Projecting All Voices

Amber Doe is an interdisciplinary artist working in textile, sculpture, installation, sound, photography and video. Doe creates work with a historical and contemporary understanding of American and post colonial western societies' desire to control and subdue black bodies, along with a vivid material portrait of her immediate family, diasporic and interspecies family. She does not see her experience highlighted in dominant culture, so she uses her art to rectify this representational void.

Her work has been exhibited at the Amarillo Museum of Art, TX; the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI; the Museum of Museums, Seattle, WA; and the LeRoy Neiman Art Center in New York City; as well as featured in a solo exhibition at Snake Bite Gallery in Tucson, AZ in October 2022. Doe was awarded a 2021 Between the Dots Fellowship, a 2021 Abbey Awards Fellowship in Painting at the British School in Rome, Italy, and has been awarded residencies at Arteles in Haukijärvi, Finland; Can Serrat in Barcelona, Spain; and La Ira de Dios in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She received her BFA in Sculpture, Film, and American History from Sarah Lawrence College.

Nuttaphol Ma is a multidisciplinary artist whose work connects the seemingly disconnected notes from unfolding everyday moments. He uses patterns from his subconscious, dreams, and past to compose stories about longing, loss, memory, survival, and the labor of adapting to a new home. His work is presented in varying forms including installations, participatory workshops, and public interventions through performances. Ephemera are recorded as artist books, essay films, and storytelling.

Ma’s recent work titled Meditative Shit: A Collective Ritual to Heal, Repair, Mend was selected for the 2022 Imagining America National Gathering at Tulane University. The piece draws strengths from his ancestors and cultural roots as ways to heal, repair and mend through rituals. He currently runs a nomadic self-imposed sweatshop entitled The China Outpost that migrates across the country. Within The China Outpost, he alters a flag from an immigrant’s lens at public spaces. Such action is a direct response to the unrelenting xenophobic rhetoric that has dominated the airwaves and social media in recent times. Ma holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts, Architectural Conservation, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics.

Instagram and Twitter: @thechinaoutpost

Amber McCrary is Diné poet, zinester, feminist and artist. She is Red House born for Mexican people. Originally from Shonto, Arizona and raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. She earned her BA from Arizona State University in Political Science with a minor in American Indian Studies. She received her MFA in creative writing with an emphasis in poetry at Mills College. She is also the creator of DANG! Zine (Daydreaming, Awkward, Native, Girl) Vol. 1 and Vol.2, Angsty Asdzáá: Tales of an angry Indigenous woman zine and The Asdzáá Beat. She recently released a chapbook titled, Electric Deserts! (Tolsun Books). McCrary is the owner and founder of Abalone Mountain Press, a press dedicated to publishing Indigenous voices. She is a board member of the Northern Arizona Book Festival, the AZ Humanities 2022 Rising Star of the year and a 2022 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation LIFT awardee. McCrary currently resides on Akimel O’odham lands.

You can find her poems, interviews and art at ambermccrary.com and abalonemountainpress.com.

Daisy Quezada Ureña is a visual artist and educator based in Santa Fe, NM. She creates ceramic works and installations that center identity and place. Informed through her Mexican-American background, her work bridges the personal to the social, forming a relationship between immigration, gender inequality, labor and class issues. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at: The Denver Art Museum (Denver, Colorado), Summerhall (Edinburg, Scotland), New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum (New Taipei, Taiwan), Gyeonggi Ceramic Art Museum (Icheon, South Korea) and Wheelright Museum of American Indian.

Her most recent publication bosque brotante documents the interactions and objects involved in her sculptural and participatory art project about the Rio Grande, or bosque region. As an extension of her practice Quezada Ureña has also worked alongside non-for-profit organizations, including El Otro Lado/The Other Side and Downtown Aurora Visual Arts, which impact community at a local level by working with youth.

Jake Skeets (he/him) is Tsi’naajínii born for Tábąąhá; his maternal grandparents are the Táchii’nii and his paternal grandparents are the Tódík’ózhí. Skeets is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. He is the author of “Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers,” winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award and Whiting Award. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. His honors include a 2020-2021 Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He is an assistant professor and teaches at the University of Oklahoma.

Sky Duncan (26) is from the San Carlos Apache, Arikara, Hidatsa and Mandan tribes. He grew up in Mesa, Arizona, as a hoop dancer with his family. His preferred gender pronouns are he, him, his and they. He identifies as Two-Spirit and gay.
The vibrant colors in Pow Wows, pop music and Pokémon sparked his first interest in art. Duncan creates paintings, mainly colorful and abstract portraits of escapism or rumination.

Makaye Lewis is a Tohono O’odham multidisciplinary artist working mainly in printmaking. Lewis comes from the small, secluded village of Ventana on the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona but currently resides in the village of Ak Chin. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2019. Her work is inspired by her lived experiences from life in the borderlands as an Indigenous person to life as a new mom. She is also largely influenced by her O’odham culture.

Manny Loley is ‘Áshįįhi born for Tó Baazhní’ázhí; his maternal grandparents are the Tódích’íi’nii and his paternal grandparents are the Kinyaa’áanii. Loley is from Tsétah Tó Ák’olí. He is a current PhD candidate in English and literary arts at the University of Denver. Loley is director of the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute. His work has found homes in Poetry Magazine, Pleaides Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Broadsided Press, the Yellow Medicine Review and the Diné Reader: an Anthology of Navajo Literature, among others. His writing has been thrice nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Loley is at work on a novel titled “They Collect Rain in Their Palms.”