Joan Hanley is an American artist raised in Queens, NY. Born the daughter and granddaughter of NYC firefighters, Hanley’s professional career began in 1980 when renowned artist Alice Neel juried Hanley into her first exhibition. She continued painting through a series of professions: artist at the Village Voice, Art Director at Columbia University, Outward Bound Instructor and Archetypal Arts Therapist. While raising two children with author Thomas Moore. A yogi, she publishe

Born and raised in rural Northern Nevada, Montana-based ceramic artist Joe Taylor explores the emotional state of wonder through his abstract sculptures, which investigate the intricate relationships between people, landscapes, creatures, and the natural world. Rooted in curiosity and play, his work reflects a fascination with the microscopic and macroscopic, the human and the geological. A former K-12 art educator for 15 years, Taylor embraces inquiry as a transformative lea

I earned my BFA from MICA (Maryland Institute, College of Art) and MFA from Queens College, CUNY. I’ve taught Art in many capacities: Adjunct Art Prof, Museum Educator, and Public School Art Teacher. I currently offer adult Drawing classes in my Montclair, New Jersey studio. I was recently awarded a 2026 NJSCA (New Jersey State Council on the Arts) grant, for which I am extremely grateful. My favorite recent exhibit that I’ve participated in was the 2004 New Jersey Arts Annua

Philadelphia-based fiber artist and educator Caitlin McCormack has contributed works to solo and group exhibitions at Elijah Wheat Showroom, Field Projects, Hashimoto Contemporary, The Mütter Museum, Museum Rijswijk, The Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, The Taubman Museum of Art, The Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Feinkünst Krüger, Blah Blah Gallery, SPRING/ BREAK Art Show, Future Fair, and BravinLee Programs in NYC. Their sculptures have appeared in publications including The New Yo

Jessica Swank is an interdisciplinary artist, currently based in Greenville, SC. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, at galleries such as Millepiani in Rome, Italy, Plexus Projects in Brooklyn, NY, ARC Gallery in Chicago, IL, and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) in Gimpo, South Korea. She has been recognized by Musée Magazine’s “Woman Crush Wednesday,” Fraction Magazine, and Porridge Magazine. Swank is a founding member of Zero Spac

Amy Cheng is a New York City-based visual artist. She was born in Taiwan, raised in Brazil, Oklahoma, and Texas, and is a widely exhibited painter who maintains a parallel career in public art. She received a BFA in Painting from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College, City University of New York. Her paintings and works on paper are held in a number of corporate and public collections, including the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, She

Kathryn Geismar is an artist, psychologist, and mother who lives and works in Somerville, Massachusetts. Originally from NYC, Kathryn studied painting at Brown University and then left the field of art for fifteen years to become a practicing psychologist and raise a family. When her second child turned one she started taking nighttime art classes which blossomed into a resurgence of her passion for drawing and painting. She now shares her time between art and psychology and

Blake Brasher is a visual artist working primarily in mixed media painting. His colorful abstractions explore the tension between perception and structure, reflecting on what it is like to be a thinking being in a world that is at once beautiful and disorienting. Blake grew up in Alaska and has also lived in Turkey, Texas, and Arizona before moving to Massachusetts in 1997. He received his BS in Art and Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 and his MFA

Fedra is a contemporary artist best known for her evocation of identity, resilience, and hauntology. With a professional background in Film and Theater, she utilizes a strong foundation in storytelling and visual composition to bridge personal experience with universal themes of longing. A self-taught painter, Fedra has spent over two decades developing a distinct visual language. Her practice evolved from early experiments with abstraction into a search for more authentic ex

Mallie Loring Pratt is a painter based in Essex, Massachusetts. Working from both observation and memory, her work explores the sensory and emotional experiences of place. Her paintings often serve as records of change: in landscape, in perception, in ourselves. Mallie holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2009) and an MAT in Art Education from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (2015). Mallie’s background also includes studies in landsca

Devann Donovan is an interdisciplinary artist and educator originally from Murrells Inlet, SC. Her practice explores memory, nostalgia, and the malleability of personal history through textiles, painting, sculpture, and expanded media. She investigates how her own kitsch childhood, pop culture, and nostalgic anemoia shape identity and distort personal history. Using labor-intensive processes such as quilting, sewing, painting and assemblage, Donovan transforms fleeting moment

Juliet Martin knows anxiety better than anyone. She has a BA in Visual Art from Brown University and an MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts. For the past fifteen years she has been a part of the fiber community, her solo shows including Ivy Brown Gallery, New York City; Chashama, New York City; Living Room, St. Peter’s Church, New York City; Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; Artworks Gallery, Trenton, NJ; and Saori Kaikan Gallery, Osaka, Japan; as well as resi

Phil Irish, from Elora, Ontario, Canada, makes paintings that are both fierce and beautiful. His practice extends painting into realms of collage, installation, photography and video. His work has been shown at public museums, artist-run-centres, and commercial galleries across Canada. The Kolaj Institute, in New Orleans, featured his architecturally scaled installation “The Green Fuse”. In 2020, he competed in CBC’s Landscape Artist of the Year Canada. His work was featured

Lexa Walsh is an artist, cultural worker and experience maker. With a background in both sculpture and social practice, she makes context specific projects, exhibitions, publications and objects. Walsh’s upbringing as the youngest child of fifteen, in a household of elite athletes and their trophies informs her work. Being the only bench warmer in the bunch led her to not only becoming a tween cheerleader, but also forming an interest in alternative lifestyles, economies and

Leigh Werrell is an artist living and working in Philadelphia. Recently the subjects of her paintings include her experiences as mother to a one-year-old, views of her Mount Airy neighborhood, everyday scenes with her family, and views of and through the windows of her home. She is originally from Durham, NC and came to Philadelphia for an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She is represented by Gross McCleaf Gallery, in Philadelphia and has also exhibited at

Natale Adgnot is a sculptor who combines garments, thermoplastic, and various fibers to create abstract soft sculptures and wall panels. Focusing on the connotations of each material, she layers high- and low-brow elements to tell the cross-class and intercultural story of her life. The daughter of a horse trainer, Adgnot was raised in Texas. She earned a BFA there before immigrating to France in her 20s, eventually becoming a dual American/French citizen. While living in Par

Susan Hensel (b. 1950, Ithaca, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist whose sculptural textile work merges digital and manual embroidery techniques with mixed-media practices. Her work investigates the interplay between light and material structure, with a particular focus on the optical properties of triangular embroidery thread. Conceptually, Hensel’s practice engages with the emotional and ecological dimensions of climate change, creating contemplative spaces that invite reflec

Keren Toledano is a self-taught painter based in New York City. After years of pursuing creative fiction, writer’s block led her to explore fine art. Her current work explores the liminal space between chaos and order, using a multitude of different marks to create a grammar outside of language. In addition to collaborations with designers, retailers and art publishers, her work has been featured in publications such as Vogue and The New York Times, and at international desig

Dan Hernandez received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000 from Northwest Missouri State in Maryville, MO, and a Masters of Fine Arts in 2002 from American University in Washington, DC. His paintings explore the visual dialog between religion, mythology, and pop culture. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions including shows at Kim Foster Gallery in New York City, Context Art Miami in Miami, FL, Mass Art Art Museum in Boston, MA, Matadero Center for Contemporary Crea

Jule Korneffel (b. Germany) graduated from Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2008 as a Meisterschülerin under Tal R. Since 2015, she has been based in New York City, where she received her M.F.A. from Hunter College in 2018. Shortly after, Korneffel gained recognition for her emotionally resonant yet reductive approach to painting. Exhibition highlights include Phase Patterns at ltd los angeles, here comes trouble at Spencer Brownstone Gallery (NYC), Mini Me Mary—in dialogue with M