Marie-José (b. San Francisco, 1992) is a contemporary visual artist based in Inglewood, California. For ten years Marie has been exploring the multiplicity of the Black femme experience through painting, collage, and mixed media including stained glass and tile mosaic. They employ surrealism as a tool for re-imagining the past and inspiring a previously indiscernible future and cite Mickalene Thomas and Kerry James Marshall, as well as their own Nigerian heritage as significant influences.

Malik Seneferu is a San Francisco-born multidisciplinary artist, public arts advocate, and founding creative force in Bayview–Hunters Point, recognized as the first artist to exhibit at the historic Bayview Opera House and as a founding artist of the Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard Artists residency movement alongside JoeSam, with more than three decades of work in public service, youth mentorship, and community-centered cultural development throughout San Francisco.

Auttrianna Ward is a San Francisco–rooted artist and filmmaker whose work is shaped by movement across the U.S., Brazil, the Caribbean, the U.K., and West Africa. Drawing from archives, personal history, and place, she explores how Black memory is preserved, carried, and transformed across generations and geographies. Her practice spans film, publishing, and public projects. She is the founder of Auttrianna Projects.