Chisaraokwu Asomugha is a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and an Igbo American transdisciplinary poet, artist, scholar, and health futurist. Drawing on history, dreamscapes, quantum physics, and the Africa(n)|(in)diaspora, her work weaves image, texture, and text, and has appeared in venues including Transition, Obsidian, midnight&indigo, The Lancet, and The New England Journal of Medicine. Her honors include fellowships from the California Arts Council, MacDowell, Cave Canem, Ucross, and Headlands Center for the Arts, and nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets. A retired pediatrician and former U.S. Commissioner to UNESCO, she holds degrees from Stanford, Duke, UNC, and Harvard, and is currently working on two poetry collections and a novel.

Helen O’Toole is an Irish-born abstract painter known for large-scale contemporary oil paintings. Born in County Mayo, Ireland, she studied art in Ireland before earning her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. O’Toole has exhibited in national and international contemporary art exhibitions for over three decades and has completed residencies in the United States, Ireland, and Italy. She is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Award, and other major visual arts honors. Based in Seattle, she is the Floyd & Delores Jones Endowed Chair in the Arts at the University of Washington.

Jeremy Davis is a sculptor whose work explores the relationship between sound, language, and material form, translating the emotional resonance of music into physical structures. Influenced by an early background in music and a lifelong engagement with visual art, his practice bridges the ephemeral and the tactile through conceptually driven sculpture. Davis earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BFA from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. He is Associate Professor of Sculpture at Central Michigan University and previously lectured at SAIC.

Christopher Radcliff is a filmmaker based in the United States. After receiving his MFA from the Pratt Institute, he began screening his work at film festivals and contemporary art venues internationally. His films have been presented at Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Berlinale, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Most recently, his feature The Strange Ones was distributed by Vertical Entertainment and has been featured on major streaming platforms. Prior exhibitions and screenings include programs at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest in Brooklyn, NY, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, and Anthology Film Archives in New York, NY. Radcliff is the recipient of several awards including a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Jerome Foundation grant, and support from the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP). He has served as visiting faculty and guest lecturer at institutions such as Columbia University, the New School, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. For the past several years, he has taught film production and theory at the Pratt Institute.

Gregory Drasler graduated from the University of Illinois and has lived and painted in New York City for the past 40 years. On Moving to New York in 1983 he began showing at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, and has painted and exhibited regularly since, most recently with an exhibition titled External Drive at the Betty Cuningham Gallery in 2023. Prior exhibitions include shows at The Queens Museum, Queens New York, the Center for Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Whitney Stamford, in Stamford, CT, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, and Artist Space, New York, NY among others.Gregory Drasler is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship, a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois, among others. For the past 20 years Drasler has taught painting and lectured at several schools including Princeton University, Williams College, Hofstra University, Montclair State University. For the past 20 years he has taught painting at the Pratt Institute of Art.

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Kerry Ryan is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working primarily in video and performance. Originally from the United States, Ryan earned her MFA from the Pratt Institute and began exhibiting in alternative spaces and museums shortly thereafter. Her work has been shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. Her most recent solo project, Choreographies of the Ordinary, was presented at the Kitchen, New York, NY in 2023.
Ryan has received fellowships and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She has been artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Skowhegan, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Over the past decade, Ryan has lectured and taught media arts and performance studies at institutions including NYU, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Rutgers University. She currently teaches video and time-based media at the Pratt Institute.

Lynn Cazabon is an artist whose multifaceted projects employ participation as a strategy to deepen public engagement with topics at the interface between environmental and social issues. She uses lens-based media, text, and audio to create works which are displayed in exhibitions, public displays, and virtually. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including with 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH; Witte Rook, Breda, the Netherlands; Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore, MD; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania; Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan; WRO Art Center, Wrocław, Poland; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY.

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Pablo Sinaí is an Argentinian visual artist and educator whose practice engages contemporary painting and expanded artistic production. Since 2000, he has led workshops, seminars, and mentoring programs for artists across cultural institutions, residencies, and independent spaces. He is co-founder of Clínicas CUATROXCUATRO and currently directs LAB-EXPANDIDO, an annual artist training platform focused on inclusive and experimental contemporary practices. His work has received major recognitions including awards at Argentina’s National Salon and international biennials, and is held in public collections such as the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA) and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santa Cruz de la Sierra (MAC), among others. He has exhibited widely in Argentina and internationally across Europe, Latin America, and Asia, with solo and group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and cultural institutions.

Todd Jones is a contemporary artist and educator based in North Carolina, USA, whose work explores themes of memory, reclamation, and identity through innovative approaches to painting and sculpture. He holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Visual Arts Management from Ohio University. Additionally, he has a BFA in Studio Art and Psychology from Florida State University. His practice often involves transforming discarded materials, particularly house paint, into stratified sculptures and installations investigating residual histories and the concept of place.

Andy Ness is an artist living and working in Minneapolis. His works are featured in galleries and collections across the world. Andy holds a BFA from the Pratt Institute and an MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Andy Ness earned his BFA from Pratt Institute and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has participated in numerous artist residencies including The Vermont Studio Center, The MacDowell Colony, Denniston Hill, and was a two-year Fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Andy has taught at RISD, Studio in a School in New York City, and the Grand Marais Art Colony. He has shown his work both nationally and internationally and is currently represented by Studio d’Arte Raffaelli in Trento, Italy.

Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha is a poet, performer, and Irish-language writer from the west of Ireland. Her work explores themes of place, memory, identity, and the body, drawing from both personal and collective experience. She writes primarily in Irish and is committed to expanding the visibility of contemporary Irish-language literature through performance and interdisciplinary collaboration. Laoighseach has performed at international festivals and venues across Ireland, Italy, and beyond. In 2023, she was a Special Guest at the Policromia Poetry Festival in Siena, Italy. She is also a regular contributor to cultural conversations around language, creativity, and community, with work that bridges traditional and experimental forms.

Rhianna Adesuwa Ilube is a London-born, New York-based playwright making bold, formally experimental, and community-rooted work. A Juilliard Playwriting Fellow (2025–27) and current Royal Court Writers’ Attachment, her debut play Samuel Takes A Break… premiered at The Yard Theatre and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her follow-up works include 1884-a sold-out immersive game-theatre show about the Berlin Conference, and 81 (Life) at the Almeida Theatre, created with over 60 local performers. Rhianna’s work blends comedy, history, and interactivity, often exploring Black identity and untold histories through innovative forms. A former BFI Flare film programmer and an experienced workshop leader, she holds degrees from Cambridge and Goldsmiths, and continues to develop new writing across theatre, film, and games.

Sarah B. Hansen is an award-winning artist and Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society, known for expressive paintings in acrylic, watercolor, and gouache. Self-taught with over 30 years of experience, she began with realistic watercolor portraits before evolving toward bold, contemporary interpretations of nature. Raised on a farm in southwestern Colorado and now based in Terrebonne, Oregon, Sarah draws lasting inspiration from wild landscapes and open skies. Her work is held in public and private collections including Kaiser Permanente, Sunriver Resort, and Central Oregon Family Medicine. Sarah teaches workshops across the U.S. and internationally, including Italy, Costa Rica, and Croatia (2025), and has taught at institutions such as Winslow Art Center and the Oregon Society of Artists. In 2024, she was a finalist in the Plein Air Salon and juried into national exhibitions with the American Impressionist Society and the Northwest Watercolor Society. Her work has been exhibited at the High Desert Museum, Coos Art Museum, and the Favell Museum. She is represented by Tumalo Art Co., Rickard’s Gallery, and Marmot Art Space, and is a member of AWS, AIS, and NWWS.

Ellen van Neerven is an Australian author whose debut essay collection Blueberries (Text, 2020; Scribe UK) was shortlisted for the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and longlisted for the Stella Prize. Her forthcoming novel, The Ruiners, will be published in 2026 by Summit Australia, Sceptre (UK), and Catapult Books (USA). Her essays and stories have appeared widely, including in The Monthly, Griffith Review, Meanjin, HEAT, Sydney Review of Books, Flash Art, The Paris Review, and The Cambridge History of the American Essay. She is also the author of Yellow City (The Atlas Review, 2019), and her work has been commissioned by leading arts and performance organisations across Australia. Ellen holds a PhD from Monash University, where her research focused on the essay’s contemporary role as a socially engaged literary form. She teaches writing and offers manuscript consultations. She is represented by Daisy Parente at Lutyens & Rubinstein (London).

Gabriel Feld is an Argentine-American architect, artist, and educator, and a longtime professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has led RISD’s Architecture Department and served as chief critic for its European Honors Program in Rome. Feld’s work spans architecture, urban design, affordable housing, and industrialized construction, alongside an exhibiting art practice in printmaking and installation. He holds degrees from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Shelley Jordon is a Portland-based painter and moving-image artist whose hand-painted animations and mixed-media works explore memory, place, and emotion. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at the Frye Art Museum, Wexner Center, Lincoln Center, and Radar Hamburg Film Festival, where she won “Best Art and Animation.” She has received fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, Ford Family Foundation, and the American Academy in Jerusalem, and holds an MFA from Brooklyn College. Jordon is a Professor of Art at Oregon State University and has held residencies at the American Academy in Rome, Djerassi, Montalvo, and others.

Borinquen Gallo is an Italian-Puerto Rican artist based in the Bronx whose sculptural installations explore beauty, community, and social systems through repurposed materials. Her work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, BRIC, Smack Mellon, the Queens Museum, and Burning in Water Gallery. Gallo holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from Hunter College. She has received awards including the Sol Shaviro Award and the Marion Netter Fellowship, and has participated in residencies at the Bronx Museum AIM Program, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, and Vermont Studio Center. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.

Prof. Gene K. Lakin is a Part-time Assistant Professor with an over 23 year affiliation with Parsons. He has taught all levels of Design Studio, Fashion History, and Model Drawing. Prof. Lakin started his professional career as an award winning Costume Designer for stage, film and television after completing his MFA studies at Yale University. What he thought would be a brief hiatus at Poli-Moda in Florence, Italy took him on a knitwear path after returning to the states. Knitwear Design created opportunities for Mr. Lakin to travel around the world and experience cultures he never though he would have access to. His great respect for the amazing teachers in his life, led him to pursue teaching while still maintaining a professional career. Eventually teaching became his calling, where he has stayed for the past 23 years, not only teaching extensively in New York, but China, France, and South Africa. Mr. Lakin’s approach to teaching is that of a journey with his students, as he negards them as artists first, that are storytellers, through fashion. Currently his outreach has taken a more personal turn as he works with Center’s dealing with healing of victimized men, women and children, and his most current project is based on the LGBTQ+ community.

John Monti is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and educator whose work explores the tension between beauty and melancholy through lush, metaphorical forms. Inspired by botanical illustration, Baroque ornament, religious icons, and custom car culture, his vibrant resin sculptures evoke surreal, psychological landscapes. Monti has exhibited widely in galleries and museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, SculptureCenter, and the Wakita Museum of Art (Japan). His work is held in major collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Eli Broad Family Foundation. He is a recipient of grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NEA, and others, and is Professor of Graduate Fine Arts at Pratt Institute.

Rone Shavers is the author of the experimental Afrofuturist novel Silverfish (Clash Books), a finalist for the 2021 CLMP Firecracker Award and one of The Brooklyn Rail’s Best Books of 2020. He writes across genres, with work published in Black Warrior Review, BOMB, PANK, Action Spectacle, and more. His chapbook Ten Crônicas was published by The Magnificent Field in 2021. Shavers is fiction and hybrid genre editor at Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. His critical writing appears in American Book Review, Electronic Book Review, and The Critical Flame. He also co-curated the 2019 Afrofuturist art exhibition In Place of Now and contributed to The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. He is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah and has held fellowships at MacDowell, Dora Maar House, Loghaven, and more.

Alex Bodea is a Romanian-born artist working at the intersection of visual art, journalism, and poetry. A nomadic practitioner based in Berlin and traveling across Europe, she creates minimalist visual reports using drawing and text- both written and spoken-to document urban life, street scenes, and the performing arts. Bodea has collaborated with institutions such as Serralves Foundation, Martin-Gropius-Bau, HAU, Berliner Festspiele, and Deutsche Oper. Her live performances give voice to her drawings, which are designed to be read aloud. She has visually documented artists including Peter Sellars, Benjamin Verdonck, Yevgenia Belorusets, and Karl Ove Knausgård (work-in-progress).

Professor Antonia Liguori is a world-leading expert in digital storytelling and participatory methods, with a focus on environmental and social challenges, public policy, and community engagement. She joined Teesside University in 2024 as Professor of Participatory Storytelling and Public Policy and Co-Director of the Institute for Collective Place Leadership.Her research explores how inclusive storytelling practices can amplify diverse voices, drive structural change, and enhance public understanding of cultural and environmental issues. With an academic background in history and computer science, Antonia has led international projects across education, heritage, and interdisciplinary research.Before her UK academic career at Loughborough University (2014–2023), she directed multimedia initiatives at BAICR Sistema Cultura in Italy. In 2018, she was awarded an AHRC Fellowship at the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access in Washington, DC.

Becca Albee is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose photo-driven practice expands into sculpture, video, scent, and performance. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the ICA Philadelphia, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Art in General (NYC), and 356 S. Mission Rd (Los Angeles). A MacDowell and Yaddo fellow, Albee has also held residencies at IMMA, Fundación Botín, Blue Mountain Center, LMCC, and Skowhegan. In 2020, she presented a solo exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center as part of List Projects. Albee is currently Associate Professor of Photography at The City College of New York (CUNY).

Laurel Farrin received a B.F.A. from Ohio University–Athens and an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland. She has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Dora Maar, Pratt Institute’s Fine Arts Summer Residency, and the Roswell Museum and Art Center. She has received an individual artist grant from the Washington, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues including Devening Projects (Chicago), Lesley Heller Gallery (New York), Hallwalls (Buffalo), the Bronx River Art Center, the Figge Museum, the Albany International Airport, Carroll Square Gallery (Washington, DC), the Des Moines Art Center, the Florida Center for Contemporary Art (Tampa), Spaces (Cleveland), Anton Gallery, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Washington Project for the Arts.

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Michael Brennan is a nationally recognized artist and designer whose paintings, murals, and immersive restaurant designs have shaped iconic spaces across California and beyond. His work blends fine art with architectural storytelling, often beginning with a simple sketch and evolving into layered, obsessively crafted compositions. Brennan’s art has been commissioned by celebrated restaurateur Pat Kuleto for venues like Farallon and Jardinière, and featured in over 40 restaurant projects in San Francisco, Napa, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and more. His designs have been highlighted in Esquire, Bon Appétit, San Francisco Magazine, and Design For Living. His large-scale murals appear in public and private spaces, including Oakland Arena, the Metreon, and Park La Brea. Brennan’s work is held in corporate, private, and museum collections worldwide, including the Napa Valley Museum of Contemporary Art. Influenced by painters like Lucian Freud and Wayne Thiebaud, he continues to follow in the footsteps of the greats.

Mubashar is a Lahore-based visual artist who completed his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2018. His practice spans drawing, installation, and participatory work, often exploring themes of memory, narrative, and cultural history. He has exhibited in numerous group and two-person shows, including DISTANCE at O Art Space (2021), DASTAANGOI at O Art Space (2021), KHATO-O-KITABAT (2021) at O Art Space and virtually with KOEL Gallery, and BEFORE THE END OF TIME, curated by Quddus Mirza at Canvas Gallery, Karachi (2021). He was selected for the Vasl Artists’ Association residency (2023) and is the recipient of the KKAF 2023 Artist Grant. Mubashar lives and works in Lahore.

Nadia Frolova with a background in design and fine arts, earned an MFA in Glass and Ceramics, Art and Science from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon in 2022. Since 2021, she has showcased her work in several group exhibitions in Lisbon, including the CraftHub Exhibition: Investigating Craft Practices Across Europe (FCT-NOVA, Lisbon, 2023); Circles (Aveiro International Ceramic Art Biennial, 2022); and Amplitude (Solar dos Zagallos Museum, Lisbon, 2024). Her practice focuses on the language of dreams and the mythology of transformation. She aims to create forms that have the quality of things born, not made. Forms evoke a sense of motion and breathing in the static ceramics.

Theresa Hackett is a New York-based artist known for her vibrant, layered works spanning painting, drawing, and printmaking. Originally from Los Angeles, she earned her MFA from Hunter College after studying at the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Hackett has exhibited widely in New York, Los Angeles, and Europe, with solo and group shows at institutions including the Contemporary Museum of Art in Baltimore. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts. In addition to her studio practice, she has curated multiple exhibitions and lectured extensively at universities and galleries.

Analia Segal is an Argentina-born, New York-based visual artist whose research-driven practice spans sculpture, installation, photography, video, drawing, sound, and performance. Her interdisciplinary work explores themes of identity, migration, the concept of “home,” and the codes that shape the female and migrant experience. Segal is a Joan Mitchell and Guggenheim Fellow and is currently pursuing a PhD at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She has received numerous distinctions, including awards from the Fulbright Foundation, NYSCA (2023), Fundación Konex, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NYFA, and Fundación Antorchas. Her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe, and is held in both public and private collections. It has also been featured in books, catalogues, and art journals internationally. She holds a Master’s in Art from New York University and a degree in Graphic Design from the University of Buenos Aires.

Baris Gokturk is a Turkish artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including projects at SECCA (Winston-Salem), the Jewish Museum (New York), the Frost Art Museum (Miami), and Pera Museum (Istanbul). His solo exhibition Public Secret was presented at Helena Anrather Gallery, New York, in 2021. Gokturk has completed public commissions for Columbia University’s Butler Library and the Public Art Fund, and his work has been featured in ArtForum, BOMB Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail. He has participated in residencies and fellowships at apexart (Seoul), Yaddo, SOMA Mexico, Skowhegan, LMCC Governor’s Island, Fountainhead (Miami), and Siena Art Institute (Italy). He currently teaches at The New School and Columbia University and runs an art program for Johns Hopkins University’s neurology department. He is the co-founder of Junte, an arts and culture initiative in Puerto Rico, and previously co-ran the artist-run space Heliopolis in Brooklyn. He is currently working on projects in New York and Istanbul.

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Blair Fell is a New York City–based writer whose television credits include Queer as Folk and the Emmy Award–winning California Connected. He has written dozens of plays, including the award-winning Naked Will, The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun, and the downtown cult miniseries Burning Habits. His personal essays have appeared in HuffPost, Out, and the New York Daily News. A two-time recipient of the Doris Lippman Prize in Creative Writing from the City College of New York, he has also worked since 1993 as an ASL interpreter for the Deaf, alongside careers as an actor, producer, and director.

Breakthrough collection grabbed the industry’s attention; designer and consultant with experience gained from working internationally with Calvin Klein, Clements Ribeiro, and others; “The Revenge” collection (2011) showed at London Fashion Week’s fall runway presentations; publications to include Vogue Italia, W magazine, and i-D magazine, with commissions photographed by Sebastian Feana and Sarah Moon; previously taught at Central Saint Martins, University for the Creative Arts, and Savannah College of Art and Design.

Dr. Sandy Pool is a Canadian writer and Professor of Creative Writing. She has taught in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, most recently as an Assistant Professor at the University of East Anglia, where she also led a research group in multimodal writing and digital humanities.Her writing explores social justice and feminist themes across poetry, nonfiction, micro-fiction, and theatrical texts, with interests spanning ecopoetics, dramatic and avant-garde performance, hybrid and experimental forms, and space-and-place theory. Her poetry collections Exploding Into Night and Undark: An Oratorio were nominated for major national awards, including the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Book Award. Her nonfiction essay collection I Love Lucy is represented by Aevitas Creative Management and has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Berton House, and the Dora Maar House, with selections forthcoming in The Walrus.

Seiko Tachibana is a Japanese-born artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose work balances Asian aesthetic traditions with minimalist modernity. She completed her Master of Art Education at Kobe University in Japan and earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her distinctive practice explores universal principles and interconnected structures through shape, color, and spatial relationships, often using circles and organic forms to evoke ideas of connection and unity. Tachibana’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in major public and private collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Portland Art Museum, as well as numerous institutions and collections across the United States, Europe, and Japan. She has received awards such as the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, affirming her presence in contemporary art.

Emily Ginsburg is a Portland-based visual artist and educator whose conceptually driven work explores how communication, behavior, and meaning intersect across media platforms. Her multidisciplinary practice includes painting, drawing, print, installation, video, and sound. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with public art commissions for Seattle City Light, Portland State University, and the Washington State Arts Commission. Ginsburg has received grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council and held residencies in the U.S., Brazil, Finland, London, and Italy. Her work has been featured in DATA FLOW, The Map as Art, Art Papers, and more. She is Professor and Chair of BFA Programs at Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she also leads the Intermedia Program and teaches in the MFA in Visual Studies.

Tseng Yu Chin is a video artist and experimental filmmaker based between Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris, whose practice explores the relationship between the human body, subjective consciousness, and contemporary political realities. Working within the language of extended cinema, he uses moving images to examine identity, self-existence, and the tensions between individual experience and social structures. His internationally recognized works, including the Child Body and Teen Body series, investigate the body as both a site of vulnerability and resistance. Through video, installation, text, and sound, Tseng constructs critical reflections on presence, absence, and the psychological impact of modern society.

Claire McKinney is a New York-based fashion designer whose work lands between art, research, and functional design. With a background from Pratt Institute, she explores workwear aesthetics, material experimentation, and collaborative creative processes. Alongside developing her own projects and co-founding SC103, she has taken part in international residencies and educational initiatives, bringing a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach to contemporary fashion practice.

Daphne Vitali is a Greek/Italian art historian and curator based in Athens. She is a curator at EMST, where she has organized numerous solo and group exhibitions of Greek and international artists. Her recent curatorial projects include Deeper than Silence, a series of sound art commissions at the Ancient Roman Agora in Athens, When the Present is History at DEPO in Istanbul, and /Uncinematic. George Drivas at La Galleria Nazionale in Rome.

Devin B. Johnson (b. 1992, Los Angeles) is an artist whose work explores abstraction, materiality, and contemporary mythologies through painting and installation. He holds an MFA from Pratt Institute and has received recognition including the Pratt Alumni Achievement Award, a Forbes 30 Under 30 Art & Design listing, and the Artsy Vanguard selection. Johnson has exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions including Nicodim, Gagosian, Jeffrey Deitch, and the Dak’Art Biennial, and his work is held in major collections such as LACMA, the Hammer Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, and the Rubell Museum.

Harrison David Rivers is an award-winning playwright, librettist, and television writer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. His plays have been produced widely across the U.S. and internationally, including The Bandaged Place at Yale Repertory Theatre and Roundabout Theatre Company, We Are Continuous at Williamstown Theatre Festival, and This Bitter Earth at London’s Soho Theatre, among many others. His work has also been seen at Penumbra Theatre and theaters nationwide. As a librettist, he co-created the musicals We Shall Someday and Last of the Red Hot Mamas. Rivers is a recipient of the Relentless Award and a GLAAD Media Award, with additional nominations from major theater organizations across the country. His television credits include projects for Peacock and HBO, and he has developed work with Hillman Grad Productions. His fellowships and residencies include the Siena Art Institute, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and New York Theatre Workshop. He is currently under commission from several theaters and from Minnesota Opera.

Leah Modigliani is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is an artist and scholar with transdisciplinary engagements informed by fine arts, art history, critical geography, urban studies, and politics. Modigliani’s work represents both the political potential and inequitable hardships of urban experience. She has made artwork that reflects upon eviction, cities destroyed by war and natural disasters, and urban protests against injustice. While often sculptural, her work also cites the form and history of photography, especially photography’s role in constituting and deconstructing historical narratives. Modigliani’s artwork has been exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Colby College Museum of Art, Maine; the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto. Her work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Modigliani’s writing can be found in academic journals and contemporary art magazines such as Burlington Contemporary Journal.

Matt Nolen is a studio artist based in New York City and Narrowsburg, NY, whose ceramic practice investigates the relationship between craft, design, and public space. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in major museum collections such as the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the de Young Museum. Through sculptural objects and site-specific projects-including a public washroom created during the Kohler Art/Industry residency-he explores material culture, communication, and everyday rituals. In addition to his studio practice, he teaches at institutions including New York University and Pratt Institute, contributing to contemporary discourse in ceramic arts.

Sheri Simons is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, drawing, mapping, and interactive urban projects that merge theatrical staging with machine aesthetics. Influenced by Detroit’s industrial culture, she constructs hybrid installations using motors, electronics, wood, paper, and rubber to explore movement, systems, and fragile technological narratives. Her internationally exhibited practice includes public art commissions and residencies that engage communities through walking, mapping, and participatory urban experiences. Alongside her artistic work, Simons has contributed to arts education as Professor Emerita of Sculpture at California State University, Chico.

Evandro Angerami is a Brazilian visual artist and educator currently living and working in Siena, Italy. Holding an MFA from New York University, his interdisciplinary practice explores spirituality, identity, nature, and ecological relationships through drawing, painting, installation, video, and urban interventions. Working both in the studio and outdoors, often in collaboration with local and Indigenous Brazilian communities, his projects consider art and education as transformative processes within contemporary society.

Mo Abd Ulla is a visual artist, curator and lecturer whose interdisciplinary practice spans installation, drawing, photography, video, text-based art, and performative “discursive arguments.” His work explores collective memory, monuments, and the social role of artistic intervention amid political and cultural change. Educated across leading European institutions including The Bartlett (UCL), Chelsea College of Arts (UAL), and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, he combines architectural thinking with critical artistic research. Through exhibitions, workshops, and international residencies-such as the Cité internationale des arts in Paris-he develops projects that connect historical narratives with contemporary public discourse.

Richard Zeiss is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates the idea of art as a form of non-verbal knowledge. Working with semantically charged materials-such as egg tempera on tarpaulin and hand-developed 16mm film-he constructs fragmented and often conflicting narratives that challenge conventional modes of perception. His work spans painting, installation, video, and writing, combining material experimentation with conceptual inquiry. Through these diverse media, Zeiss explores how visual language can disrupt established structures of meaning and thought.

Suzanne Mathew is a licensed landscape architect with a multidisciplinary background in biology, architecture and landscape architecture, and her work draws on cross-disciplinary approaches to measure and visualize the phenomenological qualities of landscape space. The methods she has developed join visceral experience and technological survey in order to create depictions of landscape that capture its sensory, temporal, and volumetric qualities all at once. Suzanne is also an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Mykola Ryabchuk is a Ukrainian writer, political analyst, and public intellectual whose work explores post-Soviet identity, democracy, and cultural transformation. Originally a poet and prose writer, he later shifted toward political essays and analytical writing, with numerous books translated into European languages and recognized by major literary and cultural awards. A co-founder and former executive editor of the influential journal Krytyka, he has played a key role in shaping contemporary Ukrainian intellectual discourse. Through international lectures, research, and publications, Ryabchuk contributes to global debates on Eastern Europe, memory, and political culture.

Natalka Bilotserkivets (born November 8, 1954, in Kuianivka, Sumy region, Ukraine) is a celebrated Ukrainian poet, translator, and essayist. She studied philology at Kyiv University and has worked as an editor and cultural writer in Ukraine. Bilotserkivets is the author of several influential poetry collections -including Ballad about the Invincibles (1976), The Underground Fire (1984), November (1989), Allergy (1999), and Central Hotel (2004) – many of which have been translated into multiple languages. Her work is known for its lyrical depth and has earned national and international recognition, with selected translations shortlisted for major poetry prizes. She lives and works in Kyiv.

Kostis Velonis (b. 1968) is a Greek sculptor based in Athens whose work explores the afterlives of Modernist and avant-garde ideas through sculpture, performance, and installation. His practice often embraces “awkwardness” and humor to question political narratives, class identity, and everyday materials. Velonis has exhibited internationally at institutions including Palais de Tokyo, Whitechapel Gallery, Witte de With, and Museo Tamayo.

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Mashuq Mushtaq Deen is an award-winning playwright and essayist whose work explores identity, faith, and the emotional landscapes of human connection. He is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award for Draw the Circle, with productions at PlayMakers Rep, Mosaic Theater, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. His plays have been developed and supported by institutions including Sundance Theatre Institute, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Public Theater. A graduate of the Actors Studio Drama School, Deen is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects.

Nina Papaconstantinou is a visual artist whose work combines drawing, printmaking, and text-based processes to explore language, repetition, and translation. Often working with literary sources, she creates intricate visual systems that merge writing and image, reflecting on memory and perception. Her work has been exhibited internationally and engages the tension between manual labor and conceptual structure, transforming acts of reading and writing into immersive visual experiences.

Tania Saleh is a Lebanese multidisciplinary artist, musician, and visual storyteller whose work moves between music, drawing, and animation. Blending personal narrative with social commentary, she explores themes of identity, migration, and contemporary Arab culture through poetic imagery and sound. Her projects have been presented internationally, combining experimental visuals and performance to create intimate, politically aware works that bridge popular and fine art practices.

Nanette Carter (b. 1954, Columbus, Ohio) is an American abstract artist best known for her inventive collages and mixed-media works on paper and Mylar. Her practice, active since the mid-1970s, explores form, line, color, and texture to address the complexities of contemporary life, nature, and social experience. Carter studied art at Oberlin College and earned her MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she later taught for two decades. Her work has been exhibited widely nationally and internationally and is included in major museum collections. Drawing on influences from jazz, abstraction, and cultural traditions, her series such as Cantilevered and Afro Sentinels reflect both formal balance and urgent cultural dialogues.

Shoshana Dentz (b. 1968, New York City) is a Brooklyn-based artist known for intimate, perceptually complex paintings and drawings derived from close observation of a transparent, tape-constructed box staged with mirrors. This self-made, nearly invisible still life has been the central subject of her practice for over a decade, serving as a vehicle to explore light, reflection, and the instability of perception. Dentz earned her MFA from Bard College and BFA from Brandeis University. She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NYFA, and the Elaine de Kooning Fellowship, and has participated in numerous residencies including Marble House Project and Art Omi. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S. and internationally, and she teaches at Parsons, the School of Visual Arts, and NYU.

Fotis Flevotomos is a Greek artist whose practice explores multisensory storytelling and accessible exhibition design. A Fulbright Artist Scholar at the New York Public Library, he develops immersive museum experiences that expand access for audiences with visual impairments while reimagining how art can be encountered through the senses. His work bridges artistic research, social engagement, and inclusive innovation within contemporary cultural spaces.

Vassiliki Spachou is a dance artist, somatic practitioner, and educator whose work explores the body as a sensory and perceptual field. Drawing from anatomy, movement research, and multisensory practices, she creates projects that bridge choreography, education, and community engagement. Influenced by the Klein Technique™ and Rolfing® Structural Integration, her practice investigates body–mind relationships while fostering collective awareness, healing, and new approaches to observation and creative learning.

Donna Stonecipher is a poet and critic, author of six poetry collections including The Ruins of Nostalgia and Transaction Histories, both widely acclaimed. Her work explores language, urban space, and contemporary experience, and has been translated into multiple languages. She is also an award-winning translator from German and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.

Tatana Kellner is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice combines painting, drawing, collage, and handmade paper to address social and political issues through an intuitive, material-driven process. Born in the Czech Republic and based in the United States, she has exhibited widely across North America, Europe, and Asia, with over fifty solo exhibitions. A recipient of numerous grants and residencies, including Pollock-Krasner Foundation support and fellowships at MacDowell and Yaddo, she is also the co-founder and Artistic Director (emeritus) of Women’s Studio Workshop.

Madyha J. Leghari (b. 1991) is a visual artist, writer, and educator working between Lahore and Washington, DC. Her interdisciplinary practice examines language, the body, and shifting ideas of what is considered “natural” within contemporary gestational and birthing cultures. A Fulbright Scholar, she has exhibited internationally and participated in residencies including Siena Art Institute and the Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship.

Bik Van der Pol is a Dutch contemporary art duo consisting of Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol who have collaborated since 1994/1995. Based in Rotterdam, their practice focuses on conceptual and site-specific work that explores how art can create public space, generate dialogue, and foster imagination and collective knowledge. Through collaborative processes, research, publishing, and public projects, they set conditions for encounters that reconfigure places, histories, and publics. Their work has been shown internationally at biennials, museums, and public art contexts, and they are known for engaging with questions about the role of art in shaping social and public spheres.

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Carlos Estévez is a Cuban-born contemporary artist whose paintings, sculptures, and installations explore spirituality, metaphysics, and unseen dimensions of human experience. Born in Havana and based in Miami, he studied at the University of the Arts (ISA) and is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and a Cintas Foundation Fellowship. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in major museum collections across the Americas and Europe.

Honey Jones-Hughes is a Rotterdam-based visual artist working in social practice and documentary art. Her work grows out of long-term collaborations with communities and explores themes like housing, urban change, sustainability, and local food systems. She creates participatory projects grounded in everyday lived experience.

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John Kenneth Melvin is an American multidisciplinary public artist known for large-scale eco-art installations that explore the intersection of art, nature, and community. His socially engaged projects address environmental issues such as plastic pollution and have been exhibited internationally in museums, public spaces, and cultural institutions across Europe, Asia, and the United States. Melvin’s work combines sculpture, public participation, and environmental advocacy, and he has completed major commissions in Cambodia, France, Italy, and the U.S. He holds degrees from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Julie Wyman is a filmmaker whose award winning films have been shown internationally in theatrical, festival, and television venues.Her films investigate the body: locating, exploring, and inventing various situations in which the codes, conditions, and visceral experiences of physicality defy expectation. Formally, her work tends toward the eclectic, incorporating both documentary and narrative storytelling modalities and often combining various formats and tones of address into a single piece. She holds an MFA degree from UC San Diego’s Visual Arts program and is the recipient of a 2008 Creative Capital Award.

Marina Mangubi is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans photography, installation, and research-based projects exploring identity, migration, and cultural memory. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, and public spaces, engaging social narratives through layered visual storytelling. Combining documentary approaches with conceptual strategies, Mangubi investigates personal and collective histories while foregrounding questions of place and belonging. Her projects often emerge from long-term collaborations and fieldwork, reflecting an ongoing commitment to socially engaged artistic practice.

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Pamela Lawton, a Fulbright Scholar in 2019–2020, combines deep arts experience with inclusive teaching. Based in New York, she’s a longstanding educator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her practice is rooted in accessibility, including her co-creation of Seeing Through Drawing, a course tailored for blind and low-vision adults and their companions at the Met. She’s joined by talented collaborators like Danny Licul, an artist and Italian-language consultant with roots in Italian heritage.

Curtis Mitchell is an American artist working across video installation, sculpture, and photography, known for creating visual dialogues through immersive installations. He has presented solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Mattress Factory, SculptureCenter, and galleries in New York and Europe. His work is held in major public collections including the Walker Art Center, the New York Public Library, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Douglas Hedwig is an artist whose practice explores nature, myth, and transformation through sculpture, drawing, and mixed media. His work often references symbolic forms and archetypal imagery, creating poetic connections between human experience and the natural world. Exhibited in galleries and cultural institutions, Hedwig’s projects reflect a contemplative approach to material and narrative, blending craftsmanship with conceptual exploration. His imagery invites viewers into imaginative spaces where memory, environment, and storytelling intersect.

Leslie Hirst is an interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, installation, and expanded drawing to explore material transformation and environmental systems. Her practice examines cycles of growth, decay, and renewal through organic forms and experimental processes. Exhibited internationally, her work engages ecological themes while reflecting on the fragile balance between human activity and natural landscapes. Hirst’s installations invite viewers into tactile, immersive spaces that foreground the physicality of materials and the passage of time.

Robin Mollicone is an American artist and jewelry designer known for her work in contemporary, sustainable fashion jewelry. She earned her BFA in Fine Arts/Fibers from Syracuse University and exhibits her work in New York City. Mollicone teaches at the Pratt Institute School of Design, where she leads courses in fashion jewelry design and sustainable practices, and mentors students as an internship adviser.

Ron Baron is a multimedia artist whose work combines sculpture, photography, and installation to investigate landscape, memory, and constructed environments. Drawing on architectural forms and found materials, he creates works that blur boundaries between physical space and narrative experience. His projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally, reflecting an ongoing interest in spatial perception and the psychological resonance of place. Baron’s practice merges conceptual inquiry with a strong emphasis on material presence.

Boaz Aharonovitch (born 1970, Israel) is an Israeli contemporary photographer whose work explores the evolving representational possibilities of photography in the digital age. A graduate with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, where he also completed his MFA, Aharonovitch examines the tension between the limitations of the photographic medium and its expanding technological potential. His practice often connects intimate family narratives with broader social, political, and environmental contexts. He is the recipient of major awards including the Sharett Scholarship, the Rami Halperin Prize, the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture’s Young Artist Award, and the Rich Foundation Award for Excellence.

Caoilinn Hughes is an award-winning Irish novelist and short story writer known for her insightful, atmospheric fiction that often explores identity, memory, and social change. Her acclaimed works include The Wild Laughter (co-winner of the Collyer Bristow Prize), Orchids (shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award), and The Rapture (winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers’ Award and the An Post Irish Book of the Year). Hughes’s fiction has been widely celebrated for its lyrical style and emotional depth, appearing in major literary journals and anthologies. She also teaches creative writing and lives between Ireland and the UK.

Luise Noora Sejersen is a Copenhagen-based contemporary artist working across painting, video, and installation. Her practice explores collective consciousness, spirituality, and historical imagery in relation to life in contemporary Northern Europe. Drawing on the traditions of icon painting, she creates layered egg tempera works on wood that blend art historical references with personal symbolism, treating the pictorial space as a site of transformation. Sejersen holds an MFA from the Funen Art Academy in Denmark and previously studied at Valand Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden. She is a recipient of a Danish Arts Foundation working grant and a residency award from the Siena Art Institute.

Ron Baron is a multimedia artist whose work combines sculpture, photography, and installation to investigate landscape, memory, and constructed environments. Drawing on architectural forms and found materials, he creates works that blur boundaries between physical space and narrative experience. His projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally, reflecting an ongoing interest in spatial perception and the psychological resonance of place. Baron’s practice merges conceptual inquiry with a strong emphasis on material presence.

Elaine Sexton is an American poet, writer, and visual artist and the author of Site Specific: New & Selected Poems (Grid Books, 2025). Her previous poetry collections include Drive, Prospect/Refuge, Causeway, and Sleuth. Her poems and art writing have appeared in major publications such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and Art in America. Sexton is also a librettist and book artist, known for creating limited-edition chapbooks and site-specific literary projects. She teaches poetry and text-and-image at Sarah Lawrence College and is the editor and publisher of the micro press Em Dash Books.

Laura Marsh is an American textile artist and social practice artist known for immersive weaving installations that foster community engagement and storytelling. Her fiber art and site-specific installations incorporate tactile materials, woven text, and participatory environments that explore themes of labor, place, and collective care. Rooted in a DIY ethos and influenced by her working-class upbringing in Pennsylvania, Marsh activates underused spaces through socially engaged art. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Printed Matter, and galleries nationwide.

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Magdalena Maślerz is a Kraków-based goldsmith and contemporary jewelry artist specializing in distinctive bone jewelry and alternative organic materials. Using traditional goldsmithing and stonesetting techniques, she creates refined wearable art from ethically sourced animal bones, often combined with silver, exploring themes of nature, mortality, and beauty beyond conventional luxury materials. She holds an MFA from the Pedagogical University of Kraków and is a certified Master Goldsmith. Maślerz is the founder of Szkoła Złotnictwa Xerion, Kraków’s first jewelry-making school. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Silver Festival Legnica and BIC-MAJA in Beijing, and is featured in Narrative Jewelry: Tales from the Toolbox by Mark Fenn.

Monica Bock is an American sculptor and installation artist whose work explores themes of home, vulnerability, and human connection through material transformation and narrative objects. Working with materials ranging from porcelain and iron to ephemeral substances like salt and soap, she creates evocative site-specific installations and sculptural environments. Bock is a Professor of Art at the University of Connecticut, where she leads the ceramics program and has developed metal casting and fabrication curricula. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, and Real Art Ways in Hartford, as well as internationally. She has received numerous awards, including an Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, and holds degrees from Oberlin College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Nat Meade (born 1975, Greenfield, Massachusetts; grew up in Portland, Oregon) is a Brooklyn-based American painter and educator known for figurative work that explores elevated, absurd, and archetypal representations of the human condition. His paintings often examine identity and male archetypes through expressive figures and textured surfaces. Meade received his BFA from the University of Oregon, MFA from Pratt Institute, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Neil Goldberg is a New York–based visual artist and performer whose work explores embodiment, perception, mortality, and everyday life. His video, installation, and performance works are included in the permanent collection of MoMA and have been presented at leading institutions including The New Museum, The Kitchen, The Hammer Museum, and international venues in Berlin and Barcelona. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous arts grants, Goldberg is a Critic at the Yale School of Art and a mentor with Queer|Art. His work has been praised by The New York Times as “tender, moving and sad but also deeply funny.”

Sidra Zubairi is a multidisciplinary accessories and product designer specializing in digital fabrication and handcrafted design. Her work explores the intersection of design, culture, and personal narrative, creating products that spark social dialogue. Based in Qatar, she has worked with Qatar Museums as a Fabrication Lab Coordinator and at QBIC FabLab, collaborating with artists and clients on innovative fabrication projects. She has contributed to major hospitality design projects in Qatar, including work for Hilton, Wyndham, Zulaal Wellness Resort, and Salwa Beach Resort.

Susan Cianciolo (born 1969, USA) is a New York–based visual artist, fashion designer, and healer whose work has played a key role in the intersection of contemporary art and experimental fashion. Working across collage, textiles, garments, installations, publications, and performance, she transforms personal objects and archival materials into intimate, process-driven works. Cianciolo founded the influential fashion project RUN in 1995, producing eleven collections through 2001 and expanding into conceptual ventures such as RUN Store and RUN Restaurant. Her practice is known for its deeply personal yet universally resonant approach to art, craft, and everyday life.

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John Kenneth Melvin is an American multidisciplinary public artist known for large-scale eco-art installations that explore the intersection of art, nature, and community. His socially engaged projects address environmental issues such as plastic pollution and have been exhibited internationally in museums, public spaces, and cultural institutions across Europe, Asia, and the United States. Melvin’s work combines sculpture, public participation, and environmental advocacy, and he has completed major commissions in Cambodia, France, Italy, and the U.S. He holds degrees from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Matt Murphy (born Brighton, UK, 1977) is a British contemporary artist known for his distinctive abstract portrait paintings in watercolor and oil. With decades of experience, his work has been exhibited in London and across the UK, and featured in art magazines and podcasts. Murphy also creates commissioned artwork for collectors worldwide and is passionate about teaching painting techniques that help others develop their own creative practice.

Gabriel Feld is an Argentine-American architect, artist, and educator, and a longtime professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has led RISD’s Architecture Department and served as chief critic for its European Honors Program in Rome. Feld’s work spans architecture, urban design, affordable housing, and industrialized construction, alongside an exhibiting art practice in printmaking and installation. He holds degrees from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Aisha Khalid (b. 1972, Faisalabad, Pakistan) is a Lahore-based artist whose work merges geometric patterning and botanical imagery with politically charged themes. Working within the tradition of miniature painting, she examines gender, power, and cultural identity. Her practice reflects on domesticity, social expectations, and the shifting dynamics between East and West.

Joan Larkin is a poet whose books include Blue Hanuman and My Body: New and Selected Poems, winner of the Audre Lorde Award. A Lambda Literary Award recipient, she has also co-translated Sor Juana’s Love Poems and written works for the stage. She has taught widely, including at Sarah Lawrence College and Smith College, and has received honors from the Academy of American Poets and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Kathy Butterly is a New York-based artist known for her distinctive ceramic sculptures that combine a painterly sensibility with inventive, organic form. Her works feature richly layered glazes and delicate surfaces, blending influences from Asian ceramics and California Funk. Born in 1963 in Amityville, New York, she earned her BFA from Moore College of Art and her MFA from the University of California, Davis, studying with Robert Arneson. Her work is held in major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the de Young Museum. Butterly has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Smithsonian American Art Museum Artist Award, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and inclusion in the Carnegie International.

Born in Athens in 1952, Maria Vlandi studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, graduating in 1976, and ceramics at the Athens School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1978. She has presented eight solo exhibitions in Athens between 1988 and 2016, primarily with Medusa Art Gallery. Vlandi has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and internationally, including Italy, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada, Switzerland, and Turkey, as well as major art fairs such as Art Athina. Her work has received multiple awards, including First Prizes at the Panhellenic Ceramics Exhibition and distinctions at international ceramic competitions in Italy. In 2003, she was awarded prizes for public art proposals for Athens Metro stations. She is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece and a founding member of the Association of Ceramic Artists of Greece.

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Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ is an acclaimed Nigerian author known for her bestselling novels Stay With Me and A Spell of Good Things. Her debut, Stay With Me, won the 9mobile Prize for Literature and the Prix Les Afriques, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize. A Spell of Good Things was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Adébáyọ̀ has written for major publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, and the BBC, and served as a judge for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction. She lives between Nigeria and the UK.

João Tordo (born 28 August 1975 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese author and novelist known for his award-winning literary fiction. He graduated in philosophy and studied journalism and creative writing in London and New York. Tordo’s novel As Três Vidas won the José Saramago Prize, and his books have been published internationally in countries including France, Italy, Brazil, Germany, and Spain. In addition to fiction, he writes screenplays and works as a chronicler and creative writing instructor.

Dennis McFarland is the bestselling author of seven novels, including School for the Blind and The Music Room. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Awards, and he is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University. He lives in rural Vermont with writer and poet Michelle Blake.

Michelle Blake is a novelist and poet whose work spans the Lily Connor mystery series and award-winning poetry. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, and Ploughshares, and includes collaborations with visual artists. Her practice moves between literary fiction, poetry, and interdisciplinary projects that explore faith, memory, and narrative.

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Ruth O’Callaghan is an award-winning poet and author of five collections, a Hawthornden Fellow, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work is widely translated and she has read internationally across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Alongside her writing, she mentors poets, judges major poetry prizes, and organizes socially engaged literary events in London.

Liz Collins is known for her diverse work in textiles, and has moved fluidly between fields and formats including fashion, craft, performance, and design. Collins’ multi-media installations and textile works are regularly featured in museums and galleries internationally; her designs, artworks, and architectural interventions have been included in recent solo exhibitions at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College in New York, AMP Gallery in Provincetown, MA and upcoming at JF Chen in Los Angeles, CA, as well as in group exhibitions at ICA/ Boston, the FIT Museum, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and MoMA, among many others.

Aisha Khalid (b. 1972, Faisalabad, Pakistan) is a Lahore-based artist whose work merges geometric patterning and botanical imagery with politically charged themes. Working within the tradition of miniature painting, she examines gender, power, and cultural identity. Her practice reflects on domesticity, social expectations, and the shifting dynamics between East and West.

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Arts under D. Kokkinidis and G. Lappas, graduating in 1996. He went on to receive his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1998. He lives and works between Athens and New York, and has also developed projects in cities including Tehran, Varanasi, and Bangkok. Georgiou’s practice moves between painting, photography, and installation, often exploring urban experience, displacement, and the psychological atmosphere of contemporary life. His solo exhibitions have been presented at institutions and galleries including the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, and Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens. He has participated in numerous international group exhibitions and biennials, including presentations at BOZAR, Brussels; Steirischer Herbst, Graz; Kunstverein Heidelberg; EMST, Athens; the Auckland Triennial; EV+A Biennial, Limerick; and White Columns, New York. In 1999, he was nominated for the DESTE Prize.Georgiou has also curated exhibitions, including Lion under the Rainbow: Contemporary Art from Tehran (Athens, 2008).

Imran Qureshi’s work draws on the tradition of 16th-century Mughal miniature painting while engaging with contemporary themes. His practice spans works on paper, large-scale paintings, and site-specific installations, combining intricate detail with bold, gestural mark-making. Gold leaf and vivid red paint are central to his visual language. Gold suggests a spiritual or celestial dimension, while splashes of red and delicate floral motifs evoke the vulnerability of the human body. His work balances beauty and violence, fragility and resilience, using floral forms as symbols of renewal and hope. By merging miniature painting techniques with contemporary abstraction, Qureshi creates a powerful dialogue between tradition and modern reality.

Mairéad Byrne is an Irish-born poet who emigrated to the United States in 1994 and is Professor of Poetry + Poetics at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her books include You Have to Laugh: New and Selected Poems, Talk Poetry, and SOS Poetry, along with collaborative projects with visual artists. Her work bridges experimental poetics, performance, and visual culture, reflecting a practice shaped by migration, humor, and interdisciplinary exchange

András Gerevich was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1976. He is the author of four poetry collections published in Hungarian and has translated numerous English-language poets into Hungarian, including Seamus Heaney, Frank O’Hara, and Charles Bernstein. In addition to poetry, he has written two plays that have been produced for the stage, as well as several scripts for animated films. His own work has been widely translated, appearing in roughly two dozen languages, with books available in English, French, German, Bulgarian, and Slovenian.Gerevich has taught poetry at Vassar College in New York and at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He has also served as Poetry Editor for the literary journals Kalligram (Budapest) and Chroma (London), and worked as an assistant producer for the BBC World Service radio program Poetry by Post.

Lisa Corinne Davis is a Brooklyn-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice-spanning collage, drawing, and painting-explores individual identity within contemporary society. She has exhibited widely across the United States and her work is held in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. A recipient of numerous awards such as a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, Davis has also written essays for The Brooklyn Rail. She currently teaches as a Professor at Hunter College in New York.

Tracey Eve Winton is an artist, architect, and architectural historian whose work explores resilient urban ecologies, cultural history, and sustainable design. Her interdisciplinary practice blends research, pedagogy, and creative production, from adaptive reuse to experimental learning formats. She is the recipient of the 2018 NCBDS Faculty Award for excellence in design education and innovative curriculum development.

Dalia Baassiri (born 1981, Sidon, Lebanon) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores materiality, surface, and the traces of everyday life. She earned a BS in Graphic Design from the Lebanese American University in 2003 and an MFA from Chelsea College of Arts in 2012. Growing up during the Lebanese civil war, she found early refuge in drawing — an experience that continues to inform her tactile, process-driven practice. Baassiri’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut Art Fair, Abu Dhabi Art, and in exhibitions connected to the Arte Laguna Prize and Celeste Prize. Her first major solo exhibition in Lebanon, Wiped Off (2017), was held at Galerie Janine Rubeiz, which continues to represent her work.

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Dimitris Xonoglou is a Greek artist born in Proti, Serres, who studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and ceramics at the Scuola di S. Giacomo di Roma. He lives and works in Thessaloniki, where he is Professor in the School of Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His work has been shown extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and internationally, including presentations at the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, museums and galleries in Germany, France, Italy, China, and Turkey, and major institutions such as the Benaki Museum and the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. His residency at the Siena Art Institute is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Ellen Driscoll is an artist whose sculptures, drawings, and installations explore resource consumption and material lineage. Her large-scale public works include Night to Day, Here and Away for the Sarasota National Cemetery; Distant Mirrors for the Providence River; FastForwardFossil #2 at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; and Revenant and Phantom Limb for Nippon Ginko in Hiroshima. Earlier projects include The Loophole of Retreat at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal, Catching the Drift for the Smith College Museum of Art, and Wingspun for Raleigh–Durham International Airport. Driscoll has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Anonymous Was a Woman, and others, and a 2014 Fine Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work is held in major public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is Program Director of Studio Arts at Bard College.

Jānis Joņevs is a Latvian writer and translator, born in 1980. In 2004, he earned a Master of Arts degree in Theory of Culture from the Latvian Academy of Culture. Since then, he has pursued a career in literature, publishing several short stories as well as his debut novel Jelgava 94 in 2013. His translation work includes Agota Kristof’s The Notebook (from French) and Bernard-Marie Koltès’ In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (from French). In 2014, Joņevs received the Latvian Literature Prize for Best Debut, was recognized by the Latvian television cultural program 100g of Culture with its annual Kilogram of Culture award, and was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature. Jānis Joņevs’s residency is organized in partnership with the Latvian arts organization PAREIZĀ ĶĪMIJA (kimija.lv), which manages a series of residencies for Latvian and Italian writers and translators on behalf of the Secretariat of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Angie Cruz is a novelist, editor, and literary advocate. Her latest novel, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water (2022), was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, shortlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and named a notable book of the year by major publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her earlier novel Dominicana was the inaugural pick for the Good Morning America Book Club and received widespread acclaim, including the ALA Alex Award. She is also the author of the novels Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee. Cruz has received numerous honors, including the USA Fellowship and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the literary journal Aster(ix) and teaches writing at Columbia University.

Elaine Tin Nyo is a conceptual artist with a kitchen and a studio in Harlem. Ms. Tin Nyo translates the tradition of genre painting into new media. Using performance, video, photography, cooking and writing, she reframes the everyday rituals of food and its preparation so we may reflect on the inherent beauty and value of the seemingly unimportant moments of our lives. In addition to her visual arts background, she has learned at the side of home cooks and restaurant chefs on three continents. She has received project support from Creative Capital, the Bronx Museum, Seoksu Art Project, Franklin Furnace, and The Phillips Collection, among others. Her photographs, food, videos, installations, and performances have been presented at museums internationally. MoMA presented her “”Edible Magritte”” dinners in conjunction with their most recent Magritte exhibition. Her current project, This Little Piggy follows five piglets from five ham-eccentric regions from birth to ham.

Jon Kessler is known for his large-scale kinetic installations that explore themes of surveillance, media saturation, and contemporary culture. His moving sculptures combine cameras, monitors, lights, and found materials into complex mechanical environments that feel chaotic, humorous, and unsettling all at once. Blending engineering, video art, and sculpture, Kessler builds immersive installations that mirror the overload of images in everyday life. Despite their rough-and-ready appearance, his works are carefully orchestrated, creating layered visual experiences that shift as viewers move through them. His art captures the anxiety and absurdity of the modern world while still leaving room for curiosity and wonder.

Angela Dufresne is a painter and video artist originally from Connecticut and raised in Olathe, Kansas. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and in the Catskills. Her practice explores non-hierarchical, joyful, and polymorphous ways of being in a world shaped by fear, power, and possession, using painting, drawing, and performative works to create expansive, heterotopic narratives.
Dufresne has exhibited widely, including at the Hammer Museum, MoMA PS1, the RISD Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, among many others. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016 and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Jerome Foundation. Her work is held in major public and private collections.

Born in Aleppo, Syria, Diana Al-Hadid lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She studied Sculpture and Art History at Kent State University, received her MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work draws on art history, mythology, and architecture, reinterpreting classical forms through fragmented, gravity-defying structures. Using materials such as polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, and plaster, Al-Hadid creates sculptures and installations that resemble architectural ruins and unstable monuments-caught between construction and collapse, figuration and abstraction.

Jay Milder (born 1934, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American painter known for his role in the rise of Figurative Expressionism in New York. In 1958, he co-founded City Gallery with Bob Thompson and Red Grooms, aligning with the expressive, figure-based direction of Willem de Kooning rather than pure abstraction. Milder’s work is shaped by Hasidic mysticism, jazz culture from his youth in Omaha, and early studies in Paris with Ossip Zadkine and André Lhote. Influenced by the emotional intensity of Chaïm Soutine, he developed a painterly style that blends spiritual symbolism with bold, expressive figuration.

Maelee Lee is a South Korean contemporary visual artist specializing in installation art and painting, whose practice addresses feminist issues, gender identity, and the social roles of women within Korean society. Born in Gangjin, South Korea, Lee is a contemporary media artist and adjunct professor of art at Mokpo National University, where she earned her BFA, and at Chosun University, where she completed her MFA and PhD in Fine Arts. Lee is widely recognized as a prominent feminist artist in Korea, yet her work resonates internationally through its focus on deeply human and universal themes. She has exhibited extensively worldwide, including in New York, Beijing, Bulgaria, and Greece, and has participated in major international biennales and art festivals. Notably, she took part in the prestigious Gwangju Biennale in 2012 and received the 2012 Sofia Paper Art Fest Award. In the United States, her work has been shown at venues such as the Chelsea Art Museum and the Elga Wimmer Gallery.

González, born in Paraná, Argentina, studied at the Institute of Arts and Foreign Languages Josefina Contte in Corrientes, where he earned a Teaching Degree in Visual Arts. Working with the collective Arte-Ahora, he produced murals and monuments in more than twenty public spaces, and held his first solo exhibition in Corrientes in 1996. He later worked as an art director on short films in Córdoba and Buenos Aires before co-founding Apeyron, a center dedicated to research and experimentation in visual and performing arts. After moving to Buenos Aires in 1999, González collaborated with visual artist Mónica Girón and curator and critic Julio Sánchez at the National University of the South. Since 2003, he has lived and worked in Mexico, where he initiated Changarrito, a mobile gallery platform supporting local emerging artists and presented internationally.

Mequitta Ahuja is a painter whose work repositions the self-portrait-particularly that of women of color-as a broader inquiry into the history and practice of painting itself. Of South Asian and African American descent, Ahuja places herself prominently within her compositions while shifting attention away from autobiography toward painting as a received and evolving form. Her large-scale works catalogue and repurpose conventions drawn from centuries of figurative traditions, including Egyptian art, Giotto frescoes, Hindu figuration, and early American painting, combining abstraction, illusion, text, and trompe l’oeil. Ahuja received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. She earned her BA from Hampshire College and her MFA from the University of Illinois, and her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Saatchi Gallery, Crystal Bridges, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. She lives and works in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and art critic. She has published five collections of poetry, Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon), Ghost Station and The Forgetting and Remembering of Air (Salt), Swimming to Albania (Salmon Poetry) and Radium Dreams (Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge) in collaboration with the artist Eileen Cooper RA that also formed a major exhibition. Her series of poems on the life of Gwen John, God’s Little Artist, has just been published by Seren. Her poem, Eurydice, originally commissioned by the BFI and the Arts Council for the Waterloo tunnel leading to the IMAX, has now been carved in stone by the artist Gary Breeze and placed permanently in the crypt of St. John’s at Waterloo.

For the Fall 2014 semester, Wafa Hourani led Orientamenti: Reshaping Past Traditions, a project combining personal and collaborative work with local community members and students in the Siena Art Institute Art & Society course. Through architecture, photography, and sculpture, the project offered a powerful reflection on the future of the Middle East.
Deeply shaped by the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Hourani’s work explores the social, political, and economic realities of life in Palestine. Trained in art and cinema in Tunis, he initially worked as a filmmaker before shifting to visual art in 2006, which he considers a more effective medium for addressing the Palestinian question. Using photography and sculpture, he creates immersive environments in which past and future are inextricably linked.

Scott Gutterman writes about music and art for Vogue, Artforum, The New Yorker, and other publications, and is the co-author, with Miles Davis, of Miles Davis: The Collected Artwork. Since 2000, he has served as Deputy Director of the Neue Galerie New York, overseeing museum administration and coordinating loans, catalogues, and programming for exhibitions devoted to early twentieth-century Austrian and German art, including major projects on Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and German Expressionism. He previously held senior roles at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Morgan Library, and Art & Antiques, and has written as a freelancer since the 1980s. He lives in Brooklyn.

Wendy Woodson is a writer, director, choreographer, and video artist, and Professor of Theater and Dance at Amherst College. She has created more than 95 works for stage and video presented in the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. Her work has been performed at venues including the John F. Kennedy Center, La MaMa (NYC and Melbourne), the Smithsonian Institution, Jacob’s Pillow, PS 122, Wolf Trap, and numerous colleges and universities. Her video work has been exhibited at festivals in the U.S., Germany, and Sarajevo, and at the deCordova Museum. Woodson has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and other major arts organizations, and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar and artist-in-residence at the Victorian College of the Arts and RMIT University in Melbourne.

Amy Yoes is an American artist whose multi-faceted practice spans installation, photography, video, painting, and sculpture. Her work often investigates decorative language and architectural space, drawing on the visual history of ornament, style, and craft aesthetics. One of her major projects, Hot Corners, a multi-room installation, is on view at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts through January 2026. Recent projects also include Correspondências, a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Sculpture Museum in Santo Tirso, Portugal, and a series of Fire Projects – complex sculptures built to be burned in choreographed performances before live audiences.Yoes’s ongoing research into craft, architecture, and ornament has been enriched by international travel and research opportunities. She teaches each fall at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and divides her time between Narrowsburg, New York, with her husband, artist Jorge Colombo, and their two cats, Inky and Sharpie. Her work has been shown widely both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at venues including the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Galerie Stadtpark in Krems, Austria.

Avital Cnaani (born 1978) is an Israeli artist who lives and works in Tel Aviv. She works primarily in sculpture and drawing. Cnaani received her MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and her B.Ed from Hamidrasha School of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, the Haifa Museum of Art, Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, the George Kolbe Museum in Berlin, Kuandu Museum in Taipei, SOMA Museum in Seoul, and venues in New York, Los Angeles, Italy, and Tel Aviv.

Fernanda Fragateiro is a Lisbon-based artist whose practice operates in the three-dimensional field, engaging sculpture, architecture, and landscape through site-responsive interventions. Her work explores the legacy of modernist practices and often unfolds in unexpected or historically charged spaces, drawing viewers into performative relationships with place. Fragateiro’s projects frequently involve collaboration with artists, architects, and performers, revealing layered narratives of construction and transformation. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Serralves Foundation, IVAM, Dublin Contemporary, and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. She is represented by galleries in Madrid, Berlin, and Lisbon.

Indrapramit Roy (born 1964, Kolkata) is an Indian painter and educator known for evocative watercolours and mixed-media works that explore memory, space and the emotional presence of everyday scenes. He trained in art at Visva-Bharati University (BFA, Printmaking) and Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MFA, Painting), and completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London on an Inlaks Scholarship, with study terms in Paris and Berlin.Roy has shown his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in India and internationally, including major art events such as the Cairo Biennale and art fairs like the India Art Fair. His paintings have been exhibited in cities ranging from New Delhi and Mumbai to London and New York. Since 1995 he has taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda, where he is an Associate Professor and Dean of Students, mentoring young artists while continuing his creative practice. His work is recognised for its contemplative quality and psychological depth.

Jarrod Beck is an installation artist, printmaker, and sculptor whose work spans large-scale outdoor sculpture, drawing, and collaborative performance. His projects have been presented at institutions including Socrates Sculpture Park, Wave Hill, the South Street Seaport Museum, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Instituto Cervantes, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and his drawings are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He has completed numerous residencies, including MacDowell, Yaddo, the Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, Siena Art Institute, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Beck frequently collaborates with choreographers and performance artists, creating sculptures and installations that activate space through movement and public interaction. He holds an M.Arch from Tulane University and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Julie Evans is a native New Yorker who has been living and working in upstate NY since 2011. For the past 25 years she has been exhibiting her paintings and drawings extensively in both the US and abroad. Reviews of her work have appeared in The New York Times, ARTFORUM, Art In America, The New Yorker, Flash Art, TimeOutNY, New York Magazine, and many other publications. Evans’s solo and group exhibitions include those at Julie Saul Gallery, Lesley Heller Workspace, The Brattleboro Museum of Art, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Wave Hill, Danese/Corey, Jeff Bailey Gallery, LABspace, Geoffrey Young Gallery, John Davis Gallery, and many others. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to India, as well as residency fellowships to MacDowell, Yaddo, Ucross, Millay, and Tamarind Institute. Evans’ work is included in over 300 international public and private collections.

Mark Dion is a contemporary artist whose work critically examines how dominant ideologies, museums, and scientific institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Drawing on archaeological and scientific methods of collecting and display, Dion creates installations and curiosity cabinets inspired by sixteenth-century Wunderkammern, challenging the divide between objective science and subjective interpretation. His practice explores environmental politics, classification systems, and the authority of scientific narratives in contemporary culture. Dion has exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate, and the Seattle Art Museum. He lives and works in New York and is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.

Martha Collins is the author of eleven poetry collections, most recently Casualty Reports (Pitt Poetry Series, 2022) and Because What Else Could I Do (2019), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Her earlier books include Blue Front, an Anisfield-Wolf Award winner, and a trilogy exploring race and racism. Collins has received fellowships from the NEA, the Bunting Institute, and the Lannan Foundation, among others, and her work has earned multiple Pushcart Prizes and Ohioana Awards. A noted translator, she has co-translated five volumes of Vietnamese poetry, most recently Dreaming the Mountain (Milkweed, 2023), and co-edited Into English (Graywolf, 2017). Founder of the Creative Writing Program at UMass Boston, Collins has also taught at Oberlin College and Cornell University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and leads short-term poetry workshops internationally.

Michael Höpfner is an Austrian contemporary artist whose practice is rooted in long-distance walking journeys across desert and steppe regions of Eastern Europe and Asia. Born in Krems an der Donau in 1972, Höpfner studied painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and fine art photography at the Glasgow School of Art. He lives and works in Vienna. Drawing on travels through Ukraine, Central Asia, the Himalayas, and East Asia, Höpfner reflects on vast landscapes, shifting nomadic cultures, and his own physical endurance through installations combining black-and-white photography, drawing, slide projections, and tent-based sculptural forms.

Nina Burleigh is a journalist, best-selling author, documentary producer, and publisher of a substack on politics called American Freakshow. A contributing editor at The New Republic and frequent contributor to the New York Times and New York Magazine, her journalism has been published widely including in translation in the Norwegian and Italian press. She’s the author of eight books on an array of topics including archaeological forgery, scientists in 18th Century Egypt, James Smithson, Amanda Knox in Italy, and the Trump women, which were reviewed, excerpted or covered in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, New York Magazine, BBC, ABC, MSNBC, and other media outlets. She was born and educated in the Midwest, has been based in Washington, D.C., New York, Norway, Paris and Italy, traveled and reported extensively in the Middle East. An adjunct professor at NYU’s Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute, Google Scholar says her work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly articles.

Sheila Pepe
Sheila Pepe is a Brooklyn-based contemporary artist known for her innovative use of fiber, sculpture, and installation to explore gender, labor, and material culture. Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Pepe has exhibited widely across the United States, with solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Arts and Design, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, MoMA PS1, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Her work is held in major public collections such as the Harvard Art Museums and the Rose Art Museum. Pepe holds degrees from Albertus Magnus College, Massachusetts College of Art, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She is currently Assistant Chair of Fine Art at Pratt Institute.

Suzanne Silver is an Associate Professor in the Painting & Drawing Program in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, earned an AB from Smith College, and received an MFA from The Ohio State University. Silver has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Contemporary Jewish Museum, David Yellin College in Jerusalem, the Castle of Otranto in Otranto, Italy, Pierogi Gallery, Proteus Gowanus, the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, and the Columbus Museum of Art. Her work has been recognized with an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Her artist’s book Blacklists/Whitelists was published by Logan Elm Press.Working across drawing, painting, objects, and installation, Silver combines unexpected materials to create a visual language that invites multiple interpretations.

Dean Snyder
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Dean Snyder is an American sculptor born in Philadelphia and based in Providence, Rhode Island. He earned his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with postgraduate studies in the UK supported by a British Arts Council Fellowship. Snyder has received major fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been exhibited widely and is held in public and private collections worldwide. International exhibitions include the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Sculpture by the Sea (Sydney), Berlin Fashion Week, and the Instituto Cultural Peruano (Lima). Since 2001, Snyder has been a professor in the Sculpture Department at the Rhode Island School of Design and is represented by Cade Tompkins Projects.

Ellen Driscoll – Crosswinds
Ellen Altfest is a New York-based realist painter known for thoroughly detailed still lifes and male figure paintings made from life. Her work is recognized for its precision and trompe-l’œil accuracy and draws influence from artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Jackson Pollock, and Lucian Freud. She earned a BFA in Painting and a BA in English from Cornell University, an MFA in Painting from Yale University, and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Fran Siegel

Fran Siegel is an American artist known for her visionary work with light, perception, and drawing. Fran Siegel’s drawings and installations engage location-based research that traverses landscape, culture, and materiality. Collaged tapestries seam together multiple viewpoints, patterns, time sequences, and surfaces. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including Nuova Icona in Venice, the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, and the IX International Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador, as well as widely across New York and Los Angeles. Siegel has received fellowships from the Getty California Community Foundation, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (C.O.L.A.), the American Academy in Rome, and the Bogliasco Foundation. She earned an MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from Tyler School of Art and is currently a Professor of Art at California State University.

Ian Monroe
Ian Monroe is a New York-born, London-based visual artist known for large-scale, architecturally inspired works that explore surface, structure, and perception. He holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2002). Monroe gained early recognition when the Saatchi Gallery featured his work from his MA show in 2003. His first major solo U.S. exhibition followed a Freund Fellowship with the Saint Louis Art Museum (2011). Monroe has completed significant permanent public commissions, including The Londoner hotel in Leicester Square (2021) and St. John’s College, Oxford. His work is held in major museum collections, including the Saint Louis Art Museum, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Hamburger Bahnhof, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. In addition to his studio practice, Monroe writes on contemporary art and contributed to Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art (Black Dog Publishing, 2008).

Isha Bøhling is a British Danish artist based in London.Her practice explores pattern, resonance, and non-linear time through an intuitive process that moves between material surfaces and immaterial forms such as light and sound. She has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, most recently at The London Open: Whitechapel Gallery, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen. Dilston Grove, London; Kunstraum Baden, Zurich, Pierogi Gallery, New York, the Soap Factory, Minneapolis, the Recoleta Museum, Buenos Aires, Rua Sympatica, São Paulo Brazil. She was shortlisted for the East London Painting Prize in 2014 and participated in the Guangju Bienale, South Korea. Isha graduated with an MA in Fine Arts from St Martins in 2002.

James Voorhies
James Voorhies is a curator, arts administrator, and writer based in the Hudson Valley whose work focuses on exhibitions, commissions, and institutional strategy in contemporary art. He most recently served as Curator at Large at The Bass, where he organized exhibitions, large-scale commissions, and publications while strengthening donor engagement. Previously, he was Executive Director of the Tony Smith Foundation, overseeing the Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné with The MIT Press. He was also the inaugural John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. Voorhies holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary Art History from The Ohio State University and is the author of Postsensual Aesthetics and Beyond Objecthood, both published by The MIT Press.

Jo Shapcott is an award-winning British poet, editor, and professor, known for her inventive and thought-provoking work. She is the author of several acclaimed poetry collections, including Of Mutability (2010), which won the Costa Book of the Year Award, and Tender Taxes, her translations of Rainer Maria Rilke’s French poems. Her writing often explores themes of identity, illness, and transformation. As a two-time winner of the National Poetry Competition, Shapcott has received numerous honors, including the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2011. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has taught creative writing at institutions such as Royal Holloway, University of London.

Kia Corthron is a playwright and novelist. She is the author of numerous plays, which have been produced in New York, across the U.S., and internationally. Awards for her body of work for the stage include the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, the Horton Foote Award, the Flora Roberts Award, the United States Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, the Otto Award for Political Theatre, the Simon Great Plains Playwright Award, and the Lee Reynolds Award. She has also written a little television: for David Simon’s The Wire (Edgar and Writers Guild Outstanding Series awards) and Tom Fontana’s The Jury. Her plays have been produced nationally and internationally, including at institutions such as Playwrights Horizons, Royal Court Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Mark Taper Forum. She is the recipient of major awards including the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Horton Foote Award, the United States Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, and honors for her television writing on The Wire. She has taught extensively in community, university, and correctional settings and has participated in various international residencies and cultural exchanges. She has lived in New York City since 1988 and is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and the Writers Guild of America.

Laurie Fendrich is an American painter, educator, and writer known for richly colored geometric abstract works that balance playfulness and compositional rigor. Based in New York and Lakeville, Connecticut, her paintings and drawings have been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the U.S., including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and in museum contexts. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Brown Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and her work has been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, and ARTnews. Fendrich earned her MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Mount Holyoke College and has taught painting and drawing for decades, most recently as Professor Emerita of Fine Arts at Hofstra University.

Rolando Castellón (b. 1937, Nicaragua) is a self-taught artist and curator whose career spans over five decades. Since the late 1960s, his work has been exhibited across Latin America, the United States, and Europe, including at the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo and the Museo Latinoamericano. He represented Nicaragua at the 54th Venice Biennale with his sculpture series Joyas de pobre. A pioneering figure in Latinx arts, Castellón co-founded and was the first director of San Francisco’s Galería de la Raza. He later served as curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1972–1981), Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery (1983–1992), and the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo in Costa Rica (1994–1999).

Stefan Schwabe combines art, science and technology, seeking for new aesthetics and approaches to address current social and ecological challenges. As a designer in transformation processes, he leverages his knowledge to support environments for new beginnings. Key to his practice is a material, experience and process based methodology. Adressing gut and mind, he creates both physical and metaphorical spaces to open up new narratives and realms for exploration. He currently supports the group for Innovations in Sociotechnical Systems at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB).From 2012-2021, he taught and researched in the New Media Class at UdK Berlin and was visiting professor for Designing Systems at Burg Giebichenstein Halle from 2016-2017. Stefan exhibited at Science Gallery Dublin, V&A London, Design Museum London, Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Dutch Design Week, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Heimtextil Frankfurt, Santral Istanbul, Ars Electronica Festival and Grand Palais Paris.

Yvonne Jacquette (1934–2023) was an American painter renowned for her aerial views of cities and landscapes, often depicted at night. Based primarily in New York City and Searsmont, Maine, she studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and developed her distinctive perspective after beginning to sketch and paint from airplanes and high vantage points in the late 1960s. New York City was a central subject of her work, which explored light, scale, and spatial complexity through a synthesis of observation, memory, and imagination. Jacquette exhibited widely from the early 1960s onward, with major retrospectives including Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette, and her work is held in numerous museum collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.