Gretchen Frances Bennett is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reimagines versions of self as protagonists of historical and spiritual narratives that shape personal versions of beliefs and identity. Bennett’s recent drawings organize the internal sources that guide her process and give pattern to personal signifiers, while also seeking ways to communicate transcendent experiences. Bennett graduated with an MFA from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2001. She has exhibited with the Frye Art Museum and the Seattle Art Museum. She has held residencies with the Bronx Museum of Art and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and created a public program with the Drawing Center in New York.

Mel Carter is a mixed, Yonsei Japanese and Queer non-binary artist, currently based in Seattle, WA. After graduating from UW’s Photomedia program, they have worked as an artist and photographer on a variety of projects like gallery exhibitions, artist residencies, pop-ups and alternative art spaces, and curating and showing work at music festivals. Their practice is informed by experiences within the Japanese diaspora, queerness, exploration in modern witchcraft, rituals and mythology, in tandem with waste reduction, food sovereignty, and environmental justice in the cultural context of the Pacific Northwest.