Gurleen Rai is designer and world builder and founder of Zim+Teemo studios. She earned her bachelor of design in fashion design from Ryerson University in Toronto then attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City for illustration. Inspired by her upbringing in rural Ontario looking for insects and digging for dinosaur bones, her work reflects her love … Gurleen Rai
Flora is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist, educator, and queer storyteller who uses public engagement, installations, movement, and mixed-media works to explore themes of origin, assembly, and dislocation. Currently, she draws from found materials’ memory here in the Gulf South to explore our collective relationship to the natural and built environment. Flora completed residencies at Aquarium … Flora Cabili
Patrick Davis is a remarkable individual with a passion for life and a talent for photography. Born and raised in Little Rock, AR, he developed a love for exploring the world around him from an early age. As he grew older, he discovered his passion for photography, which became one of many focuses of his … Patrick Davis
Victoria Le is a female portrait painter born in New Orleans to first generation Vietnamese immigrants. She grew up in Gretna, was part of the last graduating class of Archbishop Blenk High School, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Newcomb-Tulane College in 2011. She’s passionate about rollerskating, costuming, crafting, petting animals, and … Victoria Le
Originally from a family of farmers, born in the horn of africa in 1984 biseat’s work interrogates and illuminates the journey of a reluctant refugee. climate change, migration, improvisational black art forms and resilience through diversity have inspire biseat’s growth as an artist. biseat was raised in central california an agriculturally important but socially overlooked … biseat yawkal
Kerry Punzo was born in New Orleans but lived in several states. He graduated from a New Orleans Public school in 1967 and attended LSUNO then enlisted in the Navy. He married, had a son, after 4 years in the navy, he graduated from the University of New Orleans in 1977, earning his B. A. … Kerry Punzo
John Alleyne is an artist from the island of Barbados, currently based in New Orleans, LA. His work is rooted in an exploration of freedom, connecting his lived experience with an intuitive process of painting and silkscreen mark-making. Alleyne looks for perfection in the imperfect. In his art practice, untraditional use of unhinged silkscreens are … John Alleyne
Born and raised in Mexico City, earned a BFA and later a MFA at the Faculty of Art and Design – UNAM. Has participated in more than 90 group Art Shows National and International and presented 12 solo Art Shows between Mexico and USA. For five years worked as a University Professor, teaching subjects such … Francisco Magallán
Thom earned an BFA from Pratt Institute and spent years in advertising film production in New York and Miami. He currently lives in New Orleans drawing comics and non-comics in ink, drinking coffee and playing Scrabble with his cat, Bob.
AnnieLaurie Erickson is a New Orleans-based artist and educator. Through research in material studies, optics, and environmentalism, her work explores ways that science can inform lens-based creation. She is the head of photography and an associate professor in the Newcomb Art Department of Tulane University. Erickson’s work has been exhibited widely in the US and abroad, including Higher Pictures, NYC; the Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC; Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC; Boston Center for the Arts; and CentrePasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland. Notable press includes The New Yorker, Huffington Post, Oxford American, Washington Post, Paper Magazine, Afterimage, and Foam Magazine. She received an ATLAS grant to develop her project Data Shadows and has been awarded residencies from Yaddo, A Studio in the Woods, and the Joan Mitchell Center. Erickson received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
