FRANCES VYE WILSON was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She was strongly influenced by her family of contemporary artists working in a variety of media. In her 20’s, she studied fine art and choreography at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. She went on to spend much of her life in the film and television industry as a member of the Screen Actors Guild, a theatre producer for the Actors Studio and founder of a film production company, New Century Filmworks.
Shanna Lim is a Washington DC-based second-generation immigrant of Chinese Thai, European and Indigenous American descent. She is an interdisciplinary site-specific performance and visual artist whose work is focused on the audience's interactive plain of human connection and shaking the challenges of limited realities.
Amatullah'Muhyi Ali is an uprooted artist using various mediums collectively to create genre-bending cinematic pieces that feature and highlight the African diaspora while providing a call to action for all who witness.
Katie Macyshyn (she/they) is a performance artist and educator who has facilitated workshops, afterschool programs, and multimedia rituals in the DC metro area since graduating with honors from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University in 2013. Their classes explore the foundations of art through creative play and mindfulness. Macyshyn’s interactive performance work has been included in DIY venues and gallery exhibitions in the DC area including Rhizome DC, VisArts, and Transformer DC.