Arc Fellows
Meet our Arc Artist Fellows. They question, captivate, and transform our community.
2023 Fellows
Alicia Mullikin
Alicia Mullikin is a dance artist and the founder of EL SUEÑO.
- Instagram: @el.sueno.dance
Kalei’okalani Matsui
Kalei Matsui is a Native Hawaiian, Japanese, Black and Chinese island mother determined to re-indigenize the sense of self, empower cultural pride, and cultivate joyful belonging community through ‘ori Tahiti, hula, and teaching artistry.
- Video
- Website
- Instagram: @huraitimana
Che Sehyun
Che Sehyun is a Future Ancient storyteller and Corean culture bearer working through light, vibrations and dance to support our collective liberation and indigenous future.
2022 Fellows
Watch the Showcase and Celebration.
Gil Adame
Gil Adame is an ex-convict who uses his story and experience to help troubled youth and young adults change their lives through video.
- Cash App: $giladame81
Natasha Alphonse
Natasha Alphonse is an Indigenous artist working in clay.
- Website
- Instagram: @Natashaalphonse
Aiyana Reid
Aiyana Reid is a regalia maker and dancer.
Sondra Segundo
Sondra Segundo is a multi-faceted artist, an author & illustrator of Indigenous children’s books, and composes Haida songs and sings with tribal funk band, Khu’éex’.
2021 Fellows
Watch the Showcase and Celebration. Part 1 | Part 2
Di Binuya
Di Binuya is a non-binary Filipino multi-media artist and community organizer.
- Website
- Instagram: @perlasngdigma
Mikhail Calliste
Mikhail Calliste is a Trinidadian dance artist and maker.
Monyee Chau
Monyee Chau is a contemporary Taiwanese, Chinese American artist who explores the journey of healing through decolonization and reconnecting with their roots and ancestors through a variety of mediums.
- Website
- Instagram: @monyeeart
Joyee Runninghawk
Joyee Runninghawk is a mixed-media creator who honors her Black and Native roots through storytelling, photography, graphic design, clothing design, and paint techniques.
Kayla Stokes,
Kayla Stokes is writer, producer, director and storyteller who explores the lives of Black women from the past and present in order to imagine the future.
- Website
- Instagram: @kayla.stokes
Saiyana Suzumura
Saiyana Suzumura creates visual art and designs clothing with the goal to liberate and empower community.
2020 Fellows
Watch the Showcase and Celebration.
E.T. Russian
E.T. RUSSIAN is a multi-sensory artist based in the Pacific Northwest and has been making zines, comics, video and installation art about disability, queerness, and life, since the mid-90s.
- Website
- Instagram: @letmebedoubleclear
Dani Tirrell
Dani Tirrell is a dance artist, performer, choreogrpaher, and dance educator.
- Website
- Instagram: @danitirrell
- Venmo: @dani-long-5
Anastacia-Reneé Tolbert
Anastacia-Renee is an award-winning cross-genre writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, TEDX speaker and podcaster.
- Website
- Instagram: @anastaciarenee5
Storme Webber
Storme Webber is a Two Spirit Sugpiaq/Black/Choctaw poet and interdisciplinary artist.
- Website
- Twitter: @StormeWebber
2019 Fellows
Watch the Showcase and Celebration.
Anis Gisele
Anis Gisele writes about race, gender-expansiveness, violence, and accountable love.
- Instagram: @kingartista_anisgisele
- Venmo: @anisgisele
Sadiqua Iman
Sadiqua creates art to reflect injustices while actively working to dismantle the oppressive systems that have perpetuated them.
- Website
- Facebook@sadiquaiman
- Venmo: @bethecau
Jesse Higman
This vessel animal is one we can travel with—to institutions and outlying areas where the deepest aspects of our generative humanity can be celebrated visually.
- Website
- Instagram: @jessehigman
Nic Masangkay
Nic Masangkay uses music and poetry to realize a better world.
- Website
- Instagram: @nicmasangkay
- Venmo: @nicmasangkay
Jake Prendez
Jake Prendez celebrates Chicanx and Indigenous cultures through activism, satire, social justice, and pop culture.
2018 Fellows
Watch the Showcase and Celebration.
Earl Debnam
Earl Debnam’s drawings and paintings reflect a personal history of activism.
Tara Hardy
Advocate and writer Tara Hardy explores the impact of trauma and illness on our bodies and creative selves.
Mickey Rowe
Artist and activist Mickey Rowe is making positive change in theater.
- Website
- Instagram: @themickeyrowe
- Venmo: @theMickeyRowe
All photos by Sunita Martini