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Sonja Schenk

Sonja Schenk is a multi-disciplinary artist from Los Angeles. She began with video installations and has since turned to other types of installation, painting, and sculpture. Her work explores the intersection of humankind and the natural world through traditional, technological, and transformative processes. She exhibits both locally and internationally and has created several large, site-specific installations. She has been artist-in-residence at Cerritos College in California, the Thomas McKeon Center for Creativity in Tulsa, and the U.S. National Park system. Influenced by early mentors Allan Kaprow, DeeDee Halleck, and Manny Farber, her work relies on a strong grounding in conceptual thought that is then translated to various media.

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Laurie Sumiye

Laurie Sumiye is a visual artist, storyteller and environmentalist known for her work Hawaiian endangered species. She has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Hawai‘i, UK, South Africa and Brazil, and screened films at DOCNYC, BAMcinemaFest and PS1MoMA. She was an Artist-in-Residence at A Studio in the Woods (NOLA), Blue Mountain Center (NY), Digital Artist Studios (N.Ireland), Sacatar Institute (Brazil), Artfunkl (UK). Laurie has an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from CUNY Hunter College, BA in Art & BS in Communications from Bradley University, and studied art at Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence and Pratt Institute. She lives and works in California and Hawaii.

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Anna Katrina McBride

Anna Katrina McBride is a Visual Artist, Public Art Muralist and Installation Artist. Her primary medium is painting with acrylics and house paint on canvas, panels, or wood cut outs that feature vivid colors to explore universal themes of nature. She is a founding member of the Chroma Pop Long Beach Female Art Collective, and a cofounder of McBride Arts, a mural team. Anna explores the role of artist as an architect of visceral and esoteric experiences and the physicality of space.