Projects have included a four-month study of deep time and eroticism in caves of Virginia, developing movement scores to track the oscillation patterns of island tides in British Columbia, and researching the choreographic relationship between stray cats and the local restaurant economy of Lefkada Island in Greece. Charlibrisseyisananimal.com

Linnea Carlson deRoche is a Philadelphia-based queer parent, educator, theater artist, and project manager. With a Masters in Education, they have developed alternative educational experiences for children and queer youth, including organizing and leading travel abroad trips and creating curriculum for kids for 15+ years. They co-direct School Free Players, a youth theater company performing original plays, often using Theatre of the Oppressed and devised theater exercises as the framework for creation and liberation work.

Rabbit aL Friedrich (they/them) engages with inquiries of site, material integrity, and environmental impact. Rabbit has worked at Huntington Botanical Gardens, La Fábrica de Arte Cubano (Havana), Centro Cultural Español Miami, the Movement Center for Art & Social Justice (Kampala, Uganda), in escape rooms, parking lots, an airport, and the chapel of a decommissioned convalescent home. Currently making miniatures in conversation with grief and designing rituals/practices of embodying queer ecologies, they live in Portland, OR, and hold an MFA from California Institute of the Arts.

Carmichael Jones works in installation, sculpture, film, photography and performative objects to upend parameters of the encounter and orientation. Their work addresses political concerns of communication and the structure of seeing and being seen and mirrors the bodily aspect of viewing through material and spatial contradictions, emphasizing edges or the periphery and exposing the nuances of encountering to queer the act of art-viewing. Philadelphia-based, they hold an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Kristine Manuel (she/he/they), healing artist, RYT200, yoga philosophy, meditation and breathwork facilitator, is a queer Filipinx-American Bay Area, CA born Seattle based Yoga Educator, interdisciplinary visual/performance artist, and Medical Lab Scientist (MLS, ASCP). Her curiosity for the subtle energy body never ends. Kristine is deeply inspired to help others tune into the muse within, connect to ancestral wisdom, and re-myth our old stories. “We are so much more than what we cognize. There is a resonance that we share with the earth, water, fire, air, ether, and one to another. There is rhythm, poetry, and music living and breathing inside each of us.” Her movement has grown from influence of nondual classical tantric philosophy, ecstatic meditation, Embodiology®, traditional filipinx folk dance, and street dance styles: hip hop, house, and breaking. 

Zara Martina Lopez is a Seattle based dancer, performer, filmmaker and photographer originally from Medellin, Colombia. She studied photography in São Paulo, Videodance in Cuba and worked as a video dance instructor at the University of Antioquia. Combining mediums such as drag, physical theater, spoken word, video and photography, her work pulses with the synergy of myriad techniques that give shape to her unique visual poetry.

Valerie Oliveiro is a dance and performance maker based in the Twin Cities and from Singapore. While they currently engage movement as their primary motor for expression, they also engage in other expressions, such as design, writing, drawing and photography, as generative, complexly relational proposals. Currently, they are a Co-Artistic Director at Red Eye Theater, ensemble member at Lighting Rod (QTBIPOC-led performance organism) and co-run a small performance incubator, MOVO SPACE. A 2023-24 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Valerie’s current research excavates notions, realities and imaginations of vastness. They maintain a long-term creative practice with Jennifer Monson.

Sylvan Oswald is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Philadelphia who creates plays, texts, publications, and video. His work uses metatheatricality and formal irreverence to explore queer and trans identity. Recent projects include the theatrical essay Trainers and the performance text High Winds, based on the book of the same name he co-authored with graphic designer Jessica Fleischmann. Sylvan’s lo-fi semi-improvised web series Outtakes starring Becca Blackwell and Zuzanna Szadkowski is hosted at weareopentv.com. Honors include a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rosati Fellowship from Duke University Libraries, the Thom Thomas award from The Dramatists Guild, a Jerome Fellowship, and residencies at Sundance/Ucross, Macdowell Colony, and Yaddo.

Noél Puéllo is a Providence- and Mexico City-based artist whose work shifts perceptions of intimacy and revitalizes fantasy through the dissection of queer and Afro-Latinx identity. With clothing, mixed media installations, fiber practices, and video, her work centers the power of touch and moves us through a romanticized reality of the discarded. She poeticizes the relationships of her Dominican elders and her own personal stories of existing as a queer, fat, femme, racially ambiguous, trans person.

Majesty Royale-Jackson is a dancer, performance maker, sound explorer, and ghost occupying liminal spaces. Living in geographical and ideological spaces not meant to support bodies like their’s; Majesty’s making is about finding, creating, and traversing alternative spaces more suited to the expansive truth of human liveness. 

Majesty’s work confronts claims of ownership on the body by engaging in radical defiance of how one should be. Majesty employs the methods of flamboyance, language reconstruction, community building, coded language, voice, glitter, and sweat. Through these practices, they intend to lose theirself and others of the constraints of a singular reality in search of new realnesses. Glitterboiwonder.com

Michèle Steinwald is a feminist, DIY, artist-centered, community-driven, cultural organizer. Committed to social justice in the arts, she has researched and facilitated original sessions at conferences and professional gatherings; been an artist mentor for Creative Capital’s retreat and Arts Midwest’s ArtsLab; managed projects for DanceUSA and NEFA/National Dance Project;  and worked as a performance curator. Although Canadian, Steinwald currently works in the US as an independent curator, community organizer, and writer.

Fox Whitney is a dancer, musician, filmmaker, actor, writer, yoga + meditation facilitator and teaching artist. He started punk psychedelic art band Light Aloud in 2023 and founded the interdisciplinary performance project Gender Tender in 2012. Both Light Aloud and GT engage a team of artists trained in Fox’s unique methods modeled on visual art practices, cults, riots and QT history. Fox’s ongoing project, MELTED RIOT is the current focus of his performance centric interdisciplinary art making. MELTED RIOT uses tactics rooted in sound, dance, durational performance, and visual art to investigate the effects peaceful and violent forms of support and sabotage have on the bodies, minds, and spirits of the transgender and queer community. MELTED RIOT is a surreal protest song, a queer meditation, a psychedelic research project, a punk prayer.

Fox’s work has been commissioned and produced by the Henry Art Gallery; On the Boards; Velocity Dance Center; Seattle International Dance Festival; Yellow Fish Epic Durational Performance Festival and was selected for the inaugural season of Seattle’s Gay City Arts. He has performed in work by Will Rawls, keyon gaskin, Morgan Thorson, Andrew Schneider, CommonForm Dance Project, Maureen Whiting Dance Co., Malic Amalya and Gabrielle Civil. He has an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited his short films and visual art nationally. Light Aloud has played at the Seattle Art Fair, Trans Pride Seattle and the Tractor Tavern. Previous band projects The Gender Tender Experiment and Rachaels Children. RC highlights include playing Treefort Music Festival in Boise, Freak Out Fest and Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle and The Underground Music Festival in Denver.