Eleanor Anderson (b. 1988) received a BA from Colorado College and an MFA from the Fibers Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art (’22). Anderson works using a broad range of media including textiles, ceramics, prints and collage. A former Core Fellow at Penland School of Crafts, she has completed residencies at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY, The Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, The Tides Institute, Eastport ME, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME and Praxis Fiber Studio, Cleveland OH. She has taught workshops at Penland, Pocosin School of Crafts, as well as been a visiting professor at Colorado College, the Cleveland Institute of Art and College for Creative Studies in Detroit.  In 2021 she was awarded the Outstanding Student Award from the Surface Design Association. She currently bases her studio in Hamtramck, Michigan.

Joseph J. Newman was born in Anchorage, Alaska. He is Inupiaq and Diné (Navajo.) Newman’s Dad is Inupiaq from Beaver, Alaska and his mom is Diné (Navajo) from Crownpoint, New Mexico. Newman studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Newman’s grandma Juanita G. Louis is one of his role models and taught him to weave the traditional Diné rugs. Newman learned beading from his family was raised around the Pow-wow world, this is where he learned to bead his own regalia. Newman has participated in the Santa Fe Indian Market for four years. In his beadwork, he takes inspiration from pow-wow’s, nature, animals and flowers that are very special to his tribes. Newman beads at a contemporary level and is always looking for new inspirations.

Iván Carmona Rosario is a Puerto Rican artist who was born in 1973.Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Portland Art Museum, Oregon. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Fourteen30 Contemporary have featured Ivan Carmona Rosario's work in the past.

Northwest artist Jeffry Mitchell calls himself a gay folk artist. He creates playful and joyous ceramic artworks and installations, as well as prints and drawings. His art explores ideas of gender, spirituality, vulnerability, and self-discovery. Jeffry Mitchell earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (1980) in painting from the University of Dallas. He moved to Japan to teach English and stayed for three years, apprenticing with a traditional production potter and studying calligraphy. In 1988, he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. In 2012, the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle organized a retrospective exhibition "Like a Valentine: The Art of Jeffry Mitchell".

I have spent forty years sewing tiny glass beads one to the next. I make art because I want to discover, understand, inspire, and say something true. My work has taken me all over the world as a teacher, lecturer, and exhibitor.

Corey Pemberton (American b. Reston, VA 1990, Lives Los Angeles, CA) received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012. He has completed residencies internationally at institutions including The Pittsburgh Glass Center (PA), Bruket (Bodø, NO), and a fellowship at the Penland School of Crafts (NC). He currently divides his time between his painting studio and a production glassblowing team in LA.

Mercedes Mühleisen (b.1983, Austria), is an Oslo-based artist working primarily with video installation and performance. Through her work she seeks to give language and expression to processes and situations that lie outside, or to the side of, an anthropocentric logic, and which bring up previously neglected voices.

Ben Wright holds degrees from Dartmouth College, the Appalachian Center for Crafts, and Rhode Island School of Design. He has taught and exhibited his unique approach to art making at numerous schools across the US and abroad in Germany, Turkey, Denmark, Japan, Belgium, Poland and Australia.

Paul Simon, also known as notpaulsimon, is a Romanian-American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. As a sculptor with a background in human biology and commercial photography, Simon creates a fantastical world in which materialities are present and absent, both hiding in plain sight and as objects of the digital imaginary.

Modou Dieng Yacine received a French Catholic education, while the majority of Senegal was Muslim. This created a foundational bond with France and its culture but also bred a deep alienation from his Senegalese and African identities. Alongside his entry into the National School of Art in Dakar, began the first Dak’Art African Art Biennale through which he was able to attend workshops with Joe Overstreet, Mildred Thompson, Leonardo Drew, Frank Bowling and Mary Lovelace O’Neal. Inspired, he began to personally explore the depth and possibility presented by a canvas, the imaginative lines and multiplicity of layers which can be continuously applied to its surface.Moving to the United States he earned his MFA at SFAI in San Francisco. Moving past the perspective he gained while in Dakar, he began to open up his practice to new mediums. His paintings became, and have since remained, a performative act themselves. The topic, emotions and concept dictating the medium.While accepting a position at PNCA, Portland, which he held for a decade, he began a deep exploration of the underground subcultures presented by the Pacific Northwest and its histories. Looking back on his experiences at SFAI and his time spent with Okwui Enwezor, he founded a gallery which would last for a decade as well.In his current studio practice, using and appropriating the history of both painting and photography, as two unique contemporary mediums, he is able to layer, sample, mix and play on the theater of his newly found Black diasporic voice. He currently lives in Chicago.

Furniture Music is a research-based studio that designs sounding goods for the home and site-responsive works for sound in situ. Founded in 2021 by Chris Kallmyer, the work is shaped by Chris’ fifteen years of studio practice as an artist and musician in Los Angeles. The studio works directly with architects, individuals, and cultural institutions on projects that use sound as a tool to address the relationship between landscape, ecology, and community. New projects have included a fountain to mark the home and studio of the blind potter, a mystic print for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and windchimes for the iconic California design studio, Commune.