Graffiti artist and skateboarder Meme hails from Northern California. With Indigenous roots, she's a natural nomad, and has lived in Sacramento, Oakland, San Diego, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Lake Tahoe, and Nevada City, and currently Richmond Virginia. In her teens, whilst skateboarding at a skate park in Truckee, California, she fell in love with some colorful graffiti on a freight train and has never looked back.

Meme started skateboarding at the young age of 15. As a female skater in what is still a male-dominated world, Meme experienced negativity from her male counterparts which made her consider quitting skating altogether, but she held strong and persevered and - even after suffering some major injuries - became committed to skateboarding around the United States. Soon she could add graffiti to the list of loves, and her travels to skateboard and paint took her to destinations outside the US.

After many years of being a graffiti writer Meme experienced the same type of mans-club attitude that she had found in the skateboarding world. Enthusiastic, outgoing and motivated to start something positive that would combine all of her passions, Meme began to formulate ideas to turn the negatives into positives and started creating an all-female group who would get together, skate, paint, travel empower and support one another as women and artists. That was the beginning of Few and Far. With global support that has driven Meme and the group, the organization now has 23 international members who paint murals together around the world and skateboard together across the US. Every year creates new opportunities and Few and Far is now heralded as a women-powered force to be reckoned with in both graffiti and skateboarding circles. Over the last 20 years Meme has strived to improve the world around her through activism and art. Her travels have taken her to Cuba, Mexico, Canada, Spain, France, India, Japan, China, Thailand, Dominican Republic, and soon Haiti.

@memersweets

Keena exercises her creative mind through the exploration of diverse artistic mediums as a way to engage and understand individual and collective purpose. Romano received her BFA from Pomona College then returned to her native Bay Area to pursue a career in the Arts. Her Murals can be spotted from Sacramento, California, to Richmond, Virginia to Oaxaca, Mexico.

Inspired by cultural practices, Romano combines spirituality with urban experience to produce work that draws upon the quest for a greater understanding of intersectional beauty in this world. She fuses traditional native arts with contemporary inner-city techniques to reflect a new language that encourages the healing and empowerment process between community members and their environments. Her style is described as “vibrant and insightful”.

She aspires to travel and create a colorful trail of art by exploring the modern Diaspora based on her multi-ethnic experience.

@lamakina510

TopBear is a self taught artist, muralist, published illustrator and organizer from the Oglala Lakota & Santee Dakota Nations. She is a board member of the international all female paint crew Few & Far Women and co-founded City Mischief Murals, an artist collective centered on healing through art. Specializing in large-scale murals her work can be seen on the sides of buildings throughout the country. Thomasina has organized a number of events focusing on empowering and creating safe spaces for youth and fellow artists to practice their crafts. She draws influences from her Oceti Sakowin culture while using art to express thoughts on community, social justice, spirituality and togetherness.

Thomasina has worked with numerous institutes and organizations including, Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center, Phipps Center for the Arts, Hennepin Theatre Trust, Minneapolis College of Arts and Design and Saint Paul College.

@tomierae

Simone Alexa is an African American and Hawaiiana emerging Twin Cities community artist. Alexa has a BFA in Drawing and Painting with a minor in Teaching Art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Raised in a melting pot of diversity, Alexa has a unique perspective on representation that has inspired her to make work about empowering and healing black and brown bodies. In her work, Alexa deconstructs harmful representations of people of color by recreating her own definition of representation and bridging similarities between her cultures. She uses identifiable images and symbols to comfort viewers and inspire the continuous fight against injustice and inequality. Through multiple mediums such as painting, drawing, digital illustration, and soft sculpture Alexa reimagines representation for Hawaiian and African American peoples. Other themes in her work include religion, the body, and identity through lenses of fantasy and Afrofuturism.

@simonealexaart