KOAK is one of four artists we have supported over the last year as part of the Liquitex residency program at San Francisco's Minnesota Street Project. She spent three months in a studio fully stocked with Liquitex acrylics, including our cadmium-free colors, which she found transformative in moving from pastels to acrylics. In her work, KOAK explores the female form from a feminist perspective. She draws on a background in comic book illustration, to create outlined figures with a graphic quali