Nomka Enkhee merges drawing, poetry, sculpture and performance. Over the past year, she has researched Tuuli, a form of oral Mongolian epic poetry that combines eulogies, spells, idiomatic phrases, fairy tales, myths, and folk songs. She weaves in traditional elements of oral storytelling, reinterpreting narration through experimental writing and performance. Enkhee is the co-director of e.s.r. (experimental sculpture room), an exhibition space and a publishing practice based in Milwaukee. Enkhee is a recipient of the 2026 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.

William Estrada grew up in California, Mexico, and Chicago. His approach to both art and teaching is centered on collaborative discourse. He draws on academic literature, educational settings, and personal interactions to report, record, reveal, and amplify lived experiences, aiming to foster radical imagination. He is well known for taking his mobile screen-printing cart directly out to the community in Chicago where he disseminates prints and risograph to the people. Estrada is an Asst. Professor in the Dept of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).

Nicole Marroquin is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who explores Black and Latinx Midwest histories of youth resistance movements, belonging and spatial justice. In 2019 she began a social media project called Chicago Raza Research Consortium. In 2020 Marroquin was the recipient of the USA Fellowship. She is Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Gerhardt Knodel is an American contemporary textile artist, academic administrator, and educator. He was the head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1970 to 1997 and served as the director from 1997 to 2007. His work has gained international recognition and has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Japan-American Friendship Fellowship, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the James Renwick Alliance, and the State of Michigan. Knodel was awarded the Gold Medal by the American Craft Council.

Jamie Ho is an interdisciplinary artist who is currently based in Tallahassee, Florida. Her art practice engages with GIFs, photography, and installation to investigate the long-term impact of assimilation and cultural bereavement through references of ancestral Chinese traditions and artifacts. Her work troubles the history of public spectacle and display of Asian American women, using performance and lighting studio to challenge societal expectations of gender roles and norms. She has been included in the 2023 Silver List, was a Critical Mass Finalist and was awarded the 40th Center Annual Beth Block Honorarium by Houston Center for Photography.

Paolo Pedercini is an Italian game designer known for making Flash videogames based on socio-political points of view, on topics such as labour market flexibility and queer theory, in explicit opposition with the mainstream video game industry. He is known under the pseudonym Molleindustria, the name of his website. He created games such as Queer Power, Faith Fighter and the McDonald's Video Game. The games are often offered as freeware under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial license.

Soumya Netrabile is a Chicago-based painter who has exhibited at Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles), Rachel Uffner (NYC), Trinta Gallery (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Indigo + Madder (London), and Karma (NYC). Her forthcoming solo exhibition will take place at Anat Ebgi in New York.

Cappy Counard creates jewelry and sculptural objects that explores the notions of work, care, storytelling and repair in the objects she makes. Counard is a Professor of Jewelry and Metals at Edinboro University and has taught workshops in universities across the country as well as at Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Peter’s Valley School of Craft and Touchstone Center for Crafts.

Bridget Conn is an Indiana-based photographic artist who investigates photography as both a chemical and physical medium through camera-less and experimental processes. Addressing themes of societal struggle, awe, miscommunication, digital versus tactile experience, and the value of embracing mistakes, she expands the boundaries of the medium through prints, installations, and sculptural works.

Niki Johnson is a Milwaukee-based artist, curator and Executive Director of Forward Art Initiative. For the past decade, Johnson has run her studio full-time, exhibiting her art and curating local and national exhibitions. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Madison Central Public Library, UW-Health’s American Center Hospital and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Della Wells is a nationally recognized collage artist whose work is in the collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Chazen Museum of Art, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the Intuit Art Museum, and many private collections. Evelyn Terry’s book art, oil portraits, found-object assemblages, and marked-up sewn recycled drawings can be found in over 500 collections worldwide. She has exhibited in Spain, Germany, Japan, and Russia, and has created public art projects for her neighborhood in Milwaukee and for the Mitchell International Airport.

Megan Olson is an abstract painter whose practice has evolved over the past twenty years between the fine art world and the culture of graffiti. Drawing from modernist traditions and the improvisational energy of street-based mark making, she has developed a visual language rooted in abstraction and automatic gesture. Olson is currently the Chair of the Archives Committee for the American Abstract Artists.