Michael Anthony GarcĂa is a queer, Austin-based interdisciplinary artist originally from El Paso, Texas who claims both Mexican & US citizenship. He focuses his practices around photography/ video, sculpture/ installation & performance & poetry. He participated in the 2011 & 2024 Texas Biennials, premiered work in various galleries and art spaces such as The Utah …
Leslie Moody Castrois an independent curator and writer whose practice is based on itinerancy and collaboration. She has produced, organized, and collaborated on projects in Mexico and the United States for nearly two decades. She is committed to creating moments of exchange and dialogue within exhibitions, is a co-founder of Unlisted Projects Residency, and Co-Lab …
Jessica VanNess is a ceramic artist, designer, and creative somatic facilitator based in Austin, Texas. She explores the human experience through creative practice with foraged wild clay. Working directly with local earth: gathering, cleansing, forming, and pit firing. She treats the ceramic process as a framework for self inquiry, nervous system awareness, and transformation. Her …
Kahsandra Williams is a multidisciplinary artist and U.S. Army veteran whose practice explores identity, trauma, resilience, and the complexities of being multiracial in contemporary society. Born in Florida and raised in Texas, Williams joined the military at 19 and served for nearly seven years before being medically retired following multiple injuries and surgeries. Currently pursuing …
Seth Warren-Crow is a sound artist, sound designer, and composer for theatre, dance, performance art, and film. He received a MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in California. Seth is Assistant Professor of Sound Design for the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. He was the Musical Director …
Heather Warren-Crow is a time-based artist, writer, and media theorist. Their creative work has been shown at festivals and in galleries around the world—recently, in Pune (India), Venice (Italy), London (UK), Austin (Texas), and Kansk (Russia). They are associate professor of interdisciplinary arts at Texas Tech University.
Skylar Perez is a Mexican-American artist, researcher, and designer based in Lubbock, Texas, whose work explores the intersection of living systems, land use, and biodesign. Rooted in the semi-arid landscapes of the Llano Estacado, his practice investigates how soil and microbes can reframe the future of humanity through architecture and ecology, revealing the ground as …
Gabriel Peralta is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the emergence of the individual self from ecological and social entanglements. Their sculpture and painting practice appropriates the visual language of restraint and subjugation as socio-political power mechanisms, and uses it to reimagine animal/plant/material bodies as sites for collaborative meaning-making and liberation. Their work has been …
Taylor Ernst is the Curator at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, Texas, where she curates the galleries and oversees programming such as gallery talks, artist workshops, and Un(wine)d with the Arts, a monthly program that pairs a gallery tour with wine. Formerly she worked as the Collections Manager for the Art …
Budd Dees works in digital worldmaking, performance/sculpture, and time-based media. His work focuses on surface, ornamentation, and drag as pre-conditions of relational design, social engagement, and negotiated versus autonomous spaces. While educated as an experimental new media and time-based artist, he maintains close ties to painting, having had a formative experience studying in residence under …