Annie Albagli’s work explores new ways to witness a landscape and its relationship to human and nonhuman worlds by examining the cultural contexts from which they are born and the layers of manipulation that shape them. Her work has been shown nationally at such venues including the Headlands Center for the Arts, YBCA, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Art Museum of the Americas and internationally, at Art Prospect in St. Petersburg, Russia, Trash Festival in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan, and Beita Gallery in Jerusalem. Her videos have been screened as part of the Imagined Biennials Project at the Tate Modern, the Bavarian Film Festival, ZWICKL in Schwandorf, Germany, and Artist Television Access in San Francisco, CA. She has participated in residencies throughout the U.S. and internationally including Djerassi, This Will Take Time, CEC Artslink Back Apartment Residency in St. Petersburg, Russia, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, and Art East in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Annie has contributed to various artists’ land projects such as AZ West, Mildred’s Lane, and Salmon Creek Farm. Between 2017-18, Albagli was a YBCA Truth Fellow. She is a co-founder and editor of the publication, WHIZ WORLD, and former Co-Director of the Royal Nonesuch Gallery. She is currently an Affiliate Artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and a visiting Artist at the Sierra Nevada College MFA-IA program.

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Farrah Karapetian works with photography in an expanded field. Her applied theatrical strategies posit that working with narratives of the agency of individuals in the face of political or personal change can honor the experiences of participants, slow down and capture elements of contemporary life’s slippery photographic circulation, and reveal parts of micro-political culture that evade the dramatic binaries of media’s algorithms. Her work is influenced by the Russian avant-garde tradition which strongly ties abstraction, photography, and political expression. 

Farrah’s artwork is in public collections that include the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. She is a recipient of a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (2020), a Fulbright Fellowship to Russia (2018), a Pollock-Krasner Award (2017), a California Community Foundation Mid-Career Artist Fellowship (2014), and a Warhol Arts Writers Grant (2013), among other honors. Recent exhibitions include The Fabric of Felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2018); Synthesize, MOCA Jacksonville (2017); Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017); A Matter of Memory, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY (2016); The Surface of Things, Houston Center for Photography (2016); and About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change,  SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (2016.) 

Farrah holds an MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles and a BA from Yale University. She leads the photography area of the Department of Art, Architecture + Art History at the University of San Diego, where she works on decolonizing the medium of photography and connecting students to community partners in the Baja California region. 

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Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr are filmmakers, educators and community cinema activists whose work is a catalyst for creative collaboration and positive social change. For the past twenty years, they have been helping to run the Echo Park Film Center, a non-profit neighborhood media arts center with a focus on analog film education and resources. As the duo The Here & Now, they travel the world, sharing handmade movies and music with local communities.

Paolo and Lisa collaborated with local artists and musicians on an experimental film The Sound We See: A St. Petersburg City Symphony. They used analog filmmaking techniques and the “City Symphony” genre practiced in the 1920s by Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov to explore communal creative process and contemporary environments. The Sound We See is an ongoing cinematic conversation on the relevance of handmade film in the 21st century.

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Cayla Lockwood is an artist, graphic designer, and curator. She has taught printmaking and book art workshops in Denmark, Ukraine, and participated in art book fairs across the United States. Since 2016, her art practice has focused on making fake companies. Each company touches on a different industry or bureaucracy and investigates the way capitalism is embedded in our lives and creates absurd expectations and behaviors. Cayla has curated exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans, and was an artist-in-residence at Flux Factory in Queens, NY and Artspace in New Haven, CT.

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A New York-born and London-based independent contemporary art curator, Georgia Muenster focuses on urbanism, the future, archives, and collectivity. She has produced projects at a variety of galleries, pop-ups, museums, and theaters in the US, UK, France, Denmark, and Bulgaria. She is a longstanding member of the arts collective Flux Factory in New York.

Georgia undertook curatorial research for the ongoing project Architectonics, which explores deep geographies in the built environments. Architectonics aims to document the reality of the city and its alternate visions, going beyond the clichés of “psychogeography.” By looking closely at both private and semi-public places, the project brought to light hidden layers of the metropolis, a particularly apt concept in St. Petersburg, steeped in complex histories.

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Tara Catherine Pandeya is a second-generation dancer, cultural activist, choreographer, scholar and bridge-building artist, dedicated to the promotion of dance from the Central Asian Silk Road region. She uses embodiment practices through dance as a healing tool to empower. Tara’s work aims to support a rebalancing of our written historical record by privileging ephemeral knowledge (dance, kinesthetic and the oral) to provide a more direct, accessible, and inclusive way of knowledge sharing inclusive of marginalized groups and matrilineal storytelling. She creates dance works which evoke beauty, magical surrealism and wonder, inviting curiosity and a questioning of social norms through art.  

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Carolanne Patterson is a visual artist and educator whose work spans the realms of hand made and digital processes. Her current research involves skewing environmental systems within the scope of unfamiliar realities. She is producing a group of free-standing rooms for hiding and meditation which provide an atmosphere in which to question the ambiguous territory of time and place.  She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and residencies in the US and Europe, where she has exhibited widely. Carolanne currently teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Rhode Island School of Design.

Kalmia Strong is an arts organizer, artist, and educator, and Program Director at Public Space One, an artist-led, community-driven contemporary arts organization in Iowa City, Iowa. She works collaboratively to instigate, support, and sustain inclusive, experimental, and cooperative art practices and resources for artists, and advocate for the importance of art in everyday life. With a background in print and book arts and librarianship, Kalmia’s creative research focuses on common spaces, knowledge-sharing, and the role of publication practices in cultural resistance and social change.

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Megan Young critiques unjust systems through community organizing, performance, visual arts, and new media. She explores the body as a contested space where socio-political codes collide. Her grassroots actions challenging U.S. police militarization became a multi-year framework for civic engagement resulting in new commissions for the Ammerman Center Biennial Symposium of Arts & Technology, International Symposium of Electronic Arts, and Open Engagement, garnering critical acclaim in Hyperallergic, The Atlantic, and on National Public Radio. Megan is an influential advocate for collective action, with experience supporting arts activism through residency and exhibition programs at SPACES in Cleveland, Ohio.  

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