Over the last centuries humankind has put processes in motion leading to developments that we no longer have the proper standards to understand. With this in mind my work and research simultaneously indexes our current ecological crises, while speculating on the future of what our earth might look like and how we might engage with it. Using research methods that often involve disciplines outside of art such as physics, biology and geography—my work is research-responsive and interdisciplinary, incorporating modes of sculpture, photography, video, and installation.

Jeremy Christopher Bolen is an artist, researcher, organizer, filmmaker and educator interested in speculative planetary futures. Throughout the past fifteen years he has created research and work at several scientific institutions including: CERN, Argonne National Laboratory, Sanford Underground Research Facility and Fermi-Lab. His work has been exhibited internationally at numerous locations including Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Origins Centre Museum, Johannesburg; Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart; Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia; PACT Zollverein, Essen; Field Station, Cape Town and EXGIRLFRIEND, Berlin. Additionally his films have been screened internationally, at venues and festivals including -- Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Antimatter (Media Art), Vancouver; Lima Alterna International Film Festival, Lima; and Bideodromo International Film Festival, Bilbao. Bolen lives and works in Atlanta, serves as Associate Professor of Photography and Expanded Media at Georgia State University and is represented by Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago.

The core of my practice is centered on research regarding the intersections of queerness, labor, and environmental practices. My work challenges these phenomenons and research topics, in a comparative analysis that questions our assumptions about the aesthetics, built-environments and the socio-political state of labor and queer bodies. I draw inspiration from the ways that public narrative undermines data, symbols, images, and texts as testimony of progress or knowledge–hiding in plain sight offering a glimpse of the human condition. I push these ideas forward with a wide range of interdisciplinary mediums with a conceptual grounding in printmaking. Through material histories and theoretical practice, my work uses the marriage between substrate and image-technique as an interrogation of the constructed image. Material formalism challenges my conceptual narratives. Doing so allows for my intuition to push concepts abstractly through collage, layering, aggregating, color theory, and image-material formations.

Jake Lahah is an artist, researcher, and educator that examines topics on labor, queerness, and ecology. His work considers how visual culture and data are testimony of the human condition. Jake is a recent recipient of the Gay Cultural Studies and Creativity Grant within the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Old Dominion University. Some of the notable places that Lahah has shown include: ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD; Candela Books and Gallery, Richmond, VA; Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA; ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA. He is currently an Assistant Adjunct Professor of Foundations at Old Dominion University. He received his BFA from George Mason University (2017) and an MFA in Print from Tyler School of Art + Architecture (2024).

I am a visual, performing, and martial artist who is observant of these disciplines’ integration  into my practice. Unbound by any single medium, I am drawn to the raw, unrefined qualities of my materials. My work often takes the form of assemblages, incorporating found objects, mark making, print processes , and time-based media. Though the work is presented as “sculptures, paintings, etc.”, I actually see them as questions, musings, and reflections that happen to manifest in objects.

I have given some time and thought to principles of the Tao Te Ching, and I tend to embrace “emptiness” as the foundation of the creative process. Through this, I cultivate listening as a primary tool, enabling me to explore my materials with a degree of both detachment and intuition. In recent years, themes of social justice, existence, and spirituality have driven my work.

Terence Nicholson, a native Washingtonian and longtime resident of Anacostia, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans visual art, music, and Chinese martial arts. His visual art has been exhibited at esteemed venues, including Honfleur Gallery, Willow Street Gallery in Takoma Park, Strathmore, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, where his work is currently featured in the Sightlines exhibit. In addition to his visual art,

Terence has achieved international recognition in Chinese martial arts, earning several medals in Kung Fu competitions and teaching the discipline for over 30 years. His lifelong dedication to martial arts informs his creative practice, combining physical discipline with a philosophical approach to art-making.

Currently, Terence fronts the DC rock band, Thaylobleu whose legacy is cemented in Washington, DC’s cultural history, with its inclusion in the Martin Luther King Jr. Library’s permanent exhibit on Go-Go and Hardcore Punk music in the city.