About

New York interdisciplinary artist Amy Bassin and writer Mark Blickley work together on text-based art collaborations and experimental videos. Their work has appeared in many national and international publications as well as two books, Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes from the Underground' (Moria Books, Chicago) and Dream Streams (Clare Songbird Publishing House, New York). Their videos, Speaking In Bootongue and Widow’s Peek: The Kiss of Death represented the United States in the 2020 year-long world tour of Time Is Love: Universal Feelings: Myths & Conjunctions, organized by the esteemed African curator, Kisito Assangni.

Website: www.amybassin.com

James Johnson-Perkins is a British award winning artist whom currently lives and works in the UK and China. Johnson-Perkins has exhibited in leading venues in Asia, North America and Europe, Including: Toyota Museum of Modern Art, Toyota City, Japan, The Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China, The Arts Student League, New York, USA, Ars Electronica Centre, Linz, Austria,The Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland and The National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia. He is currently the Senior Tutor for Content A (CELE) and Module Convener for the Art and Design courses at Nottingham University (www.nottingham.edu.cn/en), Ningbo, China and he has also recently been a visiting lecturer at Xiamen University, China (www.art.xmu.edu.cn).

Website: www.johnson-perkins.co.uk

Laura Moverin is a writer, poet, artist, and witch who works within the Reclaiming Tradition. She taught a path at a witch camp about Hermes with an emphasis on Oracle skills and in the process learned all about them. These words came out of that time. Moverin writes different kinds of poems and have been published in about twenty journals. She currently work as a librarian and help support a writer’s club for teenagers.

Lu Sakhno was born in 1971 in the picturesque village of Zapruddya in the Kyiv region (the heart of the Ukraine). Her childhood was spent in communication with nature where she learned to speak at the same time she started drawing. Sakhno studied at the Faculty of Architecture, and after graduating she devoted herself to painting fulltime.

Instagram: @lusakhno

Facebook: @lusakhno

An accountant by profession and an artist by passion, Marie Sinadjan has been performing a balancing act for years, juggling a full-time job in an international tech company while pursuing her creative dreams. She’s headlined shows and musicals, sung with bands, performed the National Anthem for a boxing match, and she even transforms into Disney princesses and various characters for kids and special events when requested, as she loves performing for children and the youth and hopes to inspire others to find their voice.

She is currently based in Cebu, Philippines, recording songs in her bedroom and working on various writing projects and collaborations. She’s just published her debut novel, Hotel Fen, the first book of an urban fantasy trilogy co-written with her friend Meri Benson, and most of her music releases have been original songs for her book’s soundtrack and sequels. She is a member of the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Association and a company member of 2TinCans Philippines, Inc.

Website: www.mariesinadjan.com

Twitter: @notanybunny

Facebook: @sinadjanmarie

Carolyn Adams’ poetry and art have been published in the pages, and on the covers of The Hunger Journal, Steam Ticket, Apercus Quarterly, Apeiron, and Red Weather, among others. She has authored four chapbooks, with one being a collection of her collage art, entitled What Do You See?

Eve Lyons is a poet and fiction writer living in the Boston area. Her work has appeared in Lilith, Literary Mama, Hip Mama, PIF, Welter, Prospectus, Poetry Quarterly, Barbaric Yawp, Word Riot, Dead Mule of Southern Literature, as well as other magazines and several anthologies. Her first book of poetry, Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World, was published in May of 2020 by WordTech Communications. She works as an expressive arts therapist at an outpatient mental health clinic and teach at Lesley University.

Website: www.evealexandralyons.wordpress.com

Instagram: @fake_supergirl

Kyiv-based visual artist, Kateryna Kobylianska, has been communicating research on mind games since 2018. Curator, body-practitioner, and musician before, Kateryna made a fusion of her previous 10 years of experience, now dancing with colors into concepts of nature, silence, synchronicity, sincerity.

The artworks you will see on Kateryna`s exhibitions from South Sinai to Barcelona, from Kyiv to Zanzibar, are mainly large abstract mixed media paintings. They become causes for pauses. Through her abstract art, Kateryna Kobylianska endeavors to dig to a deeper level of awareness. The Ukrainian painter also explores mind games, synchronicity, as well as nature versus humans. Kobylianska believes that non-figurative art leaves room for the viewer to build their individual interpretation by giving free rein to their imagination. Or simply the invitation to contemplate the gap between what we see and how we understand, what we caught. Kateryna is consciously using abstract form because it has the minimum shape. The connection with reality here is further than figurative art offers. Hence the artist is underlining the unseen.

Website: www.katerynakobylianska.com

Instagram: @kobylianska_artspace

Born in 1977, in Quito, Ecuador, Verónica Jarrín Machuca received a Master degree in Literatura española e hispanoamericana. Her short story Andromeda was published in Revista Bichito (2018), her poetry and essays has been published in literary magazines like El Búho (Ecuador), Elipsis (Ecuador), Página Salmón (México). She has written and published introductory studies for classic literature collections and for academic publications.

Facebook: @veronica.jarrinmachuca

Igor Zusev is a creator of chaos art. After a lengthy career in tech and AV project management, Igor discovered art as a way to unwind and connect with himself...and it all started with adult coloring books, shortly followed by a gifted paint set. He dove into it with enthusiasm, often scouring thrift stores for elements he could add and experiment with. Igor settled into his unique style of using rollers to paint, and layering cut-outs onto canvas. Sometimes he’ll produce a deeply personal piece, and other times you’ll find him exploring messages he wants to portray in his style.

Website: www.zusev.art

Instagram: @igor_zusev

Meropi Papastergiou is an interdisciplinary theater maker and writer based out of Athens, Greece. She holds a BA in Drama and Women’s Studies from Vassar College. Her art explores issues of gender, identity, sexuality and language. She is interested in dualities and dichotomies. She recently started trusting herself enough to explore writing. She writes in both Greek and English. She exists in both Greek and English. She tires her best most times.

Instagram: @uberpowerrider

Osvaldo Vázquez Martínez is Puerto Rican artist and graduate of The School of Visual Arts in New York City (2009) were he made his studies in art. Finishing with a degree in painting and sculpture. The artist works across multiple disciplines with a concentration in drawing and paintings. Vázquez-Martínez work looks to portray the identity and mysticism surrounding the culture of Caribbean islanders and their deep relationship with the sea. As an artist he has developed is career both in the island and internationally, working in various projects and participating in several group and solo shows in the USA, Canada, Spain and Puerto Rico. The artist has also collaborated as an actor and set designer with different theater groups in Puerto Rico and participating in theaters festivals in Argentina, Uruguay, Dominican Republic, Spain and Puerto Rico. Vázquez -Martínez teaches art and theater in Puerto Rico where he lives and develops on his practices.

Website: www.ovazquez3.wixsite.com/osvaldovazquezart

Instagram: @o.v.mar