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Born and raised in Queens, New York, I have been sewing and creating quilt pieces for over 20 years. I’ve exhibited work in various venues in South Florida, including The Boca Art Museum, The Coral Gables Museum, 6th Street Container, Hollywood Art & Culture Center, Girls Club of Fort Lauderdale, and Turn-Based Press. I've had the opportunity to do various residencies at The Deering Estate, the Artist in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE), ArtCenter/South Florida, and The Studios of Key West. http://www.reginajestrow.com/

Yuneikys Villalonga graduated from Art History at the University of Havana, Cuba (2000) and went to serve as Curator at the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, for the next four years. During this time, she was also teaching Contemporary Caribbean Art at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana. In 2004, she won the National Curatorship Award from the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) with the exhibition, Së Bashku-Juntos-Tillsammans presented at the 2nd Tirana Biennial of Contemporary Art (Tirana, Albania, 2003) and at the Uppsala Museum (Uppsala, Sweden, 2004.)

Rook's multi-disciplinary practice investigates various artistic mediums to uncover cultural threads, so to speak- the 'fabric' of reality. He believes that culture can be seen as a textile manuscript. It carries techniques, methodologies, history, and values, intersecting and weaving as threads of meaning and agency, oscillating for primacy in their manifold representations.

Sarah Michelle Rupert is a visual artist and arts professional living and working in South Florida. Working with photography, video, collage, drawing and animation. Revolving around consumer, mass-communication and television culture in contemporary experience. Navigating the complexities inherent in this brave new digital world, with a wanderlust for the sublime, the humor and the beautiful. http://www.sarahmichellerupert.com/

Lino, who works in a variety of media, describes her two most recent series, Working Hands and Agua/Water, this way: “I experiment with the interdisciplinary fusion of the visual arts and the documentary mode by combining drawing, video, digital media and animation with material that is traditionally considered documentary: interviews, still images, recorded sound and archival and appropriated footage.” https://www.marialino.com/

Dr. Jill Deupi is the Beaux Arts Director and Chief Curator of the University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum. Prior to assuming this position in 2014, Dr. Deupi was Director and Chief Curator of University Museums at Fairfield University, where she was also an Assistant Professor of Art History.

Kiki Valdes, born in 1981, is a Cuban American artist based in Miami, FL. He studied painting, drawing, and poetry at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He spent many months painting from the masters at the Walters Museum of Art during his training at school. Currently, he is best known for combining nostalgic cartoon imagery with a historical art context. http://www.kikivaldes.com/

All Things Creative. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrymclaney/ http://www.305creativegroup.com

These sculptures take this dynamic as both the essential human drama, and as our essential refuge from it. In the same way that a work of architecture shelters and becomes alive with the activity that fills it, these sculptures are perceptual environments that hold a continuous transformation of light and space. Reflections in mirrors create a world that extends into the immaterial. Subtler reflections in glass create infinities within infinities. To point at the endless, the works use abrupt truncation. http://brookhartjonquil.com/

Ana Mendez is a professional dancer, performance artist and Bodytalk practitioner from Miami. She has been commissioned by the Adrienne Arsht Center through Miami Light Projects’ Here and Now Festival, the de la Cruz Collection, Miami Art Museum, ArtCenter/South Florida, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami and Bas Fisher Invitational. She is an artist fellow for the Artist in Residence in the Everglades program. http://www.anamendez.info/

Scott Brennan, a visual artist, photographer, and writer, lives in Miami. Florida. A resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex, his work has been shown at the Diana Lowenstein Fine Art Gallery, the Audrey Love Gallery, the Swenson Gallery, Luna Star, The Brattleboro Museum of Art, B. Florentine, and The Taplin Gallery. https://www.instagram.com/scottbrennan6/

"Through our dreams, we make contact with a vast, yet elusive side of ourselves." - Morel Doucet https://www.moreldoucet.com/

My paintings, often portraying children and the seashore, may at first glance appear prosaic. But, beneath their joyful sun-drenched surfaces, my paintings are intentionally subversive. By presenting positive images of black and brown people my work challenges the negative, racist images with which the media constantly bombards us while simultaneously confronting the homogeneity of the fine art canon and its representations of race and identity. http://www.jacquelinegopie.com/

Gianna Riccardi is a contemporary photo-based artist born and raised in Miami, Florida. She grew up heavily influenced by her background of Haitian, Italian, and Lebanese roots. Being from a mixed cultural background in a vastly diverse city, she likes to encourage integration of people through creativity and the fostering of an inclusive environment. https://www.gianna-riccardi.art/

Here is my confession: I am less interested in the theoretical and institutionalized questions of the contemporary art world than I am in interpreting direct experiences that contradict our conditioning. With first-hand experience we don’t see things as they are, but how we see them as we are. https://www.anjamarais.com/

Amalia Caputo is a photo and video based artist, independent curator and art writer with an extensive exhibition and publication list. Recent exhibitions include Fantastical Vizcaya (2015) at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Instacorrespondences (2015) in La Plataforma Barcelona, Belonging (2015) at the Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, and Obra Abierta.Ejes de libertad (2015) in Centro de Arte El Hatillo, Caracas, Transferencias (2012) at La Caja Centro Cultural Chacao in Caracas, Venezuela, Ocupa (2011) at Farside Gallery. Recent curated exhibitions include: Querido Gusano, Homage to Luis Brito (2016), 9Topics along with artist Marina Font (2015) Paul Amundarain (2014), Whiskey & Rye, an all women exhibition (2013). https://www.amaliacaputo.com/

I synthesize the possibilities across ecology, geology, and science in general. I travel the world to conduct research connecting geological identities, man’s drive for scientific exploration, and humanities connection to The Universe. Where are we going and how will we get there? Conscious and subconscious connections are visualized and expressed through art as a conduit to the interconnected cosmos. http://www.sriprabha.com/

I've been interested in the ways of social and personal issues intersect and collide. The socio / political environment is diverse and contradictory in ways that are interesting to examine and to de-construct, and may lead to better understanding why it can be so difficult to feel connected to the larger whole or, even to oneself. The scale and complexity of the social and political constructs are held together and split apart through an ever wider range of communication platforms, which seem, paradoxically more socially dis-integrative than ever. The portrait series reflect my social observations and internal responses to what I see around me. I believe the sense of loss, of disconnect and isolation, of aggression and degradation, seem widespread in our civilization now. Responding to this from my own experience, and reflected in people I see around me, represents an attempt to connect, or at least understand better what it might mean. http://davidrohn.net/

Roxana Barba is Miami-based performer and dance maker whose practice incorporates interdisciplinary uses of dance, film and video. She pursued undergraduate visual arts studies in her native Perú prior to receiving her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Art (Miam, Florida). Working across performance, installation, dance on camera and experimental forms, her work references spiritual dislocation, turbulent beauty and the hidden. https://www.roxanabarba.com/

As an artist, I focus on the creation and display of curious zoological and botanical structures. The objects constructed may live somewhere in the present or may exist in the future. The style of the work may be contemporary or recall the work of scientific illustrators of the past, transcending time. Through re-imagination and distortion, I invite the viewer to examine and interpret the ambiguous and sometimes disquieting forms that inhabit these works. http://www.judithberkking.com/