Kevin Quiles Bonilla (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received a BA in Fine Arts – Photography from the University of Puerto Rico (2015) and an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design (2018). His work has been presented in Puerto Rico, The United States, Mexico, China, Belgium, and Japan. He’s the recipient of an Emerging Artist Award from The John F. Kennedy Center (2017). He has recently presented his work at The Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, The Shelly & Rubin Foundation’s 8th Floor Gallery, Dedalus Foundation, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum’s Project Space. He has been an artist in residence and fellow at Art Beyond Sight’s Arts + Disability Residency (2018-2019), Leslie-Lohman Museum’s Queer Performance Residency (2019), LMCC’s Workspace Residency (2019-2020) and En Foco Inc Photography Fellowship (2021). He explores ideas around power, colonialism, and history with his identity as context. He currently lives and works between Puerto Rico and New York.

Alexander Hernandez is a mixed media artist, with an emphasis in textiles. He was born in Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca- Mexico, raised in Grand Junction, CO and is currently living in San Francisco, CA. He received his BFA (2007) in Painting and Drawing from Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in Denver, CO and his MFA in Studio Art (2012) from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. He has participated in many art residencies including Mass Moca in North Adams, MA; SJ Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA; Root Division in San Francisco, CA; Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, NC; Mark Rothko Art Center in Latvia; and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. He will be participating in ACRE’s art residency this Summer of 2021.

Honduran-born Alma Leiva received a BFA from New World school of the Arts in 2007 and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in venues such as The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY; Hasted Kraeutler, New York, NY; Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA; The Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; David Castillo Gallery and The Museum of Art and Design, Miami, FL; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Palz, NY; The Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook, NY; The Snite Museum of Art, South Bend, IN; The Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York; Balzer Projects, Basel, Switzerland; Positions, Berlin, Germany and Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica among others.

She has completed residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; (2011, 2018), Arteles, Haukijärvi, Finland; Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (2012, 2014); The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY; The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; Southern Constellations at Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC and Ragdale, Lake Forest, IL. 

Leiva’s work is in private and public collections including The University of West Florida, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Smith College Museum of Art and Elsewhere Museum. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including Time Magazine’s Lightbox, Photo District News, The Huffington Post, Newsweek, Miami New Times, El Nuevo Herald, The Miami Herald, ArtPulse Magazine, Art Nexus and Oxford to name a few. Leiva lives and works in Miami, FL.

JHONA XAVIERA (they/she) is a Dominican-American, Boston-based multimedia chimæra who weaves together visual and performing arts into stories that embody the multiplicities of their Afro-Caribbean trans experience. They received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2020 and infiltrated gallery, performance, research, and virtual spaces across the American east coast. As their muse, guide, and highest self, they channel Asyra: the many-faced goddess of light you may only wish to worship.

IKORMA Venezuelan plastic artist born from the united talents of Ignacio “Iñaki” Martinez and his son Orlando “Mangan” Martinez. Mangan, Apprentice of his father, works alongside his mentor and together they create fresh work with Surrealist and Modern influences. 

The project comes to life due to the need of both artists to express their creativity on various mediums. Mangan was raised amongst artists. Both of his grandfathers were painters and since he can remember he has had huge admiration for their works. His main inspiration, however, has always been his father. Mangan is also an accomplished musician. Among his achievements is a Latin Grammy with his rock band, VINILOVERSUS. Iñaki on the other hand, was trained as a civil engineer, but never abandoned his art. He studied painting for fourteen years with the well-known Venezuelan artist Miguel Renom and has been making art for over forty years. Both of them created the four hand artist named IKORMA.

Pedro Lasch (Mexico/US) is a visual artist, Duke professor, and 16 Beaver organizer. He is also director of the FHI Social Practice Lab at Duke. Solo exhibitions and projects 

include Open Routines (QMA), Black Mirror (Nasher), Abstract Nationalism (Phillips Collection), Art of the MOOC (Creative Time), A Sculptural Proposal for the Zócalo (Casa Wabi) and Politics of Fiction (Espacio México, Montreal); group exhibitions include MoMA PS1, MASS MoCA (USA); RCA, Hayward Gallery, Baltic (UK); Centro Nacional de las Artes, MUAC, National Palace Gallery (Mexico); Prospect 4 Triennial New Orleans (2017), Gwangju Biennial (2006), Havana Biennial (2015), Documenta 13 (ANDANDAND, 2012), and 56th Venice Biennale (Creative Time Summit, 2015). Author of five books, his work has appeared in numerous catalogues, as well as journals like October Magazine, Saber Ver, Art Forum, ARTnews, Cultural Studies, The New York Times, and La Jornada. His online pedagogical artwork ART of the MOOC (English-Spanish) has had over 54,000 enrolled participants in 134 countries since it launched in 2015.

Site: www.pedrolasch.com

Instagram: @pedrolasch

Eliana E. Rodriguez is a Latina artist of color who creates Ceramics, Prints and Illustrations. Her love for art began at a very young age and was supported by her family and community. While Rodriguez earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree she discovered her passion for printmaking and ceramics. Two mediums that she believes have a rich historical background and whose techniques are different and yet intersect in so many ways. After graduating from college, Rodriguez began her studio practice in Asheville, NC where she continues to make art. Rodriguez was on the board of SGCI as a Student Representative and was recently awarded the NCECA Multicultural Fellowship. Rodriguez is currently an Instructor at the Roots and Wings School for Art and Design and works as a Speedball Demo Artist.