Andrea Yarbrough is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and educator based in Chicago. She leads the collaborative placekeeping initiative, in c/o: Black women, pushing forward a Black womanist praxis of erecting sites of care by elevating the importance of witnessing and cooperative building as forms of care work. Her practice transforms everyday materials into art objects, exhuming the invisibility of understudied histories. Andrea is a proud native of the south side of Chicago and earned a MA in Museum and Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Alexx Temeña is a ceremonial artist, experiential designer, and somatic minister. Based in Chicago, she draws on the mediums of visual poetry, sculpture, installation, and social practice to craft living worlds that call us into healing our disconnection from ourselves, each other, our ancestors, the Earth, and the Divine. Her recent works are rooted in explorations of Rest as a spiritual practice, somatics, ecological grief, and Filipino indigenous wisdom traditions. In 2022, she and Andrea Yarbrough received a grant from E(art)H Chicago to install the House of Kapwa public sculpture on the Southside.

Andrés Lemus-Spont is a designer, educator, fabricator, and proud child of Mexican immigrants. He teaches art and architecture in various in-school and after-school programs for youth from kindergarten through college. He believes strongly in the value of mentoring and has done so formally through Big Brothers Big Sisters and informally through apprenticeships for college and early-career artists and designers. He is the founder of Building Brown Workshop, a design and fabrication studio serving artists, architects, and communities. Alongside Marya Spont-Lemus, Andrés is co-founder of their shared community arts practice, ¡Anímate! Studio, which is a vehicle for playful, intergenerational creative workshops centered around joy and criticality in public space. From 2015-2019 that work took the form of the FrankenToyMobile. Andrés is also a founding member of the Mobilize Creative Collaborative.

Roland Knowlden is a Liberian American interdisciplinary artist and architectural designer from New Jersey, currently based in Chicago, IL. Knowlden’s architectural background has cultivated his ongoing interest in constructed landscapes and the cultural and social implications of rendering space, either as landscape or map. Working across painting and collage, Knowlden’s abstract cityscape paintings and maps articulate the tensions wrought by erasure, displacement, and palimpsest within new imagined geographies.

Interrogating notions of origin, belonging, boundaries, and power, Knowlden’s critical cartography aims not only to reproduce existing environmental experiences and affects, but to propose new spatial realities. With each new configuration and composition, Knowlden furthers his practice of imagining otherwise.