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Nancy Baker Cahill is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body. As a new media artist, Cahill creates immersive and interactive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects rooted in the practice of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, often confronting the climate crisis, social issues, and civics. Nancy’s work...

KIKI SMITH is one of the most influential visual artists in the contemporary world. Since the 1980s, Smith has created a prolific and provocative body of work that explores embodiment and the natural world. Utilizing a broad variety of materials and mediums – including sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing and textiles – Smith’s unique style draws on mythology, folklore, fairytales and religious iconography, while also exploring the human form in all of its frailty and myst...

GABRIEL GONZALEZ is a Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter and leader of a new break-out collective of world class musicians embodying the truth of the Los Angeles Latin experience – La Verdad. Since 2015 Gonzalez has also been a lead singer for Boogaloo Assassins, the famed 12-piece Latin Boogaloo, Salsa, and Latin Soul band with whom Gonzalez is about to release a new album.Since the beginning of his career as a child performer in Mexican films, Gonzalez (also known as G...

ISABEL VINCENT is an award-winning writer and investigative journalist and the author of the new book "Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan That Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich." The book uncovers the amazingly true story of Ida and Louise Cook -- two British opera fans who masterminded their own plan to rescue dozens of German and Austrian Jews from a terrible fate.Vincent began her career in the 1990's as a foreign correspondent for the Globe and Mail...

Susan Davis is the Founder & President of DESERT X, a site-specific, contemporary art exhibition that is held in the Coachella Valley of Southern California every two years. Since 2017, DESERT X has pushed the boundaries of art beyond the gallery walls to present work that engages with the public in desert environments, through unique installations created by acclaimed artists from around the world.While responding to and amplifying the dramatic range of land and seascapes with...

Vera Mulyani is considered the world’s first Marschitect. She is the Founder and CEO of Mars City Design, a global innovation platform whose purpose is to research, conceptualize, and design eco-sustainable cities for life on Mars. Mulyani’s concept of urbanism on Mars also advocates a self-sustaining lifestyle on Earth.Growing up in the polluted slums of Jakarta with the trauma of civil war as her brutal reality, Vera relied on her imagination as a means of survival a...

Kathleen Turner is an award-winning American actress and director, celebrated for her acclaimed work in film, television and theater. With an over forty year career, Kathleen's bold and brave choices as an artist has led to a groundbreaking body of work that has changed cultural perceptions of how women are portrayed on the screen and stage. Always insisting on playing by her own rules, the two time Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee has created some of the most iconic ...

David Levinthal is a New York–based photographer whose work explores the relationship between photographic imagery and the fantasies, myths, events and characters that shape the collective American consciousness. Refining a personal photographic style and vision, Levinthal utilizes toy figures and structures as subject matter for the creation of a surrogate reality. Levinthal has endeavored to create a 'fictional world' that simultaneously calls into question our sense of tr...

Eric Fischl is one of the most influential painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Inspired by his own middle-class upbringing on Long Island, Fischl’s provocative paintings expose the underbelly of American suburban life while piercing through its veil. Through startling scenes of grief, adolescent sexuality and political malaise, Fischl is committed to expressing what often remains hidden and unspoken behind society’s mores.During his meteoric rise in the 1980s, in a...

April Gornik is an American Artist known for her dynamic and powerful landscape paintings. Gornik’s large scale luminous paintings evoke moments of transience and calm, as well as volatility and eruption. Yet, her vivid canvases are never literal, but rather imagined and emotional spaces. While Gornik focuses on the light and colors of the landscape, her evocative use of contrasts brings a sense of aliveness and psychological drama to her work. Gornik’s fascinati...