Sya Warfield - Founder/Director

Originally from upstate NY, Sya Warfield (she/her) is a versatile artist living in Los Angeles, California. After earning her BA in Sociology and Photography from SUNY Fredonia, she became passionate about building community through art. Her journey into art, wellness, meditation, and clairvoyant training began in 2003 with studies at IPSB in San Diego, followed by further exploration at Psychic Horizons in San Francisco. In 2023, Art Pic Gallery in North Hollywood and E & E CO began representing her artwork. Her street art can be found throughout Los Angeles County, and her pieces have been featured at renowned art fairs like The Other Art Fair in Santa Monica and The Beverly Hills Art Show.

Jasser Membreno - Muralist, Teaching Artist

Jasser Membreno is a Latino artist, born and raised in Los Angeles, with an incredible facility for drawing and painting. His work is figurative and fantastical; the landscapes, buildings, and objects he creates live simultaneously in the past, present, and future of a world full of decay, mystery, and invention. Since graduating from the Character Animation program at Calarts in 2008, he has continued to create works of art that appear in galleries, film, tv/animation, book publishing, and sculpture work. Along with having illustrated two children's books, Jasser published his first illustrated, bilingual book Pensamientos/Thoughts. He also co-founded a company called CineNovel which bridged the art, literature, and entertainment worlds. Currently, Jasser is developing an animated series based on his character designs and focusing on his passion for the arts. He plans to showcase his new paintings in the spring of 2024.

Ashley Abigail Gruezo Resurreccion - Art Therapist/Yoga Teacher

Ashley Abigail Gruezo Resurreccion (siya/they/them) is a Filipina Asian-American, certified 200-hour Yoga Teacher, and Returned United States Peace Corps Volunteer (Thailand 130) who holds an MA in Art Therapy with a Specialization in Counseling. Their work embraces mental health, social justice, and education through process-oriented, culturally somatic experiences. More information can be found on Instagram @twiichii or Twitter @twiischibis

Uniit Carruyo - Educator

Uniit Carruyo (she/her) is an artist, author, and educator with 30+ years of experience with children 0-6. She is a Montessori teacher trainer and has taught Montessorians nationally and internationally. Ms. Carruyo's publications include the award-winning Team Teaching in Early Childhood Settings: Leadership Tools for Reflective Practice (Red Leaf Press, 2017), Montessori Life, The Infant Toddler Journal, Ithaca Child, and Clarice, her self-published children's book. She founded and directs FLAMiNG iMAGiNATiON, a unique professional development approach for educators and caregivers. Ms. Carruyo holds an MS Ed in Leadership from Bank Street College of Education, a BS in Psychology from SUNY Fredonia, and an AMS 0-3 credential from CMTE. She is an Infant Toddler representative on the Teacher Education Action Commission and an Instructor for Instructor Academy at the American Montessori Society. You can usually find her making art in her treehouse art studio in the FLX,  tending to her honeybees, or in her permaculture food forest.

Robert Borashan - Teaching Artist

Originally coming from a small town, he explored sculpture at a young age as a way to express his creativity. Years later were spent at the Academy Of Art in San Francisco, studying fine art sculpture, eventually getting sculpture work in Los Angeles where he relocated. He has continued working in art via gallery shows, commissions and many other forms, as well as art education. He is inspired by mentoring others in the possibilities of how creative ventures can change and benefit their lives.

Karim Shuquem - Teaching Artist

Karim Shuquem creates installations, sculptures, and prints that have relationship with staging, temporality, and process. He earned a BFA in Fine Art and a BA in Graphic Design and a MFA degree from Otis College, graduating in 2018. He has been teaching workshops on activist printmaking and giving online drawing lessons to students nationwide, while maintaining his studio practice. Karim has had solo exhibitions at LAST Projects Gallery (Los Angeles) and SOIL Gallery (Seattle) and has shown work at QIPO Art Fair (CDMX) and Nomad Art Fair (L.A.) He has performed at Highways Performance Space, Great American Music Hall, and Drop Dead Fest (Lithuania). Karim teaches Art in Southern California at Chaffey Community College and other locations.

Oshri Hakak - Mindfulness Program Development

Oshri is a Los Angeles-based artist and musician. He is a children’s author and illustrator, creating books that touch on mental health, mindfulness, inter-being, and consciousness for ages 2-202. Oshri loves to generate creativity that aids people and communities in our individual and collective healing journeys. He studied psychology and management at Duke University, and is also certified in meditation and dialogue facilitation, as well as yoga instruction.

Brigitte Nicole Grice - Teaching Artist

Born 1987 in Los Angeles, CA, Brigitte Nicole Grice is an artist, filmmaker, poet and scholar on Surrealism. She received a B.S. in Journalism and Art History from Boston University, an M.A. in Aesthetics and Politics at CalArts and recently submitted her doctorate at the University of Essex entitled International Surrealism and the Contemporary Epoch: A Surrealist Document with Questions, Principles and Memory Maps—a written thesis and ongoing documentary film project. Grice had recent solo exhibitions with MOUNTAINS in Berlin, Germany ( May 2022) and  Saint George Street in London, UK (July 2022) She is also the founding co-director of a new international artist residency and research centre based in the South of France dedicated to the ongoing dialogue of Surrealism scholarship and contemporary art set to open in 2025/2026.