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Teresita Carson (b. Mexico), is a Chicago-based artist working in moving image, photography, printmedia, fiber, sound and installation. Her films have been screened at film festivals and curated film exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego. Recent venues presenting Carson’s work include Adds Donna Gallery, Sullivan Galleries, Moving Image at ACRE, Spudnik Press Collective, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Ugly Gallery, and Hyde Park Art Center. She is director of the project space INTERSECT, which exhibits and supports artists making new media and time-based work.

Born in Montgomery, AL and raised in the suburbs of Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA. Derek identifies as a Black, Queer person whose craft was catalyzed by studying public health and questions the constructions of Blackness used for research around the world in digital and physical spaces using paint and multimedia. Derek explores this by attempting to translate and synthesize concepts of data, Blackness, wellness/health, and research methodologies.

Ashley Dequilla is an artist-filmmaker and archivist who uses painting, performance, moving image, installation, and ritual in her research-based practice. In 2023, she obtained her Masters of Fine Arts in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she is currently enrolled as an MA student in Art History. Ashley holds a BFA in Studio Art and Art History from the College of William and Mary, and a Post-Baccalaureate in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has screened films and exhibited artwork in Canada, Spain, the Philippines, and across the US.

Erin Palovick is a multimedia artist from Atlanta, GA, who focuses on making experiences. She received her BFA from Georgia State University in 2010 and her MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago in 2023. Her practice incorporates experimentation with a wide variety of materials and immaterials as a way to learn and unlearn. She works along themes of embodied perception and what it means to know.

Onyx Montes is a museum educator, cultural worker, and salary transparency advocate. Onyx moved by herself to the U.S. from Mexico, at the age of 17 and studied art history at the University of Washington in Seattle, and holds an MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the first person in her family to graduate from college and is part of the inaugural Arts & Culture Leaders of Color Fellowship by Americans for the Arts. Onyx has worked as a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago.

Born and raised in Mexico, Elisa is an international student pursuing her MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies at UIC. Using her background as a multimedia graphic designer, Elisa aims to build bridges between culture and community. Her project Digital Mediation was exhibited at the 2021 Ibero-American Design Biennial in Madrid. In 2022, she was awarded the Laurette Kirstein Scholarship for International Students. She received an Honorable Mention in the Image of Research competition for her video animation project, Descolonización en los Museos.

Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah was born in Batticaloa (Sri Lanka) and did his BFA in Art & Design at the University of Jaffna. His drawings, paintings, digital prints, videos, and installations reflect the painful and often silenced legacies of Sri Lanka’s lengthy civil war, while also tackling the dark sides of globalization: racism, populism, inequality, and ecocide. Pushpakanthan is currently a Fulbright Scholar and is a past recipient of a South Asia Studies Fellowship at Cornell University. He has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Essex (UK).