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Aarionne Hobbs (b. 1999) is a Dallas-based realist painter influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite period. He earned his B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting from Stephen F. Austin State University in 2025. He seeks to amalgamate nature, ancestral memories and the overall human experience into one canvas. His work explores the idea that nature can heal through various themes of identity, transformation and renewal.

Hobbs emphasizes the sacred communion between the figures and their environment in his paintings. He includes metaphorical symbolic elements such as animals, trees, dramatic skies and theatrical settings. Led by his philosophy of “where you go, there you will be”, he bridges classical realism with contemporary storytelling to immerse viewers into spaces of personal and cultural reflection.

Alicia Parham ( American b.1998) is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator native to North Texas. She is inspired by neurological research and the relationship with our brain. Parham's paintings act as artifacts that capture a moment of consciousness. After a major health diagnosis in 2021, her practice shifted to recording her experiences with neurological struggles. Using EEG brainwaves, and the optical “floaters” that interfered with her perception of reality, Parham creates large dramatic compositions.

Parham has been recognized by the Dallas Museum of Art via the Arch and Ann Giles Grant 2024, and UT Southwestern for her creative achievements. In November of 2023, she opened her debut solo show “Intravenous” at the The Paul Vortmens Gallery in Denton, Texas. Her work has been shown at the 500x gallery in Dallas & Irving, the Gallery 8680 in Frisco, and Jupiter Landing via Jupiter House in Denton, Texas. She is a 2-time national award-winning designer in 2014 and 2019 through the LLS Light the Night national design competition. She has received grants for her research via the Dallas Museum of Art and the University of North Texas.

Capri Woss (b. 2003) is an interdisciplinary artist studying the complex narratives of women and how their genetic background can influence familial and interpersonal dynamics. She works as a painter, sculptor, and fiber-based artist, honing a propensity towards mixed-media approaches. Her work uses her extensive background in the sciences to highlight how one’s form can shape their everyday experience. Focusing on both literal and abstract anatomical depictions, Woss highlights the delicate nature of female interconnection, examining the ebb and flow of domesticity across her lineage.

Woss received her B.F.A. in Fine Arts and B.S. in Biological Sciences, with minors in Art History and Chemistry, from ÃÛÌÒ½´in 2025. In her third year of undergraduate study, she was the sole recipient of the Mary Vernon Painting Prize. Her work has been exhibited in several curated group exhibitions, including the 500x College Expo in 2023.

Emme Landes is a painter who draws inspiration from feminine identity and representations from her own experiences. Her practice exists in dialogue with feminist theory, while exploring the contrast between authenticity and social expectations of women. Her paintings delve into the lived experience and self-expression of women. Investigating the density of female experience, Landes often uses everyday objects that hold a deeper message within her artwork. Drawing on shared narrative and collective memory, her artwork represents female experiences that play into the presentation and expectations of women in society.

Landes is from Little Rock, AR and graduated with honors from the University of Mississippi with a B.F.A. in Painting (2024). Her work has been featured in multiple regional shows and galleries even as she explores new styles, materials and concepts for her art. She continues to further her conceptual frameworks, while fostering conversations of identity and experience through her paintings.

Hermila Cuevas (b. 1986) is a Mexican-American multidisciplinary artist whose work engages with Chicana Art, the new mestiza theory, and the complexities of cultural identity, particularly the challenge of reconnecting fragmented histories after a cultural disconnection. She works across ceramics, digital media, painting, and sculptural installation to explore Mesoamerican history, tradition, and the intersection of the past and the present. Drawing on her indigenous ancestry and her Mexican-American and Tejana upbringing, Cuevas creates immersive works that invite viewers to look inward, fostering a deeper connection to their own histories and identities, and reflecting on how personal and cultural narratives are woven together.

Cuevas has exhibited her work in group exhibitions at the Mesquite Art Center, Bath House Cultural Center, and Garland Granville Arts Center, as well in other community and university exhibitions. She earned her B.F.A. in Fine Art with a concentration in ceramics from East Texas A&M University-Commerce (formerly known as Texas A&M Commerce) in 2023, receiving two Honors College grants that led to her first solo exhibition at the Wathena Temple Gallery for East Texas A&M Commerce Art Walk in 2023. Her work has received multiple awards from the Spring Juried show exhibition in 2022, 2023 and 2025.

Rebekah Lanier (b. 1997) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dallas, TX. After obtaining a degree in International Development, Environmental Science, and Painting at The Ohio State University in 2018, she has dedicated her full time to art. Lanier’s work maintains overarching themes of spirituality, gender and sexuality using the female figure and her own visual language to represent contemporary conversations around these subjects. She works across mediums, blending traditional oil painting and watercolor with digital animation techniques, and expanding into figurative sculpture.

In 2021, Lanier presented her first solo exhibition at the Goodrich Gallery in Dallas. Since then, she has participated in artist residencies at the Mauser Foundation in Costa Rica (2023) and Les Buis Residency in France (2024). Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Le Sol House (Dallas, 2024) and Beatnik (Dallas, 2025), as well as group exhibitions with Ivy Gallery (Dallas, 2024), Nostalgia & Noise (Dallas, 2025) and Plus que mes Émotions in Paris, France (2025).

Serena Ramirez is an interdisciplinary artist from El Paso, TX. Her practice centers on experimentation and themes of memory, vulnerability and identity. Through sculptural forms and illustrative techniques, she reimagines childhood artifacts, nostalgic icons, and personal mementos, creating symbolic objects that weave storytelling into a visual language.

Ramirez’s work has been featured in various exhibitions within Texas, including the CAMEO Emerging Artist Exhibition at Lee College, 360: International Sculpture Day at Lá Mecha & Zephyr Contemporary and Creadoras at Tinta Sangre Art Gallery. She was also a recipient of the 2024 Anderson Ranch Scholarship award and presented at UTEP’s 9th Annual Art History Symposium on women in contemporary craft. In 2025, she held her debut solo exhibition Fragments at UTEP’s Glass Gallery. She received her B.A. in Ceramics with a minor in Art History from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2024.

Karina Ramirez is a mixed-media artist exploring color and how color can express certain aspects of a composition. Her work consists of impressionism with a hint of abstraction that covers identity, culture, belonging, and self-expression—using color through lines, shape forms, and texture. A significant part of her work is the process. Her work consists of memories she made with her family heritage as a Mexican American. She has been exploring new ways to enhance her progress by exploring various inner cultural documentation when visiting her family in Mexico with photography and printmaking. Karina received her B.F.A in Painting/Drawing and a Minor in Art History from the University of North Texas (2024). Her work has been in numerous exhibitions, including the Dallas Museum of Art for Young Masters exhibition (2017). She was also awarded a scholarship in the 62nd Annual Paul Voertman Juried Student Art Competition at the University of North Texas (2023).

Jillian Whitney is a painter who uses personal experience and the concept of synecdoche to address broader human experiences. She primarily uses self-portraiture as a means to recognize her own perspective and bias while realizing the interpersonal connection between her and the viewer’s shared experiences. Themes present in her work often revolve around violence, both the everyday and the extreme. She also pulls on themes of nostalgia, feminism and her experiences as a teacher to inform her work, most often discussing violence in schools.