Mickalene Thomas – Artist, Curator, Educator, Mentor

Mickalene Thomas is a contemporary African-American visual artist best known as a painter using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. She is an internationally renowned artist recognized for works celebrating the power of female beauty toward claiming women’s agency. She confronts the objectification of women while simultaneously offering a vocabulary for redefining notions of femininity. Mickalene lives…

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Autumn Skye – Visionary Artist, Art Instructor

As a self-taught artist, Autumn Sky has dedicated innumerable hours in creative exploration. Her style gracefully weaves together refined realism, iconic imagery, profound symbolism, and subtle geometries. She teaches and exhibits worldwide, and otherwise now lives and paints on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of BC, Canada. Considering herself immensely blessed, Autumn Skye strives to support…

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Es Devlin – Super Star Set Designer

Es Devlin is an artist and designer. She is known for creating large-scale performative sculptures and environments that fuse music, language and light.She has conceived stage sculptures with Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, The Weeknd and U2 as well as two decades of opera, drama and dance worldwide. Her practice was the subject of the Netflix documentary…

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Patrisse Cullors – Artist, Organizer, Freedom Fighter

Patrisse Cullors is an artist, organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, CA. Cofounder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Dignity and Power Now, she is also a performance artist, popular public speaker, and a New York Times bestselling author. She’s received many awards for activism and movement building. In the summer of 2013 fueled by the acquittal granted to George Zimmerman…

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Emily Marie – Glass Artist

Emily Marie is a glass blowing artist. She entered her first live glass blowing competition at Champs, winning a gold medal in the qualifying round and moving on to take fourth place in the Masters’ Final.

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