Audrya Flores is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and mother from Brownsville, Texas. She utilizes installation, sculpture, drawing, painting, collage, video, and writing to document her journey as a healing trauma survivor. Flores received her Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has exhibited at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Mexic-Arte Museum, Lady Base Gallery, Provenance Gallery, Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival, Centro de Artes, Central Library Gallery at San Antonio Public Library, Contemporary at Blue Star, Sala Diaz, Confluence Park, and McNay Art Museum. Flores lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.

Crystal Rocha is a self taught multidisciplinary artist based in San Antonio, Texas. Currently practicing at Mercury Project, their work scales a range of mediums- Including oil painting, interactive installations, and experimentation with curatorial projects.

Their dialogue follows an introspective theme with influences of intimism. Their work is a documentation of the things they feel and experience as they navigate life through early adulthood. Rocha’s work has been displayed at FL!GHT, Clamplight and with the City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture. @crustalmath 

Lu Farrell (they/them) is a queer Tejanx artist, community arts organizer, and digital strategist living in San Antonio, Texas. Their visual art work, primarily using oil paint, is characterized by bold color and imagery, and explores themes of Tejanx identity, gender, and belonging.

In their professional life, Lu works as a digital strategist, supporting mission-driven organizations in sustainability strategy and creative design. They currently serve as a Creative Director with Malflora Collective, a digital publication dedicated to archiving and uplifting Latinx lesbian histories and culture. As a Curator with Future Front Texas, Lu collaborated with other local artists to host public arts programming centering queer creative expression including figure drawing classes and creative knowledge sharing events. 

Lu is currently getting their master's degree in Sustainable Design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In their free time, Lu enjoys floating the river, cooking with friends, and exploring the hill country with their dog, Otis.  @nonbinarypaints

San Antonio native Barbara Felix, is an interdisciplinary artist of African American and Mexican American descent. She received a BFA in Graphic Communication from Texas State University in 1991, where her coursework fired her love of the human figure and inspired her long pursuit of a career in the arts. Self taught in video work, Felix has produced experimental stop motion animation and performance videos both as solo and collaborative projects.  Her video works have have been featured at Luminaria San Antonio Arts Festival; Jumpstart Theater; The University of Texas, and Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Boston Biennial,  Dartmouth University in Massachusetts, Documented Humans Film Festival in New Orleans, Contemporary at Blue Star's Projection/Projektion, Darmstädter Sezession in San Antonio and Germany, and at the Museo de Arte Queretaro in Queretaro, Mexico.  @proximityofbeing

David Alcantar is a visual artist whose work investigates negotiation, choice, and agency as fundamental forces shaping individual and collective narratives. Working primarily in drawing and painting, his practice examines how images affect meaning around power, authority, and responsibility, and how visual language can either reinforce or challenge dominant cultural frameworks. Alcantar’s artworks place negotiation behavior into pictorial form, emphasizing moments where decision-making becomes visible and consequential.

His work frequently engages figurative traditions and symbolic imagery to create spaces for dialogue, encouraging viewers to recognize their own role as active participants in meaning-making. By foregrounding power imbalances that emerge from a lack of negotiation awareness, his practice seeks to heighten viewers’ sense of agency and critical responsibility.

Alcantar has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions and maintains an active studio practice. He received his MFA from the University of Colorado. When he teaches, his approach emphasizes material fluency, critical inquiry, and the development of intentional artistic decision-making.  Alcantar is committed to fostering sustained engagement with images as powerful cultural and civic instruments. @davidalcantar

Michelle Hernandez is a ceramic artist and teacher who strives to make creative expression, art and clay accessible for her community and herself. She has over 16 years experience working with the medium and learning from devoted ceramic professionals. Michelle teaches handbuilding and wheel classes in order to share all the clay lessons she has inherited and intuited along this journey. 

Michelle’s functional and conceptual ceramic artwork is a visual, 3-D response to her deeply-felt human experience. Her inspirations come to her in dreams, awake or sleeping, and stem from many roots: her Chicana culture, her Catholic up-bringing, her ancestral wounds and power, our interconnectedness, the wisdom of Mama Nature, her PTSD struggles and her journey of recognizing and settling into her Self (namely and for now). Michelle is a born and raised San Antonian and gets muddy in her studio in Southtown San Antonio.