I’m Lila Thomas and I’m a Black Queer Seattle-based visual artist from Southern Louisiana. I received my BFA in Drawing/Painting at Nicholls State University. My work consists of portraits and intimate interior scenes where I use light and color to sincerely represent the people in my life and transform mundane environments into immersive spaces. I […]
Rachael Benson is a video artist who merges the impersonal experience of watching art through a screen and the intimacy of live performance. Manipulating devices like symbolism and metaphor, her work interacts with an audience like friends sharing secrets in confidence. By exploiting the inherent emotionality of sound as well as being playful with the […]
I am a PhD candidate at the City University of New York, Graduate Center in the Department of Art History. My area of research focuses on 19th and 20th century modernist movements across painting, photography, design, and architecture. My dissertation, “Intermedial Sachlichkeit: Intersections between Painting, Photography, Design, and Architecture in Germany, 1918–33,” explores key moments […]
Annabel Clark is a documentary and portrait photographer based in Seattle, Washington. Born and raised in California, she received her BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design. During her final term at Parsons, she photographed her mother, the late actress Lynn Redgrave, during her treatment and initial recovery from breast cancer. In 2004, the […]
I am a queer Taiwanese-American independent Game Developer. Initially from a music teaching background, I have worked as a Tech Artist and animator in games for the last 7 years. I have worked as the Lead Artist on commercials and an RCA music video. Currently, I am the Director and Co-Founder of Tea Witch Games, […]
Kyung-jin Kim is a multidisciplinary artist, originally from South Korea. He received his MFA Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. His work has shown at venues including Gallery MC (NY), Korean Cultural Center NY, MASS MoCA Open Studios (MA), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Governors Island Art Fair 2018 (NY) […]
Zoe Hing-Portnoff is an instructor with the Cornish@SU art department and the academic coordinator for the Film and Music departments. Zoe received an MA in Art History from the University of California, Irvine, and served as a teaching assistant at UCI for introductory Asian art history courses. Zoe has conducted and presented research at the […]
Ryleigh Brown, who also goes by Ryleigh Shea, is originally from South Bend, Indiana. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from Indiana University of South Bend in 2022. Following graduation, she served as a Student Life Counselor at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities in Muncie, Indiana, and […]
Stevi Costa is a writer, reader, and theatremaker. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Washington in 2016. Her scholarly work focuses on narratives of bodily difference and combines approaches from literary theory, cultural studies, and performance studies. Her academic takes on pop culture, literature, and theatre have been featured on In […]
Philippe Hyojung Kim (b. 1989) grew up in a small town outside of Nashville, TN, and moved to Pacific Northwest in 2013. He experiments with various materials and mediums, in response to his immediate surroundings to make objects and environments that exist in the space between painting and sculpture. His work often references queer identity, […]