Amina Cruz is a photographer known for capturing queer punk scenes within the Latino community and breaking cultural barriers with her work. Cruz captures the intimate moments shared between queer folk and is trying to expand the Latino identity with their work.
@aminacruz.studio
www.aminacruz.com/

Judy Giera is an artist, arts worker, and the Associate Director of Collections for the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City, which is one of the only collecting institutions in the world dedicated to LGBTQ+ art and artists. In addition to her work managing the museum's collection of 30,000 objects, she has curated multiple projects for the museum. You can learn more about Judy at: judygiera.com

K.M. Soehnlein is an author, activist, and educator who discusses the challenges that the LGBTQ+ community faces today. Enjoy this week's encore episode, which provides a hint at the topic of our upcoming exhibition.

Enjoy this episode with our Empowerment Grant winner, Monica Rodriguez. Monica "Mo" is a Chicago-born multidisciplinary artist whose work centers on healing, transformation, and emotional evolution through creative practice. Raised in a family where creativity was deeply valued, she has been making art for as long as she can remember, using it as a way to process experience, move through challenges, and understand herself more deeply. @by.mo.mo by-mo.com

Stephanie Lampkin, PhD, is the Curator at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has 12+ years of experience specializing in museum collections, museum education, exhibitions, and historical interpretation. Her research examines the early Black and indigenous histories of Florida, the southbound routes to freedom, and geographies of freedom. Enjoy this engaging conversation.

This week we're doing something a little different by offering you a weekly update, insight on images that lend themselves to Valentine's Day and a reminder of what's on exhibit and what's up next.

Mina Morita is a director of vital new plays that champion creative rebellion. She creates worlds where audiences and artists face uncomfortable truths and discover possibility together. Mina is a recent recipient of the 2026 United States Artists Fellowship. You can find more information at: https://minamorita.com

Kalada Halliday, our 2025 Empowerment Grant winner, is a Nigerian-American photographer and educator living and working in the Brox. For more than a decade, he has made pictures of his daily life, centered on putting a compassionate lens to the spaces he inhabits, and the communities he is a part of. Particularly those that are overlooked at marginalized. Enjoy this episode as Kalada discusses his passion and process.