Photo by Robin Michals

Artichoke Dance Company (https://www.artichokedance.org/) is a nationally recognized leader in ecoarts productions and programs. Based in Brooklyn, the Company, under the direction of Lynn Neuman, leads annual Immersive Performance Tours of Gowanus, hosts free outdoor performances, and has engaged hundreds of hands in repurposing materials headed to landfill into costumes and installations. Artichoke Dance Company offers an EcoArts Activism training program, Artichoke Ambassadors (https://www.artichokedance.org/artichoke-ambassadors), with online and in person modules for artists of all mediums. Follow @ArtichokeDance.

CHICAVA, ISHKARA HEQWABTI and NDIGO

Chicava is a Universal Healing Tao Instructor and Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi instructor. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College in sacred sexuality, spirituality performance art, and women of color in burlesque heritage. Her arts and spiritual studies converge through her school, Sacred Chrysalis, the space where the sacred sexuality of Taoist Womanly Arts, burlesque, and sistering community meet.

Damontae Hack is a New York–based choreographer, director, and interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates Black Queer identity, emotional vulnerability, and physical storytelling. A graduate of California Institute of the Arts, his practice draws from ballet, contemporary, hip hop, theater, and site-specific work, often incorporating voice, sound, and structured improvisation. Damontae’s work has been shaped by collaborations with artists such as Solange Knowles, Gerard & Kelly, Ralph Lemon, and rubberlegz. Follow @damontxecreations

Eco Angels is a diverse eco-group ensemble which includes South African Greek-Cypriot composer, Angelique Mouyis (www.angeliquemouyis.com), British librettist, David Bottomley, South African soprano, Marieke de Koker, South African tenor, Ongama Mhlontlo, and Egyptian pianist, Lamis Shams.

Eloïse Frey (www.eloise-frey.com) is a Strasbourg-born French contemporary dancer, movement creative, dance filmmaker and photographer based in London. Her work explores abstract themes that reflect on the human experience in today’s society. She is interested in creating work which shows how dance can be perceived all around us, and in working with interdisciplinarity to broaden the reach, concept and aesthetic of contemporary movement. Follow @_eloise_frey.

Iviva Olenick (www.ivivaolenick.com) is a Brooklyn-born and based artist who revives textile, herbalism, and horticultural traditions to explore human-plant inter-relationships through an eco-feminist lens. Olenick embeds plants directly into her handmade artworks through plant mono-printing, dyeing, and the creation and application of plant-based inks. Her delicately detailed works range from handheld to life-sized, and incorporate embroidery, beading, weaving, watercolor, and crochet in addition to plants. Follow @iviva_in_brooklyn.

Janice McDonnell (https://www.janicemcdonnell.com/) is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose paintings explore how people adapt to change, loss, and uncertainty through everyday scenes, personal objects, and shifting urban landscapes. Her work reflects a deep belief in art’s power to bear witness, provoke reflection, and reveal quiet resilience. She holds a BFA from The Ohio State University and trained at the Art Students League of New York. Follow @janicemcdonnell_art.

Lenore Solmo (www.lenoresolmo.com) is a self-taught mixed media artist in Brooklyn NY. After a decades long career as a design professional in fashion accessories, in 2020, when the world appeared to stand still, Solmo needed a new creative challenge with more meaning and committed to making art using found objects rescued from the streets of NYC. Follow @lenoresolmolifestyle.

Leslie Kerby (http://lesliekerby.com) works across media—primarily drawing, collage, printmaking, and video—to create both representational and abstract works in series. These thematically linked works focus on issues relating to the variable connections between the individual and the broader networks and communities within which we live and interact. She is specifically interested in systemic patterns as they manifest visually in the built and natural environment. Follow @lesliekerby.

Miho Ryu (https://www.ryumiho.com/) is a choreographer and teaching artist originally from Tokyo, Japan, and recipient of the Best Dance Choreography Award at the Oniros Film Awards® in 2018. She has created and performed over 100 works—including live performances, films, music videos, and interactive installations—across Europe, Asia, and the United States. Since relocating to New York in 2024, her work has been presented at venues such as West Fest, Dixon Place, Chez Bushwick, BAX, and Chain Theatre. Follow @ryumihoryu

Photo by Reiko Yoo Yanagi

OakKAO: Kinetic Arts Outdoors is the dance collective guided by Margaret Mighty Oak Brackey. Using improvisation as a jumping-off point, OakKAO shares environmentally minded works and collaborates with dancers, actors, and musicians. We seek to tell stories that (re)connect urban audiences to our inherent love of nature, and the creatures with whom we share the planet. Follow @margaret_mightyoak.

Quinn Wynacht is a recent graduate from UCLA, earning a B.A. in Dance and a B.S. in Environmental Science, graduating Magna Cum Laude. A dancer, artist, fashionista, environmentalist, and music lover, Quinn creates work at the intersection of movement, style, and sound. They have been exploring choreography and performance as a way to connect themes of queerness, identity, and biophilia - the innate human tendency to connect with nature and other living things. Follow @qu1nnt1ssent1al.

Vasudev Vashisht (https://vasudev-vashisht.com/) is an artist-ethnographer and researcher currently based in New York. He uses organic matter and alternative photographic methods to situate nature as a studio, subject, collaborator, and extended gallery, developing images that emerge through living systems, thereby transforming photography into a material ecology. Vashisht’s practice spans installation, participatory workshops, and community engagement. Follow @wahsodev.