Ayak Chout is a mixed-media visual artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. She moves through photography, jewelry making and design and has been making art since she was a teenager.

Martinet & Texereau is a collaborative project between two artists based in Paris, France. Using drawing as their primary medium, they create all kinds of landscape studies, hiding themselves behind a single identity.

Inna is a musician and activist based in between Paris and Portugal. She is an ambassador at the United Nations and actively advocates for women’s rights by working closely with La Maison de Femmes, a space that has been created to protect women and their rights from domestic and sexual violences.

Gabby is a mixed-media artist working primarily with images and the archive. She is based between New Orleans and Mexico City.

Sienna is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is one of the Co-founders  of Chroma, a cross-disciplinary creative studio founded in 2017 along with her two partners June Canedo and Ladin Awad. Their platform hopes to diversify industries and create spaces that centers on raising consciousness around the experiences of womxn of color in the arts and media. 

I met Sienna on a Friday morning in her cosy, sun bathed apartment in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. She made me tea, we sat in her window on her couch and exchanged ideas on starting one’s own platform for change, collaboration, sustainability in the media and the importance of mothers.