Mr. Castaneda’s research includes a foundation in brand strategy and identity design focusing on developing visual identities by incorporating multi-cultural and interdisciplinary design processes and practices. Mr. Castaneda continues to collaborate with artists, architects, educators and philosophers located across the globe.

Ms. Wilkes’s research explores how contemporary dance, theatre, and film can intersect to reflect relevant topics and spark viewer curiosity/engagement. As an educator, Ms. Wilkes works to empower students through creative collaboration and uplifting dance practices.

Ms. Love’s research centers on the dispersive social fields of the black Atlantic. Her current research investigates the displacements and refiguration of bodily gestures across varying elemental and ecological registers as techniques of memory, encodings of turbulent geographies, and castings of alternative time horizons.

Mr. Johnson utilizes theatre as a tool for social emotional growth and development.

Dr. Garcia’s research applies Chicana Feminist Epistemologies (knowledges and experiences) including Borderlands theories to art making and teaching.

Mr. Dick has integrated studio practice with teaching practice related to topics and materials. 

Ms. Shon’s research includes image-based/mixed media work exploring memory, identity, and loss in the context of family and community. 

Jamie Ho’s research and artistic practice engages in photography, GIFs, new media, and installation to investigate the long-term impact of assimilation and cultural bereavement through references of ancestral Chinese traditions and artifacts. Her work uses performance, the lighting studio and aesthetics of Camp to call to question societal expectations of gender roles and performance. 

Ms. Cariddi’s primarily works with painting, drawing and ceramic sculpture.