December 2024



Lea May Rivera is a first-generation Filipino American mixed media artist, born in 1990, with humble beginnings in Honolulu, Hawaii and raised for a time in between Manila, Philippines and the United States. At an early age, she was self taught in drawing figures, painting landscapes, and later in portraiture. As an honors graduate, she obtained an Associate’s Degree in Arts at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. From 2010 to the present day, Lea has participated in various exhibitions, children’s workshops, commission work, and immersed in acting and managerial roles in local theater productions. She has worked with organizations from the Philippine American Cultural Foundation, the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago, the Philippine Consulate of Chicago, the Chicago Public Library, Sinag Chicago Art, and with the Reclaim13 Non-Profit Organization that helps reclaim the lives of children impacted from abuse and exploitation. Rivera immerses passionately in her work as a spiritual artist, healing compassion practitioner, speaker, guide and a creative humanitarian. WIth influences in symbolic iconography, visual storytelling, soulful enlightenment, animals and nature, Lea’s art pieces encourage advocacy in healing issues in our generation such as learning from generational trauma and nurturing our mental health.
You can connect with Lea May in Instagram: leamayrivera. You can also visiti her website: www.leamayrivera.com


Cheri Tanamal (b. 1999) is a Filipino- American artist based in Chicago. She likes to focus on intrapersonal relationships and culture. As many of her friends and family are located far away, she explores how to communicate relationships that are separated by distance and time through memory. Memory is frozen in time, altered, and unreliable. Looking back at the past and creating from pieces that still remain helps her find peace through storytelling. Although she practices through various mediums, she is drawn to cartoons and is inspired by cartoonists like Michelle Lam and Christine Mari, whose comics present daily life in addition to Asian-American identity.
Creating cartoons that include culture reaffirm her identity.





Federico “boyD” Sulapas Dominguez (federico5318@yahoo.com). A “self-taught” painter at an early age, he studied Architecture at the University of Mindanao and Fine Arts major in Visual Communication at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He currently works as a freelance graphic designer and art director, painter, illustrator associated with partner groups concerning indigenous communities and environmental oriented NGOs. He is also a member of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP) for over 20 years and participated and worked along with various cultural groups in both solo and group exhibits.

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