Carmina Escobar is an extreme vocalist, improviser, sound and intermedia artist from Mexico City, currently based in LA. Escobar investigates and expresses emotions, politics, states of alienation, and the possibilities of interpersonal connection through voice performances, installations, and video pieces that seek to challenge our understandings of musicality, gender, queerness, race, the spoken word, and the foundations of human communication. She has presented her work in Mexico, Cuba, Europe, USA, and Canada in festivals and venues such as PST:LA/LA, Fabrica de Arte (HVN), CTM Festival (BRL), REDCAT, The Broad, The Kitchen, The Whitney, among many others. Escobar has been an artist in residence in Montalvo, STEIM, Binaural Portugal, OMI, Electroacoustic Music Studio in Krakow, Fonoteca NacionalMX, Indexical, The MacDowell Residency, and at the BEMIS Center in Nebraska. Carmina has received three Endowment Of The Arts in Mexico, the US Artist International Award with the project Estamos Ensemble, Master Scholarship of NALAC, the 2020 FCA Artist award in Music/Sound, and the NPN 2020 and 2021 Creation Fund Artists, New Music USA 2022 Development Fund for the project Vox Clamantis with performance artist Ron Athey. In addition to BOSS WITCH PRODUCTIONS, she is co-founder of LIMINAR ensemble and radical/experimental pedagogical voicehub HOWL SPACE. She is also a faculty member of the Voice Arts Program at CalArts. As an immigrant from Mexico, key to her practice is the exploration of interstitial states of being—suspensions between worlds/politics/borders. 

Jaime Scholnick is an award-winning visual artist. She is a past recipient of the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts and most recently the 1st place winner of the Adachi Foundation’s Ukiyoe competition. She has completed and installed two public art commissions; Layered Histories installed at the Crenshaw Expo Station for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project (The K Line) and Layered Histories Boyle Heights, installed on the exterior of the LAC + USC Restorative Care Village in Los Angeles. Marshlands will be Ms. Scholnick's third public art piece and will be the first time she has  integrated sound into her artwork through a collaborative sound piece with Carmina Escobar. The piece will be installed in the Inpatient Lobby of the Harbor UCLA Hospital (2026). Through various mediums and formats, her work addresses ideas relating to sense of place, identity, and histories. Ms. Scholnick has shown extensively in the United States (P.S.1, Long Island City; Torrance Art Museum; LACMA; UCLA Hammer), as well as Internationally (Kobo Chica Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Imadate Art Field). Ms. Scholnick lives and maintains a studio in East Los Angeles, CA with her GSP, Nelson. 

HOWL SPACE is a community-based learning resource that reframes vocal pedagogy through holistic, process-based approaches to discover the multi-faceted possibilities of the voice and unveil the creative process. By offering individual sessions, focused rotating monthly skill and process workshops, a series of salons with guest artists and producers whose practices focus on different aspects of the holistic voice, Howl Space offers both personalized and group development. With over 20 years of experience working, performing and creating with the voice, sound artists and vocal experimenters Carmina Escobar and Micaela Tobin have united their unique praxises creating Howl Space, a laboratory for the voice. Howl Space serves as a boundless and focused virtual space for exploring, expressing, and connecting the relational, artistic, musical, and medicinal possibilities of the voice and vocal traditions. This space was created for anyone interested in expanding the possibilities of their expressive voice. 

Alan Nakagawa is an interdisciplinary artist with archiving tendencies, primarily working with sound, often incorporating various media and working with communities and their histories. Nakagawa has been working on a series of semi-autobiographical sound-architecture/tactile sound experiences, utilizing multi-point audio field recordings of historic interiors; Peace Resonance; Hiroshima/Wendover combines recordings of the interiors of the Hiroshima Atomic Dome (Hiroshima, Japan) and Wendover Hangar (Utah); Conical Sound; Asntoni Gaudi and Simon Rodia combines recordings of the interiors of Watts Towers (Los Angeles) and the Sagrada Familia (Barcelona, Spain). Premiered in 2023, Point of Turn, is his first vibratory sound work involving the human voice; utilizing collected stories about moments or events that resulted in someone leaving their organized religion. For this work, the combining of these stories and the analog data stretching of a verse and chorus of the 1970’s seminal pop band, 10CC’s hit song, “I’m Not in Love.” Nakagawa is also currently the artist-in-residence at the Gerth Archives, California State University Dominguez Hills, assigned to the newly acquired L.A. Free Press/Art Kunkin Collection. His first book, A.I.R.Head: Anatomy of an Artist in Residence, was published in January 2023 by Writ-Large Press. It maps his artistic trajectory that led to his nine artist-in-residences in six years. He was the first artist-in-residence for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation and the Los Angeles County Library. Nakagawa was invited by the Smithsonian Museum of American History to research the development of the hearing aid in the US. He currently resides in Los Angeles’ Koreatown and continues to exhibit and develop his creative practice. Nakagawa is a recipient of two Art Matters grants, City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation Mid-Career Artist Fellowship and a Monbusho Scholar. He co-founded arts collective non-profit Collage Ensemble Inc. (1984-2011), curated experimental music weekly Ear Meal Webcast  (2010-2017), produced public practice artist interviews podcast VISITINGS Radio Show (2017-2020) and administers the website Asian American Futurism (2022-Present). 

Liz Goetz is a community organizer, educator, and artist working to develop and implement sustainable community-based programs. Since 2017, she has been the Director of Art in the Park Community Cultural Programs. Since 2014, she has been part of the collective semillas viajeras (seed travels), an ongoing community knowledge exchange among farmers in Guatemala, California, Arizona, and New Mexico. As an artist, she is devoted to collective organization and knowledge sharing.  

Serving as the Drollinger Environmental Fellow with Loyola Marymount University's Center for Urban Resilience (CURes) for the past four years and now The Drollinger Environmental Leadership Fellow, Lisa Fimiani has reached thousands of Angelenos teaching the principles of the Gottlieb Native Garden, while inspiring visitors to Ballona Discovery Park through informational tours and educational programs. As part of her responsibilities, Lisa also serves as an ambassador to support other CURes staff members in the community with education initiatives, as well as represent CURes at events and functions. Over the past 30 years, Lisa acquired extensive knowledge of birds, insects, and other wildlife in Southern California as the Friends of Ballona Wetlands Executive Director for seven years, Docent at the Ballona Freshwater Marsh for nineteen years, and Board Member for over seventeen years. Lisa has also served sixteen years on the Audubon California and Los Angeles Audubon Society non-profit Boards. Her understanding of urban interfaces and nature in the second largest city in America has given her practical experience dealing with associated challenges and qualifies her as an ideal urban "naturalist." Lisa received her BA in Mass Communications from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is a locally certified Master Gardener and Restoration Specialist.