Akosua Adasi is a second-year MA student in the Department of Art History and Art Conservation at Queen’s University. Born in Ghana, Akosua grew up in England and the U.S until her family settled in Edmonton, Alberta. She specializes in Black feminist theory and contemporary Black art in visual and popular culture, focusing on the construction of the Black body as it relates to femaleness and hybridity as a means of challenging mundane and institutional archetypes of Blackness. Her writing practice is also informed by critical race theory and transnational feminist theories and writings.

Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation, born and based in London, UK. Through her work, Onyeka is animated by the question — how do we live together? — with particular interest in the ways the sensorial, spatial and non-canonical ways of knowing can provide answers to this question. She uses embodiment, archives, narration, and text to create structural ‘figure-of-eights’, a form that exposes a multiplicity of narratives. The work comprises untying strands and threads, anchored by a rhythmic editing style, as well as close attention to the dissonance, reflection and amplification that occurs between image and sound. Her works have been shown in the UK and internationally at film festivals and galleries. She was awarded the New Cinema Award at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2019 and the 2020 Arts Foundation Fellowship Award for Experimental Film.

Luther Konadu is an artist, writer, editor of the publication Public Parking, and resides on Treaty 1 Territory, Winnipeg.

Milka Njoroge is a PhD student at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her research focuses on visual technologies with an emphasis on Black Finnish geographies. Her most recent publication in ASTRA Magazine is A Story of Queer belonging, Heartbreak and Friendship.

Fatoumata Tounkara is the Program Coordinator at Union Gallery and a fifth-year international student at Queen’s University, currently pursuing her BA in Politics with a minor in Philosophy. Fatou is passionate about exploring how advocacy and the arts can complement one another. She has previously worked as the Program Assistant at Union Gallery, President of the Queen’s Student Diversity Project, and as the Outreach Coordinator for the Queen’s Black Academic Society, during which she helped coordinate events such as The Soul of the Black Artist. Fatou is currently working on a new initiative called Queen’s International Student Society.

Chukwudubem Ukaigwe is a Nigerian born song, dispersed by a transient Atlantic breeze, currently passing through Canada. He consciously uses a variety of mediums to relay a plurality of ideas at any given time. He views his art practice as a conversation, or a portal into one, and in some instances, as an interpretation of this ongoing exchange. Chukwudubem weighs an occurrence, feeling, or idea on a scale and then creates a narrative in his own language. Chukwudubem operates as an interdisciplinary artist, curator, writer, and cultural worker. Ukaigwe is a founding member of Patterns Collective.