IG: @graficanarno || @pescadj

Andrea Narno is a Mexican queer printmaker living in New Orleans, Louisiana. They believe in art as a tool of transformation, contributing to social change during these uncertain times. Andrea’s work centers around the symbolism of plants as a way to express thoughts, feelings and ideas, as well as a means to explore topics like migration, absence and grief. Linoleum is their primary and favorite medium. In collaboration with artist Vee Adams, they run Birds of Paradise Press, a project which explores distance, longing, and the connections we have to place through our relationships with plants. They are also DJ Pescadilla, mixing cumbia, salsa and reggaeton on from the kitchen to the dancefloor.

IG: _@ohwolfie_ || www.elpintorperdomo.com

Angel Perdomo was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1989 but later moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1996. He received his Bachelor of Arts in painting and print making from the University of New Orleans in May 2013. Angel has been in several juried exhibitions in New Orleans and also shown nationally in Philadelphia , New York , and Atlanta. He is also a member of the Antenna Collective which is in the St. Claude Art District in New Orleans. Angel currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.

IG: @buloyasanchez

Arlyn Jimenez was born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic on December 10, 1977. Arlyn began working with recycled materials and creating art at a young age in the workshops of friends and neighbors. His first individual, ‘Con to’ ol hierro, (Al of Metal) was in 2001 at the Casa de Cultura (Cultural Center) in Puerto Plata. He attended the Casa de Chavon School Summer Institute in Santo Domingo, D.R. in 2003. He has attended various programs in welding and sculpture. He was a member of a performance art collective called ‘Chocolatero’ that takes its inspiration from an abandoned chocolate factory in Puerto Plata D.R. Arlyn’s work has been exhibited in various Dominican cities as well as in Miami and New York.

IG: @basqo_

Basqo Bim is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary artist based in New Orleans with a focus on assemblage and sculpture. Their practice centers around the intentional antagonization of the tensions between their intertwining and conflicting needs, desires, paranoias, and nostalgias. Their intent is to explore their physical, mental, and psychological limitations in terms of the process of creation and manifestation of their work, and finding new ways to push past the existing boundaries into newer, unknown territories. Simultaneously, their practice revolves around fostering a meditative and healing form of art practice for themselves. Both of these opposing approaches work together to forge a space of internal dialectics in their practice and process, driven by a need to push every facet of their work to adverse extremes in each piece. Their desire is to offer new worlds to the viewer by reflecting their own tensions onto the viewer by utilizing a jarring shift from consensus reality, while also offering visual and psychological anchors rooted in familiar temporal and cultural reference points.

IG: @ma.mapache || www.marcuschapawilson.com

Marcus Chapa is a Mexican-American multi-disciplinary artist from San Antonio, Texas. His mediums include film and photography, illustration, and textiles/drapery. They acquired a BFA in Film from Loyola University of New Orleans in 2018 and continued to work in the film industry where they further developed their skills in textiles and filmmaking. Apart from commercial film work, Chapa has contributed to projects featured in Vogue and the Cannes Film Festival. He is also credited as the cinematographer, audio-engineer, and research assistant for The Visiting Room Project, a project on the injustices of life-without-parole sentencing in Louisiana articulated by men currently serving life in Angola, which received its premiere at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Chapa is a self-taught illustrator and explores his interest in the convergence of the natural with the fantastical in his illustrations. He continues to work out of New Orleans, LA and Atlanta, GA.

IG: @mayapen || @studiolalalanola

Maya is a community-taught interdisciplinary artist. Her work gives voice to personal and collective histories through the creation of new, anti-colonial mythologies. Her myth-making is invested in grotesque life forms, romance amidst apocalypse, and reclaiming the origins of our cities, bodies, dreams, and homes. She works across mask-making and special fx, photography, film, poetry, installation, and music. She is also a member of Studio La La La, a QTBIPOC-run production cooperative in New Orleans.

IG: @karlinche_ || www. maricosas.com

Karla Rosas (ella/she/they) is a visual artist and language justice worker based in New Orleans. Born in Mexico but raised in Southeastern Louisiana, Karla’s work challenges conventional depictions of migration by exploring (im)migrant experiences beyond linear narratives, documentation, and borders. Karla’s art practice includes painting, illustration, soft sculpture, assemblage, and embroidery.

Karla’s work is a part of various collections, including the Hood Museum and UC San Diego’s Undocumented Student Center. Their illustrations have been featured in various publications including The L.A. Times’ “Latinx Files,” United We Dream's “Immigrant Made” zine, and Antigravity Magazine’s tarot column. Karla received the Define American Immigrant Artist Fellowship in 2019 and served as an Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in Fall/Winter 2022. Karla is also a member of Antenna Collective and the BanchaLenguas Language Justice Collective.

IG: @sydneycalderonart

Sydney Calderon is a self-taught surrealist and folk artist in New Orleans. Her work is mostly conducted in oil on linen. In her works she aims to convey a study of humanity as a reflection of nature, reminding herself to return to the earth for answers, and that she will return to her ancestors through the earth. A theme within her paintings is finding connection within the essences of the natural world and the stories to be discovered amongst the many lives lived within oneself. She sees her work as a vessel that serves as a bridge between past and present. Centering motifs of identity, a deep listening to nature and an everlasting pursuit of ancestral closeness, Sydney creates works to untangle herself from the threads of colonialism. Her passion lies in storytelling, adorning and admiring the world around her, uplifting herself and her community.

IG: @colochitavidal || @latinelife_nola

Tania Vidal, first-generation New Orleanian of Honduran descent, is a versatile Creative Director, Curator, Cultural Event Producer, Dancer, Maker, Artist, and Mom. Her artistic journey led her to pursue blacksmithing/ metalworking under Honduran artist Regina Aguilar, and local artist Louis Colmenares before obtaining her welding degree.

Post-Katrina, she transitioned to arts administration, curating and co-producing diverse arts events. This work would propel her into festival and cultural production where she has been celebrating diverse voices, and championing local artists for 16 years.

During the pandemic, Tania founded Latine Life, an online platform established to amplify Latine voices, and produced the first Latine multi-disciplinary open-call group show. This initiative successfully sparked a resurgence of Latine-produced art, events and community engagement.

Joining Collectiva Manos, Tania is eager to delve back into art creation in all its forms and further explore more creative collaborative endeavors that nurture identity, community, and resilience.