Ada Trillo is a photographer based in New York. Born and raised in the U.S/ Mexican border region of Juarez and El Paso, her work focuses on sex trafficking, climate and violence-related international migration, and long-standing barriers of race and class. Her projects have been featured in international publications including The Guardian, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Mother Jones. Trillo’s work is held in the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and other institutional and private collections. Her many awards include a First Place in the Tokyo International Foto Awards (2019), a British Journal of Photography Female In Focus Best Series Award and The Me & Eve Grant from the Center of Photographic Arts in Santa Fe (2020). Trillo’s images have been exhibited in the US, Japan, Luxembourg, Italy, England, France, and Germany. She holds degrees from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan, and Drexel University in Philadelphia. In 2021 she was accepted into Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism in the International Center of Photography in New York. Instagram: @adatrillophotography

Anya Sinclair (b.1978) grew up with a paintbrush in her hand, in Auckland’s lush Waitakere Ranges. She studied Fine Arts at Elam, before travelling and eventually relocating to Dunedin in 2006, where she finished her BFA at the Dunedin School of Art. Sinclair now lives with her husband, son, and greyhound in central Dunedin.

Cameron McCool’s work focuses on the emotional power of the human body and its ability to express the feelings of the mind that dwells within. The nude is both exposed and powerful, tilting into contrast an unfolding vessel whose configuration becomes its own rumination. Additional Resources: www.mccoolart.com

Caroline Golden is a collage artist based in New York City. Her collages and assemblages are multi-layered and hand cut from found imagery and objects. The theme of her work centers around fairy tales and fables, with memory and narrative playing a central role in her compositions often focusing on the day after the happily ever after. Her work has been shown in multiple solo and group exhibitions, including a one-woman exhibition of work inspired by Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland. Golden has lectured about fairy tales and the many ways they can be interpreted in conjunction with her work. Her art can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide. Caroline’s art inspired writer Derek Owens to create companion pieces for one of her series and this collaboration is on display in a forthcoming book “The Villagers” from Animal Heart Press which will be published In February 2022.

Deirdre White is a San Francisco based painter whose work focuses on confluences of images, events, memories, and personal narrative about living in the American west. Her work may best be described as a type of magical realism, where hope and wonder survive amidst chaos, loss, and tragedy. She recently had two solo shows in San Francisco, at Ampersand International Arts and Analog Gallery, and she has exhibited her work nationally and throughout California. Her work has been featured on the album covers of John Dwyer (of Thee Oh Sees), The Sandwitches, and Sarah Beth Nelson, as well as on WHYY in Philadelphia’s Friday Arts segment. In 2018 Deirdre was awarded the Jon Imber Painting Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. She is a Lecturer in painting and drawing at UC Davis and adjunct at City College of San Francisco in Studio Art.

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Frances Cannon is a writer and artist who teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, The Vermont Commons School, and Champlain College. She is the author and illustrator of several books of hybrid text and artwork: Walter Benjamin: Reimagined, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank, Tropicalia, Predator/Play, and Uranian Fruit. Website: frankyfrancescannon.com

Instagram: @frankyfrancescannon

Twitter: @francesartist

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Since I was very young, I have always been fascinated by the world of horror. Perusing the covers of horror movies I was years too young to rent at the video store was more exciting to me than actually watching the newest releases. Over the years, the fascination developed into a passion and eventually into my current career path. I have always wanted to study the genre in depth and in a way that utilizes creativity, analysis, psychology and even the science behind eliciting fear, so my choice to study visual art was an obvious one. At ARA (A New Zealand polytechnic) I was able to bring the ideas that were festering in my head for years, to life. Being exposed to new techniques like the various printmaking methods and having access to a wide range of tools and equipment allowed me to develop the skills necessary to create work that matched the macabre landscape of my mind. The skills I have developed during my time studying art have given me many unique opportunities in the “real world”. A few years ago, I started working as an art tutor at Ōtautahi Creative Spaces. OCS is a specialist creative wellbeing initiative in Christchurch, New Zealand supporting people with experience of mental distress. We do this through studio groups, artist mentoring, collaborative projects, and exhibitions. Since graduating with my Masters in 2021, I have been taking part in various exhibitions and projects. From early 20th century Freudian theories to modern media like video games, these installations and shows have allowed me to show the world what a lifetime of being influenced by psychological horror from many contrasting mediums looks like.

Kara Dunne is a printmaker and performance artist who also dabbles in video and installation. She studied printmaking and glassblowing at Alfred University, performance at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and earned her master’s degree in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her creative drive is fueled by her dual background in both the visual arts and theater; the combination of the two enable her to explore the opportunities of the live, the staged and the recorded. Dunne believes art should be an active experience, not a passive event, and should be encountered in other places besides the confines of a museum or gallery. She strives to find new ways in which her work may interact with the public in their natural habitat. Her videos, performances and prints serve as a social commentary on what we forget about the past, deny in the present and dream about in the future.

​Makyla Curtis is a poet and printmaker based in Auckland, New Zealand. Makyla has a Master of Arts in New Zealand poetry from the University of Auckland, and recently completed a Master of Visual Arts at Auckland University of Technology. She works with letterpress, botanical printmaking, and mono-printing methods. Her work is place-based She explores ideas of belonging and is guided by plant-life and the landscape. She interrogates ideas of settlement and nation building.

Mark Chu is an Australian artist who has exhibited work in New York City, Atlantic City, Shanghai, Singapore, and Melbourne. His paintings employ heightened color, abstraction and texture to enhance the viewer’s psychological experience. Chu has enjoyed portrait sittings with luminaries such as French DJ Laurent Garnier and graffiti trailblazer Tom Gerrard. Past Chairman of the National Gallery of Australia Rupert Myer AO noted that Chu’s works reflect aspects of the human condition. Chu is committed to a multidisciplinary practice, and makes ongoing contributions to scientific research. He is a past reviewer for The Good Food Guide and has recorded as a solo pianist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

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Nabil Asakly is a photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Whose work explores the urban landscape and the street scenes, focusing on people and their interaction with the environment. His Work been published in Feature shoot, VSCO, Photoville NY and more. Nabil is currently working on a long-form photographic project : Homeland (2016-present).

Nicci Haynes is an artist based in Canberra, Australia after first training as a pharmacologist in Cardiff, Wales and much later visual art at Australian National University. Earlier in life Nicci was a traveller and an adventurer and now applies those qualities to her artwork. She is motivated by enquiry and experimentation, liking to mix digital and analogue technology: overhead projectors, old TVs, new data projectors, old film, electronics, the photocopier. The raw, improvised aesthetic of out-dated technology finds its way into Nicci’s mad-scientist constructions: a radio installation constructed from bare electronics and chaotic wiring filling an entire gallery space; a large keyboard-operated drawing-instrument conceived of as a sort of synthesiser to play the sounds of drawing; an animation machine along the lines of the zoetrope made from a hills-hoist rotating clothes line; an animation printed on till-roll receipts;

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Paul Sonnenberg is a 62 year old visual artist living in Austin, Texas. He describes himself as "pathologically prolific”, and since turning from music to visual art in late 2012, he has created over 5000 works of art. He has published two collections of his work: The Artpost Project, published in 2016 collected the 365 postcard-sized collages and accompanying haiku poems created each day in 2015. The Plague Wall presents, in chronological order, the work created during the first seven months of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. He has exhibited his work with The Gang of Five, an Austin art collective, and was very pleased to participate in the inaugural exhibition of Austin’s Museum of Human Achievement.

Rachael Naomi has been: writing poetry since 2006, painting since 2013, entranced with the cursive script since the turn of the century, an avid reader of art/art history, learner of Te Reo Māori (the first language of Aotearoa New Zealand), an MC for 8 years at Poetry Live! in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland and organizer of a handful of other poetry events. Rachael has organized/co-organized and exhibited her art in group shows: vīsuālis at the New Zealand Poetry Conference and Festival, vīsuālis toikupu at Studio One Toi Tū, at MADE - Huia and Cornwallis Group Art Show. Rachael had a recent solo show called Unity at The Angela Morton Room in Takapuna Library in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. What she offers for Action Spectacle are works from or inspired by this show.

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Sarah J. Sloat is the author of Hotel Almighty, a collection a visual poetry published in September by Sarabande Books. Born in New Jersey, Sarah has lived in Kansas, China and Italy, and now splits her time between Frankfurt and Barcelona, where she works as a news editor. Website: sarahjsloat.com

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Shohei Katayama is a Japanese American artist who explores the space between light and dark, life and death, beauty and danger, nature and man. His work includes line drawings, sculpture, and installation art. Utilizing his art as a catalyst for environmental conversations, his work examines the underlying patterns and forces of nature by showcasing unseen relationships in ecology. Katayama uses materials that embodies the philosophy associated with ecological examination. Through his work, Katayama demonstrates the entanglements that are present between such systems and illustrates the disruptions that can occur when individual components are manipulated.

Sika Foyer is an American multidisciplinary artist who explores wrapping cultures, the materiality of wrapping and its cross-cultural rituals to tell ancestral stories and to examine forms of social injustice. Foyer with her tireless gestural motions and micro repetitive layering, exposes marking time processing in her studio practice; and it builds on her formal trainings and experiences in urban policies and economic development. Born and raised in Togo, West Africa, Foyer was first introduced to drawing and clothing design at age 8 by assisting her fashion designer and dressmaker mother in her Atelier. Foyer came to the United States where she obtained her BS in Economics from Baruch College, CUNY and her MS in Urban Studies from The New School, Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment in NYC. Foyer maintained a studio practice in New York; and in January 2021, she obtained her M.F.A. from Lesley Art + Design in Cambridge, MA. Foyer’s works have been shown internationally and nationally with few of her artworks in private collections.

Yehui Zhao (she, her, they) is a filmmaker and painter, whose work addresses diaspora and womanhood, invisibility and distance, memories and non-recorded history. Her work has been shown at the 43rd Asian American International Film Festival, The People’s Forum, Microscope Gallery, and is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Review.