Heather Brand, Allegheny College

Heather Brand is a photographer/mixed media artist living and working in Meadville Pennsylvania. Born in upstate New York she has an MFA in Visual Studies from the University of Buffalo and is an Associate Professor of Art at Allegheny College. Her work looks at the collection, cultivation, and recreation of the natural world and considers our compulsion to re-contextualize and re-create that which is deemed natural.

John Berry, DePauw University

John Berry received his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004 and MFA from Indiana University in 2009. He has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally and is represented by Josef Filipp Galerie in Leipzig Germany. Berry currently works at DePauw University as an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing.

Lisa Walcott, Hope College

Lisa Walcott is a Midwest-based artist. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2010 and has since created and exhibited her work nationally including Land of Tomorrow in Louisville, KY, Sadie Halie Projects in Minneapolis, MN and The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, MI. She has attended residencies at Ox-Bow School of Art, ACRE and Three Walls. Walcott teaches sculpture classes at Hope College in Holland, MI. Her work grapples with and makes light of the perils of daily life using kinetic sculpture, installation, drawing, and photography.

JSTN CLMN, Denison University

JstnClmn is Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Denison University, and a practicing artist working in sculpture and ceramics. CLmn is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 05) and the University of Delaware (MFA 17). His experience starts from a base in studio craft and has developed into a more conceptual practice around cultural relationships to objects and a theoretical redefinition of craft. His work includes experience as an arts educator, professional studio assistant, and a practicing artist.

Kate Hampel, Ohio University

Kate Hampel holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal. Her work has been shown at museums, galleries and art fairs in the United States, Canada, and Asia, and she has participated in residency programs across the United States. She has been the recipient of the Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Grant and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Fountainhead Fellowship in Craft/Material Studies. She currently lives in Bishopville, Ohio, where she is cofounder of FOLLY, an artist residency for artists, writers, and scholars, and teaches at Ohio University’s School of Art + Design.

Edward-Victor Sanchez, University of Cincinnati

Edward-Victor Sanchez is a multidisciplinary artist working in Cincinnati, Baltimore and Puerto Rico.He is originally from Manhattan, New York, and moved to Puerto Rico when he was five years old. Growing up in the countryside of Puerto Rico, he developed an interest in nature, community, and arts, and from his childhood he studied drawing and painting. Edward-Victor received his BFA in painting from La Escuela De Artes Plasticas De San Juan and a MFA in multidisciplinary studies with a concentration in critical studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.