Alison Zapata is a visual artist and educator who specializes in vibrant painting, murals, and mixed media collage. Her murals are on display throughout Pittsburgh. She develops engaging child-centered arts integration and culturally-responsive art education residencies in classrooms for over 25 years.  She is a member of the #notwhite Collective. She was awarded a grant to study Mexican Folk Art in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2022.

 

 

Dr. Amber Epps is a multi-/trans-disciplinary artist, author, educator, abolitionist, activist, cat lover, and mom. She creates using various found and discarded objects from nature and other unexpected places such as thrift stores. The work that she creates is inspired by spirituality, humanism, occult, social justice, and prison reform/abolition. In 2022-2023, Amber’s installation, “”Homage”” was displayed at the Pittsburgh International Airport, the first time Black/African spirituality had been presented to the public in this space.

 

Carolina Loyola-Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and performer from Santiago de Chile. She works primarily in media arts, including documentary films, single-channel video art, video installations, video design for theater, and digital photography & imaging. As a performer she has worked in theater productions, dance ensembles, and as a flamenco artist. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and is a Professor of Media Arts at Robert Morris University.

 

Fran Flaherty is a Deaf artist, curator, and educator practicing in Pittsburgh, PA, USA and Rochester, NY, USA. As a first-generation immigrant from the Philippines, her work is centered in issues surrounding migrant family relations and assimilation, maternal feminism, & disability aesthetics that synthesizes traditional media and physical computing. Flaherty is the founder of Anthropology of Motherhood and Director of Dyer Arts Center for the Advancement of Deaf Culture at RIT/NTID. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Office of Public Art in Pittsburgh, and is a proud member of the #notwhite collective.

 

Madame Dolores is a global majority, multi-platform cross-disciplinary artist, based out of Pittsburgh, PA, who employs sound, vision, text, and performance as storytelling tools to create radical, sometimes controversial, artistic experiences and cultural engagements. She utilizes her art to confront and excavate the root of societal ills.

 

 

Maggie Lynn Negrete is a storyteller & cheerleader of curiosity, available for commissioned illustration, lettering, divination and educational experiences. A proud Pittsburgh resident and Vassar college alumni,  Negrete’s visual art focuses on zinemaking, hand lettering, portraiture and technical illustrations including infographics for freelance clientele as well as occult & botanical designs for individual merchandise under the brand La Mama Magia. Negrete is affiliated with the #notwhite Collective, the Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka, and BOOM Concepts.

 

Maritza Mosquera was born in Quito, Ecuador. She is a visual artist, poet and cook whose creations often accompany dialogues with communities. Her visual works are drawings, prints and installation/diaries about relationships and ideas referencing personal quandaries and public desires, such as sustainability, love, the Earth’s healing, intimacy in the body, the end of racism, home recipes, and the power of voice. Mosquera’s currently works in her studios 9Pines in Natrona Heights, and Ice House Studios in Lawrenceville in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. She is a founding member of the most awesome, Pittsburgh born and based #notwhite collective”

 

Sara Tang is a multidisciplinary artist who is currently exploring the intersections of chronic illness, embodied change, ecopsychology, and the sacred in her process and work. You can find them glitching out in many of Pittsburgh’s liminal spaces.

 

 

 

 

Sarika Goluatia is an Asian American interdisciplinary conceptual artist, who was born in India and immigrated to the United States in 2002. She creates three-dimensional narratives through large-scale, immersive sculptures and installations. Her work includes sculpture, painting, digital prints, fabricated acrylic panels and poetry. As an immigrant and Indian Diasporic artist, Goulatia’s work is informed by the traditions of her Indian heritage and Eurocentric contemporary art. 

 

 

Veronica Corpuz is an interdisciplinary poet who explores themes of grief, loss and identity through mixed media and photography. A member of the Madwomen in the Attic of Carlow University, she co-curates with Sarah Williams-Devereux Mad Bookends, featuring work by women writers of color. Her most recent collection of poetry, The Widow’s Calendar, was a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and Airlie Prize. She is currently working on a new series of poems about her Filipino-American childhood.

 

María Eugenia Nieves Escoriaza, better known in artistic circles as Geña, is an interdisciplinary international recording artist residing in Pittsburgh, PA. She’s a singer, percussionist, dancer and teaching artist. Geña hails from Quebradillas, Puerto Rico where she was the lead singer for “Cannabix” and “Doppleganger”. In 1997 she moved to New York City. Through her work at the Theater for the New City, she received a full scholarship to attend a theater arts program at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. While in the Big Apple, Geña was honored to sing on the soundtrack for the film “The Believer,” Musical Director Joel Diamond. In 2004 she relocated to Pittsburgh to pursue her music education. She graduated with a Music major and French minor from the University of Pittsburgh in spring 2009.