Chelsea Hernandez
Film
Chelsea Hernandez is a Mexican-American filmmaker based in Austin, Texas, recently named as one of Texas Monthly’s 10 Filmmakers on the Rise. She is an 8-time Lone Star Emmy winning director, producer, and editor. Chelsea started her career in media at the ripe age of nine, hosting and co-producing a local children’s educational TV program with her mother.
She studied film at Adelphi University and Brooklyn College in New York City where she gained internships at Steeplechase Films, home of documentary filmmaker Ric Burns (American Masters: Andy Warhol, Eugene O’Neill) and Jon Alpert’s (Cuba and the Cameraman, The Latin Explosion) Downtown Community Television (DCTV). She is a fellow of Firelight Media Doc Lab and Tribeca/A+E Edit Storylab and All Access.
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Adrian Armstrong
Mixed Media, Drawing
Adrian Armstrong is a multidisciplinary creative from Omaha, NE now living and working out of Austin, TX. Armstrong received his BFA from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2014. He is also the co-founder of Brown State of Mind, an Austin based organization dedicated to pursuing the interests of creatives of color and their ideas.
Through portrait and figurative practices, Armstrong’s work explores identity and what it means to be a black person living in modern America. His work touches on topics such as depression within the black community, systematic oppression, and police brutality; but on the other side of the spectrum explores fashion, love, success, and growth.
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Steef Crombach
Mixed Media, Textile
Steef Crombach was born in Maastricht in the South of the Netherlands. Crombach earned her BFA from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague in 2014. Her graduation work ‘Wat een zonde’ won the KABK Talent Invest Prize, with which she started doing research into American patterns, objects, colloquialisms, and concrete cultural manifestations in Austin in 2015.
Since that time she has been visiting Austin for extended periods of time to curate, teach, exhibit, and research. In March 2018 Crombach officially relocated to Austin. She organized and curated the nine-artist exhibition “Expedition Batikback” at Co-Lab Projects. Her work “Piet” was selected by the King of the Netherlands to be on exhibition at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam and she is a recipient of the renowned Contribution Young Talent grant from the Mondriaan Fund in the Netherlands.
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