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Born in 1984 to an African American father and a Mexican mother, Vollrath grew up in a uniquely diverse household with 11 siblings, a Mennonite background, and a homeschool education.  She discovered her love of painting at around the age of 8, spending her free time experimenting with various art supplies her mother found at garage sales.

At 15, Vollrath met the late Dr. Marilyn Daniels at an art opening. Upon reviewing Vollrath’s portfolio, Dr. Daniels was astonished by the untrained yet remarkable natural talent evident in her work. She immediately offered to mentor her in art. Thanks to Dr. Daniels’ guidance and encouragement, Vollrath went on to earn her BFA from Howard University in 2011 and her MFA from Texas Woman’s University in 2017.

Vollrath primarily works with oil paint but has also explored a variety of other media, including sculpture, latex, and works on paper. Initially trained in figurative art, she began her career as a commissioned portrait painter. Guided by her love of light, color, and the human figure, Vollrath creates biographical works that explore humankind’s eternal search for connection and immortality.  She currently lives in Dallas with her husband and two daughters and serves as an adjunct professor of art at Eastfield College.

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Erika Duque Scully is a landscape and nature based painter who lives and works in Fort Worth, TX. She is originally from Flushing, Queens, NY. Duque received her BFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her MFA in painting at Texas Christian University. 

She has been featured in over thirty solo and group shows combined, throughout Dallas Fort Worth. In 2017, Duque was nominated by Ro2 Gallery for Rising Star Fundraiser at the Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts. Duque is currently represented by Fort Works Art Gallery in Fort Worth, TX. 

Duque is also an art educator and has been invited to lead workshops at museums such as The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Sid Richardson Museum, and frequently teaches at Oil and Cotton. 

In her studio, through painting, she tries to recreate the sensation and amazement that can be felt and seen in nature. Her practice also includes visiting state parks, national parks or any green space. She takes field notes, sketches, photographs, and videos, to take back to the studio and work from. By not painting plein air, she uses her memory to be her main source of inspiration, by doing this she is allowing slight exaggerations in colors and textures to personalize the experience of being in nature.

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a mixed media painter, muralist, illustrator and installation artist currently based in Texas. She was born in Michoacán, Mexico. Her Mexican heritage has deeply influenced her relationship and interaction with art.

Her personal experience with the richness of color and diversity of artistic expression in Mexico intricately sculpted the development of her creative process. She pursued a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from The University of Texas at Austin. Her bold and colorful murals can be found throughout the U.S and Mexico.

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Katayoun Hosseinrad is an Iranian artist whose practice In this installation examines the weight of social expectations placed upon women, particularly within the domestic sphere. She earned her BA in Iranian Painting from Tabriz Islamic Art University in 2021 and is currently pursuing her MFA at Texas Christian University.

Through this body of work, her work unveils the unseen emotional burdens women carry, navigating themes of invisibility, sacrifice, and silent endurance. She constructs intimate yet unsettling domestic scenes that challenge the notion of home as a place of comfort and stability. A seemingly harmonious dinner table, for example, serves as both a familiar and deceptive image—beneath its surface, clay sculptures of women crying pearls expose the unacknowledged toll of societal expectations.

Symbolic elements such as cut tomatoes, fragmented tableware, reinforce the tension between outward appearances and inner realities.

 Hosseinrad question the roles women are expected to inhabit and the quiet, often overlooked labor, especially in more traditional cultures, that sustains these roles. Her work invites viewers to confront the weight of these expectations and reconsider the narratives that shape women’s lives.

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Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Molly Chapin is a multi-instrumentalist and singer songwriter who collaborates with artists all over the world. Her travels thoroughly impact her music, including extended time in Florence, Italy, In which she embedded herself in the local music scene, working with many artists, recored, and further developed her skills and writing.

Her momentum is building, with many performances across Texas and a recent feature in the Dallas Observer, noting her as an artist on the rise.

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Taraka Larson was born on Beethoven’s birthday. Raised in ashrams, she lived on black metal utopian communes, performed on beds, and lectured from pools of fake blood. An elusive poet, psychopomp, and writer of post-internet manifestos, Larson’s work transcends genres, evading categorization at every turn. As front-woman of Prince Rama, she guided the band through a genre-defying evolution, blurring the boundaries between rock, performance art, and conceptual experimentation. Signed by Animal Collective, the sister duo has become a cult phenomenon over the years, and perhaps the only band in rock history capable of inciting mosh pits while paradoxically reaching #3 on the Billboard New Age charts.

Larson’s interdisciplinary practice traverses the sonic and the visual with equal intensity, challenging the fabric of both. Her works have been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Whitney Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, CPH: DOX Film Festival, and MoMA PS1’s VW Dome.