Maya Harr grew up in Alexandria, Virginia where she studied ballet at The Washington School of Ballet under the tutelage of Kee Juan Han, former LINES Ballet company dancer, Kristina Windom and award-winning choreographer Mimmo Miccolis.
Horizon Miguel is a DMV based dance artist, educator, choreographer, and K-pop cover dancer. A Maryland native, he began formal dance training at Baltimore School for the Arts.
Shanice Mason (she/her) is a Washington, D.C.-based dance artist, arts administrator, digital media consultant, and educator. Shanice’s skills, at the intersection of art and digital media, include graphic design, media production, and content creation.
Jessica Kallista is an artist working in collage, video, sound, poetry, and performance. She is also an educator, curator, and activist. She received her MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry from George Mason University in 2002. In November 2014 she founded Olly Olly, an alternative art space and resource, in Fairfax, Virginia.
David Arce, born in San Diego, California, began his training at Ballet Yuma (AZ) with Jon Cristofori and Kathleen Sinclair. He then danced with San Francisco Ballet for 13 seasons, Artistic Director of Juline Regional Youth Ballet for 10 seasons...
Paloma Vianey Martinez Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico who currently lives and works in Washington D.C. Her work explores the vulnerabilities and violence of her community and narrates her experience crossing the U.S.-Mexico border daily, questioning the political corruptness of this division.
Kay Hwang is a multidisciplinary artist who works and lives in Great Falls, VA with her family and a rescued dog, Mr.Kite. Past several year, she has been working mostly on Schematic Drawing series on sheets of Denril exploring the idea of building meditative visual unit through very much ordered & calculated profusion of geometric forms.
Luis Vasquez La Roche is an artist and educator that resides between Trinidad and Tobago and Virginia. They hold an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Their practice is interested in aspects of the transatlantic slave trade that repeat themselves in varying ways in the present.
Edrie Means Weekly, "rock star of vocal crossover” (The Cultural Feed), is an internationally recognized expert in training singers in all vocal styles and an active professional singer.