Storyteller Thawn Sherenté Harris, a citizen of the Narragansett Tribe, shares his culture with the greater community through oral history, traditional song, and dance. He lives together with his wife of 28 years, Eleanor Dove Harris, and their seven children adjacent to their tribal lands, where they pass on the values and cultural lifeways of their people.

Following in the traditions of his ancestors, Thawn plays the cedar flute and hand-drum and is a social dancer and singer. Thawn's storytelling and cultural performances include the New England Foundation for the Arts, Rhythm & Roots Music Festival, and Rhode Island Public Libraries, in addition to many New England schools, post-secondary institutions, organizations, and corporations.

His awards include World Champion Eastern War Dancer (2006) and the Motif Favorite Cultural Storyteller of the Year (2023). Thawn has traveled as a cultural ambassador to Tanzania with the University of Rhode Island's (URI) Coastal Resources Exchange Program. A graduate of URI, Thawn is currently a Physical Education Advisor at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Rhode Island.

Sika Foyer is a Togolese-American, multidisciplinary research-based and conceptual artist who explores the aesthetic abstraction in her West African Oral tradition, rite of passage ceremonies, and music and dance rituals, to create narratives that examine all forms of social injustice. Foyer exposes the process of becoming through iconographic symbols with tireless gestural motions and micro repetitive layering, which she refers to as the Trickster’s materiality of wrapping, and its cross-cultural rituals. She examines the powerful impact of such materiality of wrapping through body movements and sounds to formulate a new language made of sacred geometric figures and forms, signs and symbols echoing those evidenced in ancient pictographic languages such as Adinkra, Nsibidi and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Foyer was first introduced to drawing and fabric/textile design at age 8 by her mother. With a Bachelor’s of Science in Economics and a Master’s of Science in Urban Studies, Foyer pursued a career in corporate finance and economic development while developing her artistic practice until 2017 when she returned to academia to complete her M.F.A. in Visual Arts at Lesley University, College of Art + Design in Cambridge, MA. Hence, her art practice is both a socio-economic and a cultural reflection on who and what we become, weaving and weighing in the yesterday, today and the future of our lives.

Foyer’s artworks have been shown internationally and nationally in museums, galleries and alternative art spaces. Some of Foyer’s works are in private collections.