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.