Between Sunlight and Shadow /// Nicki Green

 V.Nicki Green is a transdisciplinary artist working primarily in clay. Originally from New England, she completed her BFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 and her MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. Her sculptures, ritual objects and various flat works explore topics of history preservation, conceptual ornamentation and aesthetics of otherness. Green has exhibited her work internationally, notably at the New Museum, New York; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Rockelmann & Partner Gallery, Berlin, Germany. She has contributed texts to numerous publications including a piece in Duke University Press’ Transgender Studies Quarterly Trans*Religion issue and a piece in Fermenting Feminism, Copenhagen. In 2019, Green was a finalist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA Award, a recipient of an Arts/In-dustry Residency from the John Michael Kohler Art Center, among other awards. Green lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Binya Kóatz is a transfemme sefardi/ashkenazi queen from Queens (NY). She loves diaspora, hashem and the gay tradition given to her by her queer ancestors. She writes poems, teaches talmud, and helps bring people closer to their creator through the radical torah of queer Judaism. More at binyakoatz.com

Xava De Cordova is a trans, Sephardi woman and teacher living in Providence, Rhode Island. She got her start by creating a Jewish learning program in Washington prisons called Beit Midrash Behind Bars. She went on to found the first ever Queer Talmud podcast, Xai, how are you?, which has been running for over a year, and co-founded the first online-first queer yeshiva, Shel Maala. Her writing is recently featured in the anthology, There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart, edited by Cindy Millstein.