is an undisciplined artist, educator and founder of Beauty Breaks. Amina work across mediums, shaping spaces that honor darkness and love. Often through language and light in video installations, sculptural work and in their work with people. They are currently Curator-in-Residence for Links Hall's 2017 - 2018 season. Amina co-runs F4F, a black and femme centering space in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, IL and is co-lead artist of Teen Creative Agency at the Museum of Contemporary art, Chicago.
A.J. McClenon is a writer, sound artist and performer and interdisciplinary visual artist based in Chicago. A.J. McClenon's work sets personal narratives alongside empirical data, leveling hierarchies of truth. A.J. works across mediums incorporating aspects of sound, film, video, drawing, animation and collage throughout their work. A.J. holds a Masters in Fine Arts with an emphasis in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a Bachelor of Arts with a minor in creative writing from the University of Maryland College Park. A.J. has performed and shown work throughout the US, at locations like Steppenwolf Theater, The Promontory, Woman Made Gallery, Echo Park Film Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Fine Art Complex 1101 and Longwood Arts Center.
Jory Drew is an assemblage artist living and working in Chicago, IL. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he is the acting operations manager at F4F, a local alternative domestic venue in Little Village. Concerned with how social constructs have influenced the structural economic, legal and political conditions that subsequently manifest and determine reality, he works to dismantle the images and objects that support said constructions, through his involvement with Beauty Breaks.