Anne Chen was raised by Chinese immigrants who sought healing from both ritual exorcists and Prozac. Her practice emerged out of the pandemic, sequestered in attic apartments — workspaces forming in bedrooms, on kitchen floors. An interiority decorator, she makes quilts, pillows, and ceramics that mythologize the ancient histories and convoluted narratives woven into diasporic objects. She collects, appropriates, and deceives, drawing from archives to mistranslate cultural curiosities into household goods for couches, windows, and nightstands. Her research examines how oriental goods, whether stolen through colonization or having migrated in suitcases, carry unspoken values revealed through context, density of environment, and the attention of the interpreter.

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Arieux (FKA Air Xiu) is an artist and educator whose practice lives in translation — between languages, bodies, and the feelings families pass down without words. Working across sound, video, movement, painting, objects, and ceremony, they create live happenings and workshops that gather people into new forms of expression. Their work trusts that meaning moves the way language does: shifting, carried, and already alive in the body.

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Arthur Lindsay is a musician who plays fiddle and guitar. Born and raised in Western Pennsylvania by a single mother who sought to keep her biracial son safe in a church community, he was introduced to music and performing from an early age and learned how a community could support people, no matter the conditions. He studied Communication and Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. In his mid-20s, Lindsay began taking an interest in Old Time Appalachian music. Through Old Time music, he has become an organizer for Steel City Squares, a monthly square dance, and has played and performed music throughout Appalachia. He plays in the country band Howling Mob and folk band the Snappin’ Bug String Band.

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Brent Nakamoto is a Queer, Japanese-American, and Buddhist artist with a background in painting and drawing, printmaking, photography, and book arts. He received his BA from UC Santa Barbara and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. He has shown work nationally and internationally, including in California, Saint Louis, New York, Pittsburgh, Helsinki, and Kolkata. He is the Program and Marketing Coordinator for Brew House Arts and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Eriko Hattori (they/them) is a Pittsburgh-based artist. Taking from their experiences as a queer, trans, Japanese American, Hattori’s work explores the line between pleasure and pain and how these axes become distorted through the lenses of identity, intimacy, and trauma. Hattori graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013. Their work has been exhibited in shows across the country in cities including New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Occidental, CA; Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; and New Orleans, LA and featured in numerous publications.

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Jules Lee is a Korean-American artist/community-builder/work-in-progress from the Muscogee and Shawnee land (so-called “Birmingham, AL”) working primarily in photography and collage. Through their family’s photo album, their lens-based works explore themes of ancestry, care, and the photograph as existential affirmation. In the quieter moments, you can find them taking long walks, maintaining their pressed flower collection, and laying in the grass to be one with the flowers and soil.

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Justin Lin (he/him, 1989) is a Pittsburgh-based Singaporean sculptor exploring forgotten adventures, familial mythologies, and the aching throb of unfulfilled desires. He’s shown at Miller Gallery (Pgh), Sullivan + Strumpf, Flaneur Gallery, Red Sea Gallery and Sculpture Square (S’pore). In previous lives, he taught middle school, wrote public policy, and ran a microbakery. When he’s not helping other artists install their art, Justin is an overambitious cabinetmaker, reasonable bicyclist, enthusiastic transit user, and pretty decent cat-parent.

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Kimberly Rooney 高小荣 is a queer Chinese-American adoptee currently based in Philadelphia. They are a 2023 Periplus Collective fellow, a 2022 Best of the Net finalist, and a creative nonfiction editor at Sundog Lit. When they aren’t writing, they enjoy calligraphy, singing, and crocheting. You can find them at kimrooneywrites.com or on Instagram @kimlypso.

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Kiyomi Knox (she/her) is a social worker and artist in the Pittsburgh area. She uses art as a way to connect, create conversation and community, and to offer opportunities to heal. Her recent work touches on grief and also highlights the journey of identity and reclaiming self. Kiyomi most enjoys hosting art as healing workshops for folks to approach various topics and emotions and create community.

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Quartz / Court is guided by intuition and grounded in the natural world, with a practice rooted in play, experimentation, and curiosity. Quartz / Court approaches the practice as an archaeological dig site, excavating younger selves buried like fossils, asking to be seen, touched, acknowledged, and reconciled. Working with earth-based mediums such as clay, glass, and natural materials becomes a tactile and somatic process of (re)discovery, creating both a physical and spiritual space to hold and honor the stories once told and integrate them into the present self.

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Sara Dtantirojanarat is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the intersections of chronic illness, identity, ecopsychology, and the sacred in the discarded and underseen. You can find them glitching out in liminal spaces or exploring the underground powers that pulse through Pittsburgh.

 

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Sarah Khadraoui is a textile artist and designer whose practice explores craft and technology through hand weaving, jacquard weaving, and machine knitting. She is drawn to the meditative nature of these processes and finds textiles as both highly technical and deeply human, acting as a record of time, labor, and memory.

 

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SEONI is an anti-disciplinary dreamer, blurring the lines between memory, myth, dream, object, void, space, and time. SEONI’s practice explores and expresses the connection and disconnection to their ancestors. Centering wounding and healing, SEONI’s work is a mirror holding spacetime in which to breathe and see – in and out, over and over – until the return.

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Shimul Chowdhury (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, Assistant Professor of Immersive Media at Chatham University, and the Art Director for MIPSTERZ. Shimul designs and curates craft and new media-based participatory works that facilitate dialogue and collaboration with community members, largely other Muslims in the United States. Her practice currently centers cross-cultural storytelling methods in fiber and textile art practices as well as interactive and immersive multimedia installations.

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Zim Syed is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores themes of space, and memory through painting, sculpture, and installation. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Syed spent his childhood between the United States, Bangladesh, and The United Arab Emirates. He uses form to express personal reflections on the tension between cultural heritage and spatial politics.

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Zoyakeko’s work explores self-identity through the usage of ballpoint pens and tattoos. Working in such contrasting mediums complements the duality of the art with the artist and their stance on elitism and lack of accessibility in the fine arts. Subject matters often consist of imagery relating to Asian culture, pertaining to their background, and the human form, where hair plays an important symbol representing change.

Sara Tang is a member of the #notwhite Collective and is the Digital Content Curator for Anthropology of Motherhood. She has served on leadership with JADED PGH Asian American Pacific Islander collective and with folkLAB’s “These Hollow Hills” artist residency program and inaugural folkFEST. She has co-curated at 🅢🅔🅐🅕🅞🅐🅜 creative space, SPACE Gallery, ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery for Contemporary Art, Radiant Hall Studios, the Three Rivers Arts Festival, Imagebox, Assemble, Level Up Studios, Black Forge, UnSmoke Systems Artspace, and more.