Jasmine Nicole Williams is a Black American visual artist and organizer from Atlanta, GA. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Art in Printmaking from the University of West Georgia in 2017. Her work explores her experience as a southern Black woman through printmaking and murals…

Umi IMAN is an Emmy-nominated movement artist, facilitator of healing, and indigenous arts curator based in Atlanta, GA. She is of a Black American, Caribbean, and Tsalagi Native American Lineage. Rooted in engaging Black and Native dances (folklore and Vernacular), her artistic practice serves as…

W.J. Lofton is a Black, Queer, Southern, American poet, interdisciplinary artist and author of A Garden for Black Boys Between the Stages of Soil and Stardust. His work has appeared in various journals, magazines, and film festivals, including TIME, wildness, Rust & Moth, the Urbanworld…

Kelly Taylor Mitchell is an artist and educator based in Atlanta, GA. Kelly has completed residencies at Ranch Arts Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Women’s Studio Workshop and Atlanta Contemporary. Kelly has completed fellowships with The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (Working Artist Project…

Nia Jackson, an Atlanta-based portrait artist born and raised in Jackson, MS, received her Bachelor of Arts from Spelman College. Her time there was a transformational period; Jackson found her artistic voice recalling her youth facing racial and cultural challenges. Her early work investigated the…

Heather ‘Bird’ Harris is an artist and history educator working in Atlanta and New Orleans. Through painting and social practice, she engages site-specific materials to explore the throughlines between land history and environmental crises, place and memory, as well as mothering in the face of…

Adán Bean is an accomplished spoken word poet, emcee, writer, storyteller, and voice-over talent hailing from a small town in Ohio but has called Atlanta home for over a decade. As a graduate of Morehouse College, Adán has anchored his creative base firmly in the…

Meredith Gordon is a circus artist, actor, and musician. Meredith fell in love with Theater and circus at an early age. He taught himself to juggle as a teenager and developed a passion for Theater as a college student. Over the past 30 years, Meredith…

A multi-disciplinary artist whose storytelling often fuses poetry, music and embodied movement. An Applied Theatre Practitioner who manages to maintain a thriving career as a professional artist in tandem with his activist and scholarly pursuits.  He has been a Fulbright Awardee, an Oregon Shakespeare Festival…

Jessica Hill (she/her) is an actor, improviser, and scholar. She is interested in applied theatre and improv as tools for examining our experiences and strategizing for more just futures. Jessica holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Public…