AND WATER BRINGS TOMORROW

Ashley Hunt is an artist, activist and educator who has dedicated the last 25 years of his art making to documenting the expansion of the U.S. prison system and community resistance to it.

Evelyn Hang Yin is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Yin investigates how her experience moving between China and the U.S. informs her cultural identity, and is invested in issues of race, history, (dis)placement, and collective memory.

Sydney Canty is a disrupter, future builder, and multimedia artist, harmonizing her use of poetry and digital art into her research of Blackness as an ontology, radical care, and vehicle for storytelling. Brought to her work through experiences as a Black lesbian and facilitating post-colonial healing, she is simultaneously searching for and creating pockets of Black existence, survival and connectivity by resisting the sustaining of suffering.

Josiah Green is a documentary photographer and image-based artist from Inglewood, California. He studied photography at California Institute of the Arts (BFA ’22), where he explored the correlation between art and activism. Currently, Josiah works as a Media Assistant in the nonprofit sector, utilizing his practice for community engagement.

Oscar Ochoa is a visual artist born and raised in Los Angeles, CA whose work delves into the intersection of personal family archives, intangible histories, and the power of mythmaking. Through a multidisciplinary approach Ochoa challenges the perception of memory and its creation while celebrating the enigmatic beauty of our intersecting stories. Ochoa holds a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

C. Bain is a gender liminal artist. His work focuses on interstices of violence and intimacy. He is obsessed with language, and with the possibility of escaping it. He is a Lambda literary fellow, and the author of two poetry collections, SEX AUGURY and Debridement. He was a 2023-24 Fulbright scholar in Leipzig, researching the end of the world.

Emiko Wilks (b. New Mexico) is a video artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work – highly influenced by her Jewish Japanese identity – explores questions of family history, race, liberation, and sexuality. She graduated from CalArts with an MFA in photography and media in 2024.