Angélica Maria Millán Lozano is an artist from Bogotá, Colombia currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Using distressed fabrics, she creates abstract and figurative compositions that question the social injustices affecting migrant families, specifically Latinas at home. In response to her home country’s political unrest, Millán Lozano uses her experiences to explore themes of familiarity, absurdity, foreignness, and fear. Millán Lozano chooses the fabrics for her work very carefully – opting for textiles that tell stories of resilience. The pre-worn fabrics reveal evidence of distress, wear and tear, deconstruction, and reconstruction. The artist emphasizes that these mediums can carry narratives of pain – which is fitting given that they often represent the bodies of suffering Latin American Women. Millán Lozano also selected fabric as her medium to return agency and meaning to a material often reduced to “women’s work” in Latinx households. She received her MFA in Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Angélica has been a resident at the Bemis Center, Ox Bow School of Art, ACRE Residency among others. She has shown nationally at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Equity Gallery in New York, NY, Jacob Lawrence Gallery in Seattle, Washington, Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, and Nationale in Portland, Oregon.

Laura Camila Medina (1995) is an interdisciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia. Her practice is deeply inspired by the kisses between mountains and sky of her birthplace intertwined with the thematic fantasy-scape and migrant microcosms of Orlando, FL. Her work has been exhibited at Yossi Milo, David Castillo Gallery, Arts Fort Worth, Fuller Rosen Gallery, the Portland Art Museum, Nationale, and with the Nat Turner Project. She was awarded the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, the H. Lee Hirsche Memorial Prize, Dean’s Travel Grant, and CCAM Fellowship at Yale University, Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, New Media Fellowship at Open Signal, and various artist residencies including: the Living School of Art, ACRE, Signal Fire, and Centrum. Alongside Angela Saenz, she is part of Maracuya con Leche, a collaborative project that encourages artists to participate in creative exchange with their community. Together they were the IPRC Artists & Writers in Residence in 2020, where they completed two community mural projects, and were invited to the Caldera Artist Residency in 2022. She is represented by Nationale in Portland, OR. Medina earned her BFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale University.