Angel Cabrales is a multimedia artist and arts educator based in El Paso, Texas. His work examines aspects of Latinx identity, immigration, inequality and histories, a part of American culture that is misconstrued because of political and media rhetoric. Cabrales views everything as a potential artistic resource providing him with a flexibility to utilize a variety of mediums and styles. He merges media with intangible elements, such as his upbringing within the storied scientific history of New Mexico and political realities of the Texas borderlands.

The creation and engineering in his work creates an interactive experience that merges art with new technologies and the socio-political concerns of today.

Cabrales holds a MFA at the University of North Texas and a BFA at Arizona State University. Cabrales is part of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Estrellas y Cuentas initiative on Latinx Futurism. He is also a member of the International Sculpture Center, the Texas Sculpture Group, and the JUNTOS art collective. Cabrales teaches Sculpture at UTEP, including courses that bring together art concepts and STEAM elements. He is head of the Engineering + Art + Science = Social Impact (EASSI) team, which focuses on community-engagement projects in the Borderlands of El Paso.

Yareth Fernández  is a mixed-media artist and arts educator based in Austin, Texas. Their work experiments with artificial environments and futurist ways of interacting with nature through site specific installation work that respond to various landscapes, including the Mexico-U.S. border. 

Nansi Guevara is a rasquache artist, designer, author, and educator based in Brownsville, Texas. Originally from Laredo, Texas, she has spent most of her life living near the Rio Grande River. Her artistic practice is driven by activism and social change through exposing untold histories of violence, criminalization, migration, and forced labor in South Texas. Through narrative change and cultural organizing, Guevara creates spaces of resistance and affirmation, encouraging creative economies centered on community cultural wealth. 

Guevara holds a Master’s in Education from Harvard University and a BFA in Design from The University of Texas at Austin. She runs her own freelance illustration and education practice, Corazón Contento, based out of Brownsville, Texas. Guevara has been awarded residencies, fellowships, and grants from Fulbright, the NEA, Artplace America, a Blade of Grass, NALAC, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the AWAW Environmental Art Grant. Her work has been community centered and driven by social change for the past 15 years in Austin, Mexico City, Boston, Massachusetts, and now Laredo and Brownsville, Texas.

Luis Valderas is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in San Antonio, Texas. The imagery in his artwork is based on Mesoamerican mythology combined with science fiction, cosmosology, and ancestral narratives. Valderas transforms ancient icons by revealing their connection between past, present, and future. His own visual language exists in the “third space of reality,” the frontera where anything is possible. Through mixed-media work, Valderas presents an art experience that prompts spectators to imagine and participate in an intermingled future.