Mike Reesé is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores emotion, mythology, and identity through symbolic world-building. Drawing from archetypes, semiotics and personal mythology, Reesé creates immersive visual languages that span painting, sculpture and experiential design. His practice merges sculptural abstraction with coded systems of communication, most notably through recurring motifs such as floral forms, masked figures and “The 26 Tribes of Alphabeasts,” an evolving hieroglyphic alphabet representing emotional states of the human experience. Rooted in both fantasy and lived reality, his works investigate preservation, transformation and the ways emotion can be translated into symbolic systems of meaning. Reesé is the co-founder of DREAMHAUS LA and currently serves as Art Director for The OPM Company.

Maddy Inez utilizes ceramics and sculpture to explore themes of healing and ancestral memory, treating clay as both a medium and a metaphor for collective trauma. Her works often evoke plants known for their healing properties or mythological significance, merging the spiritual with the ecological. This approach prompts reflection on humanity’s fragile yet powerful relationship with the natural world.

Throughout her artistic career, Danielle has explored her voice through various techniques involving glass and mixed media. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2012, she immediately became immersed in the world of glass lighting and production. Danielle previously lived in Brooklyn, New York where she worked as a freelance glassblower, artist assistant and educator out of UrbanGlass. During this time, Brensinger also taught as an adjunct professor at Salem Community College in New Jersey. She has received full scholarships from the Celebrity Fund as well as the Tommie Rush and Richard Jolley Scholarship Fund to attend classes at the Corning Museum of Glass and the Penland School of Crafts. Danielle has also been able to attend Pilchuck Glass School and the Bild-Werk Academy in Frauenau, Germany as a teaching assistant for both glass blowing and bronze casting classes. She recently completed her Masters of Fine Art at Cal State San Bernardino in 2023 and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Danielle is an integral part of Second Best Studio while she continues to work as a freelance glassblower fabricating work for lighting designers and other artists.

Ethan Stern is a Los Angeles-based artist, designer and educator whose work explores light and the relationship between surface and form through blown, cut, engraved and sculpted glass. Grounded in labor and material practice, Stern’s work draws from influences including cut crystal, architecture, the natural environment and traditions in glass and ceramics. Combining blown glass with intensive cold working processes, he creates sculptural objects that emphasize surface, texture and pattern. Stern lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Recent exhibitions include "The Optics of Now: SoCal Glass" at the Palos Verdes Art Center and "Reality and Illusion" at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. His work is included in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Museum of Glass.

Originally from Seattle, Mike Jess relocated to the East Coast in 2017 to further pursue a career in glass. Currently, he works as a fabricator and cold worker out of the UrbanGlass studios in Brooklyn, New York. In his personal work, he employs clean, simple forms and layered carving techniques to reveal and create dynamic color relationships. Most recently, he had a residency at Gray Barn Studios in Arlington, Washington, and a winter residency at Penland School of Crafts.