Flora Wilds: Flora Wilds (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist from Southern California, currently based in NYC. She has an MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute, and has exhibited work all over the United States, including the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, Flux Factory (Queens), and Shelter Gallery (Manhattan). She was recently a resident at PADA Studios in Lisbon, Portugal, and is a frequent guest lecturer in the department of Art and Design at VCU. She documents her work and process on Instagram @abundant_commodities.
Masha Keryan: Masha Keryan is a visual artist with primary focus on oil painting. Originally from post-soviet Yerevan, Armenia, there she received academic art training that established a foundation for her artistic journey. Currently based in Boston, Keryan's work is informed by her rich cultural background as both an Armenian and an American, where a common thread is the high value placed on the preservation and fight for freedom. Her recent explorations delve into themes of loss and isolation, forgiveness and ascension, often reflecting on collective consciousness and the broader human experience. Recent exhibitions include Above Liquidation (Atamian Hovsepian NYC), Dancing Gems (Copley Society of Art), The Human Condition (Subcentral), Alone Together (Flowering Rock Gallery) etc. Past large-scale projects include murals at Pellas Gallery, Dirty Water Dough, Subcentral and WeWork.
Hannah Rust: Hannah Rust (b. 1998) is a painter from Massachusetts. Her work depicts the everyday dichotomies of late capitalism, and proposes magical thinking as a tool of survival in an age of climate catastrophe. In 2023 she received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and was a recipient of the George Nick Prize. She lives and works in Western Massachusetts.
dani lopez: dani lopez is a textile artist working within weaving, embroidery, and textiles sculpture to explore queer desire, non-linear narratives, disidentifications, and femme identity. She received her MFA in Textiles from CCA. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Surface Design Journal, and Other People’s Pixels. lopez has shown at Bedford Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, Bass & Reiner, Amos Eno Gallery, Collar Works, and the Frank Ratchye Project Space. Her work was recently exhibited in Queer Threads, curated by John Chaich, at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. In 2022 she received The Money For Women Grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and a Puffin Grant for her project “3 Dykes Walk Into a Bar…”. She has taught Intro to Weaving at San Franciso State University. In early 2023, lopez attended the Penland School of Craft for their winter residency on a fellowship. lopez was recently named a Lucas Visual Art Fellow at Montalvo Art Center the summer of 2023. After spending most of her life in Oregon and trying to escape, she now lives in Oakland with her partner and their cat Spooky.
Amanda Sandlin: Amanda Sandlin is a painter, sculptor and writer based in Boulder, Colorado. Her self-study of visual art began while working as a freelance graphic artist and living nomadically for many years. She has exhibited throughout the Western United States, worked with clients such as Maggie Rogers and Little, Brown and Company, and has pieces held by collectors internationally. b. 1989 Bryan, TX
Ana González Barragán: Ana González Barragán (b. Mexico City, 1989) is a conceptual artist, sculptor, and researcher focused on histories—cultural, geological, and political—of different stones and minerals. Ana’s work is informed by a non-static dialogue connecting the nuances of post-industrial capitalism and patriarchy with dominant narratives that commodify the body and natural resources through various processes of extraction. Working with obsidian, marble, and other materials with long aesthetic traditions, Gonzalez creates sculptural objects and installations, amplifying the metaphoric potential of geologic bodies—documenting the extractive (and often violent and exploitative) processes and their impacts, offering evocative provocations to undertake reflection processes about the culture/nature divide across different regions and historical moments. This extensive research and documentation is conducted on-site, in locations that include Sierra de las Navajas, Mexico, and Marble, Colorado, through relationships built with both mine workers and managers as well as impacted local communities.
Isabelle Higgins: Isabelle Higgins is a Boston-based painter, who completed her BFA in Painting at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in 2019. Isabelle has exhibited both within the institution and outside of it. Including group shows at SUPERCOLLIDER (LA, CA), LaMontagne Gallery (Boston, MA), and an upcoming two person exhibition at LaMontagne Gallery (Boston, MA). She was awarded the Yale Norfolk Residency in 2018 and attended Vermont Studio Center Residency in 2019. Higgins is a recipient of the 2018 George Nick Prize and the 2018 Rob Moore Grant in Painting. Higgins currently works at MassArt for sparc! the ArtMobile in the Center for Art and Community Partnerships.
Kai Bee: Kai Bee's artistic journey is fueled by a commitment to storytelling and community-building. Through bold visuals and heartfelt narratives, they explore themes of identity, radical self-love, healing, and belonging. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, dual BFA in Fine Arts Painting and Digital Media Illustration, 2016-2020
Maya Buffett-Davis: b.1997 in San Francisco. She received a BA in Fine Art and Gender Studies from UCLA in 2020 and is now pursuing an MFA in Ceramics at CU Boulder.