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Suha AlAttas is an award-winning interdisciplinary Saudi artist. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art with an emphasis in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Suha’s multicultural and multidisciplinary background inspires her to explore the barriers that limit human, animal, and environmental potential. Her work focuses on transforming the complex and intangible into simplified and universally understood forms. Suha accomplishes this by humanizing data and imbuing scientific research with narrative and emotional expression. Find her on Instagram and Twitter: @suhalattas

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Piotr Szulkowski was born in 1971. He graduated from the Faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2000 and obtained a master's degree in the Graphic Design Studio run by professor Mieczysław Wasilewski. During his studies, he started working as a teacher. In 1997, he took the position of a trainee assistant in the Sculpture Studio at the Faculty of Graphics with professor Bohdan Chmielewski. Since 1998 he has worked as an assistant to professor Jan Jaromir Aleksiun, and since 2009 (for fifteen years) he was an assistant in the Sculpture Studio of professor Adam Myjak. In the same year he obtained a doctoral degree. Currently, he co-runs the Open Sculpture Studio with professor Jakub Łęcki. He deals with graphics. He has participated in many individual and collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

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Born in Iran in 1962, Yari Ostovany moved to the United States at the age of 16 and pursued his studies in Art first at the University of Nevada - Reno and then at the San Francisco Art institute where he received his MFA in 1995. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally, and is the recipient of Center For Cultural Innovation, Sierra Arts Endowment, Craig Sheppard Memorial and Sierra Nevada Arts Foundation Grants. Recent solo exhibitions include The Yard: Columbus Circle in New York, Stanford Art Spaces at Stanford University, Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland, Rebecca Molayem Gallery in Los Angeles and Lansing Street Gallery in Mendocino.

His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, Connecticut), Pasargad Bank Museum (Tehran, Iran), Chateau d'Orquevaux (Champagne-Ardenne, France), Permanent Collection of the University of Nevada - Reno Art Department and is represented by Foundation Behram Bakhtiar in France, Ideel Art and Noon Powell Fine Art in London UK.

Yari Ostovany currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Nzingah Oyo is an American born, Brooklyn-based visual artist, photographer and curator. For over 2 decades she has created images pivotal to the Muslim woman. Specifically, cultural tensions/blends of Islam, American and African culture. She shoots most of her images with a 4x5 large format view camera. She is freelance photographer; and teaching artist. She received an MFA in Photography from Temple University and a BFA from SUNY Purchase. She has taught photography at Temple University and held the role, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida. She is a Fulbright scholar and a recipient of the Light Work Artist in Residence program. Oyo has received several Brooklyn Arts Council grants, the Lilly Auchincloss Foundation Award of Excellence in Photography, The Urban Arts Initiative grant in Photography and awarded a New York Foundation of Arts grant in Photography. Her work has been exhibited in both solo and group shows internationally and nationally.

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Dominique Elliott is a documentary filmmaker, poet, and multimedia artist. She holds an MFA in visual design from UMass, Dartmouth. Her work has been showcased internationally and her documentary Flying the Beam is included in the Eisenhower Presidential Library collection. Her poetry has been featured on the Apple podcast Words In The Air and the Ekphrastic Review. She lives on a daylily farm in Georgia with her husband and their four cats. Find her on Twitter: @ElliottDominou or Instagram: plexipuspitstop