Jer’Lisa Devezinis an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Devezin creates mixed media works using ceramics, metal, fibers, and video/performance. Her work addresses stereotypes projected onto Black women, while exploring the intersection of Black womanhood and the effects of social constructs that uphold white ideas of gender and patriarchy. She received her BA from Dillard University in 2011 and earned her MFA from Southern Methodist University in 2019. Devezin currently lives and works in Dallas.

Nitashia Johnson is a multimedia artist from Dallas, Texas. Her photographic series The Self Publication endeavors to uplift the Black community in showcasing the beauty of her subjects and their stories. Johnson attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, received her BFA from Texas Woman’s University in 2012, and received a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in Art & Design Education from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015. She is a first-round Sony Alpha Female Creator-in-Residence and the creator of The Smart Project, a creative after school program for artistic teens.

Martha Elena is a multidisciplinary artist from the Rio Grande Valley, where she grew up speaking both Spanish and English. Elena creates drawings and sculptures that explore the malleability and fallibility of language. She begins by converting phrases into the font Wingdings 3, which consists primarily of arrows. These reconfigured, reimagined phrases in turn inspire the composition, size, and color of her works, which range from large-scale fabric sculptures to handheld embroidery. Taken together, these arrow-based pieces approximate a universal method of communication divorced from any specific language. Elena had a solo exhibition at Artspace111 in Fort Worth, Texas in 2021, and has shown in group exhibitions at Artspace111, Clamplight in San Antonio, and Pena Gallery in Austin. Elena received her BFA from the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley and currently lives in Fort Worth.

Charles Antoine Gray is a multidisciplinary artist from Fort Worth. Working from family photographs and personal experiences, Gray explores themes of youth, kinship, and joy in paintings, videos, and sculptures. He often employs both traditional and nontraditional media within the same piece, using oil paint on Pokémon cards and creating realistic portraits with crayon and marker. Autobiographical in nature, his work seeks to present a nuanced portrait of his experiences and depoliticize the ways society views him as a Black man. Gray has had solo exhibitions at 500X Gallery and the Carillon Gallery in Dallas and Dang Good Candy in Fort Worth, and has shown in group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Fort Worth, and Astoria, Oregon. Gray was a 2014 artist-in-residence at the Atelierhaus Hilmsen in Hilmsen, Germany, and is currently finishing his BFA at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Alex Ordóñez is a clay-based artist from the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. Ordóñez’s practice navigates issues of cultural identity and social justice through natural materials including clay, papier-mâché, fabric, and paper. Much of his work is concerned with the ways Western social sciences flatten and otherize Indigenous cultures by employing culturally biased research methods. He addressed this problematic understanding in his series CULTURAL EPISTEMOLOGY, where he translated two-dimensional Inuit and Native American geometric designs onto three-dimensional ceramic cubes and rectangular prisms, fragmenting the designs to prevent full understanding. Ordóñez is the cofounder of Colectivo Wajabal, a multidisciplinary collective that creates opportunities for learning and dialogue within the Latino community. Ordóñez is based in Alvin, where he teaches at Alvin Community College. He is currently pursuing his MFA at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Jae-Eun Suh is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up in Seoul, South Korea and Manosque, France. Suh creates experimental works using projection, video, and sculpture that explore memory, longing, fragmentation, and displacement. Suh collects and combines photos and videos of different locations to create abstracted landscapes that connote both place and passage. In projecting onto walls, windows, and objects, Suh creates works where digital media and everyday life interface. In a process that mimics the fallibility and trickiness of memory, she frequently reengineers and reintroduces older pieces into newer works. Suh has exhibited her work at Centre Culturel et Littéraire Jean Giono in Manosque, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, South Korea, and The MAC in Dallas, among other places. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of North Texas, from which she also received her BFA in Visual Art Studies.

Ciara Elle Bryant is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, new media, video, and installations. Bryant chooses to discuss Black culture and Blackness by focusing on how identity and heritage exist in the new millennium. Bryant approaches this task through her intensive research practice, which is integral to her process of furthering conversations surrounding Black culture in art as well as historical studies. Bryant is currently residing in Dallas, TX and holds a Masters of Fine Art from Southern Methodist University.

Bryant’s work has been presented widely in solo and group exhibitions, including Negative Women: Four Photographers Questioning Boundaries, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston, TX (2022); Server: Checks on the Block, SXSW, Austin, TX (2022); Icons, Denton Black Film Festival, Denton, TX (2021); and Server: A Streamed Revolution, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (2020).

Tina Medina is an artist, educator, and curator living in Dallas, Texas. Originally from West Texas, she earned her BFA at Texas Tech University and MFA at the University of North Texas and is a Dallas College art professor. Medina’s art was exhibited most recently in Soy de Tejas, a statewide survey of Latinx art in San Antonio. As co-founder of Nuestra Artist Collective, she collaboratively organized exhibitions of Texas women artists in Dallas (2022) and San Antonio (2023). Through a mixed media approach Medina’s art represents Mexican American voices in our community.

Michelle Cortez Gonzales is a Fort Worth multidisciplinary artist. As a third-generation Mexican American, she examines the personal and emotional consequences of cultural loss. She earned her BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington, and MFA  from the University of Dallas. She’s exhibited in various shows throughout Texas and has been awarded residencies from Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts (2021), and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. She was the recipient of the 2023 NEA: Challenge America Grant from the Dallas District Colleges. In addition to her studio practice, she works as a public art project manager with Arts Fort Worth.

Sara Herrera is a performing artist, choreographer, and educator. Originally from Fort Worth, TX, Sara has taught dance and showcased work in DC, NYC, NJ, ME, TX, MD, VA, NC, PA and Italy. Sara received her BFA in Modern Dance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, where she now resides. Sara’s work is driven by personal stories using movement as a powerful medium to explore and interpret the complexities of the world. Her choreography is a bridge, forging connections and providing catharsis for all who experience it.

Tesa Morin is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, photography, and textiles. Her recent series titled Borders/Boundaries explores her studies of physical and psychological boundaries. Personal history informs Morin’s experience as a Texan and an artist. She was born in Spain to American parents. Her mother left the country with the children, leaving her father behind, so they could avoid the political unrest of the post-Franco era. Morin received her BFA from Texas Tech University and her MFA from the University of North Texas. She is an online adjunct professor of art for Collin College.