Anese Eun Cho creates immersive worlds where memory and imagination converge, inviting viewers to reconnect with a sense of home and possibility. Through her "Lighthouse" and "Second Floor" series, she transforms personal narrative into powerful, shared experiences of safety, empowerment, and inner light.

Jana Astanov’s art spans performance, installation, photography, sound, and writing, creating immersive experiences that connect audiences to ancestral memory, ritual, and the cosmos. Drawing on trance, astrology, and Slavic and Baltic folk traditions, her work invites participants into ceremonial spaces where art becomes a conduit for spiritual inquiry, relational healing, and collective transformation.

Megan Hyde is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist whose work traverses performance, sculpture, video, and installation. Drawing on dreams, memories, and somatic responses, her practice examines transformation, grief, and desire, creating spaces where binaries dissolve and viewers can experience the connections between micro and macro realities. Her immersive projects invite reflection on ways of being outside the frameworks of Western capitalism.

Deema Alghunaim (b. 1984, Kuwait) merges architecture, performance, and visual art to explore the tension between language and land. Her interdisciplinary practice uses site-specific performance, watercolor, and improvised methods to document and reimagine contemporary landscapes and human interaction within them. Alghunaim invites viewers to witness spaces of memory, transience, and possibility.

Trish Tillman creates immersive mixed-media works that bring memory, identity, and social rituals into physical form. Drawing on childhood play, nightlife aesthetics, and DIY activist spaces, her art combines stretched leather, shiny embellishments, and figurative gestures to explore how we perform identity and navigate social hierarchies. Her work balances critique, humor, and visual allure, inviting viewers to reconsider the connections between appearance, power, and personal expression.

Sam Wilde, a British multidisciplinary artist, creates award-winning works that blur the line between fine art and surface design. Using illustration, oil painting, animation, sculpture, and large-scale installations, he builds immersive worlds influenced by his synesthesia and love for evolutionary biology. His work has been exhibited globally, from London to China and Japan, redefining how we experience color, pattern, and creativity.

Tori McLean’s interdisciplinary practice transforms childhood curiosity into playful, thought-provoking explorations of female identity. Through interactive prints, sculptures, and installations, she invites viewers to engage with kinetic figures and participatory works that question societal expectations and celebrate imaginative inquiry.

Christina Klein reimagines quilts as immersive, light-filled structures in her series The Quiet Hours. Featured in AQ Volume 7, her work blends patterns in nature with traditional textiles, inviting viewers to experience color, texture, and space in a wholly unique, interactive way.

Sandra Keja Planken’s practice bridges art, ecology, and emotion. Working with textiles, glass, and spatial design, her sculptural installations explore impermanence, sensory experience, and our relationship with nature. Featured in AQ Volume VII, her work extends beyond the gallery, transforming discarded materials into living artworks that invite coral growth, reflection, and renewal.

Jada + David Parrish are a Richmond-based artist duo whose mixed media practice merges painting, sculpture, motion, and photography into dreamlike illusions. Known for their 100 Set Project—where they built and photographed 100 sets from repurposed materials in a single year—their work explores perspective, uncertainty, and the human condition.

Sarah Sanford’s work captures the fleeting beauty of light and the hidden patterns of the natural world. Through layered prints, dimensional collage, and installations, she invites viewers to reflect on impermanence, interconnectedness, and the quiet moments of wonder in everyday life. Featured in the Lightness of Being exhibition, her art offers a contemplative space for connection and discovery.

Portland-based interdisciplinary artist Kim Smith Claudel transforms natural, discarded, and technological materials into contemplative works that intersect painting, sculpture, and performance. Featured in the “Lightness of Being” exhibition, her pieces invite viewers to slow down, connect with the present, and experience the subtle beauty of ephemeral moments.

Francis Beaty, a Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary artist, presents her evocative installations and sculptural work in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being virtual exhibition. Using aluminum screening, felt roofing paper, and natural elements, Beaty creates pieces that explore movement, lightness, and the beauty of imperfection. Her work invites viewers to reflect on individual vulnerability, collective strength, and the quiet moments of contemplation that can transform everyday experiences into profound insight.

Heidi Mortensen’s work, featured in Create! Magazine’s Lightness of Being exhibition, explores the fragile boundary between constraint and liberation through intricate mixed media sculptures. Using cast resin, glass, and organic elements, her pieces evoke the transformative process of letting go, inviting viewers to reflect on their own moments of transcendence and freedom.

Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist Dana Major creates immersive light environments using studio-fabricated LEDs, repurposed glass, and raw materials. Her installations explore how perception constructs reality, encouraging slow, analog observation in a digital world. Major’s work is currently featured in Create! Magazine’s “Lightness of Being” virtual exhibition.

Chen Gao is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist whose work embraces ambiguity, sensory memory, and emotional presence. Featured in the Lightness of Being virtual exhibition, Gao’s practice spans photography, sound, performance, and tactile materials—inviting viewers into contemplative spaces where personal discovery and collective resonance quietly unfold.

Serena Perrone's work weaves together themes of dislocation, loss, and transformation through an exploration of landscape, natural phenomena, and the symbolism of material culture. Featured in the “Land and Longing” exhibition, Perrone’s multifaceted practice, which spans printmaking, sculpture, and photography, is a reflection on the deep emotional ties between place and memory. Her pieces evoke the poetic and metaphoric potential of the natural world, inviting viewers to contemplate the complex narratives of displacement and nostalgia.

Natalie Dunham’s studio practice is grounded in process, precision, and a reverence for craftsmanship. Working primarily in three-dimensional material studies composed of accumulated geometric forms, Dunham draws inspiration from the gridded rural landscapes of her childhood in Lancaster, PA. Her work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and rediscover the extraordinary within the everyday.

Mallory Tolcher is an interdisciplinary artist redefining the visual language of sport. In her series Post Up, she transforms basketball nets into handcrafted lace sculptures—blending strength, softness, and symbolism. Drawing from both athletic and domestic traditions, her work questions the gendered boundaries of athleticism and artistic labor. Through this unique lens, Tolcher invites us to reconsider how femininity and sport intersect.

Vivi Niya Gao's interdisciplinary art delves into the impermanence of "home" and the fluidity of identity, shaped by human interaction and memory. Her sculptures blend architectural elements with performative aspects, inviting transformation and engagement. Read more about how her experiences as a migrant inform her artistic exploration of freedom, adaptability, and resilience in both physical and emotional spaces.