Bailey Szustak is an artist and PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Illinois Chicago. Their dissertation explores the intersection of philosophy, pedagogy, and neurodiversity, with a strong focus on how art and making, doing, and sensing are powerful tools of neuroinclusive philosophy. Their neurodivergent philosophical practice lives in the creative act--which includes pedagogical praxis--and the artifacts that result. Bailey works in multiple mediums, including welding, painting, quilting, and digital art.

Nurgul Rodriguez is an artist with an interdisciplinary practice. She has an active individual practice of disciplines and media including porcelain, installation, handmade paper, printmaking, three-dimensional pieces, and more recently socially engaged and collaborative projects. Her work is social, political and personal with a focus on issues of immigration, diasporas, borders and cultures. She explores becoming a diasporic individual during identity formation within a new culture. Nurgul settled in Calgary in 2009 after many nomadic years of living in Turkey, the United States and Spain with her family. She received a Visual Arts and New Media individual project grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts in 2018, Calgary Arts Development Individual Art Project and Canada Council for the Arts. She holds an MFA from the University of Calgary and she recently completed a residency program at Medalta in Medicine Hat and another at AUArts in Calgary, Calgary Allied Alberta Foundation Residency, Esplanade Artists in Residency. Her work is seen in Remai Modern, borderLINE: 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art, and Esplanade Arts and Heritage Museum, Landed.