Jane Tardo

Jane Tardo is a sculptor, fiber and mixed media artist born and based in New Orleans. Experimenting with many visual and physical techniques, their practice is surreal, wacky and diverse, incorporating imaginative sculptures, textile art, and technologies in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works. 

Nicole Salimbene

Nicole Salimbene (b. Trinidad, CO) is a Washington, D.C. based artist working at the intersection of poetics, psychology, environmentalism and contemplative practice.  Environmental, spiritual, and political issues from her background circulate in the conceptual and material choices within her work.

Jo Ann Block

Jo Ann Block is a Los Angeles, CAbased mixed media artist investigating queer history, sexuality, and identity as they are inscribed within historical and contemporary culture.

John Alleyne

John Alleyne is an Assistant Professor of Art at Southern University and A & M College, and Program Leader of the Visual Arts program. He currently lives and works in New Orleans, LA and Brooklyn, NY.

Rin Kelly

Rin Kelly’s stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review among other journals. She studied at the New School and was a fellow at the Stabile Center at Columbia School of Journalism. A scholarship in her name has been established at The San Francisco Writers Grotto.