painter, illustrator, collage Nashville TN @alielchaer Ali El-Chaer (they/he) is a trans diasporic Palestinian illustrator and painter, currently living in Nashville, TN. They received their bachelors in fine arts at Austin Peay State University (2018) and has since gone on to show their work in Jordan, South Africa, and New York. He has worked as assistant at Turnip Green Creative Reuse, the Frist Art Museum,Tennessee State Archives and then founded a community collective called Nour Nashville.

photographer, painter, digital artist San Fransisco CA @gfnx__ gfn X is an Arab American Interdisciplinary Environmental Artist currently living and working in San Francisco. She's commonly known for having radical opinions and challenging authority, which launched her into developing her own unique style. From growing up in the Bay Area as a first-generation American, through navigating the betrayals of society - gfn X has branded herself with themes of individual freedom in abstraction.

painting, sculpture, cut-paper works Brooklyn NY @mhambouz Michael Hambouz (b. Niles, Michigan, 1977) is a multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist musician, and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Hambouz creates chromaesthesia-influenced works – experiments in dimension and color made under the guidance of music – to process bouts of loss and reflections on life in the rural Midwest, New York City, and in the cybersphere as a first-generation Palestinian-American.

painting Umm El-Fahem Israel @shammhameedd Sham Mhameed a visual artist from Palestine . She completed her bachelor’s degree in visual arts with honors from the University of Haifa in 2023. She also obtained her Teaching Certificate in Fine Arts from Beit Berl College 2024. She participated in exhibitions both nationally and internationally (Haifa , Jaffa , Ramallah , Nashville , Umm El-Fahem ) Through her artistic works, she searches for links between memories, feelings, fantasy , and politics.

writer, poet, occasional visual artist Columbus OH @offthebeatenshelf Mandy Shunnarah (they/them) is an Alabama-born Appalachian and Palestinian-American writer who calls Columbus, Ohio, home. Their essays, poetry, and short stories have been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and others. They are the winner of the Porter House Review 2024 Editor’s Prize in Poetry & are supported by the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Sundress Academy.

painter, tattoo artist St. Louis MO @omar_mahmud_art Growing up in a Colombian and Palestinian household as a first generation American. Born in Chicago and raised in Saint Louis. Omar began his tattooing career in St. Louis over 20 years ago. Now he has his own private studio and looking forward to expressing his story through his art.