Junli Song (2023)
Junli Song (she/her) grew up in Chicago but lived abroad from 2012-2018 in South Korea, England, Italy, and South Africa. Her studies are similarly widespread: she originally majored in economics and international development before returning to the creative path, first with an MA in children’s book illustration, and currently, an MFA with a concentration in printmaking. As an artist and storyteller, she uses visual narratives to explore the cultural ambiguities of being Chinese American and growing up in a biracial immigrant household. Drawing upon the fantasy and humour inherent in self-making within diasporic societies, her work reveals the fluid nature of identity as inherited stories and traditions continually evolve.
@artofsong
Junli Song: website
Janice Agustin (2024)
Janice Almajose Agustin (she/her) is an artist working in printmaking. Agustin was born and raised on the island of Guam and moved to California at the age of thirteen. Her work investigates home, memory, identity, migration, and labor through the lens of a Filipino-American living in the United States.
She received her bachelor’s in Art with an emphasis in Book Arts and Publications in 2015 from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with Academic and Departmental Honors. Agustin is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Printmaking at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville.
@janiceaa
Janice Agustin: website
Vic Barquin (2024)
Vic Barquin (she/her) is an artist, printmaker, and arts administrator from Cranbury, New Jersey. In 2016 she received a BFA in Printmaking with honors from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. At graduation, she was awarded the Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Traveling Fellowship which funded her residency at the Can Serrat International Art Centre in El Bruc, Catalonia. For the past five years, Vic has lived in Chicago, Illinois where she facilitated events and exhibitions as part of her studio practice. In 2019 she foundedHalftone Projects, a collaborative publishing program which she ran out of her second bedroom turned screenprinting studio. In the same year, she co-organized an exhibition of prints and textiles at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, where she still currently provides creative and administrative support. Barquin is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
@vic_barq
Vic Barquin: website
Regan Chrisman-Boman (2024)
Regan Chrisman-Boman (she/her) is a Kansas City-based artist. She received her BFA from theUniversity of Central Missouri. She is currently working towards her MFA at the University of Arkansas. Regan’s work explores themes related to private thoughts, daily routines, coping mechanisms, intimate moments, and the woman’s experience. The themes in her work are informed by research concerning symbolism in nature and are expressed in the work that she creates through the use of personal iconography and pattern. The codified imagery is seemingly ambiguous and even innocuous, yet is rich with symbolism and personal iconography. The presence of specific and identifiable plants in the imagery is informed through research into the symbolic meaning of various botanical forms. She chooses specific plants to use in her compositions based on their symbolism as a means to evoke the emotional state being conveyed in the narrative.
@regan_chrismanbomanart
Regan Chrisman-Boman: website