Mara Magyarosi-Laytner | Co-Executive Director + Co-Founder

Mara Magyarosi-Laytner is an artist, educator, and curator in the Detroit area. Her artistic work pairs experimental lens based methods to explore identity through a symbolic and poetic lens. A graduate of both College for Creative Studies (BFA | Photography, 2012) and Savannah College of Art and Design (MA | Arts Administration, 2016, MFA | Photography, 2022), the artist and her work have been shown in many spaces across the United States and internationally, including the ScotiaBank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto, Canada, and exhibitions in Italy, France, and Hungary. Mara's artistic and curatorial projects have been featured in multiple articles and periodicals, including Complex, Detroit Metro Times, The Hand Magazine, and Aeonian Magazine. In 2022, her work from The Untended Garden was a Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist. Her monograph, The Untended Garden, was published by Starling Common Press in February 2024.

Raymar | Co-Executive Director + Co-Founder

Raymar is an artist, educator, and curator based in Detroit. A graduate of College for Creative Studies, Raymar uses photography, film, and music to explore fashion forward aesthetics and to embrace the topics of identity and individuality. The artist is highly influenced by music, which he uses to shape static and moving images alike as a soundtrack to elevate ideas and concepts. He is the Co-Founder of NOVA24 | Photo + Film Festival, and his artistic and curatorial projects have been featured in publications and spaces such as Vogue Italia, The Wright Museum, Shinola, Metro Times, and Detroit Design Month.

Miles N. Reuben | Executive Board

MILES NAASIR REUBEN (b.1999) is a Detroit-based award-winning independent filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. Miles uses the City of Detroit and its diverse people, his admiration of science fiction, comic books, and early 2000’s Cartoon Network’s Toonami shows as an influence in his work, all while centering the multiplicity of blackness. Miles explores black fatherhood & family structure, spirituality, coming-of-age, and individual/collective grief, which are all integral subjects of his own life and family.

Tryst Red | Executive Board

Tryst Red (b. 1994) is an installation and lens-based artist and educator. She pulls inspiration from her time as a nomad living and traveling with her mother and her attachment to her childhood home in Long Island, where she visited with her father and grandmother. Combining projection, photography, and videography Tryst investigates our ability to relate and find connection in the experiences of others.

Tryst has exhibited her work in multiple group shows, including The Muskegon Museum of Art, Detroit Artist Market, Whitdel Arts, and Cranbrook Art Museum. Her most recent installation was at The Congregation in Detroit for the NOVA24 The Prelude. Tryst's solo show "Skin & Scales" was in August of 2021 at Tom Gibbs Studio in Ferndale, MI. She graduated from Wayne State University in 2020 with a BFA in photography and art history and received her MFA (photography) in May 2023 from Cranbrook Academy of Art.