MARY-CLAIRE AMABLE

Mary Claire is a San Franciscan born, Filipina-American poet. She was raised in a studio apartment in the Tenderloin and currently lives in the South of Market. 

Claire's writings reflect the realities of her upbringing living in the second most expensive city in the US. Most of her writing is about being a child of immigrant parents and watching firsthand the struggles and hardships her parents face.
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As a woman of color, Claire is constantly battling internalized societal expectations of what it means to be a Filipina. She hopes to one day reclaim the power Filipinas lost to years of colonialism and empower other Filipinas to do the same. 

CELI TAMAYO-LEE

Celi is here to make collective joy. As the descendant of migrants, history is always present for her. As a young queer person of color, the future is always present for her. She uses film to travel through time; gatherings to stop time; and dance to rearrange time. As someone still in love with San Francisco, her work is dedicated to the public, cultural lineage, human need and communal consciousness. Celi’s parents met while organizing in the Bay Area Asian American community during the ‘80s. Her grandparents and great-grandparents came to the West Coast from Laoag, Illocos Norte, in the Philippines and Toisan, Guangduong Province, China. The playgrounds of her public schools, the youth mentors of her afterschool programs, and radical movements for art and justice shape her sense of power and dignity. She studied Political Economy and Media Arts at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. She currently is a Social Practice Artist with 14 Black Poppies and a history teacher at a high school for pregnant and parenting students in San Francisco.

JASON WYMAN

Jason Wyman is many things. They are an artist using all the tools available -- photography, video, interviews, social media, sound, design -- to create visual works that reveal layers / connections / perspectives. He is a writer examining truths / myths through fables / poetry / parallel observations. She is a performer crafting multi-media experiences that dance between light / dark, despair / hope, reality / possibility. He is a curator filling white walls / empty spaces with the voices / visions of community / emerging / established artists. She is an educator cultivating environments of peer exchange rooted in creative inquiry / multisensory pedagogies. They are a catholic mystic conjuring ephemeral landscapes of astral / temporal origins. Wyman is queerly complex. ​