YVONNE SHORTT ​creates dialogue and action with her art practice using installation, sculpture and paint. Her subjects of exploration are community, disability, race, equity, and equality. Her methodology is question-based inviting participation from the viewer and collaborations with the community. She started her art career ​by beautifying a neglected area running through the heart of her neighborhood and used daily by kids going to school. It was a LIRR and DOT owned space filled with trash, tires, rodents, and a crumbling wall. By involving the local Council Woman, DOT, LIRR, DOS, two local public schools, and 200 community residents, she transformed this area into an outdoor exhibition space which included 3000 square feet of new sidewalk, new garbage cans, and fixes to the decaying wall. She deemed it an "underpass exhibition space" to display the design and photographic work of the community, and represent what is possible through collaborative effort.

IVAN STOJAKOVIC​ explores artificial environments and the decline of wild natural habitats. The objects he creates, such as paintings, dioramas, vertical gardens, tables, or composites thereof, have an independent life, guided purely by aesthetic non-environmental goals. This contradiction between design and environmental activism is a driving force in his work. which draws from the mapping of hurricane floods, urban sprawls, habitat loss, and contemporary landscape design. While drawing from these sources, he creates fictional settings that are based on surrealist experiments forming an open-ended visual narrative about the hybrid nature of our world, and about the perversion of the human impact on the wild natural environment. These environmental narratives are not mere illustrations of environmental messages but abstract visual syntheses, which he completes through exploration of the aesthetic ideals of balance and beauty, of the fashionable, and of the strange and sublime. His work examines the complex and controversial nature of human desire as a driving force behind our consumerism and behind our environmental actions.

GIL LOPEZ​ is ​an anti-racist community organizer, urban environmental educator, socially engaged bio-artist and doer. He works in broad strokes on topics ranging from environmental justice and food sovereignty, to bike/ped issues and reskilling the populace towards subsistence and away from wage labor. He is passionate about the living soil foodweb, democracy in the workplace and collective living.