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…

Juel D. Lane one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.” He has performed nationally and internationally with Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, and currently dances with Bessie Award winning Camille A. Brown & Dancers. He is the Executive Artistic Associate with the Black Acting Methods Studio.  In 2012, Lane…

Alex Mari is an interdisciplinary performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia. Mari explores the cramped spaces of social identity and liminality through performance, objects, installation, body art, video, writing, conceptual art and street intervention. She seeks societal reorganization through a QTBIPOC feminist lens in order to…