Amy Yoshitsu
Amy Yoshitsu (b. 1988), they/she, is a sculptor and designer based in their hometown, Berkeley, CA. Their research-based practice contextualizes the individual’s racialized experiences and traumas of hierarchy within history, economics, and politics. Yoshitsu has presented solo exhibitions at Brea Gallery (Brea, CA), Gallery Route One (Point Reyes, CA), and Satchel Projects (Chelsea, NY). In 2010, Yoshitsu received an A.B. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University and attended California Institute of the Arts’s MFA Art program. Yoshitsu has been in residency at Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA). Yoshitsu is a National Member of A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), and co-founded Specs Studio, a design agency operating as a worker cooperative.
Anastasia Corrine
Anastasia Corrine is a reflex, root, and voidthot. As a voidthot, they find sensuality in the cavernous beyond. Through ceramics, electronic media, performance, and writing, their interdisciplinary practice is digging a hole to the other side. Like a root and its reflex, they are seeking—and dirt-loving. Born in The Bronx, they received a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies from SVA (NYC). Their work has been exhibited locally and internationally, including at Smack Mellon, Greenwich House Pottery, and Laden Für Nichts (Leipzig). Corrine has held residencies at Leipzig International Art Programme (DE), Wave Hill (NY), and the Institute for Electronic Arts (NY). They will begin the MFA Ceramics program at SUNY New Paltz in Fall 2026.
Gina Rae La Cerva
Gina Rae La Cerva is a painter, writer, and researcher originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She started a DIY gallery in her garden shed, Bob’s Galleria, in summer of 2022. She hosted a total of 16 shows, expanding exhibitions into her home and gardens. This project culminated in the final group show "Return to Earth" in September 2025. Gina Rae has held artist residencies at Djerassi, Bloedel Reserve, PLAYA, Yale Myers, and the U.S. Forest Service, among others. Her first book, "Feasting Wild", was named a 2020 Amazon Nonfiction Book of the Year and was selected for the New York Times Summer Reading List. An avid adventurer, Gina Rae has researched tsunamis in Indonesia, crossed the Pacific Ocean on a sailboat, and traced the wild meat trade from the forests of the Congo Basin to the streets of Paris. She has spent the last five years renovating an old adobe house.
Giovanni Pigliapochi
Giovanni Pigliapochi was raised in Como, Italy, in a family with five siblings. Playing trumpet as the opening act for his parents' puppet shows was the foundation of his creative journey. Earning his medical degree from the University of Pavia, Giovanni studied throughout Europe completing his thesis on migrant health. His primary experience was working in psychiatric care, while volunteering in migrant shelters. In 2025, Giovanni graduated from Bauer Photography School, while creating a career in advertising production. Giovanni’s work merges medicine and photography through exploring sociopolitical themes such as documenting patients living in psychiatric facilities, as well as, chronicling the emotional and personal journey of HIV therapy. Giovanni continues to experiment across image making and storytelling while seeking unseen narratives and emotional depth.
Hawa Amin-Arsla
Hawa Amin-Arsla (b.1988), is a symbologist of social change and innovation. While most comfortable in liminal spaces, she considers Washington D.C. and Afghanistan two geographies of origin. Her transdisciplinary practice has touched the worlds of fine art, fashion, tech, media, diplomacy and journalism. Across her career she has directed multi-national campaigns, gone into the field researching the effects of war on widows and children in Afghanistan, and studied youth culture across America. Her field research, writing and artistic work explore things like: the controlling mechanisms of power, digital intimacy, cultural folklore, aesthetic provocations of human behavior and benevolent technology. Amin-Arsala holds a BA with Honors from UC Berkeley in Media Studies (2010) with a concentration on the intersections of violence, meaning making and mass consciousness.
Amin-Arsala was a 2021 SHIFT fellow at Somewhere Good—an emergent, 100% ad free social platform—studying the intersections of technology and social justice. In 2022, she was a Field Stations fellow with the Wright-Ingraham Institute studying the effects of drought and climate change in ecologically critical regions of the American Southwest. Hawa holds a certification in Transpersonal Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming from the Institute for Transpersonal Studies with a focus on guiding individuals and companies through major thresholds.
With equity and anthropological study informing her work, Hawa aims to purify the future through collaboration, innovation, and heart.
Helena Petersen
Helena Petersen (b. 1987) is an artist working primarily with photography and a meditation teacher based in Munich, Germany. She seeks out the synthesis of abstraction and nature and addresses physical and environmental states and transformations through cameraless photographic processes and meditations. Working with organic abstraction she leans in to letting the unpredictable, the arbitrary be a co-creator in her processes. In the DHPh publication Photography’s History of Abstraction, Petersen is recognized as a founding contributor to the “Analog Turn” movement. She received an MFA in Fine Arts from Universität der Künste Berlin and has been nominated for the Photography Award Munich (2026). She is also a recipient of the IBB Prize for Photography and the Eberhard Roters Grant. Her work has been exhibited and presented at Foto Arsenal for Klima Biennale (Vienna), DZ BANK Art Foundation (Frankfurt), Grassi Museum (Leipzig), C/O Berlin, Georg Kolbe Museum (Berlin), and Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland). Petersen is also co-founder of AH Meditation, where she teaches meditation and contemplative practices.
Valincy-Jean Patelli
Valincy-Jean Patelli is a self-taught Black Non-binary artist working and living in Brooklyn, New York. Patelli experiments with three-dimensional textures to create mixed-media works and sculptures. This nonlinear process allows them to blend stories from their ancestors with theoretical and cultural references from the African diaspora. Valincy's work explores the marginalization of Queer and Black American culture through environmental and historical allusion. They create multi-layered textures by transforming common materials into Artifacts and Heirlooms. Patelli places particular importance on their choices of materials, such as gold, plaster, wood, burlap, canvas, and other non-traditional mixed media; they intend to invoke radical and provocative stories that challenge this intersectional narrative of Queer Blackness.