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I was absolutely honored to be able to work with Dove, Saffronia, and my classmates in making the mosaic installation outside of the Ceramics Studio at Ox-Bow. I was completely new to all forms of clay making and both Dove and Saffronia were super supportive and generous with their time in making sure that I was able to learn all the different processes giving me the confidence to grow as an artist.”

- Sebastian Thomas, 2022 Mosaics in Strata student

When I came to Ox-Bow, I had never worked with metal before. Jessee and Mike immediately made me feel comfortable working with processes that typically would have made me too nervous to even give it a shot. It was amazing to look up while working and see my other classmates grinding, welding, and cutting all in the same place! My favorite moments were when we would inflate our larger pieces in the glass studio’s glory hole because you never knew how much bigger they would get after a round of being in the forge and some pressurized air!”

- Marshall Moore, 2022 Inflatable Steel student

Madeleine Aguilar Claire Arctander (Pre-College Faculty) Joseph & Sarah Belknap Samantha Bittman Chris Bradley Bri Chesler Ling Chun Jessee Rose Crane Henry Crissman Israel Davis Josh Dihle Brandon Donahue E. Saffronia Downing Nia Easley Chris Edwards Minhi England Douglas R. Ewart Salvador Jiménez Flores Annalise Flynn Ashley M. Freeby Jessica Gatlin Lucy Gillis Lauren Gregory Carrie Gundersdorf Brent Harris Dove Hornbuckle Christalena Hughmanick Will Hutchinson Lesley Jackson Dr. Dianne Jedlicka Gunjan Kumar Fathye Levine Carmen Lozar Devin T. Mays Danny Miller Rachel Niffenegger B. Ingrid Olson Turtel Onli Kristina Paabus Corey Pemberton Andrea Peterson John Preus Joann Quinones Padma Rajendran Yashodhar Reddy Scott Reeder Ciel Rodriguez Joseph Mario Romano Amanda Salov H. Schenck Liesl Schubel William Sieruta Jaclyn Silverman Laurel Sparks Barb Smith Ruby T Virginia Torrence Matt Urban Charlie Vinz Casey Weldon Rachel Eulena Williams bex ya yolk

MADELEINE AGUILAR tells stories, builds archives, maps spaces, constructs furniture, records histories, organizes data, catalogs objects, prints publications, creates frameworks, collects imagery, learns trades, ties knots, repurposes materials, imitates structures, utilizes chance, plays instruments, follows intuition, prompts participation, guides observation, leaves evidence, develops routines, takes walks, breaks habits, and makes lists. She received her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently the Print & New Media Studio Manager at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency. Her work lives in the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Franklin Furnace Archive, and the Jorge Lucero Study Collection and she has performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the DePaul Art Museum, and Experimental Sound Studio.

SARAH & JOSEPH BELKNAP are interdisciplinary artists and educators. Stretching and playing with pareidolia and image making, their work draws on conspiracy theories, science, and sci-fi. Working as a team since 2008, their art has been exhibited in artist-run exhibition spaces in Springfield, Brooklyn, Detroit, Minneapolis, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In addition, they have presented performances at institutions throughout Chicago, including the Chicago Cultural Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Links Hall, and the MCA. Their work has been shown in group exhibitions at SFAI Galleries, San Francisco, California; the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; The Arts Club of Chicago, the Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Western Exhibitions, and solo shows at The Arts Club of Chicago and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Their work was included in the book, ‘Weather as Medium’ by Janine Randerson, in the Leonardo Series through MIT Press.

SAMANTHA BITTMAN is a visual artist and educator based in Woodstock, New York. She works with woven patterning to generate paintings, graphic wallpapers, and tiled installations. She has participated in residency programs at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and Ox-Bow School of Art. In 2012, she received the Artadia Award. Recent solo exhibitions include, Ronchini, London; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; and Morgan Lehman, New York. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions including David Castillo, Miami, Florida; Shane Campbell, Chicago; and Rhona Hoffman, Chicago. In 2022, she founded Catskill Weaving School, an artist-run school that offers in-person and online weaving and weaving-related workshops, based in Catskill, New York. She holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

CHRIS BRADLEY, born 1982, New Jersey, USA, is an artist based in Chicago. He has recently presented his work in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Shane Campbell Gallery, Roberto Paradise, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Raleigh, and has been included in group shows at The Renaissance Society, Atlanta Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the NRW-Forum, and the Elmhurst Art Museum. He received his MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. In addition to his studio practice, he is an instructor of sculptural practice at both SAIC and the University of Chicago.

BRI CHESLER is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on threedimensional design and sculptural installation. Chesler’s work is known for its nontraditional approach, combining different glass techniques with other media. Drawing from the wild and erotic character of the natural environment her work reflects on cultural obsessions of beauty and desire. By fusing similar elements found in biology and botany she creates forms that ‘flirt’ with the audience. The sensual and organic aesthetic of glass captured the essence of Chesler’s work in a way that her prior work in metal did not. Bri Chesler was a 2019 Pilchuck Emerging Artist-in-Residence, a 2020 Hauberg Fellow, a Saxe Emerging Artist Award recipient in 2021. Chesler was also awarded the Chihuly Gardens and Glass Anniversary Scholarship. In 2022 she was an instructor at Pilchuck Glass School and was featured at the Center on Contemporary Arts in Seattle with a solo exhibition.

LING CHUN (she/her) is a multimedia artist from Hong Kong. Her work represents the coexistence of multicultural identities within a single society. Chun’s practice focuses on creating artifacts which speak about history with a contemporary sensibility. In her creative projects, Chun brings together her knowledge of Chinese culture and her contemporary artistic vision. Chun aspires to create public artifacts to bring relevance to historical storytelling in her future artistic pursuits. Chun is the recipient of numerous awards including the ArtBridge Fellowship 2020 sponsored by Chihuly Garden and Glass and the national ceramic award such as NCECA emerging artist 2020. In 2019, Chun was shortlisted for the Young Master Art Prize in London and recently she was shortlisted for 2021 Korea International Ceramics Biennale. Chun is currently based in Seattle. She works as a ceramic educator at North Seattle College and also as an educational guide for the Wing Luke Museum.

JESSEE ROSE CRANE is a multidisciplinary sculptor, arts administrator, and musician based in New Douglas, Illinois. Her approach to sculpture joins technical skills with a creative process that encourages play and embraces art in the everyday. Her practice combines steel with various media to craft both functional objects and conceptual experimentations used in exhibitions, videos, and live performances with her band Glow in the Dark Flowers. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the director of Rose Raft, an artist and musicians’ residency founded in 2015. In her most recent sculptural work, she fabricates steel armatures to prop up large curtainlike vivid membranes made from glue and food coloring. HENRY JAMES HAVER CRISSMAN is an artist and educator who thinks of his art as a means, not an end. His work extends from a practice of making pottery, sculpture and images to include installations, collaborations, and structures, which explore the sites and methods of ceramics’ creation, distribution, and use. He earned a BFA in Craft from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan in 2012, and an MFA in Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York in 2015. He now lives and works in Hamtramck, Michigan, where he and his wife and fellow artist, Virginia Rose Torrence, founded and co-direct Ceramics School, a community ceramics studio and artist residency. He regards teaching as an integral aspect of his creative practice. In addition to teaching at Ceramics School, he is an adjunct professor in the Craft and Material Studies Department at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

ISRAEL “IZZY” DAVIS is an artist whose work is concerned with dreams, wanderlust, relationships, and particulars. It is an investigation of the symbols, people, and objects that affect perceptions, the subconscious, and life experience. A study of metaphor through authenticity and fantasy that is driven by the physicality of materials and the intersection of two and threedimensional formats. Davis seeks to play between the boundaries of object and image. He is a professor and head of ceramics at Central Michigan University. He has taught over 50 workshops on his techniques for screen-printing on clay and has been included

in over 100 exhibitions. Izzy produces primarily functional and non-functional ceramic works ranging in content from personal narratives, observations, and just plain fun. Davis is a 20-year Ox-Bow alumni.

JOSH DIHLE received his MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 and a BA from Middlebury College in 2007. He has had solo exhibitions at M+B, Los Angeles; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; 4th Ward Project Space, Chicago; McAninch Arts Center, Chicago; and Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago. Dihle’s work has been exhibited in group shows internationally, including MASSIMODECARLO Vspace, Milan, Italy; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Rover, Chicago; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois; IAM Gallery, New York; Flyweight Projects, New York; Essex Flowers Gallery, New York; Ruschman, Mexico City; and Annarumma Gallery Naples, Italy. In 2021, he was the artist-in-residence at Kunstmeile Krems, Austria. His work and curatorial projects have been written about in The New York Times, New City, Artspace, The Washington Post, and Artsy. Josh Dihle lives and works in Chicago.

BRANDON J. DONAHUE is a multi-disciplinary artist who works primarily in painting and assemblage. Donahue received his BS from Tennessee State University and MFA from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Donahue has exhibited nationally and internationally including the 13th annual Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba in 2019. Donahue lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. E. SAFFRONIA DOWNING works with wild clay to create sitespecific sculpture and installation. Downing forages material from local landscapes to consider the correspondence between maker and matter. She received her MFA in Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has recently been featured in exhibitions at Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, Illinois; SPACE, Portland, Maine; Bad Water, Knoxville, Tennessee. Downing has received awards and residencies such as ACRE Residency, the Ox-Bow LeRoy Neiman Fellowship, and the Lunder Institute for American Art Fellowship. She is currently a teaching fellow at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.

NIA EASLEY is a Chicago-based artist, designer, researcher, and educator. Those roles often intersect and overlap. She earned her MFA in Visual Communication Design and practices an art informed by methods of design production. This work engages the absurdity, violence, and beauty of contemporary American life, focusing on our shared histories and how they have shaped the current landscape. She has taught workshops at Lekòl Kominotè Matènwa, UIC (Gallery 400), and Yale University. Most recently she is a Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also holds the role of contributing Editor/Curator for the EXIT section of Interactions (IX) Magazine. Her artist’s books can be found at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, the University of Iowa, Northwestern University, and DePaul University. CHRIS EDWARDS (he/him) makes work that focuses on paying attention, taking time, practicing caring about things, and being at home. He currently primarily makes quilts and pottery in the pursuit of making art that is fun, funny, and nice. He thinks a lot about how we live with art. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from SAIC in 2011 and his Master of Social Work from the University of Iowa in 2014 while also completing a term of service with Americorps. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and works as a psychotherapist in addition to his art practice. He lives in Chicago with his husband, dog, and two cats. He has exhibited work at Tusk, LVL3, Oggi Gallery, Dreamboat, Western Exhibitions, and Julius Caesar in Chicago.

MINHI ENGLAND is a Seattle based multi-disciplinary artist working primarily in glass. She is a professional glassblower, designer, and independent artist in the greater Seattle area. Minhi’s work explores the soothing nature of repetition. Influenced by mass production and the hardships of poverty, she creates in multiples, with reiteration, and pattern. Her current art practice focuses heavily on her recent young widow status, as she navigates overwhelming loss, grief and life altering transition. Drawn to the unique properties of molten glass, her sculpture and design tend to personify the material, giving it permission to embody “self.” England has been awarded several artist residencies including the Hauberg Residency at Pilchuck Glass School, Pittsburgh Glass Center Residency, the Hilltop Artists Residency and has shown at the Bellevue Art Museum. In 2022, she was featured on the Netflix hit series, Blown Away Season 3, earning her place as the runner up competitor.

DOUGLAS R. EWART, Professor Emeritus at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1946. His life and his wide-ranging work have always been inextricably associated with Jamaican culture, history, politics, and the land itself. Professor Ewart immigrated to Chicago in 1963, where he studied music theory at VanderCook College of Music, electronic music at Governors State University, and composition at the School of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Professor Ewart’s varied and interdisciplinary work encompasses music composition, painting and kinetic sound sculpture, and multi-instrumental performance on a full range of instruments of his own design and construction for which he is known worldwide. His visual art and kinetic works have been shown at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Ojai Festival, Art Institute of Chicago, Institute for Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

ANNALISE FLYNN is an independent art historian and curator, and the principal of Vernacular Art Services LLC. In that role, she manages SPACES–Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments, the world’s largest repository of archival documentation related to artist-built environments (www. spacesarchives.org), for the Kohler Foundation. Flynn’s work centers on highlighting vernacular creative activity, using material, collective memory, and place as research pillars. She’s an alum of Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, with her husband and two dogs.

Through the use of natural materials, poetic language and minimalism, ASHLEY M. FREEBY explores site, monuments and data as a way to investigate the essence of memory across our land as a way to create legacy. Her recent solo and dual exhibitions include (un)sterile soil at Gallery 102 in D.C. (2020), Plots & Hems at Hyde Park Art Center (2019), As gesture at Chicago Artist Coalition (2019), Non-constants at The Annex @ Spudnik Press (2019), and Unjustified Patterns at Kanzlei, Berlin (2018). In addition, she has participated in group exhibitions in D.C., Miami, Chicago, Toronto, and Pennsylvania. She previously was a Halcyon Arts Lab Fellow in D.C. and a HATCH Projects Resident in Chicago. She has also attended Vermont Studio Center and the Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin Germany. Freeby was awarded the SPARK grant. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Bucknell University. Freeby currently works for Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency as Director of Communications & Head Designer.

JESSICA GATLIN is an artist, maker and part-time sorceress based in Baltimore. She received her BFA in Studio Art from Florida

State University and MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Recent projects include a collaborative contemporary art and craft home exhibition space, a web-based commission for the Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University, and installations that visualize an imagined relationship between gut health and mental health. She has participated in residencies and fellowships including Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency, the Wassaic, ACRE, and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts. In 2019, she joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park as an Assistant Professor of Print & Extended Media. Gatlin takes both speculative and terrestrial approaches to deconstruct and destroy a White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy that has rendered her and many others invisible.

LUCY GILLIS is a multi-media artist, with a focus on light, glass, labor, and ephemera. Born and raised in a small-town in Southwestern Virginia, Lucy discovered glassblowing while earning her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Captivated by the singular and magical properties of this medium, Lucy has traveled throughout the United States to Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency to pursue the skills needed to expand her work with glass. After completing her MFA education at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, Lucy became the premier glass fellow at Ox-Bow in 2020, and returned as the Glass Technician in 2021. Lucy has lived in Chicago since late 2021, and is a production glassworks artisan at West Supply, a bronze and glass foundry that specializes in highend and custom furniture. LAUREN GREGORY (she/her/hers) is a painter, animator, educator, and director, best known for her technique of oil paint stop-motion animation. Lauren is the third in a lineage of southern female painters, following in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, and since then has created GIFs, looped video installations, and narrative animated shorts that have screened at MoMA P.S.1, the New Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, and film festivals. She has directed and animated music videos for artists including Toro y Moi, Leonard Cohen, and Norah Jones, and has been awarded artist residencies in Hungary, Italy, and in Newburgh, New York. Lauren teaches at Parsons School of Design and Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency. She is represented in New York by the Elijah Wheat Showroom and in Nashville by the Red Arrow Gallery.

CARRIE GUNDERSDORF’s works on paper reference early modernist painting and images of natural and astronomical phenomena. Her work aims to expose small moments of discovery through subject matter and process. Gundersdorf has exhibited in solo shows at the Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; and Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago. Her group exhibitions include 106 Green, New York; Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles; and Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago. Gundersdorf’s work has been reviewed in Art Review, Artforum. com, Artnet, Art on Paper, Chicago Tribune, and Time Out Chicago. She was awarded the Artadia Award and the Bingham Fellowship from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Gundersdorf received her BA from Connecticut College and her MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

BRENT HARRIS's world and his work is created in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he resides with his two children. Brent received his BFA from Western Michigan University in 1994. Immediately afterwards feeling the need to do more for his community he put his art career on the back burner and worked as a paramedic for seven years. In 2003 he bought the Alchemist Sculpture Foundry, where he once mentored at. The Alchemist made a name for itself creating large scale work of national importance. Brent has shown in galleries and public spaces throughout the Midwest. His sculptures can be seen in collections in New York, Chicago, and London. Currently he is Head of the Sculpture Department at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts teaching and developing new programming. He also enjoys working in the public schools as a teaching artist for Education for the Arts. Brent teaches at Ox-Bow and the Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home.

DOVE HORNBUCKLE (they/ them) is an interdisciplinary artist working within ceramic sculpture, queer community organizing, and radical faerie traditions. Previous solo exhibitions have been held in Chicago, Illinois at Goldfinch Gallery, To Hear a Call, To Answer a Call, 2023 and Roots & Culture, Earth, My Likeness, 2020. Past awards include a teaching fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center in 2020, and the LeRoy Neiman Fellowship from the Ox-Bow School of Art in 2018. Past teaching roles have been held as Adjunct Professor in the Art and Art History department at Hope College, lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Ceramics Department and instructor at the Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency. They have served as the Ceramics Studio Manager at the Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency since 2019.

CHRISTALENA HUGHMANICK’s practice engages with human relationships between craft and labor, and the scaled production systems that have generated these histories. She takes a theoretical approach related to cultural anthropological studies, which is enacted through fieldwork that captures vernacular knowledge production systems that may disappear. Her paper “Freedom Quilt: Collective Patchwork in Post-Communist Hungary” has been presented at The Textile Society of America’s 17th Annual Symposium and will be published in the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles in 2023. She has exhibited internationally and been an artist in residence at the American Academy in Rome; SÍM, Reykjavík; the Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem, Budapest; and Wedge Projects, Chicago. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, US State Department, Lenore Tawney Foundation Scholarship, among others. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. WILL HUTCHINSON holds an MFA from The University of Montana and BFA from The Art Academy of Cincinnati. He is a former smokejumper and all-around adventurer. His work includes objects both functional and sculptural in a variety of materials. He is a proud dog dad of a puppy named Penny...

B. INGRID OLSON implements elements of photography, sculpture, and performance in an ongoing exploration of the perceptual and conceptual relationships between bodies: her own, viewers’, architectural, and textual. Whether captured with a camera, machine carved or cast, her work tests the capacities of bodies and the space around them. Solo exhibitions include two simultaneous exhibitions at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (2022); Secession, Vienna (2022); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2018). Olson’s work was featured in a two-person exhibition at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2022); The Inconstant World, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2021); Dependent Objects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2021); New Visions, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (2020); Being: New Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2018); Lost Without Your Rhythm, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2018).

LESLEY JACKSON is a Chicago based artist and educator. She spends most of her days at work in a furniture shop, dreaming about a radically different world where humans and objects are less at odds with one another. Lesley recently started The School of Many Questions, a small, donation-based craft school that runs out of her studio and is open to the public. Lesley received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. She has shown most recently with Jonald Dudd for NY Design Week, New York; Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago; Murmrus, Los Angeles; Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago; Greenlease Gallery, Kansas City; Hotel Art Pavilion, New York; Bar4000, Chicago; Efrain Lopez Gallery, Chicago; Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago; Forth Ward Project Space, Chicago; Heaven Gallery, Chicago; and NADA Art Fair with Hotel Art Pavilion (2018) and SPF15 (2016).

DR. DIANNE JEDLICKA teaches numerous Biology courses at SAIC including Animal Behavior, Evolutionary Mammalogy, Ecology (Natural History), and Human Anatomy and Physiology. Her primary research has been at the community level of organization, focusing on the feeding strategies and predation of tree and ground squirrels based on their functional morphology. Observational data collected on nocturnal foraging of the eastern cottontail rabbit was published recently. All of these animals are found throughout the OxBow region and offer Dr. Jedlicka’s students ample opportunity for scientific observations. Dr. Jedlicka has also presented and published articles on new teaching methods and labs in the college classroom. SALVADOR JIMÉNEZ-FLORES is an interdisciplinary artist born in México. Jiménez-Flores has presented his work at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Museum of Art and Design amongst others. He served as Artist-In-Residence for the city of Boston, Harvard Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard University, and Kohler Arts Industry. JiménezFlores is a recipient of Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants and The New England Foundation for the Arts, Threewalls’ RaD Lab+Outside the Walls Fellowship Grant, and he is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow. He is an Assistant Professor in Ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

GUNJAN KUMAR is an American Indian artist and scholar based in Chicago, originally from Punjab, India. Kumar received her Bachelor’s in Arts from DAV College for Women in Chandigarh, India, and is a postgraduate in Textiles from the National Institute of Design and Technology, New Delhi. She has spent many years observing age-old practices in textiles and indigenous arts and visiting archeological sites, particularly prehistoric cave paintings in central India. Her process involves organic matter applied as core mediums on natural surfaces with techniques inspired by traditional methods. Her works have been exhibited internationally and are a part of noted private collections globally. Gunjan is a recipient of the South Asian Arts Fund (The India Center, New York), SPARK grant (Chicago Artist Coalition) and Propeller Fund (ThreeWalls). She is currently a resident at the Chicago Art Department. She has been a recipient of the Edward Albee Foundation residency, Montauk, New York (2016-2017).

FAYTHE LEVINE advocates for creativity to be used as a vehicle to build community, personal independence, and empowerment. Motivated by reimagining archives and collections through a queer feminist lens, her practice intersects with curatorial projects, consulting, writing, documentary film, and happenings. She currently works with the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York assisting with research and development for the 50th Anniversary traveling exhibition. From 2017 to 2021 Levine was the director of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry residency program and curated related exhibitions in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Her most widely known projects, Sign Painters (2013) and Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft and Design (2009), both feature length documentaries with accompanying books published by Princeton Architectural Press, have toured extensively in venues including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Telling stories has always been CARMEN LOZAR’s primary objective. Some narratives are sad, funny, or thoughtful but her pieces are always about the human experience. Lozar is a glass artist and a faculty member of the Ames School of Art at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. She often travels abroad to teach and share her love for glass - most recently to England, Turkey, Italy, and New Zealand but always returns to her Midwestern roots. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she completed her post-graduate degree at Alfred University, New York, and is represented by Ken Saunders Gallery in Chicago. She has held two residencies at the Corning Museum of Glass and one at Penland School of Craft. She is included the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design in New York; The Museum of Glass, Washington; and the Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Wisconsin.

DEVIN T. MAYS (b.1985) holds a BBA in International Business and Marketing from Howard University. After receiving his degree, he worked in advertising developing brand strategies and commercials for the better part of a decade. He returned to school to pursue an MFA in studio practice from The University of Chicago. There, he developed an interdisciplinary practice he often refers to as an exercise in wandering, a practice-in-participation, a practice-in-practice. Since then, he has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Driehaus Museum; Museum of Contemporary Photography; Lowe Art Museum, University of Florida; Nahmad Projects, London; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University; Regards, Chicago; and The Gray Center among others. He was recently awarded the CERCL Fellowship with the Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University. Devin T. Mays currently lives and works between Chicago and Houston. DANNY MILLER is an artist and musician working in Chicago. Utilizing woodblock, lithography, etching and drawing, he conjures works inspired by science fiction pulp covers, Victorian engravings, advertisements, comic books, and music. Miller has taught at Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Ox-Bow School of Art, and was the Print Media Department Manager at SAIC for 32 years. He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has worked in professional print shops including Landfall Press, Normal Editions Workshop, and Four Brothers Press, in addition to playing and teaching traditional fiddle and banjo music at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago for 11 years.

RACHEL NIFFENEGGER utilizes curious and experimental media to conjure uncanny spirits. Her creations are preoccupied with fecundity and the macabre, at once psychedelic and mysterious. Rachel Niffenegger’s work has been included in museum shows at the Museum for Modern Art in Arnhem, Netherlands; the MCA, Chicago; and in gallery shows in New York, Berlin, Chicago, Liverpool, Denver, and Milwaukee, among others. In 2012 she completed a residency at DE ATELIERS in Amsterdam. Chicago Magazine named her “Chicago’s best emerging artist” in 2010 and New City named her one of “Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers” in 2010, after naming her the “Best Painter Under 25” in 2009. Niffenegger, born in Evanston in 1985, received her BFA from the School of the

Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago and lives and works in Chicago.

TURTEL ONLI is a Rhythmistic Visual Artist with a BFA and MAAT from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been an art therapist, educator, and illustrator. He has work in the collections of the Cool Globes Public Art Traveling Exhibition, the Chicago Children’s Museum, the DuSable Museum, the Johnson Publishing Company, the estates of Mile Davis and Alice Coltrane. Onli has also freelanced illustrations for the Rolling Stones, McDonald’s, Motown, MODE Avant Garde Magazine, the Paris Metro Magazine, Capital Records, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Krannert Museum, the Tubman Museum, along with the Corvus Gallery of Gordon Parks Arts Hall of the University of Chicago.

KRISTINA PAABUS (USA/EE) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and printmaker. Her work examines systems of power and control, with a focus on Soviet and Post-Soviet histories. Paabus earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kristina has exhibited work throughout the US, Europe, and China. Recent solo exhibitions include Meanwhile at Hobusepea Galerii (Estonia) and Something to Believe In at the McDonough Museum of Art (Ohio). Paabus has participated in residencies around the globe and received a Fulbright Fellowship for Installation Art in Estonia, the Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at The University of Iowa, and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Based in Ohio, Paabus teaches all forms of printmaking and is an Associate Professor of Reproducible Media at Oberlin College. She has taught at SAIC, Ox-Bow, Penland, The University of Iowa, and The Estonian Academy of Arts.

COREY PEMBERTON (American b. Reston, VA 1990) received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012. He has completed residencies at The Pittsburgh Glass Center (Pennsylvania), Bruket (Bodø, Norway), as well as a Core Fellowship at the Penland School of Crafts (North Carolina). He currently resides in Los Angeles, California where he splits his time between the nonprofit arts organization Crafting the Future, glass blowing, and his painting practice. Pemberton strives to bring together people of all backgrounds and identities, breaking down stereotypes and building bridges; not only through his work with Crafting the Future but with his personal artistic practice as well.

ANDREA PETERSON is an artist and educator. She lives and creates work in northwest Indiana at Hook Pottery Paper, a studio and gallery co-owned with her husband. She teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She combines paper arts, printmaking and book arts to make works that address the human relationship to the environment. She was recently collected by the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which recognized her as a 21st century creator of unusual handmade papers and surface design.

JOHN PREUS developed his practice from roots in painting and furniture-making and his collaborative work with Material Exchange in graduate school at the University of Chicago. He grew up in Tanzania to Lutheran missionaries, which influenced how he thinks about materials, appropriation, the possibility of shared ethical norms, and clash of cultures. Preus is a fabricator for other artists and designers, which has influenced his thoughts on authorship and collaboration. Preus has been an Interpreter in Residence at the Smart Museum, a Kaplan resident at Northwestern University, a nominee for the US Artist Fellowship, and was included in New City’s Chicago Art 50 in 2016. He was a JackmanGoldwasser resident at the Hyde Park Art Center, a Efroymson Fellow, and a first place winner of the Maker grant. Recent solo exhibitions include A State of the Union at Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia and The Beast: Herd Mentality at the Montserrat College of Art.

JOANN QUIÑONES is a Fibers and Ceramic artist who creates mixed media work which explores queer, Afro-Latinx identity. Her practice includes sculptural approaches to fibers, surface design, natural dyes, and mold-making. She was selected an Emerging Artist of 2020 by Ceramics Monthly, was a Manifest Gallery Annual Prize Finalist, and received an Honorable Mention for the James Renwick Alliance Chrysalis Award. Her work has been shown nationally at institutions such as the Belger Arts Center, the Akron Art Museum, and the Northern Clay Center. She has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. She has an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture - Mixed Media and Fibers at Alfred University.

PADMA RAJENDRAN was born in Klang, Malaysia. She studied at Bryn Mawr College and received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She teaches drawing at Vassar College. She has exhibited at the International Print Center, New York; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn; Beers, London, UK; Field Projects, New York; September Gallery, Hudson, New York; BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn; Aicon Gallery, New York; Taymour Grahne Gallery, London, UK; and most recently a solo show at SE Cooper Contemporary, Portland, Oregon. She lives and works in Catskill. Her works on fabric experiment with the clash and combination of patterning and storytelling. Her rich compositions reference the duality and contradictions of culture and the multi-facetted definitions of universal heritage. She has completed residencies at Ortega y Gasset Projects, the Studios at Mass MoCA, Women’s Studio Workshop, Ox-Bow, and Lower East Side Printshop. YASHODHAR REDDY is an Indian-American glass artist from Central Pennsylvania. His work focuses on the traditional aspects of glass craft and design from a functional viewpoint. Refining form and technique through the study of tableware, lighting fixtures, and abstract sculpture. He draws inspiration from the aesthetics of traditional European glass objects, with the intention of rendering his works with more relevant and personal styles. His education began at Harrisburg Area Community College where he was introduced to the medium and from there continued to travel the world to study with prestigious glass artists such as Karen Wilinbrink-Johnsen, Darin Denison, and Davide Fuin. He has a diverse working experience ranging from design firms like Niche Modern and AO Glassworks to educational organizations such as the prestigious Corning Museum of Glass, where he has been on the team of many reputable artists such as Fredrik Nielsen, Martin Janecky, and Jiyong Lee.

SCOTT REEDER (b. Battle Creek, MI) is a multidisciplinary artist who uses deadpan humor and cultural critique to expose the absurdity of life. His newest series draws from the traditions of still-life painting to project emotional affect and social relationships onto inanimate objects. Reeder first became known for his text-based paintings and parodies of process painting, as well as for his feature-length improvised sci-fi film titled Moon Dust and his possibly ironic art fairs (The Milwaukee International and Dark Fair.) Reeder is based in Chicago, where he is an Associate professor at The School of the

Art Institute of Chicago. Solo and two-person exhibitions include: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy; and Jack Hanley, San Francisco, CA. A book on Reeder’s work titled Ideas (cont.) was published by Mousse in 2019.

CIEL RODRIGUEZ is a papermaker, letterpress printer, bookbinder, photographer, possible poet and who knows what else. Continually inspired by our connections with nature, she embeds natural materials into her handmade paper collages and uses the gestures of plant life to embody emotions and gestures we identify within our human selves. Rodriguez’s artistic practice focuses on enveloping her viewers and readers in quiet expanses, evoking states of mind or states of remembrance. She completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus in analogue photography and papermaking. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia in Printmaking & Book Arts, as well as Museum Studies. While at UGA, Rodriguez was awarded the Wilson Center Graduate Research Grant for her explorations in large scale papermaking. She is an exhibition committee volunteer for North American Hand Papermakers (NAHP) and currently works at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, GA.

JOSEPH MARIO ROMANO chose to be a painter in Upstate New York because of its landscape, the change of the seasons, and the transient color schemes. He feels connected when he is outside painting. When he was in Graduate School at the Art Institute of Chicago, he had the opportunity to look through a sketchbook filled with Cézanne’s Watercolors, which he pinpoints as a pivotal moment in his life as an artist. Romano currently resides in Upstate New York. He graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with his Masters of Fine Arts in 2012. After graduating Mario has shown at galleries both Nationally and Internationally, including Chicago, New York, Austin, and Germany.

AMANDA SALOV is an artist whose work examines the qualities of a moment, or the idea of a moment in physical form: temporal, fragile and fleeting. These moments are plastic, sometimes they seem to stretch translucent thin, changing in strength and quality. She received a BFA focusing in ceramics and an MFA focusing in ceramics, sculpture, and fibers. Amanda has shown her sculptures and installations nationally and abroad. She also can be found painting and writing. For the past decade while living in the Pacific Northwest, she’s been grappling with infertility, a thing almost no one speaks of openly, trying to understand it from her environment and spaces surrounding her. She lives and works in the beautiful blue city of Seattle, Washington.

H SCHENCK (he/him) is an artist and educator whose work speaks about belonging. His practice is rooted in his experience as a trans person and influenced by a transient, rural upbringing. Schenck integrates themes of identity and place through discarded materials, art methodologies, and social concepts of value, meaning, and connection. He earned his BFA in printmaking at Bradley University and his MFA in intermedia at University of Texas Arlington. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at BWA Wrocław Galleries (Poland), 2nd Berlin Becher Triennial (Germany), The Modern Art Museum (Fort Worth), Urban Glass (New York), Traver Gallery (Seattle), and MAC (Dallas). Schenck has received funding from the Dallas Museum of Art, the MAC, Southern Graphics Council International, Lawrence University, Penland School of Crafts, and the Kotteman Foundation. He is an Instructional Specialist and Anti-racist Transformation Team fellow at Columbia College Chicago.

LIESL SCHUBEL was born in Ontario, Canada, and currently lives in Trenton, New Jersey. As a queer person, artist, and city dweller from rural roots, the complexity of home and of the familial remain a constant source of inspiration. Liesl is trained as a glassblower, having worked with glass for over 12 years. They are drawn to the fluidity of glass and pair it with other media to form new narratives. Liesl is a founding member of Flock the Optic, a group formed to explore the meeting place of glass, performance, installation, entertainment, and happening. Liesl received their BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. They continue traveling and pursuing opportunities to expand their understanding of art and craft at institutions such as Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine; Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington; and Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, Michigan. Liesl is currently the Education Director at UrbanGlass. WILLIAM SIERUTA (he/him) can’t decide if he’s a painter, a sculptor, a writer, or a designer, so instead of committing to one discipline, his time is haphazardly divided between all of these pursuits. He studied Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned an MFA in 2012. He was also awarded a fellowship to Ox-Bow School of Art, an experience he draws inspiration from to this day. After several stints as an artist assistant and studio manager in New York, William returned to his native Massachusetts where currently he teaches painting classes and workshops. He was awarded a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for his “Thinking in Color” studio workshop in 2018. These days WIlliam lives and makes art on January Mountain with his wife Jennifer and his son Ziggy.

JACLYN SILVERMAN (she/ her) is a photographer from Youngstown, Ohio, currently living and working in Chicago. Her work engages dynamics of family and relationships through environmental portraiture with photographic collaborations and public projects. She received the Denman Research Grant at The Ohio State University for her visual research, The Working Family. She co-curated the exhibition, Within the Portfolios 1968-2016; a History of Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection. Commissioned by Theaster Gates, Silverman created photographic installations published in conjunction with the exhibition, “A Johnson Publishing Story” at Stony Island Arts Bank. She is the Founding Artistic Director and piloting artist-in-residence with Chicago artist residency and non-profit organization, CPS Lives. Silverman is an adjunct faculty with Loyola University Chicago. She received her BFA in photographic studies from The Ohio State University and MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

BARB SMITH is a Queens-based artist born in Kokomo, Indiana. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Bard College. Her work invites reflection on one’s relationship to the material world by mining the tension between seeing, touching, and recalling. Solo exhibitions include Cradle, Essex Flowers Window Box, New York; Mother Tongue, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arizona; Gravity Forgiveness, Stepsister, New York. Group exhibitions include Art Work, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Backroom, Museo Tamayo, CDMX, Mexico; Tiny Things, September, Hudson, New York; the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, and American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Smith was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture in 2011 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2012. Her writing has been featured in The Shawangunk Review, No, Dear Magazine, The Saint Lucy, Makhzin, and The Brooklyn Rail.

LAUREL SPARKS is a Brooklynbased painter whose work embodies symbols and patterns that pay tribute to counter-culture legacies. She holds an MFA from Bard College and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine

Arts, Boston at Tufts University. Exhibitions include solo shows at Kate Werble Gallery, New York; Knockdown Center, Brooklyn; and group shows at Cheim and Read Gallery, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; and DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts. Awards include a MacDowell Fellowship, the Elizabeth Foundation Studio Intensive, Fire Island Artist Residency, Berkshire Taconic Fellowship, SMFA Alumni Traveling Fellowship, and an Elaine DeKooning Fellowship. Sparks lives and works between Brooklyn and Hudson Valley and teaches painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Sparks recently completed an immersive installation and performances in collaboration with artist Shawn Hansen at Soloway Gallery in Brooklyn. She has a forthcoming project grant and residency at Tinworks Art, Bozeman, Montana.

RUBY T’s work is an experiment in translating fantasy to reality, and she is fueled by anger, desire, and magic. Rooted in drawing, her practice has offshoots in painting, performance, comics, fibers, and video. She was named a 2018 Breakout Artist by Newcity and received her MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions in Chicago include Western Exhibitions, Randy Alexander Gallery, Roots & Culture, and The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food. Ruby has performed and screened video works at Iceberg Projects, Weinberg/Newton, Gallery 400, Chicago Filmmakers, and Comfort Station, all in Chicago, as well as Monaco in St. Louis, Compliance Division in Portland, and the Visual Arts Gallery at University of Illinois Springfield. Her band Lezurrexion performed in over 50 crusty basements, clubs, and secret outdooor spaces between 2011 and 2015. VIRGINIA ROSE TORRENCE (She/her) co-owns, operates and teaches at Ceramics School, a community ceramics studio and Artist Residency in Hamtramck, Michigan. Virginia’s art practice is sometimes making pottery and sometimes making sculptures. Virginia enjoys the pleasure, tangible growth and monetary accessibility of pottery, and the self-indulgence, introspection and criticality in making sculptural works made out of all sorts of things. She received her BFA in Craft/Ceramics from the College for Creative Studies (Detroit, Michigan) in 2013 and her MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University (Alfred, New York) in 2016. Virginia was a Fellow at Ox-Bow in 2012, and has been a Resident Artist at Watershed Center for Ceramics in Newcastle, Maine; Guldagergaard (Project Network) in Skaelskor, Denmark; and The White Page Gallery in Minneapolis. Virginia lives and makes art in Hamtramck, Michigan with her partner and coteacher Henry Crissman, two dogs, two cats and two parakeets.

MATTHEW URBAN began his art career at University of the Arts in Philadelphia as an Industrial Design student. In 1997 he received a scholarship to the Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass to study with Master Gianni Toso. After that workshop he changed his major to glass and never looked back. Since 1997 he has been on staff at Pilchuck Glass School, taught at the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass and Penland School of Craft. Matthew has been a resident artist at Corning Museum of Glass, Penland School of Craft, Tyler School of Art, The Melting Point, and Art Glass Kalamazoo. Matthew worked as a Gaffer for Glass Lab with the Corning Museum of Glass. For the last 10 years had owned and operated Furnace Urbini Glass Works in Normal, Illinois where he makes his production line and commission work for artists and designers.

CHARLIE VINZ is an architect, designer, and artist who searches for simple solutions to complicated problems. In his approach, cultural production is an extension of the built environment, which is part of an open-ended, collaborative process. He studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and Bauhaus Universitat in Weimar, Germany, graduating with a BArch in 2004. He has worked at architecture firms in Chicago, with artist Theaster Gates and Rebuild Foundation, and was the Creative Director of the Rebuilding Exchange before starting his own practice, Adaptive Operations, which primarily adapts buildings and spaces for new and different uses and works with artists and cultural organizations. Charlie has been a lecturer of Historic Preservation at SAIC and guest taught at the University of Chicago, Antioch College, and Washington University. He is a visiting critic at the Illinois Institute of Technology and SAIC. Charlie was an Artist-inResidence at Ox-Bow in 2016.

KC WELDON is an artist and public-school art teacher living in Chicago. She has taught at Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago Ceramic Center, and Arrowmont School of Craft. Her art education started at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Alabama where she is from. She earned her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she graduated with the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship Award. Weldon received her MFA at Kendall College of Art and Design with a full-ride fellowship.

RACHEL EULENA WILLIAMS is an artist whose work displays an unusual level of candor, invention, and lightness. Her painted constructions employ the language of abstract painting, but are transformed through her own approach to material. Finding a balance between painting and sculpture, Williams applies larger swaths of color made from painted canvases that she subsequently cuts up and reconfigures. The collage-like works are tied together with sewing, which acts both pictorially and creates marks inside her compositions. Williams (b. 1991, Miami, Florida) received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Ceysson & Benetiere, New York, Saint Etienne & Luxembourg; The Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; and Loyal Gallery, Sweden. Her work is included in the collection of the Pérez Art Museum, Miami.

BEX YA YOLK (she/they) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, book maker, and sometimes still a practicing graphic designer. yolk is at the helm of developing an independent artists’ book bindery— THUNGRY, founded in Atlanta in 2019, now based in Chicago. yolk was a merit scholar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where they completed an MFA in Visual Communication Design with a concentration in Book Arts. They were a recipient of the Nexus Fund: Emergency Relief Grant from Atlanta Contemporary and the Relief Fund for Georgia Visual Artists. THUNGRY operates as a publishing initiative focused on disrupting what we’ve come to understand qualifies a book, complicating traditional ways of book building through experimentation and queering praxis. yolk also maintains a multiyear research practice into the ‘maternal complex.’