Visual Art

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Melissa Wang received her B.A. in Literature/Writing from the University of California, San Diego and her M.A. in English from the University of California, Davis. She researched science-fiction as a PhD candidate before segueing to tech. In 2019, she began a professional art practice, and has since exhibited at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, Il; Iowa Ceramics Center in Cedar Rapids, IA; Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, CA; and the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA with a solo exhibition at Root Division (Frank-Ratchye space) in San Francisco, CA. Her work can be found in public spaces including Brown University in Providence, RI and Facebook in Menlo Park, CA. Her forthcoming publications include Columbia Journal and Cream City Review. She is the recipient of a 2021 Individual Emerging Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council.

In early 2020, she founded her design studio, leveraging her experience from Facebook (Meta) and Google. In 2022, she curated her first in-person exhibition titled Grow Our Souls at SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco, CA. She has served as a grant panelist for the California Arts Council and held workshops for Sony and Facebook.

Gender Fluid Tango

Andrea Borbély Hellman, EdD, is a Hungarian-born artist and associate professor of Linguistics/TESOL at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. Her art is available at andreahellman.com.

Bristlecone

Christina McPhee is a visual and media artist based in California. Her most recent solo show was at KinoSaito Art Center, in the Hudson Valley, New York, in 2022. Forthcoming her collaboration with Pamela Z, Carbon Song Cycle, will be performed at the San Francisco Exploratorium in fall 2023. www.christinamcphee.com

Mardi Gras Surrealism 01

Kristin Fouquet is a photographer and writer from lovely New Orleans. Her photography appears in online journals and magazines, on chapbook and book covers, on album artwork, and occasionally in galleries. When not behind the camera, Kristin writes literary fiction and is the author of six books. Visit Le Salon- https://kristin.fouquet.cc 

Big Sun

Sean Riley lives in Washington, DC and in central Italy’s Turano Valley. The imagery in his current drawings and paintings reflect the dramatic landscape of the Turano Valley with heightened colors and grand forms. Riley received a BFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1999 and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Northeast including; Danese/Corey in New York City, TSA NY in Brooklyn, NY, Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA, Lamont Gallery in Exeter, NH, Arthur Ross Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY, and several others. He has received grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Berkshire Taconic Foundation. Riley has been an artist in residence at the Joan Mitchell Center, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center. More of his work can be seen at seanrileystudio.com and @studioseanriley

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Sona Verdi writes stories and develops 35mm film from her New York City apartment. She graduated from Stanford University where she took classes in Computer Science, Poetry, and Visual Art. Sona is interested in subversive art and fiction that explores the gritty realities of the human condition and what happens when it is pushed to extremes. You can find her at sonaverdi.com. 

The Last Embers

Born in Brussels Belgium, Dominique Elliott is a multimedia artist and professor. Her work begins in reverse: with a title. Her interests in the interplays of words and image, in transpositions, translations, phenomenology, epistolary works, reverse ekphrasis, have crept into her artistic practice through documentaries, painting, and mixed media. Her work has been published in Passengers Journal, Liminal Spaces, Fauxmoir, Touchstone Literary Magazine, The AutoEthnographer, Kithe, Red Noise Collective and L=Y=R=A.