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Jonathan Herrera Soto (b. 1994) holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. He is a recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, Yale Prison Education Initiative Fellowship, and the Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School. Herrera Soto is a printmaker, whose practice explores the relationship between the printing matrix (the surface used to create the print) and the substrate (the material that receives the print). He is interested in how this interaction can serve as a metaphor for translation and mistranslation, specifically highlighting distortions that occur in the process of understanding one another in the world. 

Katya Varlamova is a clinical herbalist with a private practice in New York City, Hudson Valley and online. She is also founder of the organic herbal wellness line Warmicita Herbals. Katya teaches herbal workshops to private and corporate clients, as well as hosts plant walks, women's circles, and plant medicine retreats in the Amazon and the Peruvian Andes.

Trampas Thompson is a Hollywood Stuntman and Stunt Coordinator with over 150 credits in film an television, including Pirates of the Caribbean, Birdman, and Spider-Man: Homecoming. In 2014, he encountered Ayahuasca for the first time, and, after working with the plant medicine for some years, moved to Peru full time in 2020. He now lives in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, with his dog Blueberry.  

Born in Missoula, MT in 1976, Amanda Browder received an MFA/MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Brooklyn, producing over 25+ large-scale fabric installations all around the world. Amplifying multiple voices (over 6000+), she collaborates with local community groups and sources her textiles from local donations. Exhibitions include: Triennale Brugge, Belgium; Project 1: ArtPrize; SPRING/BREAK Art Fair; White Columns; Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo. Currently she has a large-scale textile installation at the Buffalo Art Museum AKG and is a member of their Public Art Initiative. Press: New York Times to Fiber Art Magazine and founder of art podcast www.badatsports.com 

Roxanne Jackson was born in California’s East Bay and currently lives in New York. Press for her work includes the New York Times, the New Yorker, the LA Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, Hyperallergic, Sculpture Magazine, Forbes, Metal Magazine, Cool Hunting and Ceramics Monthly, among others. Selected museum exhibitions include the Schloss Museum, Linz, Austria; the Arter Museum, Istanbul, TRKY; Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, PA; the Grassi Museum, Leipzig, DE; and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design, NY, NY. Selected NYC exhibitions include Anton Kern Gallery, The Armory Show with Night Gallery, The Hole, R & Company, Underdonk, Sardine, Elijah Wheat Showroom and other exhibitions include Sargeant’s Daughters, Los Angeles, CA; David Lewis Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL; Louise Alexander Gallery, Sardinia, ITLY; Duve Berlin Gallery, Berlin, DE; Public Gallery and Cob Gallery, London, UK; Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL; and Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, MX.

Reuben Paterson (b. 1973, Auckland, New Zealand: Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi, Scottish).

Jonathan Allmaier lives in New York, where he has presented three solo exhibitions at James Fuentes. His work has been discussed in The New Yorker, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Hyperallergic, TimeOut New York, New American Paintings, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, and other publications. In 2014, James Fuentes published Which World, a collection of his essays. He earned his BA in Philosophy and Visual Arts (honors) from Brown University, and his MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art.

Alex Yudzon is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and performance. His debut monograph, A Room for the Night (Radius Books, 2023), explores American hotel culture through thirty-four site-specific installations made across the United States. Yudzon’s work has been exhibited at the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, the China International Photography Biennial, Arles Photo Festival, and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts. He is a 2019 NYFA Fellow and was a resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Former monk (bhikkhu) Santi trained in the Thai forest tradition, a meditation-centered branch of Theravada Buddhism. He disrobed after eight years, and now teaches and writes on Buddhist, post-Buddhist, and other spiritual and practice-related themes. His website is findingsanti.org.

Wells Chandler is a space alien born on Planet Birthday. Drawing from folk art, 1970s craft feminism and countercultural thinkers, he weaves esoteric art history into the canonical. His vibrant, devotional work explores non-dual representations of queer identity, community and belonging. Chandler is also an amateur scholar of comparative religion. Beyond the studio, his practice extends to writing, curating and mentorship.