Debra Cartwright is an artist interested in depicting the relationship between the black female body and American medical history. Themes around her work include re-embodiment, myth creation, violence, theft and intimacy. Her work explores the interior life of Black womanhood through painted and sculptural forms that balance intimacy and autonomy. Her figures exist between protection and vulnerability, often resisting wholeness.

Tiana McMillan transforms clay into fragmented vessels that sit at the edge of collapse and composure. Her work embodies the tension between fragility and persistence—the body as both archive and altar.