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Cedric Tai (any and all pronouns) is an un-disciplinary artist, educator, friend, neuroqueer, ADHD/Autistic, Filipino/HongKong Chinese - American who thinks through sculpture, talking, writing, performance and experimental exhibitions.

He was born in Detroit, and is currently in Los Angeles (Tongva/Chumash/Kizh land.) She has a K-12 art education certification from Michigan State University, and has taught across several colleges and art museums.

Their art centers on neurodivergent experience, labor, and politics. She has collaborated with neuroscientists, critical psychiatry academics, artist collectives, disability justice social media influencers, and somatic therapists to co-create accessible “mental health” resources, focusing on queer, anti-capitalist solidarity.

I am a charged elemental collaboration experimenting, listening, trying… to be in support of overflowing ecologies. Always inspired by the relationships between and with my canine companions, Biki (16 year old tan chihuahua), Tiny (7 year old black and white border collie), and Mabyn (3 year old black tri chihuahua), everything is from the approach of play and building value. We love the choreography, communication, teamwork, independence, commitment, and composition of dog agility, but life is a game seeking to grow sustained joy and drive. Not only are they my best friends, but in the times (maybe days, sometimes months or more) of personal lows they are a primary sense of connection when I feel most isolated. This is the foundation for looking at things from a companion-lens and seeking to foster that sustained commitment to the practice in ever-more ways.

Yemisi Oyeniyi is an interdisciplinary social scientist, public art surveyor and storyteller with a BA in economics and an MSc in international history. For nearly two decades, she served as an arts advocate within her local school district. Since 2016, she has worked as a public art surveyor, a creative practice she began as part of an ongoing independent research project focused on community engagement and collaboration. Her methodology is a non-linear, immersive approach that delves into the intricate relationships between artists and their communities within the realm of art spaces. Beyond art surveying, Yemisi’s artistic practice expresses itself through the culinary arts, painting, ceramics, photography and writing, drawing on her Nigerian, Afro-Caribbean and African-American heritage. Her writing has been published in artists’ catalogues and independent LA art publications, while her artwork has been featured in group shows. She resides in southern California with her family.

Tatiana Vahan is an artist working at the intersection of art, research, and community organizing. Vahan’s work explores how economic and cultural value are created, and the resulting systems of power and inequity these processes produce. As an artist, Vahan creates collaborative frameworks that invite fellow artists to reimagine these systems through both pragmatic and poetic means. She is the founder of socially engaged projects such as Bar-Fund and the Los Angeles Artist Census. She holds an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts, and a BFA in Visual Art from New World School of the Arts. In tandem with her art practice, Vahan has been exploring the materiality (and immateriality) of the body through her work as a massage and bodyworker, since 2002.

Neil Doshi is a designer living and working in Jefferson Park, California. In exploring the idea of an “expanded practice,” his work asks not only how graphic design can inhabit conventional forms and formats, but also how it can point beyond — to the built environment, alternative modes of production & distribution, and reciprocal interactions.