Dylan Gauthier is a New York-based artist, designer, curator and educator. Working in a range of media including sound, performance, video, sculpture, and photography, he makes research-based and collaborative projects about ecology, architecture, landscape, and environmental justice. Gauthier is a founder of the Sunview Luncheonette, a co-op for art and politics in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is co-organizer, with Mariel Villeré, of Freshkills Field R/D, an artist-research residency based at NYC's largest former landfill, is a co-founder of Mare Liberum, and of the Sunview Luncheonette. Gauthier holds an MFA from Hunter College and teaches art, design, and systems at Parsons, The New School in New York City. More info at: dylangauthier.info.

Kendra Sullivan is a public artist and academic writer who directs the Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research, publishes Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and acts as editorial director for Women’s Studies Quarterly. She is part of the ecoart collective Mare Liberum, currently working with Waterfront Toronto on a public art commission on and about the renaturalization of the Lower Don River & Parklands. In 2020, she coedited Between Species/Between Spaces: Art & Science on the Outer Cape with her partner Dylan Gauthier, a collection that chronicles work being done by a team of environmental artists and scientists at the National Seashore. She has an MA in sustainability and environmental education and is pursuing a PdD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. She has published poetry in No, Dear, the Brooklyn Rail, and Asphalte. Her first chapbook Zero Point Dream Poems is forthcoming from DoubleCross Press in fall 2022.

Jean Barberis is an artist, curator, writer, and carpenter hailing from Brooklyn by way of France.

Jean co-founded Flux Factory, an arts space and residency program in Queens NY. Jean has collaborated with Mare Liberum since 2012, working on exhibitions, workshops, and expeditions.

As an avid adventure seeker, Jean has rowed a paper boat along the Hudson River, built a tree house in Alaska, a shack on a deserted island of NYC, and is currently working on historic ship restorations for the South Street Seaport Museum .

Jean has shown his work at the Queens Museum, the Pompidou Center and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He is currently working on his first novel.

Sunita Prasad is a Brooklyn-based film, video, and performance artist. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including solo shows and screenings at Centre Clark in Montreal, Homesession in Barcelona, Momenta Art in New York, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia. She has participated in group shows at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Torino Performance Art in Turin, Stadtgalerie Bern, Smack Mellon in New York City, and Three Walls in Chicago. She has received awards from the Art Matters Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Warner Bros. Production Fund, as well as residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Contemporary Artists Center in Troy NY, and TAJ & SKE Projects in Bangalore. Sunita is a 2021 recipient of a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship finalist grant.

Sunita Prasad's works often employ methods of hybridization between documentary and fiction. These methods have included the insertion of hyperbolic acts of intimacy into public space, using drag personas to intervene in a breast-implant crowdfunding site, and the creation of “misgendered” re-enactments of accounts of gender discrimination. Sunita’s projects span a variety of subjects, landing frequently on gender, representation, and social movements.

Sunita’s collaborations include membership in the collective Mare Liberum, feature films such as The Filmballad of Mamadada and 93Queen, Sharon Mashihi’s fiction podcast Appearances, and participation in theater works with The Ecocide Project, Laryssa Husiak and others.

Kiara Marshall is a model, talent researcher, and disability advocate. She is a former recreation therapist and has experience working with populations of varying physical and cognitive abilities.

Kiara is passionate about positive and realistic representation of intersections in media, fashion, and leisure spaces. One day she hopes to become an accessibility officer for production companies, art spaces, and urban planning.

In her free time, Kiara likes to read, craft, and spend time outdoors. She will be attending CUNY in the fall pursuing an M.A. in Disability Studies.

As an industrial designer and artist, Ben has accumulated years of experience working with designers and artists, institutions and fabricators on ambitious technical projects. In addition to his experience sourcing, building, maintaining and running workshops with an array of processes, centered around wood and metal, he has also incorporated printmaking, CNC machining, 3D printing and robotics into his projects with the goal of creating artworks, products, and experiences that move beyond the conventional. He is a Co-founder & Director of the non-profit The Gowanus Studio Space, a thriving artist-run studio and workshop that has provided affordable studios and workspace in the neighborhood for the past 11 years.

Stephan von Muehlen is Brooklyn-based designer, builder, and artist whose work attempts to combine sustainable practice with craft and technology. As a designer and builder, he has worked on projects ranging from aerospace robotics and consumer electronics to cardboard log cabins and interactive public art kiosks. In his artistic practice, Stephan brings his skills as a designer and fabricator to his collaborations with other artists. The results have included large-scale sculptural work and installations, as well as kinetic paintings and boats. His work has been shown at The Gowanus Studio Space, EFA Project Space, and The Old School.

Shannon Gerard works across a variety of media. She writes and draws books, crochets soft sculptures, makes prints, and produces large-scale installations that incorporate stop-motion animation and wheatpaste. Employing play as a research strategy, her work with the Carl Wagan Bookmobile emphasizes the materials and ethos of independent publishing as social-political engagements. Shannon is also providing leadership to OCAD University’s new curricular stream in Publications. More info at shannongerard.tumblr.com

Maria Hupfield is a transdisciplinary maker working with Industrial felt at the intersection of performance art, design and sculpture. She is a 2020-2022 inaugural Borderlands Fellow for her project Breaking Protocol at The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School and the Center for the Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University, and was awarded the Hnatyshyn Mid-career Award for Outstanding Achievement in Canada 2018. She has exhibited and performed her work through her touring solo exhibition The One Who Keeps On Giving (organized by The Power Plant) 2017-2018, and solo Nine Years Towards the Sun, at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, 2019-2020. Amongst other places, she has also presented her work at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the NOMAM in Zurich, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Galerie de L’UQAM, the New York Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, the New York Museum of Art and Design, BRIC House Gallery, the Bronx Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Site Santa Fe, and the National Gallery of Canada. She is co-owner of Native Art Department International with her husband artist Jason Lujan, and a founding member of the Indigenous Kinship Collective NYC. Hupfield belongs to and is an off-rez Anishnaabek from Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario, Canada, and is a Canadian Research Chair in Transdisciplinary Indigenous Arts, with the Indigenous Creation Studio, Department of Visual Studies / English and Drama, at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

Brandon Latcham is an interdisciplinary artist and photographer living north of Toronto. He has spent the last decade traveling and refining his craft. His practice gravitates to designing sets and sculptural story worlds for his photos. He is concerned with how the body relates to objects and space to create cohesive narratives. Latcham's drive is to create representational pieces that force the viewer to investigate complex scenes. He is currently enrolled in OCADU completing his BFA in Printmaking/Publication

Freddie (they/she) is a print-maker and visual artist, currently studying illustration (Bachelor of Design) at OCAD University in Tkaronto (so-called Toronto), Ontario, Canada. Their independent practice is about 5 years old. She works around themes of trauma, escape, florals, and contemporary fantasy in ink, linoleum-relief printing, and gouache. Once they graduate, Freddie hopes to work independently as a print-maker and ink based artist, regularly publishing zines and other ephemera. For the Don River Radio project, Freddie was a student in the Pressing Issues course run by Shannon Gerard at OCAD University in Fall of 2021. They were asked to develop work based on independent research and work in a team-based environment to complete the larger goals of the residency at Evergreen Brickworks, Tkaronto.