Sarah Bowen is a visual artist and arts educator in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her polymer clay business, Tiny Things by Bowen has brought functional clay art into peoples' homes since 2013, and paired with teaching in a variety of formats, embodies her belief that everyone is creative and miniatures are a great place to play. In addition to bringing art making opportunities to her community, she works with the public school systems and Gilcrease Museum to bring 2D and 3D art into classrooms around Tulsa, teaching hundreds of students each year.

Born in Colorado and raised in Iowa, Rai has called Oklahoma home since 2003, when they moved to Norman after growing up in a Hindu cult town. As a queer single mother and self-taught artist, Rai built a life rooted in radical creativity, community, and resilience. they craft handmade chainmail, resin pieces, textile art and fashion under Sun Textile & Wares, perform with Dust Bowl Dolls Burlesque, and produce shows for Babes of OK Burlesque. Their work is unapologetically queer and deeply personal, shaped by survival, joy, and the vibrant community they've found in the heart of the Bible Belt.

Grant is a queer, multiracial Mexican and Guamanian queer artist, writer, and elected official based in Norman, Oklahoma. Their work blends political commentary with surrealism and magical realism, often engaging in themes of identity, resistance, and mutual aid. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma’s College of Journalism, Grant covered arts and politics for OKC.NET before turning to community-based art and political activism. They’ve served on the Norman City Council since 2022. They were a board member at Resonator Art Institute. Their past jobs include working for Bigfoot Creative and Oscillator Press.

Kristin Gentry (KreativeNative) is a Two Spirit Choctaw artist, curator, and educator based in Oklahoma City. Her multidisciplinary work—including printmaking, painting, photography, clothing, and jewelry—honors Southeastern tribal culture and explores themes of identity, nature, and resilience. Gentry holds a B.F.A. in Fine Arts from Oklahoma State University and an M.S. in Native American Leadership from Southeastern Oklahoma State University. She has exhibited nationally, earning honors at Santa Fe Indian Market, Cherokee Art Market, and various art markets with the Chickasaw Nation. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and serves as the Cultural Director of Indigenous Arts for Culture Hub Collective.

Khadijat A. Oluwatoyin is a wellness advocate, community mediator and filmmaker. A transplant from Staten Island, New York, she has called Tulsa home for nearly three years.From writing poems in her childhood bedroom to litigating in the courtroom, Oluwatoyin's passion for storytelling has always been an integral part of her life. Through her recovery from substance misuse, Oluwatoyin rediscovered her childhood dream of filmmaking. With a sense of humor, she writes and produces films that reconcile what is seen on screen with lived experience, antecedent wisdom, and ethereal potential.

Amy has a way of seeing and interpreting the environment through a lens tinted with hues of her architectural design background. Her current work explores the relationships between the hand and technology through alternative photographic processes. The final arrangements emerge from a photographic birth with a resting place in the visual arts. Amy currently is continuing works in her ongoing MANUS Series, visually deciphering architectural elements in our environment and creating photographic sculptures from these visual cues. She also continues her biography-style portraiture works along with the beginnings of a new environmental still-life series, created in the studio.

Carly Treece is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and citizen of the Mvskoke Nation with Cherokee ancestry. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, her work explores themes of land, body sovereignty, and emotional connection to place through abstract oil and cold wax painting. Carly is the founder of Tvlse Studios and President and founder of the Four Mothers Collective, both dedicated to uplifting Indigenous voices through community-based art initiatives. Her curatorial and artistic practice centers Indigenous women, Two-Spirit, BIPOC artists with a focus on storytelling and creating inclusive, supportive spaces for creative expression and cultural exchange.

May Yang is an abstract artist whose work explores color, composition, and the complexities of communication. Rooted in a formal yet intuitive practice, her art serves as a self-soothing process while investigating the nuances of language and expression. Her work is influenced by her experience growing up between cultures as the child of immigrants and reflects the tensions and gaps in understanding that shaped her relationship with family and identity.