Kristin Hoover Gentry is a 2S Choctaw artist, curator, and writer based in Oklahoma City, serving as the 2025 Momentum Curator for the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC). A former Momentum artist in her twenties and the Emerging Curator for Momentum in 2021, she brings both lived experience and deep curatorial insight to the program. Kristin works full-time as an artist, writer, and curator, and currently serves as the Curatorial Director at Culture Hub Arts Institute. She is widely recognized for her independent curatorial work, most notably the celebrated exhibition Indigenous Gender Identity (2020–2022), which explored the intersection of queerness, Two-Spirit identities, and Indigenous culture. In 2021 and 2022 she was part of the opening efforts at First Americans Museum, curating Indigenous artists for the FAMstore to elevate Oklahoma Native-made work within a major institutional retail and cultural space. She is the creator of the Jacobson House NDN Art Rally, now an annual event co-curated with artist Brent Greenwood, celebrating contemporary Native art through an accessible, community-centered platform. Kristin serves on the Board of Directors for the Jacobson House Native Art Center and has also served on the boards of the Southeastern Indian Artists Association and the Tulsa Artists Coalition. Her contributions to the arts extend to arts writing and arts advocacy. She has been a fine arts writer for OVAC’s Art Focus magazine since 2009 and an Indigenous Fine Arts writer for Native American Art Magazine since 2021. She has juried and judged numerous exhibitions across Oklahoma and the region, consistently advocating for Indigenous, emerging, and underrepresented artists. Kristin has received multiple artist grants and awards from OVAC and other organizations for her artistic and curatorial achievements. She lives in Oklahoma City with her daughter, Jewell Shooting Star, and serves as the Chair of the OKCPS Native American Student Services Parent Committee, where she supports Native youth and families through education, representation, and cultural programming.

MaryAnn Guoladdle Parker (Kiowa Tribe) is an Assistant Curator at the First Americans Museum (FAM) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Graduated from Oklahoma City University with a B.A. In American History with an emphasis in Native American History and obtained her MFA in Cultural Administration at the Institute of American Indian Arts with a double emphasis in Arts Administration and Tribal Museum & Cultural Center Administration. She has been a lifelong participant within her Kiowa community and brings that experience along with her formal education to benefit her professional work in museums. She lives in Yukon, OK with her husband and regularly returns home to Anadarko, OK to participate in her cultural activities.

Kayla Marie Anley is an Oklahoma artist whose work explores cycles of life, death, and ecological memory. Raised in mid-north America, she draws native animals and plants as both living beings and imagined remnants of a world shaped by time and colonization. Her darker, atmospheric imagery reflects grief, reverence, and a longing for the landscapes that came before us. Influenced by her art history background and studies of the American landscape, she uses recurring symbols such as stars, halos, and voided eyes to examine what has been lost and what remains.

Mack Brim is a figurative painter and muralist based in Oklahoma City, whose work explores the modern feminine experience. Inspired by the personal identities of women, her oil paintings explore the deep connections between personhood and object, often drawing from the experiences of the women in her life. Mack’s style is defined by soft, layered oil painting techniques that create an intimate resonance. Her pieces range from large-scale compositions to smaller, focused works. Mack studied painting at the University of Oklahoma. Her work has been exhibited in Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City. Mack’s paintings are also held in private collections internationally.

Nayelly Morales Rojo is a Mexican-American visual artist based in Oklahoma City whose paintings explore the intersections of female embodiment, cultural memory, and identity. Drawing from her family’s roots in Hidalgo, México, she often builds layered compositions beginning with warm orange underpaintings and symbolic forms such as the maguey pulquero and nopal. Her work merges personal narrative with contemporary Mexican-American experience, honoring stories of migration and resilience. Rojo has exhibited across Oklahoma and beyond, including Perspectivas desde el otro lado at the Mexican Consulate, and is a grant recipient of Celebration Nation’s Indigenous Not Immigrant art contest. She has received multiple prestigious awards, and stipends, and continues to gain growing recognition within her community and beyond.