david hedden

Intentional designer and tactical urbanist with a focus on projects that provoke an awareness for sustainable and creative thinking. Creator of makerspaces, innovation spaces, and educator of industrial design at CSULB. 

gabe "gabotron" gaete

Gabriel Gaete loves to dabble in the intersection between art and music. He enjoys drawing strange geometric patterns, creating music related digital programs, and imparting maker knowledge where he works at the Long Beach Public Library makerspace.

chef chad phuong 

"Pitmaster Chad Phuong is cooking up some of the most inventive weekly barbecue in Southern California, merging heartland American meats with not-so-subtle Cambodian influence." (la.eater)

chef tiffany luong

Intentional vegan chef creating accessible whole food meals to their surrounding communities.

anna mcbride

Anna Katrina McBride is a Visual Artist, Muralist, Installation Artist and Fabricator. She primarily paints with acrylics and house paint on canvas, panels, or wood cut outs that feature vivid colors with interactive lighting to explore themes of nature. She explores the role of artist as an architect of visceral and esoteric experiences in the physicality of space.

clovis tessier

Clovis Tessier is a Hardware Engineer and Video Artist based in Los Angeles. He designs  hardware and software systems to sculpt video feedback and explore the intersection of technology, human perception, and generative art.

lisette solis

Marketing / Fashion Stylist / Metal Smith Artist / Event Production / Vintage Fashion Curator / MUA

sergio vazquez

Sergio V is an LA based House Music DJ and supporter of the LA underground dance music scene. Specializing in House and Techno, with a hint of Dirty Disco.

gaudencio amador

Gaudencio Amador is a 3D and Digital Artist. Founder of Desvelar, a game company focused on self help games.  Normally working as a professional in the video games industry, He's decided to explore ways to bring his digital creations into more realistic spaces.

sean mccabe

samantha castaneda

Samantha is a Visual Artist, Digital Creator, and Curator with Secret Service LBC. Her work blends acrylics, mixed media, and digital art to explore cosmic themes, freedom, and the connection between self and the unknown. As a curator, she fosters community through collaborative exhibitions, creating spaces where art becomes a catalyst for exploration and connection. 

bryson whiteman

Obsessed with video games, how games work, and how you make "fun." He's made games independently since 2002 for his company Sokay and created games and toys for Fortune 500 companies. He wants to remind people that have forgotten how to play. 

richard chavando

Artist and maker whose work ranges from illustration, digital design, and fabrication. When Richard is not creating, he is helping cultivate art and innovation within his community at the Long Beach Public Library’s makerspace, The Studio.

dan lundmark

Interactive design + code, photography/film/VR/AR, computer science & art undergrad, econ MBA focused on microfinance, bootstrapping @SWVFTar fpv drone innovation & electric mobility, love to chill with the fam in the surf/snow/riding bmx and running. 

oracle gong

ORACLE GONG is a collective of sonic beings creating a tantric soundweave of astral frequencies that supports deep relaxation, cellular regeneration, and sensual embodiment. Our medium is the spiral that flows between the becomings and unbecomings. We are the call and the response. We make way for other ways.

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