January - Ariya Siddiqui, Muslim ceramics coordinator and teacher at Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) on Chicago’s South Side. 

February - Iyomi Ho Ken, Black Fashion, Fibers and Photography Artist from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

March - Guy Conners, Landscape, Still Life and Pet Portrait Painter working for Chicago based Arts of Life, which supports artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities

April - Justin Cooper, Black artist and filmmaker and Genevieve Nutley, Latinx Painter.  Both are Junior Artists in Residence at the Disability Culture Activism Lab (DCAL) at Access Living Chicago.
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May – Linda Hyong, Asian Landscape Painter