Tyra Maria Trono is a Filipina artist, cultural worker, and independent curator based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Arts (Photography) at Concordia University. A recipient of the Lande Award in Photography, the 2023 Roloff Beny Fellowship in Photography, and the 2025 Mitacs Globalink Research Award, her work explores embodied experiences and personal narratives rooted in diasporic memory and cultural identity. Often engaging with culturally significant artifacts and specific geographic sites, her practice examines how perceptions are shaped through processes of cultural identification, and how these are transformed by experiences of migration and displacement. Trono utilizes archival research and oral histories to highlight the enduring impact of storytelling.

John Mendoza is a Filipino-Canadian freelance designer based in Montreal, Quebec, where he lives and works. He holds a BFA in Design from Concordia University and currently works as a technician, facilitating the conceptual and practical development of emerging graphic designers. His practice is a throughline between visual communication, system development, artifact making, and image cultivation. Imbued with experience and research, Mendoza’s work moves in a toggle between digital and traditional, adapted for contemporary consumption. He plays between kitsch and familiarity as a means of understanding complex ideas, rooting them in intimacy and lasting relevance while sprinkling in humour. His work can be seen alongside local fashion designers including Elizaveta Rakhmankulova and St-Isidore by Raphaël Viens.