art

Deandra Lee is an 18-year-old surreal self-portrait photographer. Growing up Deandra would take pictures of anything and everything she saw, which in the years to come would become her dream job. Deandra’s work is always about wonder: wondering about the world, the people and the places that surround us to make us think and our thoughts and feelings on certain situations. Over six years, Deandra has grown into an artist who wants to inspire others and work with organizations like UNCIEF in helping kids and young adults express their creativity and expand their imagination to greater lengths than ever before.

Federico Federici is a conceptual artist working in the fields of poetry, vispo, asemic writing, painting, video art, installations, mathematics and physics based in Berlin. His works have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Jahrbuch Der Lyrik, Poet Lore, Sand, Trafika Europe, Magma, and others. His books include L'opera racchiusa (2009, Lorenzo Montano Prize), Appunti dal passo del lupo (2013) in the book series curated by Eugenio De Signoribus, Mrogn (2017, Elio Pagliarani Prize), Requiem auf einer Stele (2017), Liner notes for a Pithecanthropus Erectus sketchbook (2018), with a foreword by SJ Fowler, and the Poetry/Concrete catalogue A private notebook of winds (2019).

Heidi Nielson is a mixed media artist creating a body of work that is a meditation on the things we carry from generation to generation. She resides in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two cats and, in addition to creating mixed media fine artwork, is a full-time lawyer and owner of a small illustration business. Her fine artwork has been published in Superstition Review and The Purposeful Mayo and exhibited in galleries throughout the United States. She was recently juried onto the “long list” for the 2021 Women United Art Prize. Recent exhibitions include We Are Home at Homme Gallery and Looking for America at Hera Hub in Washington, D.C. 

Jack Bordnick is a native of New York and presently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He had his own professional marketing design firm, and he was a jewelry designer in Santa Fe. Presently, he is pursuing his passion for sculpture work. His art is on display in numerous Santa Fe galleries. His sculptures incorporate surrealistic, mythological and magical imagery — often with whimsical overtones — aimed at provoking our experiences and self reflections. Aiming to unbalance our rational minds, the predominant imagery deals mostly with facial expressions of both living and "non-living" beings, and things that speak to us in their own languages.

Julia Forrest is a Brooklyn based artist. She works strictly in film and prints in a darkroom she built within her apartment. Her own art has always been her top priority in life, and—in this digital world—she will continue to work with old processing. Anything can simply be done in photoshop, but she prefers to take the camera, a tool of showing reality, and experiment with what she can do in front of the lens.

Ligaia Meyer's artistic practice centers around found object sculpture. She received two Gold Keys from the 2019 Scholastic Art Awards, and was featured in The University of New Mexico’s 2018 Young Artist Exhibition. Her work is included in the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation Collection. Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, she is pursuing her BFA at Boston University.