Mixografia is a fine arts printer and publisher based in Los Angeles, California. Mixografia® expands the realm of printmaking by incorporating dimensionality and relief into a traditionally two-dimensional medium. Mixografia produces prints using custom print and papermaking machinery designed and built in-house to fit the specific needs of each artist and artwork. Mixografia aims to provide every artist with a collaborative and enriching experience, accommodating each artist’s unique style and vision. Our gallery space exhibits artworks produced by the workshop, which highlight both new releases and artworks made since 1969. This includes the largest lithographic stone in the world. Mixografia enriches the field of contemporary printmaking by continuing to innovate and bring creative energy to every project the workshop undertakes.

Sloane Crosley is the author of the novel The Clasp and three essay collections: Look Alive Out There and the New York Times bestsellers I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number. A two-time finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, she lives in New York City. Cult Classic is her second novel.

Judy Greer has appeared in nearly two-hundred roles to date, including in the Blumhouse reboot of Halloween, starring alongside Jamie Lee Curtis; Driven opposite Jason Sudeikis; Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go Bernadette opposite Cate Blanchett; the Academy Award-winning The Descendants directed by Alexander Payne; and many others. For the past ten years, Judy has voiced the role of Cheryl on the FXX Emmy-winning animated comedy Archer. Other television roles have included the FX comedy series Married, Netflix’s Arrested Development, and Hulu’s Casual. In 2018, Judy made her feature film directorial debut with A Happening Of Monumental Proportions, and she will be starring in the lead role in the forthcoming Hulu/20th Television series Reboot, with Keegan Michael Key, Johnny Knoxville and Paul Reiser.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.

Ryan Coogler  is a film director, producer, and screenwriter. His first feature film, Fruitvale Station (2013), won the top audience and grand jury awards in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He has since co-written and directed the seventh film in the Rocky series, Creed (2015), and the Marvel film Black Panther (2018), the latter of which broke numerous box office records and became the highest-grossing film of all time by a black director.

Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist whose work appears regularly in The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. She has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and the Congo and has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Genius Grant and the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.

W. Kamau Bell is a sociopolitical comedian who is the host and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning CNN docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. He is the author of the book The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. Later this year, Kamau makes his Netflix debut with his new stand-up comedy special, Private School Negro. Kamau is on the advisory board of Hollaback! and is the ACLU Celebrity Ambassador for Racial Justice. The New York Times called Kamau “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.” His writing has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, CNN.com, Salon, The LA Review of Books, and more. Hear him speaking about Bruce Lee on this edition of the Bruce Lee Podcast.

Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. His books include Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, winner of the American Book Award, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, a finalist for the NAACP Image Award, and We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, Northern California Nonfiction Book Of The Year, and declared “the smartest book of the year” by the Washington Post. His next project is a biography of Bruce Lee. Chang has also written for The Guardian, Slate, The Nation, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, Foreign Policy, N+1, Mother Jones, Salon, and Buzzfeed, among many others.

Víctor Cata was born in Juchitán de Saragoza, Oaxaca. He holds a master's degree in American Indian Linguistics and is a grant recipient for his work in Indigenous Literature from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. Cata is the author of Nacasinú diixa / Sólo somos memoria, a bilingual book in Zapotec and Spanish. His stories have been made into plays and translated into Portuguese. He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte and was a visiting scholar at the Smithsonian studying tonal phenomena in Zapotec languages.

Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals, including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-series This Is Me, as well as a Producer on Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Transparent.

Maritza Sanchez is from Santa Ana del Valle, Oaxaca, and migrated to LA in the 90s as a teenager. As a child, she recalls her sexual orientation changing when she found out she was attracted to men. She only felt comfortable “coming out of the closet” in Los Angeles, a place that felt safe and where she’d be tolerated for her sexual preference. Sanchez identifies as transgender and as “muxe,” a Oaxacan, Mexican designation from the Zapotec Isthmus region of the state. After many decades of working with others to promote tolerance of others regardless of sexual orientation, she is respected and admired by the community in her hometown. She was crowned the queen of the “Vela Muxe” in Los Angeles in 2014.

Bamby Salcedo is the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition and a co-founder of the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multiservice space for transgender people in Los Angeles. In 2016, Salcedo participated in The United State of Women panels at the White House, sharing the stage with Vice President Biden. Salcedo has been a featured speaker at the LGBTQ People of Color Summit, the 2015 National HIV Prevention Conference, and the United States Conference on AIDS. More information about the documentary on Salcedo’s life and work can be found at transvisiblefilm.com; Salcedo has also recently been featured in People en Español, Latina Magazine, Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, and the 2015 OUT 100 list.

Roz Chast grew up in Brooklyn. Her cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978, where she has since published more than one thousand. She wrote and illustrated the #1 NYT bestseller (100+ weeks) Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize winner and finalist for the National Book Award; What I Hate: From A to Z; and her cartoon collections The Party, After You Left and Theories of Everything.

Chaz Bojórquez was exposed to the uses, values, and craft of East Los Angeles graffiti, a tradition since WWII. In 1969, he created a tag that represented him and the streets—a stylized skull called “Señor Suerte” (Mr. Lucky), which became a gangster tattoo image of protection from death. Bojórquez is acknowledged as a pioneer and ‘Godfather of East Los Angeles ‘Cholo’ style graffiti for more than 50 years. Bojórquez is represented in numerous permanent museum collections: The Smithsonian Institute (American, History and Archive Museums), LACMA, MOCA, and Laguna Art Museum. Bojórquez exhibits and lectures internationally and paints “live” at Street Art exhibitions demonstrating his unique letter styles and pursuing commercial/cultural assignments.

Javier Dario Canul Melchor (Tlacolula, México, 1984) is a visual artist living and Working in Tlacolula and Oaxaca. He began his self-taught technical training in 2002 through workshops and courses at La Curtiduría –Contemporary Space for the Arts in Oaxaca City. His painted work reflects a quest for technical perfection, while his graphic work reflects an interest in evolving beyond traditional approaches to mural production. His participation in urban art collectives is a response to the search for diverse means of expression. He entered the art scene in 2010 after receiving a scholarship to attend CEACO (Contemporary Art Specialty Courses) at La Curtiduría under the direction of Demián Flores, Mónica Castillo, Edgardo Ganado Kim and Naomi Rincón Gallardo. This experience has influenced the diverse creative language he employs in developing the themes in his work. Currently, Canul facilitates an experimental visual space in the community of Tlacolula, focused on experimenting with diverse mediums and with work that addresses social and political concerns. The goal of the space is to create networks between the participants and the artistic sphere while similarly promoting and circulating the artistic proposals developed there.

Cosijoesa Eleazar Cernas García (Tlacolula, México, 1992) lives and works in Tlacolula and Oaxaca. He is a self-taught artist and has participated in visual art workshops and classes for the past ten years. He studied contemporary art at La Curtiduría in Oaxaca City from 2012-2014 under the leadership of artists Demián Flores, Mónica Castillo, Edgardo Ganado Kim, and Naomi Rincón Gallardo. His collective exhibitions include Mexicanos al Grito de Guerra (Tlacolula, 2011) and Es el Fin al fin (Casade la Cultura Tlacolula, 2012) and participation in the Puntos de Encuentro Visual Arts Festival (Oaxaca 2012). As part of the Tlacolulokos’ exhibition The South Never Dies (MUAC, 2014; Museo Amparo, 2015), Cernas screened the videos “The Dance of the Marmots,” “Place of the Crooked Things,” and “Eternally Forgotten.” He currently teaches silk screening classes, graphic design and voice over at the King Kong workshop in Tlacolula. His musical project “Sonido Cuche” remixes cumbia music and audio from yellow journalism. As a member of the Tlacolulokos collective, Cernas is in charge of diffusion, registering and editing the audiovisual material, and maintaining social networking spaces, in addition to his contributions as an artist.

Amanda de la Garza Mata is the curatorial consultant for Visualizing Language: Oaxaca in L.A. De la Garza lives and works in Mexico City as an Adjunct Curator at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC, UNAM). She has been awarded the Emerging Curators Prize, Frontiers Biennial, and the International Curatorial Projects Grant. This is the second exhibition in which she has worked with the artist collective Tlacolulokos.

Alan Alda has earned international recognition as an actor, writer, and director. He has won seven Emmy Awards, received three Tony nominations, is an inductee of the Television Hall of Fame, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Aviator. Alda played Hawkeye Pierce on the classic television series M*A*S*H, and his films include Crimes and Misdemeanors, Everyone Says I Love You, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Bridge of Spies, and many more. Alda is an active member of the science community, having hosted the award-winning series Scientific American Frontiers for eleven years and founded the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. Alda is the author of two bestselling books, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I’ve Learned and Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself.

Lisa Wolpe is an actress, director, teacher & playwright, and is the Artistic Director of Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, which she founded in 1993. Honors include the Shakespeare Theater Association’s “Sidney Berger Award”, “Sustained Excellence” awards from the L.A. Drama Critic and from Playwrights Arena, the Key to Harlem, a Congressional Certificate of Merit; NBC News’ “Local Hero”, Jacob Bronowski Award for Theater Excellence, Whittier College’s Distinguished Artist Award, Colorado Shakespeare “First Scholar” and UC Boulder’s “Roe Green Distinguished Scholar”. Acting credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, and San Diego Repertory Theater.

Dennis Lehane is the author of eleven previous novels, including the bestsellers Live By Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day. His novels have been translated into more than 30 languages and have become international bestsellers. Lehane was a staff writer on the acclaimed HBO series The Wire and a writer-producer on the 4th season of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. In January 2017, Live By Night will be released as a major motion picture directed by and starring Ben Affleck. Lehane was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a counselor with mentally handicapped and abused children, waited tables, parked cars, drove limos, worked in bookstores, and loaded tractor-trailers. He lives in California.

Attica Locke’s latest Pleasantville is the 2016 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. It was long-listed for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction and made numerous "Best of 2015" lists. Her first novel, Black Water Rising, was nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, as well as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her second book, The Cutting Season, is a national bestseller and the winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. A former fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmaker’s Lab, Locke worked as a screenwriter before becoming a novelist. She was a writer and producer on the Fox drama Empire. She also serves on the board of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.