Kariny Padilla is a Queens based visual artist from Santiago, Dominican Republic. Her mixed media practice combines hand sewn unstretched canvases with painting to explore memory, identity, and materiality, creating layered surfaces that serve as sanctuary-like spaces for liberation and reflection.

Abhishek Tuiwala is a New Jersey-based sculptor from Gujarat, India. His multidisciplinary practice explores themes of migration, cultural identity, and social constructs through metal, wood, installation, and drawing, often blending satire with deeply personal narratives.

Tania Qurashi is a Philadelphia-based artist whose paintings and drawings explore cultural memory and identity through symbolic still lifes. Drawing on her Pakistani and Guatemalan roots, she uses flowers and everyday objects to reflect on heritage, displacement, and belonging.

Gabrielle Benak is a mixed-media artist from New York. Primarily a watercolor painter, she never limits her works to one medium. Themes of documentation, adornment, maximalism, and preservation are just some of the roots of her work. The combination of autobiography and false reality results in elaborate imagery

Julianny Ariza Vólquez is a Dominican visual artist whose work explores material memory and systems of exclusion through sculpture, installation, painting, and video. Her practice has been presented in institutions across the Americas, Europe, and Africa, and is part of major public collections including the Museo de Arte Moderno (DR) and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico.