Ashley Miya is a Seattle-based multidisciplinary artist and photographer specializing in storytelling through visual arts. Her work explores themes of inclusion, identity, and connection. She is passionate about using art to inspire dialogue and foster deeper understanding across diverse communities.

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Clarissa Cervantes is a travel researcher and photographer. Clarissa also supplies freelance articles on a variety of topics for newspapers, blogs, websites, and magazines such as USA Today. Clarissa’s photo gallery includes images from all over the world, where she finds inspiration to share her photographs through her creative lens, inviting viewers to question the present, look closer, explore emotions, and follow the sunlight toward a brighter future.

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Dora Román, a Spanish artist, graduated in Geography and History and Fine Arts and has a diploma in contemporary photography. She carries out her work through photography, video, textiles or works on paper, exploring themes such as climate change, migration, memory, and identity.

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Guadalupe Zambrano was born in La Plata, Argentina and is currently studying illustration in Brussels. Her artistic practice encompasses drawing, painting, photography, writing, and music. Nostalgia, childhood, roots, secrets, and atmospheres are recurring themes in her works, art being the key to exploring the complex labyrinth of the spirit.

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Heb Peters’s passion for social justice is embraced in her figurative oil paintings with their rich colour palette inviting the viewer’s eye. Her playful subject matter then challenges the viewer to contemplate her art with an intrigued, optimistic oeuvre. Heb’s works reside in private collections in the USA, UK, and Australia.

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James Frew is an expanded field artist interested in painting and digital technology. He completed his education at The Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2022 with a PhD that focused on painting after new media art. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including The John Mather Foundation’s ‘Rising Star’ Scholarship and The Glasgow School of Art’s Chairman’s Medal.

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Joseph A. Miller is an Associate Professor of Art at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo State University, where he has taught drawing and painting since 1997. Miller’s work is in numerous public and private collections, and has been shown internationally in Finland, China, Poland, and the Czech Republic, as well as across the United States, from Berkeley, California to Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work is represented by Art Dialogue Gallery in Buffalo, NY.

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Kate Ferrell creates intuitive abstract and abstracted representational paintings, including landscapes & botanicals. Believing that art is an act of mindfulness, Kate approaches each piece with a sense of presence, allowing spontaneity to guide her brushstrokes. Her work conveys freedom, groundedness in the present moment, and the sense of being fully alive.

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Kenny DarkPoet Lapins’ paintings are inspired by the Fauvist movement of the early 1900s, showcasing a vivid, expressionistic, and non‑naturalistic use of color. Through the juxtaposition of expressing modern scenes in a venerable style, Kenny presents his view of the world: the environments in which we live and work are full of art — angles, patterns, and palettes can be found all around us if we choose to see them. His hope is that we are left infused with what William Wordsworth called, “that blessed mood, in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world, is lightened.”

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Ron Theel is a freelance writer, photographer, and mixed media artist residing in Syracuse, NY.  His writing and photographs have appeared in “The RavensPerch,” “The Bluebird Word,” “The Midway Journal,” “Open: Journal of Arts & Letters,” and elsewhere.

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Susan L. Pollet is a visual artist whose works have appeared in multiple art shows and literary publications. She studied at the New York Art Students League, has been a member since 2018, and resides in NYC. She is also a published author in multiple genres, including three children’s books, which she both wrote and illustrated. 

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Tony Brinkley’s poetry, art, and translations have appeared in Mississippi Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cerise Press, Drunken Boat, Four Centuries, Hinchas de Poésie, Hungarian Review, Mayday, New Review of Literature, Puckerbrush Press, Poetry Salzburg Review, Otoliths, Shofar, Metamorphosis, Bombay Literary Magazine, Poetry in Translation, World Literature Today, Open, Collateral, Brussels Review, Trafika Europe, ANA, Nashville Review, Exchanges, and The Courtship of Winds. Before retirement, Brinkley taught literature at the University of Maine. He is co-editor (with Keith Hanley) of ROMANTIC REVISIONS (Cambridge University Press).

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Xavier Martinez is a writer and filmmaker based in Montreal. His writing has been published in Theme Park Magazine, Dragon Gems (Summer 2024), Offscreen, and TheGamer. His photography has been published in Spadina Literary Review, The Sunlight Press, and Scrivener Creative Review.

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Yulia Lavrova is a Berlin-based artist exploring traditionally feminine qualities and hidden layers of our emotions. Her work is guided by a deep connection to her matriarchal roots, Lavrova’s grandmother worked as a painter in a ceramic factory. More sculptures can be seen at yulialavrova.com and on Instagram at @yulialavrovaart