ARTISTS
Eric César Morales
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Eric César Morales is an activist, academic, and interdisciplinary artist. He works as the Resourcing Coordinator for Philly Thrive, a multiracial, cross-class, grassroots environmental and climate justice organization. He received his MA and Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Indiana University, with his master’s thesis focusing on the representation of Latinos in the media and his doctoral dissertation exploring issues of cultural appropriation and globalization. He has taught several university courses on Latinos in Film/Literature and has been a discussant at numerous film festivals, including the Philadelphia Latino Arts and Film Festival (PLAFF). His published academic works have been featured in the Oxford Handbook of American Folklore, Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice, and the Journal of American Folklore. His artistic practice encompasses creative writing, dance, and culturally rooted crafts made from natural materials. His forthcoming creative writing publication, “La Llorona’s Tears” will appear in the book, Weeping Women: La Llorona’s Presence in Modern Latinx and Chicanx Lore (2024), published by Trinity University Press. He has performed indigenous dance presentations in Tahiti, California, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and has even done a solo performance for Superbowl Village. Currently, he coalesced and is working with a collective of Latine artists to produce Amor y Familia: Lotería in Philadelphia—a project that reinvents a 130+ year old Mexican board game, Lotería, to create a safe, fun, and loving environment where Latine families can learn about inclusive terminology and practices around gender, sexuality, and sexual health.
Ileana Doble Hernandez
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Ileana Doble Hernandez is a visual artist who believes that art has the power to make people care, this is why she has been making art for over a decade, as a form of activism. Drawing from her experience as an immigrant and mother, Hernandez creates work that asks the audience to confront issues like gun violence and immigration. Recently her works have been shown at the Old Stone House Museum in Brooklyn, and in her current home state of Massachusetts at the Boston City Hall, the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Worcester Art Museum. An interview and profile of her show at the Griffin Museum was produced and aired by ABC's WCVB Chronicle earlier this year. This Fall and until the end of January, the Danforth Museum is presenting an exhibition of works made by Hernandez during the last six years. Ileana's practice and works have been featured in more than 30 online and print publications, including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Musee Magazine and Art Scope. Hernandez was a resident of the inaugural 3-year Studio Residency cohort at the Boston Center for the Arts from 2021-24 and she’s the recipient of several fellowships including the 2020 Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, the 2021 Leadership Institute of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, and the 2023 Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship from the Boston Arts and Business Council. This year she became a 2024 Collective Futures Fund grantee.
Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib
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The Philadelphia-based artists have been collaborators since 2008. They are recipients of several honored awards including a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pew Fellowships in the Arts and Fellowships from CFEVA and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Their work has been widely exhibited both domestically and abroad at venues including, Fondazione MAXXI (Rome), New Media Gallery (Vancouver), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), UCLA Hammer Museum, PS1/MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Arizona State University Art Museum. They have been artists-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Banff Centre, Marble House Project and the Millay Colony for Arts. Matthew Suib is co-founder of Greenhouse Media and Nadia Hironaka serves as a professor and department chair of film and video at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Hironaka & Suib are represented by Locks Gallery. The couple, along with their daughter reside in South Philly.
Eric César Morales is an activist, academic, and interdisciplinary artist. He works as the Resourcing Coordinator for Philly Thrive, a multiracial, cross-class, grassroots environmental and climate justice organization. He received his MA and Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Indiana University, with his master’s thesis focusing on the representation of Latinos in the media and his doctoral dissertation exploring issues of cultural appropriation and globalization. He has taught several university courses on Latinos in Film/Literature and has been a discussant at numerous film festivals, including the Philadelphia Latino Arts and Film Festival (PLAFF). His published academic works have been featured in the Oxford Handbook of American Folklore, Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice, and the Journal of American Folklore. His artistic practice encompasses creative writing, dance, and culturally rooted crafts made from natural materials. His forthcoming creative writing publication, “La Llorona’s Tears” will appear in the book, Weeping Women: La Llorona’s Presence in Modern Latinx and Chicanx Lore (2024), published by Trinity University Press. He has performed indigenous dance presentations in Tahiti, California, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and has even done a solo performance for Superbowl Village. Currently, he coalesced and is working with a collective of Latine artists to produce Amor y Familia: Lotería in Philadelphia—a project that reinvents a 130+ year old Mexican board game, Lotería, to create a safe, fun, and loving environment where Latine families can learn about inclusive terminology and practices around gender, sexuality, and sexual health.
Ileana Doble Hernandez
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Ileana Doble Hernandez is a visual artist who believes that art has the power to make people care, this is why she has been making art for over a decade, as a form of activism. Drawing from her experience as an immigrant and mother, Hernandez creates work that asks the audience to confront issues like gun violence and immigration. Recently her works have been shown at the Old Stone House Museum in Brooklyn, and in her current home state of Massachusetts at the Boston City Hall, the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Worcester Art Museum. An interview and profile of her show at the Griffin Museum was produced and aired by ABC's WCVB Chronicle earlier this year. This Fall and until the end of January, the Danforth Museum is presenting an exhibition of works made by Hernandez during the last six years. Ileana's practice and works have been featured in more than 30 online and print publications, including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Musee Magazine and Art Scope. Hernandez was a resident of the inaugural 3-year Studio Residency cohort at the Boston Center for the Arts from 2021-24 and she’s the recipient of several fellowships including the 2020 Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, the 2021 Leadership Institute of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, and the 2023 Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship from the Boston Arts and Business Council. This year she became a 2024 Collective Futures Fund grantee.
Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib
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The Philadelphia-based artists have been collaborators since 2008. They are recipients of several honored awards including a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pew Fellowships in the Arts and Fellowships from CFEVA and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Their work has been widely exhibited both domestically and abroad at venues including, Fondazione MAXXI (Rome), New Media Gallery (Vancouver), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), UCLA Hammer Museum, PS1/MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Arizona State University Art Museum. They have been artists-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Banff Centre, Marble House Project and the Millay Colony for Arts. Matthew Suib is co-founder of Greenhouse Media and Nadia Hironaka serves as a professor and department chair of film and video at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Hironaka & Suib are represented by Locks Gallery. The couple, along with their daughter reside in South Philly.
Creative Contributions
Emily Kobert
