Satpreet Kahlon is a Panjabi-born artist, curator, and educator based in Seattle, WA. Through her work, which has been featured in Hyperallergic and Artforum, she is interested in creating visual language that expresses and explores marginalized cultural experiences as well as the manufactured systems of inequity that dictate their boundaries. Her practice has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Critical Minded, Vermont Studio Center, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, 4Culture, Pratt Fine Arts Center, the Magnum Foundation, Brown University, and others. Satpreet is a 2022 Neddy finalist in Painting won the 2022 Bellevue Arts Museum Biennial Curatorial Excellence Award, where she will have a solo show in 2023.
Asia Tail is an artist and community organizer based in Tukwila, Washington. She attended the Cooper Union School of Art in New York and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2014. In 2018, she co-founded yəhaẃ Indigenous Creatives Collective, engaging with hundreds of interdisciplinary artists across the Pacific Northwest. Asia now works as an advocate and arts consultant with several local organizations to channel resources into Indigenous communities. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, born and raised on Coast Salish territories.
Kimberly Corinne Deriana is a Mandan and Hidatsa architectural designer and artist who specializes in sustainable, environmental, Indigenous sculpture, architecture, housing, and planning. Her methodologies focus on incorporating Indigenous lifestyle practices in relationship to designing for seven generations. Deriana strives to achieve exceptional design by weaving together respect for interconnections, honor for cultural identity, and appreciation for contemporary quality, manifested in earth-rooted forms, buildings and communities. Deriana created the
Brings the Medicine Sundial at King Street Station in 2019, and joined the yəhaẃ board of directors in 2021.