farrahskeiky.com / @reallyfarrah

Farrah Skeiky is a queer Arab-American photographic artist and creative director. Her work is representative of the DC area itself: a confluence of culture and counterculture with a focus on heritage, identity, and community. She collaborates with artists, artisans, and organizers to tell striking and unexpected stories.

In 2020, she self-published a photo book called Present Tense: DC Punk and DIY Right Now, which documents a thrilling moment in DC’s storied punk tradition. Her work has been exhibited in Transformer Gallery and Spring/Break Art Show, and is permanently displayed inside DC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. She has been commissioned by Rolling Stone, Fender Guitars, PAPER Magazine, The Smithsonian, Allies for Trans Equality, and Shout Your Abortion. She is an American Photography 41 winner, and was a semi-finalist of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2025 cycle.

@jaxknifecomplex

JaxKnife Complex (Jacob Stewart) has had a foot in the world of dance from the age of four.

Jax’s journey to the nightclub and its dance floor began at the Debbie Manoly Academy of Dance and went on to merge with theater arts in undergrad. They have taught theater, dance, and stage craft for nearly a decade and moved into the world of nightlife permanently in 2015 with the opening of their home bar TRADE in Washington, DC. 

You can catch JaxKnife’s drag review "Imaginary Friends" every other month on the stage at TRADE or join them for a night of wild chaos at their dance party "Glitch". A huge thank you goes out to all of the members of the haus of bambi and everyone in the DC nightlife scene that had a hand in helping mold and create the person that JaxKnife Complex danced their way into being… the birthday clown your parents never hired.

@theebumper

Bumper is DC’s alien superstar hellcat! They are a producer, performer, carpenter and community builder. Whether center stage or behind the scenes, Bumper steps into any arena where beauty is being made. Four years deep in the District and fresh off producing one of World Pride DC’s standout events, they’re at the top of their game.

You might’ve seen them tearing it up at Honcho, holding down a residency at The Kennedy Center, or caught their cowboy hat bouncing through Flower Factory as the creative director.

What’s next? Creating Sanctuary. Stay tuned.

@kingmolasses

King Molasses (They/them) is an award-winning drag king and performing artist based in Washington, DC. They consecutively reigned as DC’s Best Drag King from 2022 through 2025 and were voted Best Gender Non-Conforming Artist 2024-2025 by the DC Drag Awards. They have been featured on Bravo, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, and NPR. 

A DMV native, Molasses debuted in 2018 and has since become a fixture in the district’s performing arts scene. Their work has been commissioned in venues nationwide, including the John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian galleries, and Sasha Velour’s acclaimed NYC drag revue, NightGowns. Their drag is a call to mindfulness, black surrealism, and heritage-based movements that dare to create images of self-liberation.

@missgracedavid // missgracedavid.com

Miss Grace David is a Black, queer, and non-binary femme performance and textile artist based in the DC area. By using character performance, textile production, world-making, and storytelling, their work connects human emotion and personal experience with visual abstraction.

Their work and film has been commissioned by Dance Place in Washington, DC, Tariq O’Meally’s BlackLight Summit, and shown at The Kennedy Center.  Grace was most recently announced as a Fellowship Artist with Dance Place for their 2025-2027 Season, and voted Best Local Artist in Washington Blade’s 2025 “Best of LGBTQ D.C.” readers’ poll.