Born on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, Nikila Badua is a self-taught multimedia artist, designer, and performer inspired by an earth-based wisdom of Roots and Culture. Mother and community organizer, her work as an advocate for youth, indigenous, and environmental rights has played an influential role within shaping her foundation as a “community artist”. As a painter and muralist, her art weaves underlying stories, traditions, and elements of the sacred indigenous with modern influences of the urban underground, and is guided by a maternal connection to the natural wisdom of the Earth; Thus birthing the art alias “MamaWisdom”.

Paolo Salazar is a San Francisco-based Interdisciplinary artist and educator, originally hailing from Baguio City, Philippines. His work has been exhibited in bathrooms, candy stores, and dive bars. Paolo has also completed public murals and private commissions around the country. Ultimately, Paolo is inspired by bringing people together in friendship and creative collaboration.

Mariela Montero is a San Francisco-based artist whose experience as a Filipinx American womxn informs her practice, which is rooted in diaspora studies and post-colonial theory. Mariela works in mixed media painting, sculpture, and installation. She is a collaborator of Appendix, a collective of multi-ethnic Asian American womxn, queer and allied artists. Mariela earned her MFA degree at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017 and has worked with the organizations such as Asian American Women Artists Association and Kearny Street Workshop.