Artist Profiles

Artists

Sève Favre

Sève Favre is a visual artist, originally from the French part of Switzerland. In 2005, she created her first modular artwork. She has exhibited in Switzerland and abroad. In 2020, Sève Favre was nominated for the Arte Laguna Prize in Installation and Sculpture. Passionate about the concept of integration, she concentrates on transcending the classical boundary between the artwork and the viewer. The main feature of her art is interactivity. The key words that support her concept are interaction (be together), variation (be different), and activity (be active). Her name for this experience is “intervariactivity.”

Michael Paramo

Michael Paramo is a Queer Mexican-American artist and researcher from the suburbs of north Orange County (which occupy the stolen territories of the Tongva/Kizh, Acjachemen, and Payómkawichum). They created AZE journal (azejournal.com) in 2016, where they publish journal issues on topics intersecting with asexuality, aromanticism, and agenderness. Influenced by their mother and artist Martha Guillen-Paramo, Michael has created art since they were a child. In 2018, they began creating digital self-portraits as part of a journey toward self-discovery. They are currently studying the intersections of aesthetics and decoloniality as a PhD student at the University of British Columbia.

Ernst Perdriel

Ernst Perdriel was born in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). He is a multi-field artist (visual art, photography, writing - French), designer and horticulturist.

He participates in solo and group exhibitions in visual arts since 1995. The artist uses mosaics, collages, landscaping, photography to talk about our complex era. Perdriel has contributed in numerous publications since 1992 as a writer, illustrator, artist, photographer and in self-publishing. His works have appeared in Sunspot Literary Journal, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, Kolaj Magazine, Into the Void, The Healing Muse, Iris Literary Journal, 3Elements Literary Review and others. Learn more at www.ernstperdriel.com

K.A. Cummins

K.A. Cummins explores storytelling in a variety of mediums, blending reality and imagination. Her artwork has been featured on the cover of Rattle, her writing has appeared on Havok Publishing, and she’s a Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards silver medalist. Cummins lives in Alabama with her husband, their youngest son, and cat named Spot. Connect with her through her website at https:// authorkacummins.com.

Artists

Kate Birch

Kate Jarvik Birch is a full time visual artist, author, playwright, and daydreamer. Her art has been featured worldwide in stores like Target, Pier One and World Market, as well as in television series and major motion pictures such as, Transparent, Medium, Glee, Twenty-One Jump Street and Looper. Her essays and short stories have been published in literary journals including Indiana Review and Saint Ann’s Review. She is also the author of the YA novels PERFECTED, TARNISHED, UNRAVELED and DELIVER ME. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Daniel Zolinsky

Daniel Charles Zolinsky was born in 1946 in Paris, France, to a French mother and Russian father. He moved to San Francisco at the age of ten. The age of 20 makes the beginning of many solitary voyages throughout the world—Europe, Africa, México, Asia, always with a camera. He settled in New Mexico in the early 1980s here he met his future wife, writer Denise Chávez and writer, Rudolfo Anaya. The Himalayas marks the beginning of long-range photographic treks on foot. The discipline of photography and walking is a way of living as well as working. In Paris, he began his collaboration with Michel Fresson, the master printer of the rare archival Fresson color process leading to many exhibits of the work in Europe. Currently, the primary focus is on the Río Grande and the Border as well as working on a book on a Ulyssean theme on the Greek and Italian Islands. Stendhal said that “A novel is like a mirror carried along a road, so it is with photography.”

Albert Rosales

Albert sold his first art piece in 4th grade, to the Albuquerque Children’s Museum. By age 13, he was airbrushing and selling t-shirts, learning graffiti techniques with both airbrush and spray can, allowing for quicker application and more realistic effects. At 18, he learned composition and mural creation at the Mayor’s Art Summer Institute. Since, he’s done art for various city and community projects, namely, the Albuquerque BioPark & Zoo, as well as restaurants Annapurna’s, O Ramen, and Poki Poki. As a native New Mexican, he hopes to bring awareness and change to the issues that face society through art and teaching.