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ARTIST BIOS:
TJ Felix is a 2Spirit manic pixie Qelmucw from Splatsin & is sometimes making art, but mostly just surviving as an uninvited guest on stolen Musqueam, Squamish, & Tsleil-Watuth lands
Serisa Fitz-James is a Filipinx-Canadian artist who currently works and resides on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples – Squamish, Stó:lō, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. They are a multidisciplinary artist that enjoys creating works to heal, uplift, and bring people together through food, comedy, illustration, performance, animation, and ceramic sculpture.
Lisa Taniguchi is a multidisciplinary designer with expertise in product design, creative direction, graphic design and lettering. Her broad skillset is driven by her love of creating, balanced by her strategic thinking. Her lettering art often features bold letters and introspective words.
Ruby Smith Díaz is an Afro Latina artist, educator, and body positive personal trainer. She was born in Edmonton –amiskwaciy, Treaty 6 territory and currently lives in Vancouver, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil Waututh people. For the last two years, Ruby’s focus in the arts has been around afro-futurism. Inspired by this movement, she has created an arts curriculum series for high school students called Still Here: Black Histories and Futures in Canada, which she facilitates in classrooms in the lower mainland. Ruby’s writing appears in Harsha Walia’s book, Undoing Border Imperialism, and in the newly released book by Nora Samaran, Turn this World Inside Out. She is the director and producer of the film After Africville, which was recently featured at the MSVU Gallery in Halifax and the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Reid Urchison is a queer/trans artist living on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples. Their work focuses on language, literary theory, memoir, and often takes the form of videos, zines or other multiples.
Diyan Achjadi‘s drawings, prints, and animations have been exhibited across Canada and beyond. Recent projects include Hush, a hand-painted animation commissioned for the Urban Screen by Emily Carr University for the City of Vancouver Pubic Art Program (2021), and Never as it Seems, a series of digitally-printed banners for Pride In Chinatown (2020). Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, she is currently a Professor at Emily Carr University.
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Sade Alexis is a Black Woman artist, writer and illustrator. In her personal artistic practice she works to create ethical representations of Black people while thinking through themes such as homeland, living as stolen people on stolen land, anti capitalism and its ties to Blackness and Black liberation, and most importantly, Black Joy.
Preston Buffalo: Two Spirit Cree man who lives and loves in the unceded territories of the Salish peoples. His multidisciplinary work often meets at the intersection of hyphenated identities.
STANK DADDY is a illustrator and screen-printer from the Kainai Nation, Blackfoot Confederacy, who works and lives on unceded Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh lands
Dariush Alexandra is a Persian Mexican artist which work is focused in reimagining the folklore and histories of their own heritage in relation with their present context.
Erick M. Ramos: I’m Erick, a freelance illustrator who loves bold colors and sharp textures.
