Brema was born in war-torn Sudan until age five, when his family fled to a Kenyan refugee camp. His family settled in Milwaukee in 2010. While still in high school, he began to experiment with photography, videography, and screen-printing. That’s where his streetwear label - Unfinished Legacy - emblazoned with bold fonts and bright colors, was born.

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. Ghanbarzadeh is a recipient of the 2024 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.

Jovanny Hernandez Caballero is a community artist and photographer based in Milwaukee. He is a first-generation American and descendant of Mixtecs, an Indigenous people based in present-day Mexico. His work centers around themes of cultural heritage and identity. Jovanny documents the beauty of Milwaukee’s South Side and his family’s native land of Oaxaca, Mexico. He completed his BFA in Photography & Imaging at UW-Milwaukee in 2023. Caballero is a recipient of the 2024 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.

Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the LatinX experience, Favela is the recipient of the 2018 Alan Turing LGTBIQ Award for International Artist. Favela hosts two podcasts, “Latinos Who Lunch” and “The Art People Podcast.”

Vivian is a furniture designer, maker, sculptor based in New England. Her sleek, abstracted metal and concrete furniture combines the aesthetic sensibilities of contemporary design, craft, and sculpture to create furniture that alter expectations of and interface with the domestic landscape.

Nicholas Perry is a painter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a BFA from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts in 2018. Nicholas makes figurative paintings that draw on art-historical influences, personal photography, and other visual languages. Perry is a recipient of the 2024 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.

Raquel de Anda is an independent curator and cultural producer raised on the US-Mexico border of Laredo, TX. Recent exhibitions include Like The Waters We Rise: Climate Justice in Print (New York, NY). She is currently designing an initiative to support the cultural and artistic production of Borderlands communities on both sides of the US-Mexico border.

Priya Kambli was born in India. She moved to the United States at age 18 carrying her entire life in one suitcase that weighed 20 lbs. She is currently Professor of Art at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. In 2008 PhotoLucida awarded her a book publication prize for her project Color Falls Down, published in 2010.

The work of Amy O’Neill investigates the intersections and balances between community and isolation, and the collaborative effort to build and maintain shared commonalities. Her paintings explore the invisible structures that support, improve, or divide specific communities. Her work has been included in juried and invitational exhibitions across the US and locally at the Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Charles Allis Art Museum.

Jimena Buena Vida is a Colombian-born artist whose work is rooted in computational aesthetics intersecting with modern art. Her digital art practice is informed by painting and animation, where creative coding as an art medium transforms JavaScript into vibrant abstraction.

Hollis Hammonds is a multimedia artist whose work, built on memory and utilizing evidence from the public collective consciousness, investigates social issues ranging from economic disparity and state violence to environmental degradation and human-made disasters. Her dystopian drawings and found-object installations have been widely exhibited throughout the US.

Sulo Bee is a co-founder of Queer Metalsmiths where they seek to uplift queer voices in the field of metalsmithing and craft. They hold a BFA in Metals and Jewelry from Texas State University in 2018 and an MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2022. Bee currently teaches in Metals and Foundations the School of Art and Design at Texas State University.