A Creative Excuse

Les Lepere

Les LePere is an artist from Harrington, WA. His work is on the covers of Tom Robbins books and in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Boston Art Museum, LA County Art Museum, and others.
https://www.pencilfarmstudio.com/

Becca Grady

Becca Grady (she/they) is a queer writer, photographer and artist. She is currently working on an environmental memoir about running and hiking through climate change in the Southwest, an excerpt of which was recently chosen in the Open Mountain Competition at the Kendal Mountain Literary Festival. Becca’s writing has also been published in Perverse, Ecology and Action Magazine, and Composite Arts Magazine. Her photography has been commissioned by the Center for Biological Diversity and featured in Grist.org. They have exhibited artwork across the US and internationally in Sweden, France, and Norway. 
https://www.beccagrady.com

Jason Garcia

Jason Garcia is a contemporary Native American artist in the United States, who was born in Santa Clara, New Mexico. His work has been exhibited the Smithsonian in Washington D.C, the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Palm Springs Art Museum, and many more.
https://okuupin.com/

Matt King

Matt King (1984 – 2022) was an American artist and co-founder of Meow Wolf, where he worked as senior vice president of creative direction until his death in July 2022. A native of Arlington, Texas, King was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Ben Muñoz

Benjamin Muñoz is a Dallas-based multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, installation, and monumental printmaking. Muñoz grew up in the vibrant Chicano culture of Corpus Christi, Texas, which boasts the country's largest Day of the Dead celebration, lowriders shows, and unique food culture. The middle child of artist brothers, Muñoz found his voice by reflecting on his heritage, upbringing, and current surroundings.
https://www.benjaminmunoz.com/

Paula Wilson, Mike Lagg & Kara Duval

Paula Wilson is an African American "mixed media" artist creating works examining women's identities through a lens of cultural history. She uses sculpture, collage, painting, installation, and printmaking methods such as silkscreen, lithography, and woodblock.
https://paulajwilson.com/
Mike Lagg is a self-taught woodworker whose furniture, buildings, sculptures, and kinetic pieces are engineered to move with the wind, body, sun, and hand. He works with hardwoods and recycled material to make pieces with refined craft and inventive recreation.
https://carrizozoarts.com/mike-lagg
Kara Duval is a massage therapist and dancer in Santa Fe, NM.
http://www.wisehandsbodywork.com/

Tricia English

Tricia English is a designer based in Santa Fe, NM. With a background in product development and business from the Melbourne School of Fashion, she has spent most of her life working in different areas of visual design as well as managed and operated businesses from start-ups to well-established entities.

Terran Last Gun

Terran Last Gun, Saakwaynaamah’kaa (Last Gun), (b. 1989, Browning, Montana) is a Piikani (Blackfeet) citizen and visual artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Piikani of Montana are one of four nations that make up the Blackfoot Confederacy and are collectively referred to as the Niitsitapi (Real People). Last Gun’s work draws influence from color, shape, land, cosmos, cultural narratives, and experiences. He works with various media, including printmaking, painting, photography, and ledger drawing.
https://hechoamano.org/artist/terran-last-gunterranlastgun.com

Bob Ebendorf

Bob Ebendorf is an American metalsmith and jeweler, known for craft, art and studio jewelry, often using found objects. In 2003–2004, the Smithsonian American Art Museum organized an exhibition of 95 pieces, titled The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of Forty Years.

Erin & Nina Elder

Erin Elder is an artist, writer, and curator guided by interests in land use, experimental collaboration, and non-traditional modes of expression. Her research-driven projects take highly participatory forms, working with a broad definition of art to bring audiences into a direct experience of particular places.
https://www.erinelder.com/
Nina Elder is an American transdisciplinary artist, writer, muralist, and educator. Her practice is informed by science, field research, and social justice movements. Elder's research based processes result in realistic drawings, performative lectures, and video work. 
https://www.ninaelder.com/