Meet our 2027 Cohort
JanuaryJaki Negreros
Jacqueline Negreros is an artist based in South Texas. Her studio practice explores themes of authenticity, otherness, and tradition through printmaking, sculpture, and installation. Negreros holds an Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Texas A&M University -Corpus Christi. She is an Adjunct Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where she teaches foundations, printmaking, and art appreciation.
Jacqueline Negreros is an artist based in South Texas. Her studio practice explores themes of authenticity, otherness, and tradition through printmaking, sculpture, and installation. Negreros holds an Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Texas A&M University -Corpus Christi. She is an Adjunct Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where she teaches foundations, printmaking, and art appreciation.
Photo by Nitashia Johnson
February
Andrea TostenAndrea Tosten is a Dallas based visual artist and cultural worker. She has a Bachelor of Science in BioMedical Science from Texas A&M University and a Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies from the University of Oklahoma. She has exhibited in Texas including the group show Going Through a Phrase in 2020 at the Galveston Arts Center, Modern Billings in 2022, solo exhibitions at the Cluley Projects in 2021 and the South Dallas Cultural Center in 2023, the lead artist in the group show Inner Space in 2025 at Kinfolk House, and an artist-in-residence for the Indibano Art Residency that culminated with the No Walls Between Us group show at the South Dallas Cultural Center in 2026. She is currently Interim Manager at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center.
MarchMina Zarfsaz
Mina Zarfsaz is an artist, designer, and systems thinker whose work explores relation, ecology, technology, memory, and the ways identities and environments are continuously shaped through encounter. Working across moving image, installation, design, and participatory formats, she is interested in in-between states, co-evolution, and more-than-human systems. Her contribution to the CookBook LookBook 2027 extends this inquiry through moosir, preservation, and the question of how we preserve—and are preserved by—one another.
Mina Zarfsaz is an artist, designer, and systems thinker whose work explores relation, ecology, technology, memory, and the ways identities and environments are continuously shaped through encounter. Working across moving image, installation, design, and participatory formats, she is interested in in-between states, co-evolution, and more-than-human systems. Her contribution to the CookBook LookBook 2027 extends this inquiry through moosir, preservation, and the question of how we preserve—and are preserved by—one another.
April
Melisa GereçciMelisa Gereçci is a teaching artist who grew up between Houston and Istanbul. She tells stories in her drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Her work is held by the Watson Library at The Met Museum of Art, the Newark Public Library, and the Fine Arts Library at UT Austin. She has been commissioned for public art installations on the East Coast Greenway and awarded grant support by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts.
May
Jin JungJin Jung is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores our relationship with time. Her social practice draws on stories from marginalized communities and takes shape as multimedia performances, site-specific sculptures, community-informed workshops, and video installations. For CookBook LookBook 2027, she explores her connection to her mother’s culinary experiences growing up in post-war Seoul, as well as her toddler son’s recent introduction to the foods of her childhood.
June
Dorry SpikesPainting and drawing from lived experience are at the heart of Dorry’s practice. Her art-making is a process of seeking connection through paying deep attention and reflects moments when she is stilled by curiosity and personal vulnerability. Dorry lives and works in Ceredigion, Wales, her month is June and her recipe celebrates the sense of renewal she feels when she takes the time to engage with the natural world - in all it's bristling, thorny glory.
July
Andy TranAndy Tran (they/he/any) is a multidisciplinary VietnAmerican artist with a Bachelors in anthropology and an enormous thirst for experiences. They understand the world through the lens of whichever crafts and sciences lay before them, and the various cultural landscapes they have set roots in. He is especially fascinated with the interwoven elements of diasporic and constructed communities; hand-worked crafts; Nature and natural materials; and broadly, our position in the timeline of the planet.
August
Carol SchottenfeldCarol Schottenfeld is a printmaker, mixed media artist, educator, and intersectional feminist whose work explores themes of body, identity, humanity and creation, and the way these experiences and our world views connect us with ourselves and with others. Her artwork recalls the greater forms of nature, from macroscopic to microscopic, that weave through every being on the planet regardless of faith, nationality, ethnicity, or skin color. In her lithograph for the 2027 CookBook LookBook, she looks to preserve the taste and feeling of late summer.
September
Alieh Rezaei
Alieh Rezaei is an Iranian visual artist working across drawing, sculpture, and installation, with a focus on the body, chronic pain, and living between cultures. She explores how the material knowledge and associations with care and healing embedded in traditional felting can be reimagined within contemporary sculpture. Her contribution to the CookBook LookBook 2027 extends her interest in preservation as a way to keep memory present and make care tangible.
October
Ainaz AlipourAinaz Alipour is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans textiles, sculpture, digital media, and installation, exploring diasporic identity, gendered spaces, and cultural displacement. Holding an MFA from the University of South Florida, an MA in Animation and Film, and a BFA in Printmaking, their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Ringling Museum of Art, Vox Populi, and IceBox Project Space. Alipour has received fellowships at MASS MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, and Surel’s Place, and their projects merge Iranian craft traditions with technology to reimagine belonging and transhistorical memory.
November
Jaz GrafThe work of Jaz Graf delves through the meaning of familial roots, reimagining humanity’s relationship to earth. Graf’s projects explore legacy, through the lens of impermanence, diaspora and intergenerational storytelling. Her work has appeared at the Art on Paper Fair, Newark Museum, in AM New York News and on PBS TV. She is a recipient of the NJ State Council Arts Fellowship, Newark Creative Catalyst, Dieu Donné West Bay View Fellowship, among others. Graf holds a MA in Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and MFA in Printmaking/Dimensional Practice from the University of Iowa.
December
Krystle LemoniasKrystle Lemonias is a Jamaican-born interdisciplinary visual artist, labor activist, and art educator. Her art practice researches social class privilege, citizenship, labor rights, and how economic inequality affects Black communities. Using found materials, baby clothes, and iconography, she encourages education of Black immigrant cultural identities and their connection to the broader diaspora.