Tuwilê Raizes uses the visual language of Hip Hop, graffiti, and stencils. His murals appear on walls throughout São Paulo. Mirella Maria’s installation applies photography, performance, the body and sewing to construct a critical and sensitive perspective on narratives that traverse the memory(ies) of the Black Brazilian population.

Sharif Bey is a Syracuse-based artist and educator. Inspired by modernism, functional pottery, Oceanic Art and Art of the African diaspora, Bey’s works investigate the cultural and political significance of adornment and the symbolic and formal properties of archetypal motifs, while questioning how the meaning of icons and function transform across cultures and time.

New York/Berlin-based artist Trevor Paglen spans numerous disciplines. He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.

Philadelphia-based artist Lauren Mabry is recognized internationally for her bold, dynamic glazes and inventive use of ceramic material, color, and form. Her work embraces experimentation as a way to investigate physical states of matter in relationship to objects, landscape, and abstraction.

Nina Ghanbarzadeh (Afkhamian) is a visual artist whose work is informed by the geometric and biomorphic patterns, colors, and textures of her Persian cultural traditions. Ghanbarzadeh emigrated from Tehran, Iran in 2001. She earned her BFA in painting, drawing and graphic design from the UW-Milwaukee in 2013 and completed a two-year Artist in Residence Program with Redline Milwaukee in 2015.