Online and Offline Identities: Feixue Mei on Cross-Cultural Design and Diaspora
Feixue Mei is a designer, illustrator, artist, and educator from China, now based in Virginia, US. Her work often grows out of questions about whose stories get told, how they circulate, and what happens in the spaces in between cultures. She moves between client projects, books, installations, and self-initiated publications, with a particular interest in voices shaped by migration, diaspora, and cross-cultural dialogue.
What Digital Can’t Fake & Why That Matters to Alai Ganuza
Alai Ganuza is an artist, educator, and founder of one of the fastest-growing online communities dedicated to contemporary realism and creative learning. While she’s best known for her oil paintings, her creative process often begins in the digital world. From early fan art inspired by anime and video games to sketching ideas on a tablet during art school, digital tools have always been part of her practice. For Alai, painting is about exploring emotion, memory, and atmosphere, whether through canvas or screen.