Venessa Chavez is a teaching artist from South Phoenix. Venessa graduated Summa Cum Laude from Arizona State University with a Bachelor’s degree in fine Arts , Art Education. She has over 20+ years experience teaching art in public schools and workshops all over the valley. She has specialized training in social emotional learning, facilitating community circles and classroom/behavior management. Venessa is an emerging multimedia public artist and is a lifetime student of nature, art and culture.

Taylor Cordova is a teaching artist from South Phoenix. Taylor earned her bachlors’s degree in Art History from Arizona State University. She has over 10+ years teaching art in public schools, operates a successful online botanika. Taylor specializes in traditional healing arts, curation, and art as medicine.