Cristina Molina is a visual artist who hails from the subtropics of Miami and currently lives and works in New Orleans—two environmentally precarious cities that have influenced her research on identity, loss, and disappearing landscapes. Spanning performance, video installation, photography, and textile design, Molina’s artwork is set amidst vulnerable terrains both real and imagined. Using the language of magical realism, her works reshape and centralize little-known narratives to upend dominant histories.

Courtney Egan is a lens-based media artist, photographer and naturalist who weaves the tradition of botanical art with sculpture and digital technologies, creating otherworldly projections that can interact with architecture and sculptural elements.

Zygarewicz was born in Chile in 1965, grew up in Bolivia, and moved to San Francisco at the age of 15. She received her BA in Visual Arts from Loyola University, New Orleans and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. “My work is informed by life situations and my daily struggle as a woman to be a wife, a mom, a teacher, and an artist.”

Cooper is a multidisciplinary artist working in many mediums, including paint, sculpture, installation and video art. He prefers to collaborate with other creatives, contributing to mind expanding productions, and helping to bring people together around a communal celebration of art. His work has been seen in the broadway production of “The Lion King”, specialty costume and puppet development for Cirque Du Soleil, Olympics opening ceremony production, various operas, Julie Taymor projects, and Disney Theatrical productions.

Based in New Orleans, Owens’ paintings and videos center the black figure, and embrace the physical and spiritual flow between bodies and the natural world, referencing a spiritual black ecology.

Arts Danu is a Natchez based arts non profit. The art collective produces Allumer Natchez, hosts a teaching artist residency program and provides a holistic approach to education, cultural exchange, community outreach and economic development through the lens of art.

Natchez Ballet Academy teaches classical ballet technique, tap and jazz to students age 3 and up.

Catherine Pierce is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi and the author of four books of poems: Danger Days (2020), The Tornado Is the World (2016), The Girls of Peculiar (2012), and Famous Last Words (2008). Each of her most recent three books won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize. Originally from Delaware, Pierce earned her B.A. from Susquehanna University, her M.F.A. from the Ohio State University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. She is professor of English and co-director of the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.

Natchez was the economic and cultural center of the Deep South in the 19th Century and the performing arts were an essential part of life. The Natchez Little Theatre tradition is at least 208 years old. Stacy and Ángel Conde, of Conde Contemporary, teamed up with actress Nicole Harris to create this digital work “Caged Bird” for Allumer Natchez, 2022.