Sarajo Frieden is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores our relationship to the natural world, deep ecology, the evolving identities of diasporic communities, pattern migration, and an interest in the intersection between art and craft. Referencing a range of contemporary and historic visual art and design vocabulary, painting, western and non-western textile traditions, she investigates this interconnectivity through works on paper, muslin, canvas, installations and

Cristina Marian is a Romanian-American visual artist whose work explores themes such as her experience within her community, togetherness and the sense of belonging, communal and global changes, and finding peace within unpredictability. As a child, Marian lived between two vastly divergent political regimes and witnessed the violent Romanian Revolution of 1989. Then, at age 13, she moved by herself from a small village in the Romanian countryside to a city of two million peo

Ty Nathan Clark is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, film, and literature. Inspired by his uncle, renowned sculptor and Raku artist Conway “Jiggs” Pierson, Clark developed a deep passion for the arts from an early age. His artistic journey has taken him across five continents, where he has lived, created, and learned from diverse cultures. In 2021, he founded the Ty Nathan Clark Artist Mentorship Program, which has supported 65 artists from 21 c

Josue Bessiake is an Ivorian-American painter working across media. Bessiake uses multiple discplines to explore the ingredients of a phenomenon using the body as the origin. Influenced by his experience as a first generation american his work reflects his desire to connect himself to his environment. In a process involving reassembly, experimentation, and collection, Bessiake’s work is a collision between practicality and abstraction making references to scale, memory. and c

Suzanne Wright is an artist and an assistant professor in painting at the University of Iowa School of art and art history. She earned her BFA at Cooper Union and MFA at the University of California San Diego and also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Wright’s paintings, drawings, and collages propose a contemporary "feminist alchemy", forging alternative frames of reference and symbology, with new perspectives that attempt to lead us to a re-vitalized kind

Julie Peppito (b.1970, Tulsa, OK) has been creating mixed media sculptures, public art, and fiber installations about connection, the human condition, and repairing the Earth for over 30 years. Peppito received an MFA from Alfred University in Alfred, NY (2004) and she received her BFA from The Cooper Union in New York, NY (1992). Her work has been the subject of 10 solo exhibitions. She has shown at many non-profit and commercial venues including: The Sugarhill Children’s Mu

Virginia Mahoney holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, and a BA from the University of Florida. A Bromfield Gallery (Boston) Solo 2022 Winner, her 2023 show with Nathalie Miebach, “Undercurrents”(Fountain Street Gallery, Boston) was reviewed in Artscope’s September/October ‘23 issue. Mahoney’s solo exhibition, “Holding Thoughts,” will be on view from April 3 - May 4, 2025 in the Launchpad Gallery at Boston Sculptors Gallery. She is a member of Kingston Galle

Arron Foster received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Art Education from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. His prints, artist books, and installations have been in notable exhibitions at respected national and international galleries, museums, and art centers. He has mounted solo exhibitions at Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, Ohio, George Fo

Expanding upon her undergraduate textiles education from Savannah College of Art and Design, Kimberly English (b. 1994) earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Studio Art as a Carolina Digital Humanities Fellow in 2018. Kimberly has been awarded residencies at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Penland School of Craft, and Praxis Digital Weaving Lab. English’s wo

Kathryn Maxwell (b. 1959, Centralia, IL) creates playful abstract collages that evoke a wonder for nature that subtly acknowledge humanity’s environmental impact. Maxwell received an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a BA from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She has participated in exhibitions at the Detroit Institute of Art; Denver Art Museum; Dundee (Scotland) Contemporary Arts; China Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhao; International Print Center,

Xingyun Wang (b. 1997) is a New York-based Chinese artist, specializing in the transformative use of paper as her primary medium. Her abstract works delve into the realms of feminism, queerness, and intercultural experiences, offering a poignant exploration of personal and psychological narratives. Wang's artistic process involves layering thin sheets of paper, creating textured surfaces that reflect the nuanced interplay between body and landscapes; vulnerability and resilie

Davana Rodedee is an artist, curator, and educator. She creates large scale indigo drawings and fiber art installations. For the past 10 years she has worked to cultivate community arts practices through her role as a curator and arts administrator. She is passionate about promoting the communities that surround fiber based art making. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions including: As Above, So Below at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, NH, In a Moment- Between Dreams, D

Amy Butowicz was born and raised in Akron Ohio and currently lives and works in New York. She received a BA in Studio Art from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Butowicz has been awarded fellowships and scholarships to attend Lighthouse Works, DNA Residency, Salem Art Works, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Summer Studio Program, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

D'Shon McCarthy is a self-portrait figurative painter from Salisbury, Maryland, and practices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Salisbury University where she studied painting, and is currently getting her Master of Fine of Arts degree at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for painting as well. McCarthy focuses on the self, the strange and the complexities of adapting to change as she strives to open a conversation about the intensity tha

Ray Beldner is a mixed media artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in many private and public collections including the National Portrait Gallery and the Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C., the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Oakland Museum of California, 21c Museum, and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. He was commissioned for public art projects for the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Richmond, California

Renée Bouchard was awarded the Pollock-Krasner grant and the Puffin Foundation grant in 2023 after receiving an MFA in visual art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2021. Her upcoming exhibitions are “Painting at Night” at Opalka Gallery at Russell Sage College in Albany, NY in September 2024 and “Down the Rabbit Hole” at Lights Out Gallery in Norway, ME beginning in July and running through December 2024. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Collar Works and Chas

Inspired by the materiality of the natural landscape, Cadence Giersbach (b. 1966, New York, NY) creates abstract paintings and...

Derek Ayres (American, b. 1967) currently works and lives in Philadelphia. Trained as a sculptor (MFA, Columbia University), he draws...

Mandy Cano Villalobos is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans installation, 2D, performance, and textile. Her projects explore...

Marisa Tesauro b. 1976 Marisa Tesauro is a body and mind moving through time and space, making us aware of what we leave behind in our...