Mariah McKay discusses the relationship of an artist to their audience and shares her experience as a performance artist. 

Pensacola Urban Sketching founder, Sara Olmar, shares the struggles and triumphs of being a female artist with Autism. 

Regina Baker, an artist of many forms, explains how art and sign language help her autistic son express himself.  

Artist/ Musician/ Author/ Psychologist, Michael DeMaria, describes his journey as a Psychonaut trying to bring authenticity into the world and into his life.  

Jenny Bilbrey, President of SouthBark Animal Hospital, shares inspirational stories of shelter dogs that have saved her life as much as she saved theirs. 

Writer and community builder Cheryl Chastain provides insight on how communities are developed. 

The City of Pensacola has a tremendous opportunity to preserve a monumental piece of its past, and tell a side of our history that has as of yet been largely untold. Christopher Satterwhite presents a talk is about John Sunday, and the cultural significance and importnat effort to save his house. A historical Pensacola figure, a self made free man of color that decided to stay in the deep south and fight for his beliefs and his place in society.

Speaker Dagny Taggert talks about how we can trespass boundaries. By using the world as our canvas, one can often times surpass personal limitations and changing one's own perception of the self.

Artist Marina Quirk speaks on her work, and shows us that by observing the fascinations of communication, she opens dialogue and consideration to the words we use to understand one another and ourselves.

The status quo is an unacceptable standard when it comes to creation in both the artistic and biological form. There is always something greater out there – your job is to prove that.
Whether it is a void or an abundance of boundaries, there is always an opportunity to utilize your surroundings to achieve something special. Bryant Chase is a media creator/producer with a background in clinical psychological research, and a passion for learning.

Abstracted visual elements accompanied by awkward dialogue juxtapose the perception of boundaries and how they shape us. A journey inside the mind of a fish out of water.

Every boundary forms a political position and depending on this posture, a boundary can transform the world or it can preserve the status quo. This is why the most important question for me as an artist is what position do I express through my work?