Over the past 25 years Paul Ramirez Jonas has sought to challenge the definitions of art and the public through participation and exchange. He is currently an Associate Professor at Hunter College; and is represented by Koenig and Clinton in New York and Galeria Nara Roesler in Sao Paulo.

Alix Camacho (Bogotá, Colombia) BFA (Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano – 2009) and Postgraduate degree in Artistic Education (Universidad Nacional de Colombia – 2011). Co-founder and a member of the editorial board of {{em_rgencia}. She attends the MFA in Social Practice at CUNY, Queens College as a Fulbright/Ministerio de Cultura grantee.

Clara Chapin Hess is an artist, organizer, and educator. She received her BA from Bard College, attended Mountain School of Arts, and is currently an MFA candidate at Hunter College. Through weather analysis and corporeal research, she ‘builds’ apparatuses which reframe subjectivity in community, while deconstructing the temporality of labor.

Paola Di Tolla was born in Honduras and raised in Costa Rica. She is an MFA candidate at Hunter College where she makes installations and performances and she really likes it.

Adam Golfer is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York. Adam’s projects concern the ways in which histories are recorded, refracted and retold. He has had solo exhibitions at Booklyn, the 92 Y and the Goethe Institut and has been featured in TIME, Harper’s, Die Zeit and Artforum.

Miatta Kawinzi is a NY-based artist, writer and educator. She received a BA in Interdisciplinary Art & Cultural Theory from Hampshire College in 2010 and is currently a candidate in the Studio Art MFA program at Hunter College in NYC. She is, as always, looking for poetry in the machine.

Eric Magnus is a New York based theater and performance artist originally from Akron, Ohio. Magnus has performed for Richard Foreman, and with the companies Object Collection and Sponsored By Nobody in New York City and Europe. With the performance collective Magnus, Miller, Truman & Murdock, Eric has designed and directed five original works, and he is currently in the Performance and Interactive Media Art MFA program at Brooklyn College.

Daniel Alexander Matthews is a 2nd year Hunter MFA candidate. Originally from Guyana, he has lived in New York for about 15 years. His work has developed from dealing specifically with memory, misery and dislocation.

Katy McCarthy is an artist living in New York. Her work has been shown at the Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, TSA Gallery in Los Angeles, Flux Factory in NYC, and the Military Museum in Belgrade, Serbia. She is currently receiving her MFA from Hunter College in New York.

Arkadiy Ryabin is an artist born in Donetsk, Ukraine and is currently based out of New York. He received his BFA in Studio Art, and Film and Media Studies in 2012 and is currently a 2017 MFA candidate in the Studio Art program at Hunter College, NY.

Ishai Shapira Kalter is a legal immigrant who seems to be in New York for a while. He seeks to commoditize the absurdities that rapidly flooded the western world through the 21st century (Museums as graveyards, cities as labor camps, crises as the end of the world parties and so on). Working across a wide range of media including social interactions, films, essays and installations, his manifestations are often catalyzed by the flops capital have not yet succeeded to bury in the dirt.

Rebekah Smith is a translator who is interested in translation as an art; and has been working recently with experimental translations and the meaning of translation itself. She teaches at LaGuardia Community College (ESL/writing/modern languages). She is an editor at Ugly Duckling Press a nonprofit publisher for poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists.

Gabriela Vainsencher is an Argentine-born Israeli artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. Her upcoming two-person show will open this June at Hanina gallery in Tel Aviv. Vainsencher’s work includes video, photography, drawing, and sculpture. She writes about art for Hyperallergic, Title Magazine, Tohu Magazine, and the Huffington Post. Vainsencher occasionally teaches art at Williams College.

Estefania Velez lives in Brooklyn and is receiving her MFA at Brooklyn College. With her emphasis in painting and drawing, Velez makes visual work in dialogue with culture, time, and place.