Kristin Clotfelter co-directs Studio C Projects (SCP), a collective investigating intersections of movement, design and performance; is Associate Artistic Director of Barriskill Dance Theater School, and teaches dance at Duke ...

Nicole Thomas, professionally known as “Pinky”, is a distinguished multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, educator, ethnographer, and cultural ambassador, with foundational roots in St. Louis, MO. She began her formal dance training ...

Kenrick Ashland Jobe was born in summit, New Jersey. Kenrick was raised by Martin and Diana Jobe in South Orange New Jersey, both of which are Guyanese immigrants. Kenrick moved ...

As an environmental field scientist and artist, Rebecca Cox explores the environmental implications of the artmaking process. How do materials and methods become a part of a piece’s meaning? How ...

My life so far has been guided by a never-ending web of dichotomies: Born by the ocean and raised in the mountains, brought up by a computer technician and an ...

Being born and raised in North Carolina, I’ve always felt attached to the flora and fauna that flourish in this state! It wasn’t until I started teaching myself the names ...

Robert Wallace has received a Writers’ Fellowship from the NC Arts Council. He has published over fifty short stories in various journals, including the Bryant Literary Review, the NC Literary ...

emily liptow (she/they) is multi-disciplinary artist, creative producer, facilitator, and community organizer from the watershed of Lake Erie. Working with movement, voice, and textiles, they create experiences – in the ...

M. Randal O’Wain is an essayist and fiction writer from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of Meander Belt: family, loss, and coming of age in the working-class south (Nebraska, ...

Dorothy James is a Brooklyn based puppeteer, educator, and maker of tiny things. She has puppeteered for Basil Twist, Wakka Wakka, Nick Lehane, Radio City, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, BBC, Amazon, ...

Andy Manjuck is… an artist living in Brooklyn, NY a co-creator of puppet shows a company member of the award-winning Wakka Wakka Productions a collaborator on work from artists like ...

The Gender Gallery is an interdisciplinary documentary theatre project that explores the expansiveness of gender through creativity, community, and performance. We facilitate creative community workshops, devised performances, and pop-up gallery experiences ...

Born and raised in the town of Coronel Fabriciano in southeastern Brazil, Tigresa developed an interest in Capoeira at a young age and began studying in 1986. She obtained her Professora ...

Aaron Kutnick is a new media artist, filmmaker, and educator based in Durham, NC. His interactive work is a practice in digital taxidermy, breathing a sense of urgency and presence ...

Aya Shabu is a courageous storyteller and collaborator who uses site-specific performance, art, and ritual to remember African American ancestors and preserve neighborhoods. The Creator and Conductor of Whistle Stop ...

Lauren Neefe is an MFA student in Experimental and Documentary Arts. She practices at the intersection of poetry, sound, place, and the built environment, often in collaboration with performance artists, ...

Mesha Maren is the author of the novels Sugar Run, Perpetual West, and Shae (May 2024, Algonquin Books). Her short stories and essays can be read in Tin House, The ...

JP Gritton’s novel Wyoming, a Kirkus best debut of 2019, is out with Tin House. His awards include a Cynthia Woods Mitchell fellowship, the Meringoff prize in fiction, and the ...

My name is JAC M., former cotton candy girly! I identify as a queer, disabled Muslim girly who focuses on limitless Love and radical joy for the people!

Sydney Sogol is a weaver and dyer, whose mission is to create bold color and pattern interactions through original designs. She creates one-of-a-kind and limited edition pieces inspired by her ...

Alyah Baker is a dance artist, scholar, and choreographer working at the intersection of art and embodied activism. For the past 19 years, she has worked as a freelance artist ...

DJ is a neon artist, educator, and the owner of Hex Neon in Durham, North Carolina. She is a founding member of the Neon Makers Guild, a community dedicated to ...

Jarret has been practicing and teaching some of the many different methods of exploring quietude for over 25 years. He has studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro ...

In addition to her scientific pursuits, she is also an accomplished Mandala artist and an avid Calligrapher. She loves experimenting with different art mediums and techniques to create unique amalgamations.

Robby Poore is a graphic designer, musician, DJ, and screen printer based in Chapel Hill, NC. He has a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico in ...

As an art history major, Holly has always found joy in all aspects of art, not just looking at it or analyzing it, but making it as well. She has ...

Julia Gartrell is an artist and educator based in Durham, NC. She received an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in art from ...

Arzu Salman takes the dance floor thanks to the efforts of transgender, queer and immigrant communities that precede him. His dancing is a fervid and unbridled love letter to those who ...

Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Katelyn Lester is an artist who uses photography to speak about the relationship between man and the land through the lens of the ...

Mohammed Smahneh (aka Barges) is a self-taught hip-hop and contemporary dance artist, has won various break-dance battles in Palestine and performed in many international and local projects including: Badke, a co-production between ...

Gowri Savoor is a visual-teaching artist, whose practice includes sculpture, drawing and writing. Savoor is the founder of A River of Light, an organization committed to bringing art to the ...

Photo by Maximillian Cheng. Pik Kei Wong is a freelance dance creator based in Glasgow since 2023. She has 15 years of experience teaching contemporary dance. She has worked with The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, teaching creative and movement workshops to different faculties such as Architecture, Music, Lighting Design and Gender Studies.

Adrienne Oates is a local Durham artist. She got her BFA in ceramics from Radford University. There she took a watercolor and has continued to paint and do ceramics. Many ...

Leticia Alvarez is a Mexican artist; she studied Art at the University of Monterrey (UDEM), and participated on numerous exhibitions. Leticia got a Master degree in Education through Art, from ...

Peter Marín was born and raised in Mexico City. He has lived in San Francisco, Oakland, Madrid, New York City, and Raleigh, NC. Marin has been painting for 30 years, ...

Morgan Riker is a Durham based artist who works with and integrates ceramics, drawing, and screen printing, and wire. She has lots of experience teaching art to people of all ...

Becca Ibarra is a local Durham visual artist and papermaker exploring minimalism and abstraction through drawing, painting, and weaving. Her work is rooted in an intuitive process-based approach, often treated ...

Mira Shani started her studies of Yoga during her college days in the mid ’90s at UT Austin. It was there, in a Critical Thinking class that she was introduced ...

Alex is an avid birder and amateur naturalist with a background in language and culture. After graduating from Duke with an MA in East Asian Studies, Alex spent four fruitful ...

Hyewon Grigoni has engaged in a variety of creative practices since childhood. Her work and writing have appeared in art shows, in print, and on air for public radio. She ...

Matt is a local Durham artist, Co-Director of Super G Print Lab and Senior Book Designer at Duke University Press.

Raised in Durham, North Carolina JulieRose Hinson has been creating art from the earth since she was a child. After graduating college Julie went on to spend three years working ...

Shelbi Polk is a writer and artist who has been embroidering since her childhood in Texas. She studied literature and actually gets to use that knowledge, both in her freelance ...

Amelia Shull is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and educator whose current practice centers on healing, mending, and creative reuse. Her most recent work explores various media and methods, including printmaking, ...

Sean is a Durham based visual artist with a focus on print and design. He spends his days rebranding small local businesses and his nights tending the fields on his ...

Ife Michelle is a Choreographer and Artist-Educator, engaging dance praxis as a means of exploring individual, communal, and cultural identity and expression. Through her primary movement styles (Traditional West-African, Hip-Hop, ...

Maria Geary is a Durham, NC based mixed media and fiber artist with a passion for visual journaling.. She creates bold and expressive art and her work is influenced by ...

A self-taught artist and lifelong creative, Angie blends her passion for art with her devotion to mental health. Her diverse artistic journey has led her to explore various creative forms, ...

Chania Wilson is a Raleigh, NC native with a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She currently attends Duke University to obtain her MFA in ...

River Takada is a Japanese American artist and craft teacher. River makes a variety of mixed media art focusing on material reuse, and sells locally at markets and online under ...