Amina Ahmed (b. 1964, in Uganda, East Africa is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, printmaking, bookmaking and textiles. Of Kutchi-Indian, Turkic (Bukhara), and Nubian heritage, Amina’s art making is rooted in spiritual practice, which guides her work with geometry as an alchemy of elemental processes. Through the medium of thread and paper, she approaches the preparation of pigments, inks, and dyes, as intentional acts of remembrance. Amina traces the story of indigo through her ancestral lineage, attempting to derive pigment from all accessible plant and mineral sources. She engages with color as a living language, continually drawing from patterns witnessed in nature and through folk traditions, where making is a form of embodied knowledge.

Jenna Hamed is an artist and art worker based in Queens, New York, with roots in metro Detroit and Jerusalem, Palestine. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion and Fine Art from Eastern Michigan University and a Master’s degree in Arts Politics from New York University. Her practice brings together curation, editorial, and bookmaking through visual, material, and archival research. In 2024, she founded Jay Seven Inc., a collaborative studio-gallery in Brooklyn dedicated to producing installations and publishing initiatives. She has organized exhibitions with Baxter Street at the Camera Club, Subtitled NYC, the Center for Book Arts, and Jay Seven Inc., each accompanied by a publication she produced collaboratively.

Mohammad Omer Khalil (b. 1936, Burri, Sudan) is a New York–based Sudanese artist and master printmaker. A pioneer of Sudanese modernism, he trained between Khartoum and Italy, developing a practice that unites painting and etching. After moving to New York in 1967, he founded his studio, M.O.K., producing print editions with major artists and institutions. Khalil led the Asilah printmaking workshop in Morocco for 27 years and held faculty positions in the printmaking departments at Pratt, NYU and Columbia. His work is widely exhibited and held in collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Throughout his career, Khalil has received international recognition, with awards and exhibitions across Europe, the Arab World, and beyond.

Joshua Chee Sanford is a writer and arts worker based in Brooklyn, New York.