Through public art collaborations across Minnesota, Moira Villiard is a multidisciplinary artist who uses art to uplift underrepresented narratives, explore the nuance of society’s historical community intersections, and promote community healing spaces.

Yoni Light is a captivating and multifaceted performing artist known for seamlessly weaving together the realms of dance, film, and music to craft immersive storytelling experiences.

Sarah Abdel-Jelil is a Mauritanian-American filmmaker, dancer, and choreographer. As a dancer/movement artist, her artwork centers the body as a primary way of knowing and experiencing the world. Inspired by her nomadic upbringing, growing up in eight different countries in a multicultural, interfaith household, Sarah explores the relational nature of home, movement, and liminal spaces. https://www.sarahabdeljelil.com

Conie Borchardt is a Mixed Asian Public Heart Artist and Cultural Catalyst, a listener and vibration holding space for truth, pain, and delight while inviting expression in sound, movement, and color within themselves and in others.

Sam Aros-Mitchell is an enrolled member with the Texas Band of Yaqui Indians. As an art-maker, dancer, and scholar, his work spans the disciplines of performance, sound/light/scenic design, choreography, and embodied writing.

Founded in 2001 by co-directors Debby Kajiyama & José Ome Navarrete Mazat. NAKA Dance Theater creates experimental performance works using dance, storytelling, multimedia installations and site-specific environments. NAKA builds partnerships with communities, engages people's histories and folklore and expresses experiences through accessible performances that challenge the viewer to think critically about social justice issues.

Lela Pierce (she/they) is a Black multiracial artist, born and raised in rural MniSota Makoce - the ancestral and current homeland of the Dakota and Anishinaabe people. Lela has danced extensively with Ananya Dance Theatre as a founding member (2004-2016) as well as Rosy Simas Danse and Pramila Vasudevan of Anichha Arts (both 2015-present).

Arneshia Williams is a weaver and mover who co-builds to create cultures of belonging from community to community. She views her artwork as snapshots into the social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of life. She is interested in dance, vocality, sound, and media, and is particularly invested in Black American and African Diasporic forms of expression.

Valerie Oliveiro is a dance and performance maker based in the Twin Cities and from Singapore. While they currently engage movement as their primary motor for expression, they also engage in other expressions, such as design, writing, drawing, and photography, as generative, complexly relational proposals.

Taja Will (they/them) is a queer, chronically ill, Latinx (Chilean) adoptee, performer, choreographer, somatic therapist, and Healing Justice practitioner based in Mni Sota Makoce, on the ancestral lands of the Dakota and Anishinaabe.

Leila Awadallah ليلى عوض الله (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker based in Minneapolis and partly in Beirut, Lebanon. Dancing with a body of Palestinian, Arab-American, Sicilian, and diasporic Mediterranean ways and waves.