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✨Meet our 2026 WaterFire Accelerate Cohort✨
Yasmine Hassan () - Interdisciplinary Artist❤️‍🔥

Yasmine is an interdisciplinary artist, engineer, and industrial designer from a working-class, tri-cultural household of African immigrants. Informed by this background and influences from music, Black and brown pop culture, animation, DIY and counter-cultural spaces, her practice spans furniture and public design/build projects, woodworking, digital fabrication, mural painting, animation, physical computing, and graphic design. Through community-rooted, narrative-driven work, she explores how public art, participatory placemaking, and accessible technology can spark dialogue, surface overlooked histories, and empower marginalized communities to reshape their environments.

Follow these artists’ journeys as they go through this year long WaterFire Accelerate Program, by checking back in on this account to see their progress💪

✨Meet our 2026 WaterFire Accelerate Cohort✨
Aja Delgado () - Mixed Media Artist❤️‍🔥

Aja Delgado’s practice explores nostalgia, emotional vulnerability, and play through printmaking, painting, collage, textiles, clothing customization, and mixed media. Using vibrant color, shape, and layered processes, her work channels emotion as both a healing and playful act—transforming feeling, memory, and vulnerability into joyful, tactile forms that invite viewers to engage and celebrate emotional openness.

Follow these artists’ journeys as they go through this year long WaterFire Accelerate Program, by checking back in on this account to see their progress💪