A Bay Area interdisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, print, works on paper, and social practice, Jessalyn Aaland examines systems like K-12 education as sites for both conformity and resistance, and creates tools for those navigating them to build something better. Her projects often take the form of workshops, public installations, and Risograph-printed posters and booklets, including Class Set, which she founded and curates.

An artist, activist, educator, storyteller, and cultural worker, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo’s work is informed by their commitment to community and storytelling. Through printmaking, painting, and sculpture, they invite viewers to recall and share their own stories—offering power to the creation of a larger dialogue around Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, and People of Color voices.

An artist working in linocut prints, paintings, collage, drawings, and murals, Cheung is best known for large scale works focused on the physical interaction between males—subjects portrayed as proud of their bodies and unembarrassed by their unfashionable looks. He is also the founder of Unity Queer Skateboarding, a skate company supporting queer and trans skateboarders, and plays in the band Unity.

An artist and psychotherapist based in Los Angeles, Dart-McLean works with kids, adults, and families through private practice, community mental health work, and workshops to explore how healing is a creative act. Her art practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, making work about language, humor, memory, and narrative.

Born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in Philadelphia after immigrating to the United States, Farsi is an artist and professor at the University of Oregon. Her work in sculpture, photography, drawing, printmaking, and digital media explores relationships between bodies, land, and power, using familiar materials to create shared languages around personal and social experience. She has exhibited at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, and The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, and co-chairs the university’s Sculpture program.

A painter living in Corvallis, Oregon, where she teaches studio art at Oregon State University, Fidler works across drawing, painting, film, and music. Her large-scale works on paper depict invented landscapes, mythical happenings, and unseen energy in the universe—drawing on subject matter as diverse as basketball, vampires, and rock stars. She has had solo exhibitions at the Boise Art Museum and the Portland Art Museum.

A printmaker and artist based in Toronto, Gill is co-owner of Colour Code, a printing service specializing in Risograph and screen printing, and a founder of Zine Dream, a small press fair established in 2007. In his own practice he combines collage and drawing to create print editions inspired by sci-fi, surrealism, and natural science.

A Portland-based visual artist working in print and digital mediums, Graham sees her practice as a form of world building—each work a creation of place or artifact, calling attention to how fiction is woven into our reality. Her VR interactive narrative Diatribes won the SONA 2026 Unbound Award at Carnegie Mellon University, and her work is held in the collections of MoMA, the New York Public Library, and SFMOMA.

An artist and graphic designer, Hennesy’s work is a curious, vibrant exploration of relationships, built on the idea that line is the foundation of symbols, language, and expression. Her influences range from abstract expressionism and pop art to Dutch design systems, graffiti lettering, and traditional New Orleans face painting.

An artist based in Oakland, California, Hernández begins each series with a short story that guides handmade paintings, sculptures, and textiles exploring origin, home, and memory. After moving from Mexico City to the United States and facing a period of separation from her homeland, she began portraying objects that carry stories from home. Her work is held in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the De Young Museum, and KADIST.

A Japanese American interdisciplinary artist based in Astoria, Oregon, Hirose builds sculptures out of everyday materials and objects, using what she calls “material storytelling” to explore memory, transformation, and connection. In 2026 she was invited to take part in a Japan Pavilion workshop at the Venice Art Biennale.

A San Francisco-based artist and arts writer, Hotchkiss uses the visual language of games, play structures, and optical illusions to make sculptures and installations that puzzle and delight. She renders familiar images strange, sparking curiosity or a shift in perception. She works as an editor for KQED Arts & Culture.

A multidisciplinary artist based between Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles, Jackson creates sculptural and functional objects—vases, jars, cups, and picture frames—believing everyday objects can be just as powerful as traditional artwork. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, and SFMOMA.

A Los Angeles and Portland-based artist, Johanson’s paintings, drawings, and sculptural installations address the contemporary human condition with sincerity and humor—what he calls “beauty through honesty.” He learned to paint and draw by making show flyers and painting houses and skateboards, a hands-on style he carried into San Francisco’s Mission School scene. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, SFMOMA, and the Berkeley Art Museum, among others.

A painter and textile designer based in California, Khalidy creates energetic paintings, drawings, and sculptures—mostly abstract, built around her interest in color and the relationships between shapes. She also runs her namesake clothing line and founded the textile-driven brand Seamripper.

A Bay Area-based artist working in photography, installation, painting, and textiles, Krause creates worlds that freeze fleeting moments in nature alongside the human experience. They imagine and create a world of abstraction and color when reality feels too mundane and grey.

Based in San Francisco, Lin’s work spans drawing, painting, installation, ceramics, games, walking tours, video, animation, and sound compositions, exploring free-form interactions between color, pattern, geometry, and abstraction. She co-founded Stairwell’s, a social practice project with site-specific programs in the Bay Area and beyond, and frequently collaborates with artist Gabriel Gilder as LIN+GILDER Projects.

An American visual artist and illustrator, Montenegro’s practice crosses disciplines to advocate for an ecologically-vibrant and socially-just future. She is co-founder and co-creative director of the design studio The Far Woods, and has published several books, including Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts and Worry Medicine: Remedies and Rituals for Anxious Times.

A Bay Area visual artist, his work is held in collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Trust, and the Berkeley Art Museum. He co-founded Current Editions, a press publishing artist books and ephemera, and is a key collaborator on Class Set.

A Black cartoonist born and raised in Northeast Portland by a family of self-taught musicians, artists, and entrepreneurs, Muldrew grew up on comics, cartoons, and hip hop—pop culture references that still show up in his art today. He creates comics under the name NuAfrica Comix, blending illustration inspired by 70s comic books with Afrofuturism. His stories offer a surreal escape from the pressures of being Black in America.

An artist and educator based in the Portland, Oregon area, Murino-Brault uses symbols like bones, trees, animals, hands, and religious icons to explore what it means to be a woman, along with ideas of power, spirituality, and rebirth. She plays with opposites—light and dark, reason and folly, good and evil—and how each helps define the other. She teaches printmaking at Portland Community College.

A Yorùbá/Gullah socially-engaged artist, cultural preservationist, and organizer living and working on Kashia Pomo lands, ọlágbajú explores how our relationships—familial, platonic, romantic, ecological—are transformed by what we confront in building a future together, using sound, sculpture, and collaboration to untangle threads of possibility. They are founder and director of àjìjà space, and have co-founded numerous artist and practitioner-led collectives.

A trans visual artist, educator, and curator based in the Bay Area, Ariza explores queer kinship through photographs, installations, and public programming, rooted in collaboration with trans and queer friends, performers, and organizers. Their work celebrates collective care and intergenerational connection. They are an Assistant Professor of Photography at California College of the Arts and received the 2022 SFMOMA SECA Award.

An artist, illustrator, and designer based in San Jose, California, Pellet’s dream-like drawings and paintings explore memory, energy, consciousness, and the construction and destruction of relationships. Humor plays an important role in his work, which also extends into designs for websites, album covers, and show posters.

A Diné/Akimel O’odham painter and student of traditional plant medicine, Perkins builds dense, layered paintings from found materials—photographs, personal objects, and desert plants gathered from her family’s homelands. In 2025 she opened her first solo museum show in New York City at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work also held in the collections of SFMOMA and the Tia Collection.

Born in Cavite, Philippines and based in Portland, Oregon, Pugay builds nonlinear worlds shaped by humor, contradiction, and everyday absurdity, where figures and animals appear in loose fables and open-ended situations. He has exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and Cristin Tierney in New York, and in 2019 co-organized a symposium funded by the same Precipice Fund grant that helped support Class Set.

A Los Angeles-based artist from Cincinnati, Ohio, Ramos paints found household objects—couches, lamps—and piles them into sprawling, immersive installations, “cleaning” each item in house paint to erase its history and make it new. Her work explores the unstable balance between comfort and anxiety, safety and confinement. She has completed a permanent installation at Facebook headquarters and a public sculpture in Emeryville’s Christie Park.

An interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, her work melds performance, installation, painting, and music into a meditation on Black diasporic movement—the ways Black communities have moved and connected across the world—weaving together sonic and familial archives with landscape, rhythm, and spirit. They have exhibited at venues including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, MOCA Los Angeles, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, and received the 2021 Los Angeles Artadia Award. They also perform music under the name Tropic Green.

Born in Quezon City, Philippines, raised in Texas, and based in Benicia, California, Rodriguez uses cartography as a way of exploring landscape and identity—brilliantly colored ink drawings that invent new regions of the earth, informed by his own road trips across the country. His work has been exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Istanbul Biennial, and he has completed public art commissions for the San Francisco Arts Commission and a U.S.-Mexico border port of entry in New Mexico.

Based in Los Angeles, Schnell creates vivid semi-abstract paintings and murals exploring myth, growth, and imagined ecologies, often through cut paper, stencil work, and collage. Inspired by artist Corita Kent’s idea of ‘play plus work,’ she created Anything Grows, a game-like framework that brings play and chance into her painting, workshops, and public art. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and the Berkeley Art Museum, and she received the Pollock-Krasner Award for painting.

An Oakland-based muralist, photographer, and painter, Sesay creates skewed landscapes and interiors using bold color and geometric shapes that explore the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional space. His work explores memory, community, and how we understand the world around us. His paintings are held in the collections of SFMOMA and the de Young Museum.

Born into a family of artists in San Francisco, Slaps creates colorful portraits that celebrate people often overlooked by society, drawing on deep research into race and culture and under-recognized historical narratives. He curates shows at Swim Gallery, has had a solo exhibition at the de Young Museum, and in 2025 was named a Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellow. He describes himself as a curious, passionate multitasker who uses art to share positive energy.

A graphic designer from Highland Park, Los Angeles, Tran collaborates with organizations to create neighborhood maps, cloud illustrations, and printed materials for libraries, parks, and radio stations. Since 2012, she has been senior designer for Place & Page, working alongside fellow Class Set artist Rosten Woo.

Born in Sacramento, California, and based in Los Angeles, Valdez began her career as an anthropologist. It was on an archeological dig in Ireland that she first discovered her skill for art making. Today, working across painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, ceramics, and digital media, Valdez examines the relationship between materials and cultural identity, incorporating objects found in domestic spaces—plants, textiles, vessels, keepsakes—into her work as a method of storytelling.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, and based in Portland, Oregon, Wall immigrated to the United States as a child. Her monochromatic drawings explore identity through the push and pull of cultural diaspora, drawing on female figures from global mythology and folklore. In 2024 she had a solo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and won the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Award.

Born in Dallas, Texas, and now based in London, Wielebinski works in sculpture, installation, video, performance, drawing, and collage. His work explores intersecting themes of power, nationhood, desire, and memory, with recent work focused on surveillance, secrecy, and how they intersect with gender and sexuality. His work has been exhibited at the ICA London and Hauser & Wirth, and is held in the collections of LACMA and SFMOMA.

An artist based in San Francisco, Wong’s vibrant paintings and murals explore the choreography of friendship and the social harmony of diverse peoples, full of fantasy, humor, and imagination. In 2024 she was named Artist-in-Residence at the Oakland Museum of California, where her installation Ancestral Visions drew on dresses worn by six 20th-century Chinese American women from the museum’s collection. Her work has also been acquired by the de Young Museum and the Crocker Art Museum.

Born in Seattle, Washington, and based in Los Angeles, Woo is an artist, designer, and educator who makes things that help people understand complex systems and re-orient themselves to the places they live. He produces large-scale artworks in collaboration with cities, nonprofits, and grassroots organizations, and is the co-founder and former executive director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, a New York-based nonprofit using art and design to foster civic participation.