Meet the Artists
Indie Courtney
Indie Courtney was born in 1997 in Sacramento, CA. They received the Herb Alpert Emerging Young Artist award in 2014. Their film work has been screened at a variety of festivals including the Stuttgarter Festival for Expanded Media in Germany, amongst others. Their focus shifted to photography in college at Bennington College in Vermont. After moving back to Sacramento they have completed a variety of projects including two self published photo books and zines, a self produced group exhibition, and their photos have been featured in juried exhibitions for Brea Gallery and the Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Much of their work focuses around queer femme identity through self portraits, diaristic documentary photography, and experimental collage and methods in photography. They currently attend California Institute of the Arts for a BFA in Photography and Media with an expected graduation of 2025.
Jamie Jay Fletcher
Jamie Jaye Fletcher (b.1994) is an artist based in San Francisco whose practice explores identity development and the experience of feeling. Working primarily with digital and analog photography, as well as collage and mixed media, she examines her own story alongside that of others. Engaging with themes of gender and performance, intimacy and fear, pleasure and desire, autonomy and belonging, her work creates introspection into selfhood. Following her curiosity, she studies how societal norms, ideals and relationships influence perceptions of reality.
Janett Perez
Janett is a Bay Area Photographer whose current passion is film photography and darkroom printing. She enjoys taking photos of portraits, double exposures and documenting her day-to-day life.
Julie Bernadeth
Julie (Bernadeth) Crumb is an interdisciplinary artist anchored in preserving cultural memory. Her work utilizes vulnerability as catalysts for constructive art dialogue. Raised in a multi-generational household in the coastal town of Pagadian City, Philippines, her upbringing cultivated a philosophy of reciprocal collectivism.
Bernadeth graduated with a BA in Studio Art from California State University of Sacramento in 2023, where she served as a Preparator and Archive Assistant for the University Galleries. In partnership with founder Justina Martino, she facilitates collaborative art projects, community engagement and accessible workshops through Art Tonic. Bernadeth is the recipient of an Emerging Artist Fellowship through Youth Speaks and The California Arts Council for 2023-2024. She currently holds studio space at E Street Gallery, where she champions local artists through group shows and art process workshops.
Leeann Huang
Leeann Huang makes colourful and surreal, textile-driven clothing in her LA-Based Studio. Her work blends traditional craft techniques with inventive materials to create fantastical clothing for a beautiful and delicious lifestyle. An innovator in the use of lenticular textiles in fashion. Leeann studied at Central Saint Martins in MA and BA in Fashion.
Lejin Fan
Lejin Fan (jin/范乐今) is an experimental visual artist and creative who revisits memories and cultures, blends physical and virtual worlds, and chases time with pixels. She manipulates and recreates her self-imagery and the world around her through the intersection of visual art and technology in photography, moving image, and video game. She was born and raised in Xiamen, China, received her BFA degree at the University of Southern California in 2023, and is currently based in London.
Sakara raven Birdsong
Sakara Birdsong (b. 1991; California) is a Bay Area native with deep ties to both Oakland and San Francisco. An autodidact by nature, Birdsong’s focus lies mainly in medium format and Polaroid portraiture. Her creative work traverses complexities of intimacy and mental health, processed through the lens of trauma, “beautiful and monstrous in the very same moment.” Her work pushes the boundaries of film, melting fluidly between reality and the surreal.
Samantha Ashcraft - GOO ROT
Samantha Ashcraft is a self-taught film photographer & multidisciplinary artist from San Diego. She's maintained a visual diary of her life on Flickr for 16 years as an ongoing devotional to cope with a life of grime & grief (recorded in 35mm, 120, Instax and (predominantly) Polaroid formats.
Ziru Mo
Ziru Mo is a Chinese fine-art photographer and multi-medium artist based in Northern California. Inspired by nature and surrealism, Ziru’s works highly tied to their culture, life around them and the ethereal process of self-discovery and coming of age.