Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez is an artist, curator and educator, based in-between Borikén and the traditional homelands of the Narragansett and Wampanoag peoples. Their interdisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, painting, film/video, installation and performance art. They are interested in dismantling colonial systems, otherness, resistance, feminism, and their galactical dimensions. Vázquez Rodríguez has curated, exhibited, lectured and performed nationally and internationally for the last two decades. She was also AgitArte’s 2015 Resident Artist. anabelvazquez.com

Marian Annette Rodríguez Morales is an artist, professor, and thesis student of the Doctorate in Philosophy in Literature program of the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe. She achieved B.A. in Fine Arts and Sculpture at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and an M.A. in Puerto Rican Studies, History of Art, from CEAPR. For 15 years, she has been part of the collective of puppets and masks, Papel Machete, working as a designer, manufacturer, and performer. She has recently distinguished as a scenographer for plays (Centro de Bellas Artes de Puerto Rico), muralist (Urbe Apie), and Executive Coordinator of the Museum of Saints and National Art. Her most recent body of pictorial work focuses on Caribbean flowers and fruits. In April 2022, she was selected for the Mellon Foundation scholarship as an artist within the program Maniobra of the Centro de Economía Creativa.

Deborah Hunt is the founder of Maskhunt Motions, a nomadic laboratory for experimental theatre work specializing in animated forms. She is a mask maker, mask performer, puppeteer and performance artist. Deborah facilitates workshops and has collaborated and toured extensively in the Pacific, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. She was born in New Zealand and has resided in Puerto Rico since 1990. “From 1972 I have worked as a cultural practitioner, creating and presenting original theatre works and performances; working with communities in festivals and encounters worldwide. My practice is focused on and explores animated forms in public /private spaces. I am interested in performing in unconventional places and to audiences that do not necessarily go to theatres.”

Publications: Masks and Masked Faces and `Puppets, Puppetry and Gogmagog

Juan C. Dávila is a documentary filmmaker and multi-media journalist from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He has directed two feature documentary films: Compañeros de lucha (2012) and Vieques: una batalla inconclusa (2016). His documentary filmography also includes the short-documentary film, La generación del estanbai (2016). Dávila currently works as a Puerto Rico correspondent for Democracy Now!, and is in the process of creating his new documentary film, Simulacros de liberación. He holds a Bachelor in Arts of Communication from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico (2011) and a Master of Arts in Social Documentation from the University of California, Santa Cruz (2015).

Gabriela is a chef and founder of Liberation Cuisine. She cooks in spaces of self-determination, healing, radical change, and cultural preservation. Her work centers around nourishing front-line activists, community organizers, healers, artists, educators.

Lío Villahermosa is a visual artist, dancer of Puerto Rican bomba music and an teacher of both disciplines. He has a BA in Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico. His work transits between visual arts, dance, and performance. Being knowledgeable in traditional forms, he reformulates them, making a commentary on masculinities and gender roles. His story is the focus of the documentary ” El hijo de Ruby” by Gisela Rosario Ramos. His works include the performance “Con la falda bien puesta” (2012), and the art exhibit “Cuarentena y Magestades (2015). Currently, he offers art and dance workshops in his community of Santurce.

Agustín Muñoz Ríos is a Puerto Rican musician, singer-songwriter and guitar player. He studied composition in the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. He was a member of the board of directors of the Taller de Cantautores cooperative, participating in various recitals in their famed Cafe-Theater in Rio Piedras. He is a founding member of Perros de Pavlov and has been a part of the Papel Machete collective since 2011. He has published articles in print and digital media, including Bandera Roja and Indymedia Puerto Rico, on the political situation and musical scene of his country.

JibaraTaina was born in Lares, Puerto Rico. She is a s sociologist, agroecologist and indigenous activist, promoting and defending indigenous rights as co-founder of “Frente de Resistencia Indigena de Boriken”. She is a part of an alliances with the Native and Latin American Nations. Pluma promotes emancipation through popular agroecology and food sovereignty, co-founding the Movimiento de Agroecologia Popular (MAP). She is cofounder of CETA- Centro de Estudios Transdisciplinarios en Agroecologia, co-founder of APER- Asociacion Puertorriquena de Estudios Rurales and active in the decolonization movement- Jornada: Se Acabaron las Promesas.