Previous Guests:

July 2023: Lara Salmon
Lara Salmon is performance artist whose body-based practice explores the stamina and resilience of living with chronic pain. She is from Los Angeles, and travels often to create site-specific work. www.larasalmon.net

April 2024: Tina June Malek
Tina June Malek is an Iranian-American photographer specializing in events and portraiture.

June 2024: A. Laura Brody
A. Laura Brody is an artist, educator, and the founder of Opulent Mobility, a series of exhibits that re-imagine disability as opulent and powerful. Recently her curatorial work expanded with exhibits on the Goddess in all her forms and commentary on the Plague. www.opulentmobility.com

July 2024: Vanessa Santos
Vanessa Santos (born raised in L.A.) is an Indigenous (Yaqui, Mexica, Kizh, Apache, Hopi), Disabled Interdisciplinary artist working primarily within the mediums of weaving, ceramics, illustration, moving image, sound, painting, writing, eco-disability advocacy and the mystic/ occult arts (as an herbalist, reiki master and professional tarot reader for over two decades). After living in the Midwest, the Southwest and high desert of CA as a Bio-Dynamic Land Restorationist they now reside in L.A. with their children practicing ‘bionomic futurist ritual’ and ‘anarcho-animism’.

August 2024: Carly Quellman
As a Black Biracial, Queer, Neurodivergent Transracially Adopted Human, Carly enters the figure drawing space as a way to challenge societal perspective around identity — and in support of expression and agency.

She is a certified Intimacy Coordinator (TV/Film), Mental Health Practitioner, and 200HR Registered Yoga Teacher who currently resides in Los Angeles, and travels often for work.

September 2024: Vanessa Hernandez Cruz
Vanessa Hernández Cruz (she, her, ella) is an interdependent Chicana Disabled dance artist, filmmaker, visual artist, poet & an Intersectional Disability Justice activist. Her performances transcend through time, space, energy, and most importantly through her ancestors. With this energy, she hopes to build community and to share the path that she is paving for future multi-marginalized Disabled artists. Through dance, community, and interdependence she believes that collective liberation can be achieved. https://www.galaxiesdance.info/

October 2024: Marie Claire Macadar
Marie Claire Macadar is an artist, musician, and puppeteer based in Los Angeles. Their musical puppet shows combine nostalgia and life stories to bring child-like joy to grown-up audiences, and their visual art focuses on color, pattern, and play. https://mariclersworld.com/

May 2025: Nat Decker
Nat Decker is a Chicago born Los Angeles based artist interpreting the intimacies of queer and disabled lived experience as provocation toward collective care and liberation. Creating between digital and material mediums, they identify the computer as an assistive tool affording a more accessible practice. They use digital 3D software to trace serpentine connections between the body and technology, reimagining fantastical mobility devices as cultural celebration and agitation of conventional desirability politics. Nat is also an access worker, having consulted on accessibility for organizations such as p5.js, New Art City, Creative Growth, the LA Spoonie Collective, and for various projects at the University of California, Los Angeles.