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Doan Truong is an illustration major student at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her art practice includes illustration and printmaking (screen printing, relief, bookmaking etc.). She creates artwork that focuses on immigrants, refugees, cultural and environmental concerns, social and political issues, especially in Vietnam – her motherland and also in Canada.
Odera Igbokwe is an illustrator and painter located in Vancouver, BC by way of Brooklyn, NY. Odera loves to explore storytelling through Afro-diasporic mythologies, Black resilience, and magical girl transformation sequences. Their work alchemizes color, movement, and queer magic to weave together ancient narratives with Afrofuturist visions. As a freelance illustrator, Odera works with clients and galleries to create work that is deeply personal, soulful, and intersectional. The centerpiece of Odera’s artwork is “Dance of the Summoner” which is a collection of paintings that explores spirituality from the African Diaspora. This work is a celebration of the fullness of self, the power to envision, and Fantasy as a gateway to healing from collective and generational traumas. To learn more about Odera and their work visit their site at www.odera.net
Whess Harman is Carrier Wit’at, and is currently living and working on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh. Their multidisciplinary practice includes beading, illustration, poetry and curation. As a mixed-race, trans/non-binary artist they work to find their way through anxiety and queer melancholy with humour and a carefully mediated cynicism that the galleries go hog wild for.
Dre Gutiérrez Reyes is an Afro-latina tattoo artist and illustrator currently residing on Lekwungen territory. In her tattoo practice Dre strives to provide an all-inclusive space so her clients can be as comfortable as possible during their tattoo experience. Dre’s illustrative work is inspired by the bold colour palettes of vintage comic books, Mexican folk art, and the symbolism of Catholic iconography and Chicano culture. She is a founding member of the No Label Art collective, a five member group creating a platform for artists by artists. Dre aspires to elevate other artists of colour, and look for inclusive opportunities so anyone can find healing through creativity.
Atheana Picha is a multi-disciplinary Coast Salish artist from the Kwantlen First Nation. She works in wood carving, intaglio printmaking, painting, ceramics, and beadwork, and hopes to do more public art. Picha went to school at Langara in the Fine Arts Program, and is now learning Coast Salish Weaving with Musqueam weaver Debra Sparrow, and jewelry work with Squamish artist Aaron Nelson-Moody.
Rachel Lau is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and radio producer based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations—colonially known as “Vancouver”. Through sound art, photography, and zine-making, they produce work that grapples with ideas and feelings around resistance, longing, transience, death, and decay. In short, they have lots of feelings and they make things. Currently, they are a co-librarian of Queer Reads Library, a mobile library of queer books and zines founded in Hong Kong and presented internationally.
Tajliya Jamal uses storytelling to discuss the (in)visibility of multiracial and queer identities, and feelings of discomfort, belonging, and difference.
Cash X is a Black femme, multimedia artist and designer from Tkoronto, residing and freelancing on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil- Waututh peoples. Cash’s work is inspired by afrofuturism and informed by social justice advocacy work. Her goals in this moment are to explore and expand anti-racism in so-called “Vancouver” and build a stronger community that centres the access needs and social needs of BIPOC. And also to make it pretty while doing it!
Chhaya Naran is a brown, queer, trans artist and animator. They are influenced by their love for friends, family, food, and fantasy.
Cole Pauls is a Tahltan comic artist, illustrator and printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory) with a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Residing in Vancouver, Pauls focuses on his two comic series, the first being Pizza Punks: a self contained comic strip about punks eating pizza, the other being Dakwäkãda Warriors. In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine’s Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwäkãda Warriors II. In 2020, Dakwäkãda Warriors won Best Work in an Indigenous Language from the Indigenous Voices Awards and was nominated for the Doug Wright Award categories, The Egghead & The Nipper.
semillites hernández velasco is a non-binary brown visual artists based in “vancouver”, on the unceded territory of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations. semillites creates love letters to themselves, their ancestors and community through drawings and text.
ryme lahcene is an interdisiplinary artist, youth worker and community activist.
