Artists

Ariel Cooper (she/they) lives and works in Oakland, CA; the unceded homelands of the Ohlone people.
Her home is in the Fruitvale neighborhood along the Sausal Creek Watershed that drains into the San Francisco Bay.  
Ariel is a multidisciplinary artist working through visual storytelling as well as social/ecological/material experiments. In her work she connects personal shatterings and mendings to collective and historical events and processes.
This manifests as experimental narrative comic books and tapestries populated by animal and spiritual critters, haunting visitations, landscapes, psychological domestic interiors and playful expressions of nonlinear time. As well as through experiments in urban land based art projects like the Speculative Commoning Artist Collaborative, all of which seek to work in opposition to the alienation processes inherent in the capitalist project.
http://arielcooper.net


Emma Fenton-Miller (she/they) I tend, gather and refine materials, especially pigments and fiber, from my immediate environment for use in my work. These processes create an ongoing point of contact from which to explore belonging and alienation within human systems and the ‘more than human’ world. Building cross-species relationships and using craft to ground me in my ecology are key components of my practice. 
Feeling the limitation that exists within and around me, I experiment with non-linear, non-dualistic imagining to move closer to what appears inanimate and impossible; to the grief inherent in extractive economies. I practice experiencing the aliveness of the world. 
My work is also a physical manifestation of the relationships I am building through careful observation, listening, collaboration (human and non-human) and the labor of craft. This shows up as painting, papercut, book forms, small sculpture and multi-species collaboration in the urban margins.
https://emmafentonmiller.com

Wairimu Kamau (they/them) also Nish, Flood Tide Zines, is an East African artist ashore on the margins of the unceded Lands of Muwekma Ohlone People in Alameda, California.
Wairimu situates themself within a lineage abound with curiosity of Enchantment’s capacities to unriddle our loneliness and catalyze an un-belonging to constructs vitiating the essence of kinship with all life, and especially all that nests in the fringes of care.
How might our Awe move us beyond anthropocentric, extractive, individual relationships with the Land, and towards an awakening to our inherent belonging and reciprocal (response)(sibilities) in kinship?
In all abundance of time, you can find them savouring the sacredness of solitude by the Pacific Shores, or wonder-struck by Shorebirds and a blooming Pacific Aster deep in the Winter at a Marsh. They find delight in a Squirrel passing by, a good album, movie, tending the Land, drinking Tea amongst the Redwoods with a friend, last night’s dream, and the generative possibilities their loneliness provides.