cierra

@cierrawyche

Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, cierra “cherrybombcee” wyche is a visual artist, typographer, and illustrator with deep interests in Pan-African revolutionary politics, education, and spirituality. Creatively inclined since youth, she began taking herself seriously as an artist in high school enrolling in a four-year intensive art program. She received a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Art in 2024. wyche views creating as an intuitive process and aims to push that sense of self-awareness in her work. She makes art that reflects and analyzes her inner emotions and the political times in which she is creating in. Through the use of various mediums including her innovative type, she invites viewers into her truth in hopes they leave encouraged with a spirit of advocacy.

Rosser Gallery

@RosserGallery

Where technology meets creative dreams in New Orleans.

Jessie Marie

@Jessie_Marie_FIne_Art

Jessie Marie is a visual artist based in New Orleans whose creative journey began in the performing arts before evolving into photography. Her passion for image-making was sparked during a formative trip to New York City, where she discovered the architectural lines and shapes that continue to influence her work today. In 2004, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., establishing an ethos of limiting interpretation and creating space for viewers to engage through their own experiences. After two decades as a military spouse and mother of two, Jessie re-emerged as an artist in 2021, inspired by her grandfather’s late-life artistic pursuits. Now rooted in New Orleans, she continues to explore themes of perception and authenticity with the depth of her life experience, offering work that reflects both continuity and transformation.

Tekrema Center for Art and Culture

@tekremaarts

The mission of Tekrema Center for Art and Culture is creating a legacy of artistic excellence, scholarly achievement, and community responsibility through the study, maintenance, development, and perseverance of African and African Diaspora art and culture.

Sean Tangco

@STANK

I'm an experience, I change from moment to moment, I'm emotional and I love it. I care about you, I care about me, I care about how the world is going to be. I care about the present, but I can't stay present without also making time for the past and the future. Drop mic.

Ryota Matsumoto

@ryota

As an artist, designer, and architect, Ryota Matsumoto is internationally recognized as one of the progenitors of the postdigital art movement. Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received a Master of Architecture degree from University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his studies at Architectural Association in London and Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art in early 90’s. Over the years, he has studied with Manuel DeLanda, Vincent Joseph Scully Jr., Cecil Balmond, and Giancarlo De Carlo, among others. Matsumoto has previously collaborated with a cofounder of the Metabolist Movement, Kisho Kurokawa, and with Arata Isozaki, Peter Christopherson, and MIT Media Lab. As a designer and consultant of Nihon Seikei Inc. and Japanese railway, he has worked on high-profile projects including Kyushu University Ito Campus masterplan (2003-2005), Shinjuku redevelopment project in Tokyo (2009-2012), Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi (2000), and Qingdao mixed-use development in China (2011). He has presented his work on posthumanism, multidisciplinary design, and visual culture at the 5th symposium of the Imaginaries of the Future at Cornell University, the Espaciocenter workshop at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, iDMAa Conference 2017, and NTT InterCommunication Center as a literary critic and artist. As a video producer and designer, he has worked with Peter Christopherson of Coil and Hipgnosis for Japanese Nike commercial and contributed to his first solo album, Form Grows Rampant as Threshold Houseboys Choir. His academic career started as a teaching assistant for Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. and his seminar, the Natural and Manmade in 1993. During his visiting fellowship at the Glasgow school of Art, he has been engaged in research on the process of integrated urban regeneration under the guidance of Giancarlo De Carlo and Isi Metzstein. He continued his pursuit in urban studies and participated in seminal research projects with MIT Media Lab and KieranTimberlake exploring high-rise modular housing, sustainability, and design interventions for Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2005. He has served as the MFA advisor of Transart institute, University of Plymouth and teaches at Asagaya Institute of Art and Design as a director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Design Lab. Matsumoto is a research associate at the New Centre of Research & Practice found by Mohammad Salemy, Jason Adams, and Reza Negarestani. He has been active as a guest critic on design reviews at Cornell University, Cooper Union, Columbia GSAPP, Rhode Island School of Design, and Pratt Institute. Matsumoto is the recipient of Visual Art Open International Artist Award, Florence Biennale Mixed Media 2nd Place Award, Premio Ora Prize Italy 5th Edition, Premio Ora Prize Spain 1st Edition, Donkey Art Prize III Edition Finalist, Best of Show IGOA Toronto, Art Kudos Best of Show Award, FILE (Electronic Language International Festival) Media Art Finalist, Lynx International Prize Be Art Builder Award, Lumen Prize Finalist, and Western Bureau Art Prize Honorable Mention. He was awarded the Gold Artist Prize from ArtAscent Journal, the 1st Place Prize from Exhibeo Art Magazine, and the Award of Excellence from the Creative Quarterly Journal of Art and Design in 2015 and 2016. His work is part of the permanent collection of University of Texas at Tyler. His work, writings, and interviews were published in Kalubrt Magazine, University of North Carolina Wilmington Journal Palaver, Furtherfield.org, The Journal of Wild Culture, Studio Visit Magazine, Fresh Paint Magazine, H+ Magazine, International Artist Magazine, Made In Mind Magazine, Arizona State University Journal Superstition Review, Creative Review, Next Nature Network, Rhizome.org, Carbon Culture Review, KooZA/rch, Supersonic Art, Post Digital Aethetics (Berry and Dieter ed.), Drawing Discourse (University of North Carolina Asheville), Highlike (SEPI-SP editors), and Drawing Futures (The Bartlett UCL), among others. Matsumoto's multidisciplinary projects have been exhibited recently at Meadows Gallery University of Texas at Tyler, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery University of North Carolina Asheville, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, National Museum of Korea, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Van Der Plas Gallery, ArtHelix Gallery, Caelum Gallery, Limner Gallery, the Cello Factory, University of the District of Columbia, Lux Art Gallery, Studio Montclair, Manifest Gallery, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Art Basel Miami, ISEA International, FILE Sao Paulo, Nook Gallery, and Arts and Heritage Centre Altrincham. He had solo exhibitions at BYTE gallery Transylvania University (2015), Los Angeles Center of Digital Art (2016), and Alviani ArtSpace, Pescara (2017).

FERRARA SHOWMAN GALLERY

@ferrarashowmangallery

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY is a collective environment of creative visions featuring monthly exhibitions of (inter)national, emerging to established, contemporary artists. Since its inception, the gallery has focused on forward thinking artists with a sense of purpose, mission, and message. The gallery is known for its stimulating and provocative exhibitions in a wide variety of media, having been featured in The New York Times, Art In America, The Art Newspaper, The Associated Press, ArtNews, NPR and many other international publications. The gallery regularly exhibits at art fairs in the US and Europe and works with museum and institutions to present its artists’ works.

Lukas Spady

@lukasgs10

I am Lukas Spady, a fashion designer guided by memory, feeling, and sustainability. For me fashion is a gateway. It has opened doors into art, storytelling, world building, and engineering. My work is rooted in personal experience and often explores the idea of reconnecting with the inner child. I see clothing as a space where care and creativity meet, where fashion becomes both a reflection of who we are and an invitation to imagine who we could be.