Mai’a Williams is a writer and artist, living in Minnesota. It was their living and working with Egyptian, Palestinian, Congolese, and Central American indigenous mothers in resistance communities that inspired their life-giving work andart-making practices. They are the co-editor of the antholo-gy, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and the author of the memoirs, This is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century, The Future of Love, Apocalypse Here, and In a World Full of Sleeping Giants, You Get to be Awake. |
DejaJoelle is a Black-centered Healing Artist, Choreographer, Director, and Cultural Healing Curator. She believes Dance serves as our connection to ourselves, our communities, and our overall Divinity. DejaJoelle creates in-tentional spaces for Black Community to discover their rituals and practices toward Healing using Dance, Body Reclamation, and Revolutionary Love Practices.
Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She’s held solo exhibitions at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI; and Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA. Her work was included in the 2023 Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates. Metaferia is an Assistant Professor of Social Practice Art at Brown University in the Visual Art department, and lives and works in New York City.
Fox Spears is a contemporary visual artist as well as Program Manager of Fellowships for First Peoples Fund. He is an enrolled member of the Karuk Tribe and currently resides with his husband in Orlando, Florida.
Eric Perez is an artist and educator in the city of Chicago. Primarily a photographer, his work focuses on his experience of being a Marine during his two deployments as part of the Global War on Terror. As Project Manager for Floating Museum, he deploys his skills in photography and videography to document Floating Museum’s projects. He was selected to be a National Endowment for the Humanities Veteran Fellow (2022) with the emerging Veterans Art Movement. In 2023, he was awarded the annual David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation award and residency at the Hyde Park Art Center.
