MEET OUR 2021 LINEUP.

 

• ARTISTS •

 

LINA ZULAGA

My name is Lina, I'm a Colombian designer, self taught engineer with a passion for abstraction, dogs, art and books and I am based in Austin, TX.

Mural Nomad is a project for me to stay creative, solving problems and keep asking questions. Mural Nomad is about drawing as a practice, and a necessary, inevitable part of my life. I have always drawn, usually to analyze, respond to, reference, copy or simply make marks that need to be made.

My work is very personal, and has been made by hand in my home.

 

• PERFORMERS •

 

KAM FRANKLIN

Kam Franklin is a singer-songwriter, activist, writer, motivational speaker, and actress from Houston, TX. She is best known for her work with the gulf coast soul band, The Suffers, but Kam began performing in public at the age of five. A three-time recipient of the Houston Press Music Award for Best Female Vocalist, Kam has performed on five continents and has performed with the Suffers backed by The Houston Symphony in addition to being featured solo. 

Both Forbes and Vice have featured Kam for her activism and business ventures that seek to create an inclusive environment in the arts for female artists working in all mediums and from all backgrounds. Kam’s unique style and fashion-sense has also been covered by Buzzfeed, Refinery 29, and Nylon. Fronting The Suffers, Kam has performed nationally on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and Jimmy Kimmel Live in addition to speaking about The Suffers with Ari Shapiro on NPR’s All Things Considered. At home, Kam remains a very active participant in the Houston music scene, producing events that have featured up-and-coming acts from around the Houston area while leveraging her and The Suffers’ international platform to represent the City of Houston and champion her entrepreneurial approach to finding success in the arts for women.

 

vonne

Yvonne Goodwyne, uncommonly known as Vonne, is a composer, musician, and music producer currently based on Tonkawa land (or what most know to be Austin, Texas). Music and performance have been an innate pursuit for Vonne as their earliest memories include performing in church musicals, ripping cassette mixtapes from rock and pop radio stations, and emulating every last one of their favorite vocalists. At 16 years old, Vonne released their first single and soon after their self-produced and recorded debut EP ‘Foreign Affairs,’ which holds up today as formative reflections on romance and drug use through a robust pop landscape. Vonne is currently recording and writing music in their co-operative home in Austin for their next project.

 

LORELEI K

Lorelei K is a Dallas-based dreampop band fronted by Dahlia Knowles. She is known for composing and performing dark, avant garde music with arresting vocals. 

 

MOSAICO EXPERIENCIA

An intersectional, transcultural installation for body memory, ancestral activation, and cathartic evolution AKA a party.

 

• FILMMAKERS •

 
 

ANDIE FLORES

andie flores (she/her) is a writer, visual and performance artist, and comedian whose work and play are guided by questions of audience, excess, glitches, legacy, experiments of liveness, and performances of online identity. Through self-portraiture, character video experiments and live (in-person and online) performances, her work explores and explodes the complexities of knowing oneself as a racialized body and general clown idiot in multiple layers of time, space, and cultural connectivity. She is currently a doctoral student in Mexican American Latinx Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

BRITTANY REEBER

Brittany Reeber is a writer, visual artist and producer of feature films, music videos and commercials. She has produced music videos for Parquet Courts, Azealia Banks and Protomartyr, among others, and played a vital role on the production team of a dozen independent films and series including Mia Lodofsky's Strangers (Sundance 2017) and Noel Well's Mr. Roosevelt (SXSW 2017). Her commercial clients run the gamut. Most recently, she produced Second Act, a branded documentary series for Vice and Mailchimp. Her short film The Cheap Seats screened virtually at festivals worldwide in 2020 and in January 2021 she was an artist in residence at The Studios of Key West. 


 

CHINWE OKORIE

Chinwe Okorie is a Nigerian-born writer, director, and editor in Austin, TX. At age six, she immigrated to the United States and watched her first film, Titanic. It was then that her love affair with cinema began. In college, her student-run TV station Topper TV received The Rising Star Award, and Study Breaks magazine featured Chinwe as their Next Big Thing in 2014. After college, Chinwe went on to write, direct, and edit short films including her most recent film, Lovebites, which is currently distributed by Issa Rae Presents.


 

EMILY BASMA

Emily Basma is an Austin based photographer and filmmaker who explores myth, folklore, and iconography through a feminine gaze. Emily loves creating beautiful and atmospheric filmscapes that hopefully reminds the viewer of their most pleasant dreams.

 

EVELYN NGUGI

Evelyn Ngugi is a humor writer, digital storyteller, producer, and speaker based in Austin, Texas. She joined YouTube back in 2008, and today her channel has about 13 million views and 205,000 subscribers. She makes a grab bag of content, from travel vlogs and silly beauty guru-esque tutorials to funny first generation American stories and Black pop culture commentary. In 2017, she was a YouTube Creators For Change fellow, and received a grant to produce positive content that makes our world a better place. Naturally, she chose to talk to a puppet and wear a wig. She currently co-hosts and writes Say It Loud, a PBS Digital Studios show about Black histories and cultures. You can follow her on Instagram at @evelynfromtheinternets.

 

MEGHAN ROSS

Meghan Ross (she/her) is a writer, producer, director, comedian, and activist from New York (okay, raised in New Jersey), now based in Austin. Her latest shorts premiered on The New Yorker and made their Best of 2020 list: If You Ever Hurt My Daughter, I Swear to God I’ll Let Her Navigate Her Own Emotional Growth featuring narration by Jon Hamm, which was nominated for The Webby Awards in 2021, and Finally a Female Presidential Candidate Likable Enough For Men featuring narration by Rachel Bloom. Her writing has appeared in Reductress, IFC, Slackjaw, VICE's Broadly, TV Without Pity, The Toast, and some more defunct but beloved sites, and she hosts the Instagram Live series No One Asked For This and hosted the late night show That Time of the Month for 5 years and 3 Twitch shows. She previously worked for VICELAND and SundanceTV, and is currently the Head of Creator Success at Seed&Spark and aspiring stage mom for her dog, Dreidel.

 

P1NKSTAR / GIRLS LIKE US

Premiering January 28, GIRLS LIKE US is a live music video experience by Texas pop sensation, p1nkstar (she/her/they/them) celebrating the work of trans artists in Texas.  The feature-length special, features starring live music performances by Texas-based Lorelei K, Belladonna and Quentin Arispe, as well as special appearances by national talent like Gavilán Rayna Russom, Ariel Zetina and more.

During the cinematic special p1nkstar and friends perform live music and choreographies through futuristic custom-built sets and light installations created by Austin-based artist Y2K, making Girls Like Us unlike any other livestream concert. 

Girls Like Us is presented by Hotel Free TV, directed and produced by p1nkstar and Y2K.

 

• DJS •

 

BRAGGLIGHTS

Bragglights is an experimental techno/dance music project produced and performed by the artist, Jenna Herrington (she/her). Cast as a black sheep during her childhood in Southeast Texas, her creative direction derives from the “Lights of Saratoga” aka “Bragg Lights” which are most famously known as mysterious lights that wander the forests & railroads of her homeland.


 

ARLINI MARTINI

Arlini Martini (she/her) is a Texas Doo-Wop and Rhythm & Soul DeeJay from the Rio Grande Valley. She founded The Bunny Hop (formerly Where the Boys Are), an all-vinyl dance party night in Austin.  Find her on Instagram @arlinim.

 

MIREYDI AKA POS GUAU

POS GUAU is a Mexican-Austinite Producer, DJ and artist. Her style is inspired by rowdy, deeply rooted live sets that reflect her experience of attending too many Quinceañeras and bodas and her recent influences of disco, house, pop and anything in between.

 

SONYA GONZALES

Sonya Gonzales is a sound artist from Austin, Texas. Fascinated with self-organization and assemblage, she uses sound to research interactions within generative systems, utilizing media and technology.

 
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ORYA

Orya is a high energy, unhinged dj based out of Austin and San Antonio. She loves to play pop and hip hop and has been known to climb on things she’s not supposed to and headbang. Orya emerged into the Austin scene in May and has terrorized the city since. Her sets will leave you bruised, sweaty, and out of breath. Don’t let her sexy looks and charming demeanor fool you, she’s a menace on the boards.

 

• CREATIVES AND SMALL BUSINESSES •