Coyote Jacobs was born as a large insect under a rock but through a series of increasingly unfortunate events now has to live life as a human man. He forgets when he became an artist but it’s the main thing he does. His work draws primarily from his experiences with non-human animals, specifically those rescued from slaughterhouses and other places of exploitation. Within his work, he hopes to create uneasiness with the assumed entitlement over animal lives. He fosters bunny rabbits and is friends with many chickens. Instagram: Coyote_Illustration

My name is Amuri Morris and I’m an artist based in Richmond, Va. I recently graduated from painting/ printmaking and business at Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to this, I studied art at the Center for the Arts at Henrico High School. Throughout the years I have acquired several artistic accolades. I aim to promote diversity in art canon, specifically focusing on the black experience. One of my goals is to promote community engagement in the arts and better the community with my talent.

Nataliia Burmaka graduated from Boris Danchenko’s National Studio of Fine Arts (Sumy, Ukraine) in 1999 and had been working as an artist designer from 1999 till 2005. Later she made illustrations for books and worked together with her husband creating murals (private orders). She moved to Finland in 2022, escaping from war in Ukraine. She took part in 4 two-person exhibitions in Finland.

Bio

Mirka Walter is an autodidact visual artist from Cologne, Germany. It was here where Mirka got first in touch with surrealism, as Max Ernst was born in Brühl, a small city close to Cologne. But what especially has been influencing the artist’s work and worldview is the feminist surrealism by artists such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. Publications Exposition Review (planned 2023), Changeling Annual (planned, 2023), Apricity Press (planned, 2023), The Bayou Review (planned, 2023), Spoonie Press (planned, 2023), Wildflower Press (2023), Artist Talk Magazine (2022)

Artist Statement

What Mirka wants to capture is the beauty, banality and brutality of the everyday, the human body in motion as well as a surreal and fantastic representation of the natural world. The artist’s favorite materials are watercolor in all its expressions and ink. The artist also holds a great love for collage and papercut artwork.

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Noē Piña, was born in Los Angeles, CA as a first generation American. He grew up traveling throughout Mexico and in those travels visiting museums, galleries, and cultural institutes. He studied at The Los Angeles Music & Art School, Plaza de La Raza, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico, Cal State LA, and Otis College of Art and Design, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Artist Statement

Noé Piña is a mixed media and installation artist in Los Angeles, CA. His work is inspired by the concept of balance, of the counterpoise. He works with found materials used in construction, using terracotta bricks, nails, and wood fragments to create sculptures and installations that address the complexities of maintaining balance, from personal to social to economic. Noé explores the fragility, the precariousness of things, nature, and systems and how the forces of pressure and stress remain in or produce balance. Noé's installations display an environment that is at once an environment of graceful balance and crude counterbalance.