Lauren Amanda Garrett (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist. Ancestor work and spirituality inform Lauren's overall process. She primarily braids music, visual art, poetry, with media that includes beadwork, photography, and experimental performance art. Lauren is Federally enrolled with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe. She also embodies ancestral bloodlines of Celtic, Nordic, and Teutonic origins. Lauren's first four original "Indigenous Flower Fairies" paintings are on display at the Fort Bridger State Historic site in southwestern Wyoming.
I'm a multimedia artist and current student at MICA, based in Baltimore, where I was born and
raised. My roots and environment is where I draw the majority of my inspiration from. My work is
the reflection of me growing up in one of the deadliest cities in America, and the everlasting
impact it has on the people who live here.
“When the visual characteristics of DJ artwork are dissected one will discover its true meaning.
And also discover there is usually more than one simple yet raw message being told, it flows
First generation immigrant Neha Misra (she/her) is a contemporary eco-folk visual artist, poet, and an award winning climate justice advocate. Neha’s Earth stewardship centered multi-disciplinary studio uses the transformative power of art to build bridges between our private, collective, and planetary healing. Neha has been recognized as a Regenerative Artivist by Design Science Studio – a partnership between the Buckminster Fuller Institute and habRitual for world’s leading planet conscious artists.
Thomas Stanley lives a short distance from the Chesapeake Bay where he is co-parenting two school-aged sons. As an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and noetic (r)evolution, Stanley has performed and curated musical sound for most of his adult life. In August of 2022, he gave the keynote address at Cube Fest, a celebration of highly-spatialized music held in the advanced HDLA facilities of Virginia Tech’s Moss Arts Center.