Lisa Jarrett is an artist and educator. She is Associate Professor of Community and Context Arts at Portland State University’s School of Art + Design. She is co-founder and co-director of KSMoCA (Dr MLK Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art) and the Harriet Tubman Middle School Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice in NE Portland, OR, and the artists collective Art 25: Art in the 25th Century. Her intersectional practice considers the politics of difference within a variety of settings including: schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imaginaries, studios, communities, museums, galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, rivers, and lenses. She exists and makes socially engaged work within the African Diaspora. She recently discovered that her primary medium is questions.

José Villalobos was born and raised on the US/Mexico border in El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juárez Mexico. He relocated and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He was awarded the Artist Lab Fellowship Grant for his work De La Misma Piel at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. Villalobos is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant Award and Residency and is also a recipient of the Tanne Foundation Award. His work has been exhibited in the nationally recognized exhibition Trans America/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; NARS Foundation, New York, NY; the Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX; El Paso Museum of Art, TX; El Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and The Latino Cultural Center in Dallas, TX. Phoenix Art Museum, and Xican-a.o.x. Body at The American Federation of Arts in New York curated by Marisa del Toro, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Gilbert Vicario.

José Villalobos’s work is included in the collection of Mexic-arte Museum, Austin, TX, the City of San Antonio Public Collection, TX, Albright College, Reading, PA, and Soho House International in Austin, TX.

Christian Dinh is a Vietnamese-American ceramic artist from Orlando, Florida. Currently, Dinh is attending the MFA program at Tulane University and will graduate in 2022. He received his BA in 2017 from the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida. While studying at UWF, Christian Dinh was nominated for the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Dinh’s ceramic and sculptural work has been in numerous exhibitions throughout the Gulf Coast, including the exhibition PHILIC / PHOBIC at the Pensacola Museum of Art and And Now For Something New Vol. 2 at LeMieux Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana. Christian Dinh’s most recent series Nail Salon redirects stigma and celebrates Vietnamese-American identity by confronting racism, stereotypes and underrepresentation. The work focuses on the Vietnamese culture that developed in the United States subsequent to the Vietnam War and the flourishing Vietnamese community established by refugees and immigrants throughout the country. Christian Dinh’s Nail Salon will be exhibited as part of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Focus Series in June 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Growing up in South Louisiana, Bethany began studying art at a young age with a local cajun painter. She always found solace in creating something with her hands and art has been her one constant throughout her life. Prior to pursuing her graduate degree at Georgia State University, she received a BFA with a focus in ceramic sculpture, at Nicholls State University. She is influenced by both her personal experiences and the sociopolitical history of identity, domestic spaces and reproductive health. Her artwork has been exhibited in cities across the United States including New Orleans, New York City, Rochester, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Tampa.

Jane Tardo is a fiber and mixed media artist born and based in New Orleans. Experimenting with many visual and physical techniques, their practice is surreal, wacky and diverse- incorporating sculpture, textile art, and inventive technologies in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works. Tardo earned their MFA in Sculpture from the University of New Orleans in 2020. Their work can currently be seen at Le Mieux Galleries in New Orleans and at La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles. Tardo served as a digital resident at Southern Heat Exchange, was a grant recipient of Colloqate Design, and has a published Portfolio at the University of West Florida. Their work has been written about in Antigravity Magazine, The Art Newspaper, The Times-Picayune, and Pelican Bomb.

Shelley McCoy’s work in general is experimental in nature, ranging from mixed media relief to three-dimensional objects, and comprises a wide range of materials from the traditional color pencils to the non-traditional asphalt, as in her most recent work. Shelly’s interest in construction and remodeling have influenced her choice of materials in her art. Industrial supplies, such as rubber, tar, cement, thin-set, roofing shingles, resin, grout, wax, ceramic tile, and spray insulation have been used in her work. Exploring these materials out of context has always held a fascination for her.

Mario Rodriguez is a self-titled “jack of all trades” within The CAMP Gallery; be it artist relations, submissions for new projects, curation, or social media, he has had a hand in one way or another on most facets of the gallery. Pulling from his undergraduate education at Tulane University, Mario hopes to provide a perspective that honors the academic underpinnings of The CAMP Gallery’s curation style, while also applying a business mindset to the gallery’s development and wellbeing. Ultimately, he finds that any opportunity he gets within his role at The CAMP to better both the gallery and the artists that it serves to be fulfilling and worthwhile.

German-American photographer Elizabeth Peak began her photographic studies in 1991 when she took her first lesson from Felicia Leggio Braud. She graduated from Louisiana State University in 1986, and later studied photography with Dr. Terry Kennedy at Southern University. She takes her camera everywhere — from backyard adventures to international destinations. More recently, she became inspired by the #MeToo movement, the 2016 protests of Alton Sterling's murder, Equal Rights Amendment rallies, as well as the attacks on women's sexual and reproductive freedoms. Politically ignited, her current project is My Core: Our Bellies, Our Power, Our Choice!, photographs of individual women that reveal strength, self-determination, and sexual and reproductive freedom and justice. Elizabeth Peak lives in Baton Rouge.

Sara Madandar is an Iranian multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in New Orleans. She received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and her BA in painting from Azad University of Art and Architecture in Tehran. Through a range of media such as painting, video, installation, and performance, Madandar explores migration and the human experience of living between cultures, using the aesthetics of language, clothing, and bodies to study the complexities of cross-cultural experiences. Most recently, she was in residency at Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.