expansion of my paintings. As a result, my work exists in a world where reality and fantasy coexist a space — that feels like stepping into a fairytale. A key theme that often appears in my work is "boundary." Most people like to categorize and divide things, but in my paintings, boundaries are not merely lines for separation they become spaces of their own. For instance, even when we are surrounded by crowds, we often feel a sense of loneliness. I capture these boundary-like spaces in my paintings, exploring the invisible boundaries that exist in our world. Through my work, I seek to discover and depict various boundary spaces from a social perspective. I also see myself, along with all modern individuals, as "boundary people" those who often feel a sense of displacement and isolation. In my — paintings, however, this anxiety and loneliness transform into a brighter, fairytale-like world where these emotions can gradually be soothed and alleviated.

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Dina Nazmi Khorchid is a visual artist working with printed and woven textiles, integrating mark-making, photography, and material studies. Her hands-on process intertwines design principles with analog and digital techniques, grounded in craftsmanship and artistic expression. Dina’s work explores themes of displacement, ecological grief and memory access. A third-generation Palestinian refugee and daughter of a disappeared Gulf War casualty, her work reflects personal and collective narratives of loss and resilience. She holds an MFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received the Society of Presidential Fellows Scholarship. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Art Dubai, B7L9 Art Centre and Field Projects, and was recently featured in a solo presentation at the Beyond Emerging Artists 2024 exhibition with Galleria Continua at Abu Dhabi Art.

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Kripi Malviya is an existential psychotherapist and poet from India where she runs an international emotional wellbeing practice specializing on the convergence of mental health, intersectionality and the creative process. Her work has been published in Muse India, the Sky Island Journal, Panorama Journal and the Black Warrior Review among others. Her first chapbook is title “ale(theia)”

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Nora Jane Long is an Emmy-nominated interdisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker whose practice is driven by an ongoing exploration of nature, symbolism, and memory. Combining research-driven inquiry with an intuitive creative process, she works across visual art, poetry, and cinematic storytelling. Her films have screened internationally, aired on PBS and Good Morning America, and received support from the Simon’s Foundation, the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, Southern Exposure, and more. She holds an MFA in Film and Television Production from the Savannah College of Art and Design and teaches visual storytelling while continuing to create evocative, thought-provoking pieces across multiple mediums.

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