Josué Rojas is a home-grown San Francisco muralist, fine artist and educator.

A socially committed creative, Josué’s work is deeply layered and content-rich, remixing cartoons and comic imagery with Central American folkloric patterns, tropical birds, traditional Mission-mural style and abstraction—a playful dance in acrylic and spray paint.

WEBSITE: josuerojasart.com

Layne Takahashi is a mixed media artist born in Tustin, CA, now working in San Francisco. She holds a BA from UC Davis and attended the Royal Drawing School and Dumfries House residency. Currently an alum of the Midway residency, she curated “An Accident, on Purpose” and has shown at Wave Collective and the Drawing Room.

Her work embodies duality—intense mark-making versus precise touches; fast and slow; commercial versus natural—reflecting on family internment under Executive Order 9066 and growing up in the internet age.

INSTAGRAM: @laynetakahashi1
WEBSITE: laynetakahash.myportfolio.com

(Nic) is a visual artist based in San Francisco. With a BA in Emergent Digital Practices, she balances professional graphic design with a passion for multidisciplinary art, focusing on color therapy and surreal environments as a practice of presence.

Her work spans digital and traditional media, exploring mental health, existentialism, and the vibrancy of existence through animation and surrealism. Nic has shown across Bay Area galleries and completed her first residency at the Midway.

Danae Lenda is a 24-year-old visual artist in San Francisco. Her deeply personal work examines identity and current events, using intimate narratives to challenge perceptions and evoke reflection.

Anne Garvey is a contemporary visual artist based in Oakland. A graduate of SFAI and Saint Mary’s, she’s known for realistic paintings of people and tangled objects—metaphors for mental states. Her large-scale drawings and installations explore anxiety, trauma, and resilience.

Published in Memoir Magazine, TWIRL, and Racket Journal, Garvey has held residencies at North Street Collective, Hoi An Recreation Center, and others. Her work has shown at L.A. Artcore, Castelli Artspace, Axis Gallery, and Adobe Books.

Shikha Hutchins is an artist and teacher in San Francisco, working in clay and paper. Drawing on contemporary life and the natural world, her sculptural vessels invite play and light-heartedness. Her work has shown at Lala Land Gallery (Fayetteville) and X?X Gallery (SF).

Artist Statement: My practice reconnects us to nature through play. I believe we are fauna; by reflecting ourselves in art, we can transform.

Alex Sodari (he/they) is a Mexican-American artist in Oakland, inspired by community, comics, folk art, local history, and nature. He creates paintings, illustrations, zines, and large murals.

A CCA Illustration alum, he founded Lazer Zine and co-founded the Mission Art & Comic Expo, spotlighting Queer and POC artists. His recent “Dualidad” show explores colonization through magical realism.

Yijun Ge was born in Xiang Yang, Hubei, China, and earned her BA at Hubei Institute of Fine Art, teaching oil painting, charcoal, and printmaking workshops. She holds an MFA from Academy of Art University, SF.

Her work has shown nationwide, including the Contemporary Venice Art Fair and Rossocinabro Gallery. She was featured in Asian American Press articles and won ArtBattle Oakland and San Francisco in 2021.

Artist Statement: Dreams inspire my art—symbolic elements like spiders, sailboats, cats, and dragons become a unique language representing life’s possibilities.

Stephen Longoria is a Texan in Japantown San Jose, CA. His practice spans printmaking, silkscreen, woodworking, and welding, showcasing mixed media illustrations through screen printing.

Artist Statement: My illustrations focus on bold dark shapes on light backgrounds, reflecting what I want out of life and love to do.

Jeffrey Yip is an interdisciplinary artist in Oakland, creating installations and performances that unite light, sound, and technology to facilitate healing and build community resilience.

Adrianna Alejo Sorondo is a mixed media artist and anthropologist from Fresno, CA, living in San Francisco. Her ritual and genetic memory work highlights resilience through garden tending—turning poison into medicine.

“I am truly grateful for this experience as a Midway Artist Studio Resident… I feel more connected to the Bay Area art community.”

Emily Benz (b. 1985) holds an MFA from SFAI and a BFA from Southern Oregon University. She lives and works in San Francisco.

Artist Statement: My practice explores existential rationale and cognitive distortions through abstract and figurative painting, then redaction to emphasize mark-making as cognizance.

Sasha Vu is a San Francisco–based artist and designer (BFA Communications Design, Pratt ’13). She works in installation, photography, illustration, and event prop design.

Since graduating, she has freelanced as an art director, collaborating on installations and props, and co-founded StreetHeart, an SF art collective.