Cameron Barker (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work centers on the visibility of queer intimacy. Born in Longmont, Colorado, Barker received a BA in Art Education from the University of Northern Colorado and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. As a queer Jew, Barker has been interested in destabilizing cultural systems that force communities to engage in closeting to avoid persecution. His work has been shown internationally, implementing Western traditional rendering techniques and materials—such as the Bargue Drawing Method, intaglio printmaking, and metalpoint—to represent queer bodies historically absent from these practices. Barker has been recognized as a Post-Graduate Fellow in Curation at Tufts University, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow, and a resident at Room 68 (Provincetown, MA), Maisonette Queer Artist Residency (San Francisco, CA), and Stone Hill Press (Woburn, MA). He has taught at Yale University and Northeastern University and is editor of the Boston Printmakers Quarterly, with editions represented by Caira Art Editions.

Anthony Viti is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist. His experience as an activist informs his work as both an artist and educator. Viti is a Pollock-Krasner grant recipient and was a Provincetown Work Center resident in 2000 and 2003. His work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; and the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Glen Ellyn, IL.

Creighton Baxter is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist focusing on performance and drawing. She earned her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and her MFA from Yale University. Baxter’s performances of swallowing images in front of an audience have been presented at MOCA Los Angeles, the Poetry Project, and MoMA. She has participated in exhibitions at Andrew Kreps Gallery, David Castillo, and Blade Study, among others. Solo exhibitions include RIDDLE at Ceradon Gallery and hiss the name at Montserrat College of Art. Her work is held in numerous private collections and the Modern & Contemporary collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Recently, she was an SMFA Traveling Fellow, conducting research on the mechanisms of display for relics of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, and an artist-in-residence at BOFFO Fire Island.

Anthony Peyton Young is a West Virginia-based interdisciplinary artist. Peyton Young earned his B.A. from West Virginia State University and his M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at West Virginia State University and a 2024 Fire Island Artist Residency participant. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Juliette Art Museum.

Robert Martin is a painter based in Wisconsin. Martin earned their BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Stout and their MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder. Martin was awarded the New American Paintings Emerging Artist Grant in late 2021 and was a featured artist in the Denver Art Museum’s 2022 Untitled programming series. Their work is held in the permanent collections of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, the Bill Arning Gay Collection, the Green Family Art Foundation, and in private collections worldwide.

Earthen Clay is a Brooklyn-based artist working in sculpture and installation. Clay earned his BFA from Watkins College of Art and his MFA from Yale University. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2018 and was a resident of the Yale x Pasanella Program in Camaiore, Italy, and the Chinkapin Art Residency in Woodbury, TN, as well as a visiting artist presenting his solo exhibition As The Apple Disappears Into Water And Sweetness In Our Bodies at Montserrat College of Art in 2025.

Mia Fabrizio is a Pennsylvania-based interdisciplinary artist and educator, notably working in sculpture and installation.  She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, her M.Ed. from Arcadia University and her MFA at Tufts University.  She has been recognized as a Post-Graduate Fellow in Sculpture at Tufts University and a resident at The Philadelphia Residency, PTP- InLiquid (Philadelphia, PA), and  The Studios at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA).  She is currently a professor at West Chester University (PA).

Abbey Gilbert is a New York City-based photographer who received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts. Highlighting her magnetism toward nourishment and care, her work is driven by desire and longing, with particular emphasis on relationships with past and present lovers. Gilbert was a Carrie Able Gallery artist-in-residence in 2022, and her work is held in multiple private collections. She has exhibited throughout New York City, including at Hal Brom Gallery, NAILS Salon Gallery, and Gallery 198.

Chris Minard is a painter based in New York City. Minard was featured in New American Paintings (2024) and curated the booth Not Yet Here, presented at the SPRING/BREAK Art Fair (2025), Art Gaysel (2025), and The Mattachine Art on Paper Fair (2024). Minard is also an art director and set designer for film and television (Billions, The Americans, among others), as well as an adjunct professor at New York University, where he teaches graduate production design at the Tisch School of the Arts.

Brett Park is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. He received his BA from the University of Southern California. Park has had multiple solo and group exhibitions in the years since graduating. This body of work explores the dialectics of queerness through (w)holes. Using a vernacular of breeze blocks, cutouts, and silhouettes, Park questions the material and psychic architectures that subsume bodies and envisions spaces of liberation within oppressive structures.

Marla McLeod is an interdisciplinary artist who shares her time between Connecticut and Massachusetts. She earned her BS in Studio Painting from Southern Connecticut State University and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. McLeod has had multiple solo exhibitions, notably at the Essex Art Center in Lowell, MA, and Brandeis University. She was also a featured artist in the New England Triennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and Fruitlands Museum. She is currently a studio resident at the Boston Center for the Arts and an adjunct professor at Southern Connecticut State University.

Ryan Leitner is a New Orleans-based artist focusing on painting and installation. Leitner received his BFA from Regent’s American College London and his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2023 and was a resident artist at the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2024. He was awarded a Research & Development Fund grant from Antenna Works (2022) and a Research & Archives Grant from the LGBT+ Archives Project. Ryan is currently the chairman of the Up Stairs Lounge Plaque Restoration Committee in New Orleans.

Khari Johnson-Ricks is a New Jersey-based interdisciplinary artist. He received his BFA from Montclair State University and his MFA from Hunter College. Johnson-Ricks attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2025 and is a 2025 Artist2Artist Art Matters Fellow. His work is held in the library collections of The Met, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art.