Noora Badeen works with sculptural and painted mediums to express and raise awareness about women and children’s struggles in war-torn countries. Badeen was Assyrian born in Baghdad, Iraq, and moved to the United States in 2012. Badeen has shown work throughout Chicago and attends The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Brianna Maureen Beck is an Art Therapist with a "social arts practice." Beck is particularly passionate about working within the disability community and is committed to utilizing the arts to show the varied, beautiful, and complex story of disability, as well as creating an avenue for other disabled folks to do the same. In addition to her art therapy work, Beck was a finalist in the Kennedy Center's 2018 VSA Emerging Young Artists Exhibition: Electrify.

Z Fondanarosa is a multimedia artist currently living in Chicago and attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Fondanarosa primarily works with film, glass, Illustration, and painting and has a keen interest in dance and creative writing. In their work Fondanarosa, focuses on the Hellenic religion and its intersections with Christianity. Fondanarosa considers how spirituality interacts with mental illness and disability. Their inspiration comes from queer trauma, both the collective and personal kind. Fondanarosa has exhibited their work and given talks in both Chicago and New York.

Ana García is a Mexican visual artist. In her art practice, García challenges socially constructed notions of disability and reexamines their narratives through drawings, video, and writing. García has shown her work in both Mexico City and Chicago and earned a B.A. from the School of Arts and Design of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). García is currently an M.A. candidate in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Molly Joyce is a performer, composer, and videographer. Joyce's videos are influenced by her iconic vintage toy organ and focus on its engagement with her disabled left hand. Her performances have received rave reviews including in the New York Times, The Wire, and The Washington Post. In addition to the work Joyce makes on her own body, she also collaborates with performers who have similar disabilities but varying different identities and experiences.

Her musical works have been performed by ensembles. Those include the New World, New York Youth, Pittsburgh, Albany, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, and the New Juilliard, Decoda, and Contemporaneous ensembles, as well as presented at TEDxMidAtlantic, Bang on a Can Marathon, Classical: NEXT, VisionIntoArt's FERUS Festival. Her work has also been in outlets such as Pitchfork, Red Bull Radio, WNYC's New Sounds, Q2 Music, I Care If You Listen, and The Log Journal. She studied at The Juilliard School, Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and Yale School of Music.

Carly Newman uses varied art-making materials, including found objects, natural dyes, photo transfer, and paint, to begin to describe memory. Newman uses surfaces like tablecloths curtains and blankets relating to anecdotal narratives full of nostalgic childhood humor and experiences that start to make up Newman's own identity.

Marrok Sedgwick is a disabled trans activist, educator, creative producer, and documentarian. Most recently, Sedgwick produced and directed the documentary film: People Like Me, which has screened internationally. Sedgwick also recently directed Stim, which won the PK Walker Innovation Award at the 2018 Superfest International Disability Film Festival in California’s Bay Area. As an educator, Sedgwick has worked in general education and special education classrooms, as well as with a drama program for youth with disabilities. He is currently getting his Ph.D. in Learning Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago to continue researching better ways to teach disabled youth.

Christine Turner focuses on the subject of the landscape, as seen through a blurred perspective, one that questions the staticness of vision. In attempting to depict the landscape, Turner considers perceived blindspots that influence the gaze. Turner pulls from her experience of having been legally blind in one eye temporarily as a child. To create compressed and disordered spaces, Turner’s paintings are rendered with translucent pours, repetitive line work, and glops of paint, that accumulate into visual puzzles representative of a psychological or emotional place. Turner received her BFA from Biola University and is an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ariana Rubin is a photographer whose work centers around identity, the body, the self, and the female gaze. In her work, Rubin also considers living with an eating disorder and contemplates the notion of the “ideal” female body. In addition to showing work in Chicago, Rubin has been featured on Vogue Italia’s online photography platform PhotoVogue. Rubin is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.