Andres Chaparro
Andres Chaparro: his work explores the culture of Jazz and celebrates, honors, and communicates the history of America’s classical music. Each painting consists of a range of different media. His approach to painting requires a great deal of trust in his instincts as his artwork is spontaneously being inspired by music while painting. For him painting is the ideal medium of expression and Jazz, because of its intrinsic freedom, naturally inspires a spirit of innovation in each project.
Alfonso Fernández Acevedo
Alfonso Fernández Acevedo: (Chile) was born in Santiago, in 1969. He began in printmaking, moving on later to painting and sculpture. The need of expression, persistence, and curiosity with his own visual structures have led him to dialogue with two–dimensional and three–dimensional foundations. The influence of different teachers, especially the working experience with the visual artist Sam Gilliam, have provided him an integral vision of the language that he uses.
Nina Tichava
Nina Tichava: was raised in both rural northern New Mexico and the Bay Area in California. She was influenced by her father, a construction worker and mathematician, and by her mother, who was an artist and designer. The reflections of these dualities — country to city, pragmatist to artist, nature to technology — are essential to and evident in her paintings. She received her BFA from California College of the Arts [+ Crafts] in San Francisco / Oakland and has exhibited in major national art fairs including Miami, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Dallas, New York, Aspen, Seattle, and San Francisco.
Laura Cescarco Eglin
Laura Cescarco Eglin: is a poet and translator from Uruguay. She translated Of Death. Minimal Odes by Hilda Hilst, which won the 2019 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry. She co–translated from the Portunol Fabian Severo’s Night in the North in 2020. Her translations from Spanish, Portuguese, Portunol, and Galician have appeared in numerous journals. She is the author of five poetry collections of her own, is the co–founding editor and publisher of Veliz Books, and teaches creative writing at the University of Houston–Downtown.







