The Hongs is a multinational electronic rock group formed by Jamaican-born musician, Gordon Myers. The Hongs have since become one of the most popular bands of the Miami music scene. Blending elements of electro-pop with nu-wave, creating a unique sound they are spreading the dance/rock/electro/house hybrid one toe at a time. Band Members include Gordon D. Myers (Bass/Vocals), Aaron Lebos (Guitar), Didi Gutman Brazilian Girls (Synth/Keyboard), Aaron “Abomb” Johnston Brazilian Girls (Drums/Vocals), Tony “Smurphio” Laurencio (Keyboards), and Ben Stivers (Keyboards).

Thom Wheeler Castillo lives and works in Miami, FL; Graduated from PNCA, Intermedia. Interested in landscape, environmentalism and ecosystems, he works from an interdisciplinary approach entwining art history, earth science and anthropology. He participated in the inaugural Commuter Biennial, supplanting advertisements on public buses with a series of handmade, editioned prints. He also produces works through experimentation and partnership that nurtures his studio practice, including being one-half of Archival Feedback (along with Emile Milgrim). The duo engage in various critical dialogues of the moment, approaching the environment as a studio in the field, producing sound works in a wide variety of mediums. Since 2021, he's embarked on cultural missions throughout the Caribbean region, working with Curator Rosie Gordon-Wallace and the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator's International Cultural Exchanges (I.C.E). He is currently an Artist-In-Residence Studio Fellowship with DVCAI and a 2023 recipient of its Catalyst award. He works with various institutions throughout the region as an Educator including Perez Art Museum Miami, O, Miami Poetry Festival, HistoryMiami, A.I.R.I.E. (Artist in Residence in the Everglades), the Rubell Museum, and the Miami Design District.

Tyler Mitchell is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was born and raised in Atlanta, GA where he got his start making skate videos and taking pictures of music, fashion and youth culture. He received his BFA in Film and Television from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His work has been featured in American Vogue, British Vogue, Teen Vogue, M Le Monde, i-D Magazine, AnOther Magazine, Dazed Magazine, Document Journal, The Guardian and The FADER. Selected clients include Calvin Klein, Prada, Mercedes Benz, Simone Rocha x Moncler, Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Converse, Nike and Ray-Ban.

Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz is a nationally and internationally recognized award-winning interdisciplinary visual and performance artist. Through personal narratives and experiences, her work dissects cultural and social constructs designed to isolate, “herd” and manage Otherness. Needing the immediacy of a live audience she developed the Las Reinas (The Queens), a suite of allegorical self-portrait performances where she become imagined royal archetypes anchored in personal trauma. Most recently she debuted Exodus|Pilgrimage, an endurance performance addressing the forced migration of thousands of Puerto Ricans to the United States as a result of the current humanitarian crisis post-hurricane Mari, the artist dressed in attire made completely from debris recovered from the island.

Born and nurtured in Little Haiti, Florida, where he’s currently based, Woosler Delisfort is the living embodiment of creative essence rooted in the depths of heritage and community. Delisfort is a self-taught documentary photographer and filmmaker whose mission is to explore the core principles affecting the collective Human Spirit. His practice uses storytelling to weave together anecdotes and illuminate the realities of our world. Delisfort began his career documenting the emotion, humanity, and spirituality of Little Haiti’s citizens, hoping to replace negative stereotypes with images of joy, life, and creative expression. His work crosses into the borders of the Caribbean and West Africa, where he continues to examine the complexities of spirituality and communal ceremonies. His latest work, SANCTUARY: Our Sacred Place explores the spiritual origins of Miami’s Indigenous, African, and Caribbean communities by capturing moments of divine connection in temples, churches, and mosques. The more than 100-piece exhibition highlights how these cultures are harnessing sacred spaces in Miami as vital sources of life, both politically and spiritually. This project is part of a residency presented by the HistoryMiami’s Center for Photography and will be exhibited in August 2024. Delisfort is a past recipient of the Wavemaker Awards by Locust Projects through his collaboration with Third Horizon, and the Ellies Award, by Oolite Arts. He is a member of the Iris Collective and a board member of the Haitian Cultural Alliance

Yacine Tilala Fall is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist. Using natural materials, she investigates concepts of heritage, ritual, and function through performance, sculpture, painting and installation. Inspired by her Senegalese and Mauritanian heritage, her work and practice speak to the human body and its entangled relationship with labor, history, and faith. Fall received a BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in 2019 and is a current MFA candidate at Yale School of Art.