Esteban del Valle is an interdisciplinary artist born in Chicago, Illinois in 1984.  He completed his MFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009, where he received a Presidential Scholarship and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship.

“Let me guess. Black daddy, white momma.”

It wasn’t a question. There was no inflection. It was a declaration, a label. I couldn’t help but think of branding, a symbol seared into skin.

Lisa Teasley is a Los Angeles native, artist and writer. Her solo retrospective show was at the Marie Baldwin Gallery, Spring 2019 and her first solo exhibition was at the Watts Towers Art Center curated by John Outterbridge.

In a Minnesota suburb where my friendliest neighbour’s attempt at my name emerges as an unsteady Mu-ga-mba, I can finally sit down long enough to remind my children that the t in water has a sound like all letters are supposed to. The e at the end of kale, the i in mukwai, ß in abantu.

Alefes Silva was born in 1981 in Colombia and lives in Bogota. This illustrator started his work experimentally and he was used to drawing on the margins of books and on small papers every day and everywhere. This experience led him to choose pencil illustration as his main technique.